David S. G. Goodman

David Stephen Gordon Goodman is Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is also Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations.

[6] Since the late 1980s Goodman has been active in promoting a provincial (or more localised) approach to understanding China, both in his own work and in workshops organised by him around that theme.

"[7] In his research on the 'new rich' in China, Goodman's view is that local elites and power relations are strongly shaped by family ties embedded in specific localities, resulting in a wide variety of models of what it means to be middle class in different places across China.

[8] Goodman has also been involved in social-historical research into the strategies pursued by the CCP in the northern base areas of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937–1945.

[9] His current research examines the development of local social governance, particularly under the broad policy goal of achieving 'Common Prosperity' in China.