I write in both English and Chinese. My work has received several awards, including a top award for junior sociologists from the International Sociological Association, a best graduate student paper award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and a distinguished scholarly book award from the Population Association of China.
My dissertation, “The Making of Liberal Intellectuals in Post-Tiananmen China,” examines how social factors shape political attitudes. I am currently working on a National Social Science Foundation of China-funded project, "Reconstructing the Sociology of Knowledge."
Below is a partial list of my publications.
My dissertation, “The Making of Liberal Intellectuals in Post-Tiananmen China,” examines how social factors shape political attitudes. I am currently working on a National Social Science Foundation of China-funded project, "Reconstructing the Sociology of Knowledge."
Below is a partial list of my publications.
IN ENGLISH2014. “The Religion of the Nonreligious and the Politics of the Apolitical: The Transformation of Falun Gong from Healing Practice to Political Movement.” Politics and Religion 7(1):177-208.
2013. “Industrial Structural Transformation and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China.” Energy Policy 57:43-51 (with Xiaoyan Zhou and Jie Zhang). 2011. “Opportunities in Action: The Case of the US Computer TakeBack Campaign.” Contemporary Politics 17(3):335-54. |
IN CHINESEBook:
2004. Urbanization and Sustainable Urban Development. Science Press (with Chuanjiang Liu et al.). Articles: 2014. “From Structural Reductionism to Relational Realism.” Sociological Studies 4:191-216. 2011. “Social Mechanisms as Philosophy of Social Science.” Journal of Social Theory 14(2):359-81. 2011. “The Intellectual and Politics.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 31(5):1-47. * Reprinted in Chinese Sociology 10 (2014):88–140. 2011. “Action, Motivation, Self-Concept, and the Formation of Political Ideas.” Journal of Zhejiang University 41(1):45-54. |
TRANSLATORForthcoming. Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, and Ideal in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987–1991 (by Leon Aron). Guangxi Normal University Press (principal translator).
Forthcoming. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe (by Philip S. Gorski). Beijing Normal University Press (with Ten Li). In press. Credit and Blame (by Charles Tilly). Post-Wave. 2014. Why? (by Charles Tilly, with an introduction by Junpeng Li). Time-Chinese. 2011. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (by Judith Butler). Shanghai, Shanghai Joint. |
EDITORI am the editor of three translation series:
Swords and Plowshares. East China Normal University Press. Historical Social Science. Beijing Normal University Press. Collected Works of C. Wright Mills. Beijing Normal University Press (edited with Xiang Wen). |