China Institute
Emeritus Professor, SOAS China Institute
Centre of Taiwan Studies
Centre of Taiwan Studies Founder and Professorial Research Associate
Department of Economics
Emeritus Professor
Robert's current research focuses on economic and social development in China (food security, rural development, population and migration, employment, consumption and living standards), and agricultural development in post-1949 Taiwan.
Research interests
Economics; Agricultural and rural development; demographic change; macro problems in China and Taiwan
Publications
Land Tenure in Pre-revolutionary China: Kiangsu Province in the 1920s and 1930s
Ash, Robert (1976). London: (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Ash, Robert, (eds.), Ferdinand, Peter, (eds.), Hook, Brian, (eds.) and Porter, Robin, (eds.) (2003). Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Ash, Robert, (eds.), Edmonds, Richard Louis, (eds.) and Shaw, Yu-Ming, (eds.) (1997). Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of International Relations. (Institute of international relations English monograph series, no.49)
Perspectives on agricultural and grain output growth in China from the nineteenth century to the present day
Ash, Robert, Du, Jun and King, Cheng (2018). In: Pinilla, Vicente, (eds.) and Willebald, Henry, (eds.), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Rebalancing towards a sustainable future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme
Ash, Robert, Porter, Robin and Summers, Tim (2014). In: Brown, Kerry, (ed.), China and the EU in Context: Insights for Business and Investors. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 81-141
Managing China’s Arable Land Resources in an Era of Sustainability
Ash, Robert (2007). In: Song, Yan, (eds.) and Ding, C., (eds.), Urbanization in China. Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, pp 117-141
Ash, Robert (2007). In: Ash, Robert, (eds.), Shambaugh, David, (eds.) and Takagi, Seiichirō, (eds.), China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States. London and New York: Routledge, pp 19-49
Introduction to Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model
Ash, Robert and Greene, J. Megan (2007). In: Ash, Robert, (eds.) and Greene, J. Megan, (eds.), Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model. London and New York: Routledge, pp 1-9
Introduction to China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States
Ash, Robert, Shambaugh, David and Takagi, Seiichirō (2006). In: Ash, Robert, (eds.), Shambaugh, David, (eds.) and Takagi, Seiichirō, (eds.), China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States. London; New York: Routledge, pp 1-15
The Economic Legacy of the KMT and its Implications for Economic Policy Formulation by the DPP
Ash, Robert, Lin, Joseph and Wu, C.J. (2006). In: Fell, Dafydd, (eds.), Klöter, Henning, (eds.) and Chang, Bi-Yu, (eds.), What has changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz, pp 83-106
Recent developments in Chinese agriculture and prospects for future agricultural trade: observations from the grain sector
Ash, Robert (2006). In: Ash, Robert, (eds.) and Ho, Lok-Sang, (eds.), China, Hong Kong and the World Economy: Studies on Globalization. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 296-316
Ash, Robert (2002). In: Goodman, David, (eds.) and Heilmann, Sebastian, (eds.), Was the Chinese Revolution Necessary? Interpreting Fifty Years of the People's Republic of China. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 124-158
Ash, Robert (2002). In: Brodsgaard, Kjeld Erik, (eds.) and Heurlin, Bertel, (eds.), China’s Place in Global Geo-Politics: International, Regional and Domestic Challenges. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 32-59
China's Agricultural Reforms: A Twenty-Year Retrospective
Ash, Robert (2001). In: Chao, C., (eds.) and Dickson, B. J., (eds.), Remaking the Chinese State. Strategies, Society and Security.. London: Routledge, pp 76-100
Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and the Bohai Sea Rim: the economic growth pole of North China
Ash, Robert and Qi, Luo (1998). In: Hook, Brian, (ed.), Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, pp 134-168
The search for grain self-sufficiency in mainland China: a continuing imperative
Ash, Robert (1997). In: Ash, Robert, (eds.), Edmonds, Richard Louis, (eds.) and Shaw, Yu-Ming, (eds.), Perspectives on Contemporary China in Transition. Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of International Relations, pp 58-77
China's food security: regional and structural dimensions
Ash, Robert (1997). In: Tisdall, Clement A., (eds.) and Chai, Joseph C.H., (eds.), China's Economic Growth and Transition: Macroeconomic, Regional, Environmental and Other Dimensions. Brisbane: University of Queensland, pp 427-439
The Grain Issue in China: Domestic and International Perspectives.
Ash, Robert (1997). In: Brosseau, Maurice, (eds.), Kuan, Hsin-chi, (eds.) and Kueh, Y. Y., (eds.), China Review 1997. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, pp 135-160
Ash, Robert (1993). In: Kueh, Y. Y., (eds.) and Ash, Robert, (eds.), Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture: The Impact of Reform. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp 11-45
Prospects for China's grain sector: a Chinese perspective
Ash, Robert (1989). In: Klenner, Wolfgang, (ed.), Trends of Economic Development in East Asia: Essays in Honour of Willy Kraus. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp 419-431
Ash, Robert (1981). In: Howe, Christopher, (ed.), Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp 18-221
