Cui Zhiyuan

{{Short description|Chinese economist and philosopher (born 1963)}} {{for|the 9th-century Korean scholar who served under the Tang dynasty general Gao Pian|Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn}} {{family name hatnote|Cui|lang=Chinese}} {{Multiple issues| {{Like resume|date=November 2022}} {{COI|date=June 2023}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Cui Zhiyuan 崔之元 | image = CuiPhoto.JPG | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}} | birth_place = [[Beijing]] | death_date =  | death_place = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = [[National University of Defense Technology]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Editorial office |title=Cui Zhiyuan |url=https://www.hausderkunst.de/en/notes/cui-zhiyuan |website=[[Haus der Kunst]] |access-date=22 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref> [[Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]] [[University of Chicago]]<ref name="bio" /> | occupation = | years_active = | organization = [[MIT]] [[National University of Singapore]] [[Harvard University Law School]] [[Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin]] [[Cornell Law School]] [[Tsinghua University]]<ref name="bio" /> | known_for = | notable_works = ''Second Liberation of Thought'', ''Liberal Socialism and the Future of China'' | style = | movement = [[Chinese New Left]] | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | website = [http://www.cui-zy.com/ www.cui-zy.com] | footnotes = }} {{New Left in China|People}} '''Cui Zhiyuan''' ({{zh|c=崔之元|w=|p=Cuī Zhīyuán}}), born in Beijing in 1963, is a professor at the [[School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University|School of Public Policy and Management]] in [[Tsinghua University]], [[Beijing]],<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |date=2011-01-26 |title=School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. |url=http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/faculty/fulltime/26efe4891f7db39c011f82145ad00001.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126011826/http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/faculty/fulltime/26efe4891f7db39c011f82145ad00001.html |archive-date=2011-01-26 }}</ref> and a leading member of the [[Chinese New Left]] through his work on alternatives to [[neo-liberal]] capitalism.

== Biography == Cui first gained fame as a post-graduate student in 1994 when he published an article named ''Institutional Innovation and the Second Thought Liberation''.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/|title = 制度创新与第二次思想解放}}</ref> He then went on to publish the book ''Nanjie Village'',<ref>{{Cite web|url =http://cui-zy.com/Recommended/Landissue/CuiNanJie.pdf|title =南街村|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151001054902/http://cui-zy.com/Recommended/Landissue/CuiNanJie.pdf|archive-date =2015-10-01|url-status =dead}}</ref> which along with his previous publications earned him the reputation as one of the founding members of [[Chinese New Left|China's New Left]] movement. Cui was also one of the first scholars to introduce [[game theory]] to China.<ref>{{Cite book|title = 博弈论与社会科学|last = 崔|first = 之元|publisher = 浙江人民出版社|year = 1988|isbn = 978-7-213-00147-5|location = 杭州|pages = 101页}}</ref> Cui is an admirer of [[James Meade]]'s work on [[liberal socialism]],<ref name="ECFR">{{cite web | url=http://ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR66_CHINA_30_final.pdf | title=The Chongqing experiment: the way forward for China? | publisher=European Council on Foreign Relations | work=China 3.0 | date=November 2012 | access-date=January 9, 2013}}</ref> reflected in his article ''Xiaokang Socialism: A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto''.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = "Xiaokang Socialism" : A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto|journal = The Chinese Economy|date = 2003-05-01|issn = 1097-1475|pages = 50–70|volume = 36|issue = 3|doi = 10.1080/10971475.2003.11033467|first = Cui|last = Zhiyuan|s2cid = 154218000}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url =http://cui-zy.com/Recommended/Liberalsocialism/%E5%B0%8F%E5%BA%B7%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89%E4%B8%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%9C%AA%E6%9D%A5%EF%BC%8D%E5%B0%8F%E8%B5%84%E4%BA%A7%E9%98%B6%E7%BA%A7%E5%AE%A3%E8%A8%80.pdf|title =小资产阶级宣言|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151002041638/http://www.cui-zy.com/Recommended/Liberalsocialism/%E5%B0%8F%E5%BA%B7%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89%E4%B8%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%9C%AA%E6%9D%A5%EF%BC%8D%E5%B0%8F%E8%B5%84%E4%BA%A7%E9%98%B6%E7%BA%A7%E5%AE%A3%E8%A8%80.pdf|archive-date =2015-10-02|url-status =dead}}</ref> Following Meade's theory, Cui was the first scholar to propose a systematic social dividend program in China, including a "Chinese People's Permanent Trust Fund".<ref>{{Cite web|title = 清华大学教授建议:设立"中国人民永久信托基金"_财经频道_新华网|url = http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2008-03/03/content_7706356.htm|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080309165941/http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2008-03/03/content_7706356.htm|url-status = dead|archive-date = March 9, 2008|website = news.xinhuanet.com|access-date = 2015-10-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Making Sense of the Chinese "Socialist Market Economy" A Note|last = Cui|first = Zhiyuan|date = 2012|journal = Modern China|volume = 38|issue = 6|pages = 665–676|doi = 10.1177/0097700412459700|s2cid = 156702979}}</ref>

