for... seeking a better understanding of the dynamics of energy diplomacy, national security, and state economic grand strategy. China's rural policy Zweig began his academic career studying rural Chinese politics. In 1980–81, when rural China was impoverished, he lived in the near and distant suburbs of Nanjing Municipality, interviewing local officials to assess the extent to which local variations determined whether more radical or collectivist policies were introduced during the Cultural Revolution or whether no such policies were undertaken locally. At the time of this research, rural China was undergoing decollectivization, as areas where he was working began to dismantle the People's Communes which had been the main organizational structure since 1958. In 1986, he returned to the same areas to study the second stage of rural reform, which involved privatization of collective property, the opening of private markets, and increased rural-urban migration. His research also analyzed China's rural reorganization during the reform era, including the privatization of land and formerly public resources, as well as the countryside's integration into the global economy. C. Montgomery Broaded praised Zweig's book, Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era, and stated, "Zweig's rich primary data come from several periods of field research... He is thus in the position to assess the impact of variations in local economic conditions in determining the implementation of national policy." Bibliography BooksAgrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981 (1989) ISBN 978-0674434967China's Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s (1995) ISBN 978-1557290496Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony, David Zweig and Hao Yufan, eds. (2015) ISBN 978-1318778085Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (1997) ISBN 978-1563248375Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (2002) ISBN 978-0801439674 Selected Articles Zweig, D. (1997). To return or not to return? Politics vs. economics in China's brain drain. Studies in Comparative International Development, 32(1), 92–125. Zweig, D. (1999). Undemocratic capitalism: China and the limits of economism. The National Interest, (56), 63–72. Zweig, D. (2001). China's stalled" Fifth Wave": Zhu Rongji's reform package of 1998–2000. Asian Survey, 41(2), 231–247. Zweig, D., Changgui, C., & Rosen, S. (2004). Globalization and transnational human capital: Overseas and returnee scholars to China. The China Quarterly, 179, 735–757. Zweig, D., & Jianhai, B. (2005). China's global hunt for energy. Foreign affairs, 25–38. Zweig, D. (2006). Competing for talent: China's strategies to reverse the brain drain. International Labour Review., 145,