Qiang RenProfessor / Master tutor· Political sociology· Immigration sociology· Community sociologyQiang RenProfessor, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University Education BackgroundPostdoc, Institute of Social Development Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2015Ph.D. in Political Theory, Zhejiang University, 2012Master’s Degree in Political Theory, Zhejiang University, 2003 Courses TaughtPolitical Sociology, The Political System and Though of Ancient China, History of Western Political TheoriesWebsite: https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/0016157
Marie-Eve RenyZJU100 Young Professor (Category A)· Comparative politics · International relationsMarie-Eve RenyZJU100 Young Professor (Category A)， Department of Sociology, Zhejiang UniversityEducation BackgroundUniversity of Toronto, Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, 2007-2012McGill University, Masters of Arts, Political Science, 2004-2006University of Ottawa, Bachelors in Social Sciences, Honors in Political Science, Co-op program, Summa cum laudePublicationsReny, Marie-Eve. 2022. "Military Rule with a Weak Army: Myanmar's Late Expansion", Journal of Burma Studies, 26, 1, forthcoming.Reny, Marie-Eve. 2022. "Myanmar in 2021: The Military Is Back in Power," Asian Survey , 62, 1. Reny, Marie-Eve. 2021. “Myanmar in 2020: Citizens Have Voted for the Democratic Transition to Continue, but Democracy Remains Far Ahead,” Asian Survey, 61, 1, 138-143.Reny, Marie-Eve. 2021. “Autocracies and the Control of Societal Organizations”, Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics, 56, 1, 39-58.Reny, Marie-Eve. 2020. “Myanmar’s Transition and the Resurgence of Buddhist Nationalism: How Incumbents Seek to Hold on to Power,” Asian Survey, 60, 6, 1072-1089.
Jan Harm SchutteNew Hundred Talents Researcher (Category II)· Anthropology· Linguistic anthropology· Communication StudiesJan Harm SchutteNew Hundred Talents Researcher (Category II), Department of Sociology, Zhejiang UniversityI am a linguistic anthropologist and interdisciplinary ethnographer. My research and published work concern the political economy of language and communication in Afro-Asian interactions as well as global South post-socialisms more broadly. Grounded in both linguistic and socio-cultural anthropology – making use of archival as well as ethnographic research approaches – I have explored a range of transnational, Asia-Africa-related contexts of discourse production in my recent book and ongoing projects.My dissertation work was concerned with the semiotic and political economy of language, race, and history at play in African students’ interactions with their Chinese peers in contemporary Beijing. My recently-completed book, based on this research, is titled Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations (University of California Press, Spring 2023). I am currently engaged in three new book projects. The first explores the theoretical proposition of dialectical interactionism in the context of history-making and ‘Third-Worldist’ historical reflexivity as a kind of public technology in everyday political communication. The second is a writing and media project concerning the Afro-Chinese trade in Chinese medical commodities: particularly animal products in Southern Africa. My third project, based on ongoing fieldwork in South Africa, is an inquiry into political multilingualism, democratic personhood, and mass-mediation in South African political debate.I understand all of my research projects as stemming from diverse interpersonal collaborations with my students, colleagues, mentors, and informants. As such, I consider teaching and advisory activities as an important dimension guiding my own research. Here, I am comfortable advising or collaborating on a wide range of research topics and multidisciplinary approaches to social sciences questions with a semiotic or interactional dimension. Thus, I welcome discussions with graduate and undergraduate students concerning their current or future work. My teaching will predominantly feature topics around the anthropology of communication as a basis for improving our understanding of the human as a translating and time-keepi.ng speciesEducation BackgroundPh.D. in Anthropology, The University of Chicago, 2018Master’s Degree in Anthropology, The University of Chicago, 2012PublicationsBooks:Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations – University of California Press (Forthcoming 2023) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:2020. “Doing Things with ‘Nothing’: The Pragmatics of Democratic Multilingualism in South African Parliamentary Debate.” Social Dynamics.2019. “Aspirational Histories of Third World Cosmopolitanism: Dialectical Interactions in Afro Chinese Beijing.” Signs and Society 2013. “Bodysuits and Biodomes: The Construction of the Sonochronotopia on Johannesburg’s Korean Ethnoscape.” SAMUS : The Journal of