Cui edited ''Politics: The Central Texts'',<ref>{{Cite book|edition = Text is Free of Markings|title = Politics: The Central Texts|publisher = Verso|date = 1997-04-17|location = London|isbn = 9781859841310|first = Roberto Mangabeira|last = Unger|editor-first = Zhiyuan|editor-last = Cui}}</ref> the selection of key texts from [[Roberto Mangabeira Unger]]'s three-volume ''Politics''. His selective writings include ''The Dilemma of the Paradigm of the Invisible Hand: Soft-Budget-Constraint in the Capitalist Economy'';<ref>{{Cite book|title = "看不见的手" 范式的悖论|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WPGFAAAACAAJ|publisher = 经济科学出版社|date = 1999-01-01|isbn = 9787505817227|language = zh}}</ref> ''Sustainable Democracy''<ref>{{Cite book|title = Sustainable Democracy|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date = 1995-08-25|location = Cambridge|isbn = 9780521483759|first = Adam|last = Przeworski|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/sustainabledemoc00prze}}</ref> and ''China: Human Development Report 1999'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = China Human Development Report 1999|url = http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/library/human_development/china-human-development-report-1999.html|website = UNDP in China|access-date = 2015-09-30}}</ref> both co-authored with [[Adam Przeworski]] for the [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]]; and contributions to ''Whither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China''.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Whither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China|url = https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EDIWRGK?ie=UTF8&isInIframe=1&n=283155&redirect=true&ref_=dp_proddesc_0&s=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#iframe-wrapper|publisher = Duke University Press Books|date = 2002-03-07|first1 = Gan|last1 = Yang|first2 = Zhiyuan|last2 = Cui|first3 = Wang|last3 = Shaoguang|first4 = Wang|last4 = Hui|editor-first = Xudong|editor-last = Zhang}}</ref> He also co-edited ''China and Globalization: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or What?''<ref>{{Cite book|title = China and Globalization - The Washington Consensus or Beijing Consensus|publisher = Social Sciences Academic Press|date = 1991-01-01|location = 北京市|isbn = 9787801906953|first = Huang Ping Cui Zhi Yuan|last = Zhu}}</ref> and was considered the first person to introduce the [[Beijing Consensus]] into the Chinese policy debate.

