Contributors
Chen Xiaoyun (陈晓运)
is an Associate Professor at the Party School of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee (Guangdong Institute of Public Administration). Dr. Chen’s research areas are Social movement, political participation and civil society. He is the co-author of Seeking Structural Balance in Grass-roots Governance: Guangdong Exploring Innovation in Grass-roots Governance (2017). His recent publications include more than 30 journal articles in Chinese Public Administration, Journal of public administration and many Chinese-Language journals.
Duan Ran (段然)
is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Central China Normal University. Dr Duan’s research areas are Chinese individualization, youth study and conceptual history studies. She is currently researching two projects. The first is the study of individualization theory and the newly development of Chinese individualization. The second is to explore the conceptual history of the public opinion or ‘yulun’ in modern China, which examines the formation of the concept of public opinion in modern China (1840–1949).
Hu Ming (胡明)
is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Society and Community Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include nonprofit organization management, volunteer service, charitable donation, nonprofit policy, and community development.
Huang Zhenhui (黄振辉)
is a lecturer at at the Party School of CPC Zhongshan Municipal Committee. His research focuses on resistance politics and social governance at grass root level. Dr. Huang’s recent research argues that in the period of social transformation, understanding the logic and practices of the underlying resistance in China will help to improve China’s grass-roots governance. He is the co-author of Practical Social Survey Method (3rd Edition, 2008).
William Hurst
is associate professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. His research has focused on the politics of law and legal institutions, social protest and contentious politics, political economy, labor politics, and local governance in both urban and rural China and Indonesia. He is the author of The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge 2009) and Ruling Before the Law: the Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge 2018). His current and ongoing research examines the politics of land across Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Ching Kwan Lee (李静君)
is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published three monographs on China, forming a trilogy of Chinese economic transformation through the lens of labor and working class experiences. One of her current research projects examines the rise of “platform capitalism” in China and its impact on state-capital relation, employment, and workers’ new imaginations of work and working lives.
Lü Dewen (吕德文)
is an Associate Professor of Center for Chinese Rural Governance Study, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He focuses on the study of grassroots governance, and the research interest in recent years is the study of street governance.
Song Shaopeng (宋少鹏)
is a professor in School of Marxism Studies at Renmin University of China. She is the author of China and women in the “Western Mirror”: The gender standards of civilization and the late Qing discourse on women’s rights (2016). Her recent research focuses on women and birth in China’s collective past.
Zhang Yonghong (张永宏)
is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sun Yet-sen University. His on-going project traces the process of government-driven urbanization in the past decade. He also studies the expansion of government bureaucracies and their effects on society.
Zhou Baohua (周葆华)
a Professor and deputy dean of the School of Journalism at Fudan University. Dr. Zhou’s research interests include network and new media communication, audience research, communication effects, public opinion research, news sociology. He is the author of Effect Research: Changes in the Concept and Behavior of Human Transmission (2008).
Zhu Jiangang (朱健刚)
is a Professor of the Department of Sociology at Nan Kai University. He has served as Honorary Dean of School of Philanthropy at Guangzhou. He also serves on the board of Guangdong Harmony Foundation, the first community foundation in China; serves on the board of International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). Dr. Zhu received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he has been doing research in a range of fields including civil society and philanthropy, community development, non-profit management, and social movements. His major publications are Between the Family and the State: Ethnography of the civil associations and community movements in a Shanghai linong neighborhood (2010) and Power of Action: Cases studies of private volunteer organizations (2008). He won the award of Best Paper at the annual conference of ANOVA in 2014.