the South African Musicological Society2010. “'Jazz' at Large: Scapes and the Imagination in the Performances of Nah Youn Sun and Moses Molelekwa.” Jazz Research Journal. Forthcoming Articles:2023. “Made in Others’ Wor(l)ds: Mapping The Angloscene in a Sino-African Encounter. Positions: Asia Critique.2023. “Introduction: Toward a Both-And Semiotics of Intersectionality: Raciolinguistics Beyond White Settler-Colonial Situations” (co-authored and edited with Joshua Babcock). Signs and Society.2024. “Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Coloniality: Toward a Non-binary Semiotics of Intersectionality” (co-authored and edited with Joshua Babcock). Journal ofLinguistic Anthropology.2024. “Apartheid, Intersectionality, Colonialism: The Uses and Abuses of Political Shifters” as part of the above special issue. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Book Reviews:2020. Review of Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People’s Republic of China by Daniel Vukovich. In PRC History Review. Forthcoming：Review of Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler. In American Ethnologist. Textbooks, Chapters, and Edited Volumes 2022 “Guanxi/Ubuntu” in Changing Theory: Concepts from the South (Ed. Dilip Menon) London: Routledge Forthcoming:2023. Counterpoints: Decolonizing the Study of Globalization. Textbook Under Contract with Kendall Hunt Publishing Company2023. “Under the Seal’s Whip: Vital Commodities, Vital Signs, and Translation’s Laboring Subject” in Anthropology of an Ascendant China (Ed. Mayfair Yang) London: Routledge.
Yang ShenZJU100 Young Professor (Category I)· Anthropology of Religion & Secularism· Ritual Theories, Chinese Buddhism, Temple Religions· Materiality, Technology and Embodiment, Knowledge and ExpertiseYang ShenYang Shen is a cultural anthropologist of religion and secularism. She received her Ph.D. from Boston University in Anthropology in October 2019 and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. She also taught at the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Frieberg-Glorisun Fellow at the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies.Yang's work explores forms of Chinese secularism and how Chinese conceptions of religion and secularity transform global projects of modernity. Her first book manuscript, Sidestepping Secularism: Dynamics of Religion and Ordinary Life in Buddhist Temples in China examines how average Chinese temple-goers engage with Buddhist temple rituals. Her current project, Materializing Religious Mediation: Comparative Studies of the Social Efficacy of Lottery Divination, traces how a technical instrument is produced, circulated, embedded or denied in local (or de-localized) ritual structures in technology-advanced Asia. Through multi-site case studies and comparative-historical methods, the project casts a new light on religious specialization and secular entanglements in modern polities. Yang has also been engaged in a series of side projects examining the problem of knowledge and embodiment in syncretic Chinese spiritual traditions and their forms of tension under the condition of secularism. Education Background2011-2019 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Boston University, United States 2007-2011 B. Laws in Sociology, Zhejiang University, ChinaHonors in the Humanities & Social Sciences, the Chu Kochen Honors College Employment2022- Assistant Professor in Anthropology & One-Hundred-Talent Researcher, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies & Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel2019-2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Religious Diversity, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Puyuan ShiAssociate Professor · Organizational sociology · Economic sociologyPuyuan ShiAssociate Professor. He has bachelor and doctor degree of Chinese Literature, Sociology, Economics and Political Theory. He has published papers in the most important academic journals of Sociology and Political Theory. Recently, he is mainly interested in culture studies, politics and media organizations, traditional Chinese society and culture.Education BackgroundBachelor's degree, School of Arts, School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, 2008.Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Peking University，2014.Joint Training, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago，2012-2013.Courses TaughtIntroduction to China's Political and Economic Development (Undergraduate)Organizational Sociology (Graduate)Website: https://person.zju.edu.cn/shpy
Jinyu SunResearcher· Contemporary philosophy· Political obligation· Collective action· FeminismJinyu SunResearcher, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang UniversityEducation Background2015-2019: University College London, PhD2013-2014: London School of Economics, MSc2012-2013: University College London, MA2008-2012: Peking University, BA