In 2011, Cui published an article on [[Zhang Pengchun]]'s role in drafting the United Nations' [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |last=崔 |first=之元 |date=2011-09-09 |title=人文与社会 - 文章 - 崔之元："西柏坡后现代"，联合国人权宣言和普遍历史的黎明 |url=http://wen.org.cn/modules/article/view.article.php/2670 |access-date=2015-10-18 |website=wen.org.cn}}</ref> The article discusses the implications of this discovery in the UN archive concerning Zhang's key role for the current Chinese political and cultural debates—transcending the dichotomy of "[[Eurocentrism|western centralism]]" and "[[Historical particularism|cultural particularism]]".<ref>{{Cite journal|title = La postmodernité de Xibaipo et l'aube de l'histoire universelle|url = http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=MULT_054_0063|journal = Multitudes|date = 2013-10-02|issn = 0292-0107|pages = 63–66|volume = 54|issue = 3|language = fr|first1 = Zhiyuan|last1 = Cui|first2 = Shuliu |last2 = Wang|first3 = Pierre-Yves|last3 = Le Gall|doi = 10.3917/mult.054.0063|url-access = subscription}}</ref>{{Technical inline|date=January 2024}}

Cui's works have also been translated into Korean, including ''Xiaokang Socialism: A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto'' ({{langx|ko|프티부르주아 사회주의 선언}}) <ref>{{Cite web|title = 프티부르주아 사회주의 선언 {{!}} 도서출판 돌베개|url = http://dolbegae.co.kr/book/2848/|website = dolbegae.co.kr|access-date = 2015-10-08}}</ref> and ''Is China Going Where?'' ({{langx|ko|중국은 어디로 가고 있는가|label=none}}).<ref>{{Cite web|title = 중국은 어디로 가고 있는가 {{!}} 창비 – Changbi Publishers|url = http://www.changbi.com/books/9161?board_id=6302|website = www.changbi.com|access-date = 2015-10-08}}</ref> The latter embodied Cui's article ''Institutional Innovation and the Second Thought.'' In addition, ''Politics: The Central Texts'' was translated into Korean and published in South Korea.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 정치 {{!}} 창비 – Changbi Publishers|url = http://www.changbi.com/books/59611?board_id=8912|website = www.changbi.com|access-date = 2015-10-08}}</ref> In 2015, Cui was invited to the International Conference on Basic Income<ref>{{Cite web|title = SEOUL, KOREA: "Local Politics and Basic Income: International Conference on Basic Income, June 19-20, 2015 {{!}} BIEN|url = http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/07/seoul-korea-local-politics-and-basic-income-international-conference-on-basic-income-june-19-20-2015/|website = BIEN| date=July 2015 |access-date = 2015-10-15}}</ref> held in Seoul to give a keynote speech<ref>{{Citation|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMRFAMlx9I|access-date = 2015-10-15| title=Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in China | date=9 August 2015 }}</ref> concerning social dividend.

In 2003, Cui was invited to the [[London School of Economics]] to give the Ralph Miliband Lecture titled "The Bush Doctrine and [[Neoconservatism]]: A Chinese Perspective".<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Bush Doctrine and Neoconservatism: A Chinese Perspective - 2003 - Events - Public events - Home|url = http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2003/20030514t1000z001.aspx|website = www.lse.ac.uk|access-date = 2015-09-30}}</ref> In 2014, Cui was invited to give the Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture "Chinese Reform in light of James Meade's Liberal Socialism" at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Chinese Reform in Light of James Meade's Liberal Socialism. {{!}} University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures|url = https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/chinese-reform-light-james-meades-liberal-socialism|website = podcasts.ox.ac.uk|access-date = 2015-09-30}}</ref>

More recently,{{As of?|date=January 2024}} Cui has become known for his work on and as a proponent of the [[Chongqing model]] as a model for development. He argues that this model could end China's dependence on exports and savings, reduce the growing economic divide between rural and urban areas, and stimulate private business by way of public ownership and state planning. Cui is close to [[Chongqing]]'s mayor [[Huang Qifan]] and served as the associate director of the State Asset Management Committee of the Chongqing government from 2010 to 2011.<ref name="ECFR" /> His views are discussed in the essay collections ''[[One China, Many Paths]]'' and ''[[Conditional Democracy: The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities]]''. He has also been critical of recent privatizations of state assets,<ref>[http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/619/35194 Sweeping privatisations spark criticism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214191511/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/619/35194 |date=2007-12-14 }}</ref> and has called for more democracy within the party.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/china/story/0,,2191298,00.html High stakes for China as party congress begins]</ref>

