摘要
How do scholars of politics and public administration react to and advocate for government reforms in an authoritarian state like China?Quan Li5s book on the spread of governance theory and the rise of neoliberalism in China provides an interesting case for an exploration of this question.Based on textual analysis of articles by governance scholars in China and interviews with them,Li argues that the idea of governance introduced by political scholars from the mid-1990s was incorporated into the neoliberal reform in China.