In 2015, Cui started a research project called "Experimental Governance: Its Promise and Limits in China"<ref>{{Cite book|title = Digital Academic Repository - University of Amsterdam|url = http://dare.uva.nl/record/1/356492|website = dare.uva.nl|access-date = 2015-10-18|isbn = 9780199560530|last1 = Levi-Faur|first1 = David|date = 2012-03-29| publisher=OUP Oxford }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = The Oxford Handbook of Governance|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=11qVVxK2y24C|publisher = OUP Oxford|date = 2012-03-29|isbn = 9780191628429|first = David|last = Levi-Faur}}</ref> in collaboration with [[Charles Sabel]] of Columbia University Law School, a leading scholar on experimental governance.<ref>{{Cite web|title = dhr. prof. dr. J.H. (Jonathan) Zeitlin - Universiteit van Amsterdam|url = http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/z/e/j.h.zeitlin/j.h.zeitlin.html|website = www.uva.nl|access-date = 2015-10-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150802032209/http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/z/e/j.h.zeitlin/j.h.zeitlin.html|archive-date = 2015-08-02|url-status = dead}}</ref> He gave a public lecture at the India–China Institute of [[The New School|New School]] for Social Research<ref>{{Cite web|title = India China Institute|url = http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/|website = India China Institute|access-date = 2015-10-18}}</ref> in April 2014 on "Understanding Xi Jinping's Grand Reform Strategy"<ref>{{Citation|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKTYEqWnBms|access-date = 2015-10-18| title=Cui Zhiyuan - Xi Jinping's Grand Reform Strategy 4.29.2014 | date=7 May 2014 }}</ref> in light of experimental governance, with Charles Sabel as a discussant. With his current and former students, Cui also runs a free weekly [[WeChat]] publication titled "Experimental Governance", with over 80 published issues<ref>{{Cite web|title = 崔之元正式网站-新闻推荐|url = http://www.cui-zy.com/pragmatism/intro.html|website = www.cui-zy.com|access-date = 2015-10-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151002025630/http://www.cui-zy.com/pragmatism/intro.html|archive-date = 2015-10-02|url-status = dead}}</ref> and more than 2,000 subscribers from academic, policy-research think tanks.

== Reception == {{Expand section|date=January 2024}} According to sinologist Flora Sapio, Cui "has made tacit use of [[Carl Schmitt|Schmitt]] in their theorising about governance and politics in China".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sapio |first=Flora |date=2015-10-06 |title=Carl Schmitt in China |url=https://cs.callum-smith.com/carl-schmitt-in-china/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=The China Story |language=en-AU}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Cui's father was a nuclear engineer in [[Sichuan]] province.<ref>{{cite book|title=What Does China Think?|last=Leonard|first=Mark|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2008|isbn=978-0-00-723068-6|location=Great Britain|page=135}}</ref>

==References== <references/>

==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=BAFiZ_tEGFYC&dq=%22cui+zhiyuan%22&pg=PA157 Sample pages of an essay in ''The Chinese Model Of Modern Development''] * [http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/faculty/fulltime/26efe4891f7db39c011f82145ad00001.html Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management: Cui Zhiyuan public profile, English version] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126011826/http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/faculty/fulltime/26efe4891f7db39c011f82145ad00001.html |date=2011-01-26 }}, retrieved 6 August 2010. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100421005408/http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/szdw/qzjs/26efe4891e2a9c84011e38baf1980011.html Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management: Cui Zhiyuan public profile, Chinese version], retrieved 6 August 2010. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001052748/http://www.cui-zy.com/ Cui Zhiyuan's website]

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