Le Lin
@Ledzeppelin2048
Sociologist studying China's political economy, education, organizations and technology. Associate Professor at U Hawaii. Author of The Fruits of Opportunism
Tsinghua Professor and THiS cofounder Nianshen Song’s book, Mapping Asia: A History on Maps, is released this week. Highly recommended for anyone interested in global history, historical geography, historical sociology, and critical Asian studies.
On Mar 20 at 8PM (ET), THiS WOCS will host its second Spring session featuring @bard_jester’s project, “‘Be Yourself’: Why Does a Working Holiday Visa Facilitate Chinese Youths in Developing a Sense of Self and ‘Protecting the Light of Our Soul’?” Join us: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
THiS will hold its first Chinese Book Talk of 2025! On Apr. 22, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, @YanLong_SOC’ll talk on her book, Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford University Press, 2024). More info: thisoc.net/booktalk/bookt…
On Mar 13 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host a session featuring Jack Jin Gary Lee’s (@NSSRNews) work, “Minor Articulations: Racialized Emotions and the ‘Malayan Sexual Perversion Cases’ in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1938.” Zoom: mcmaster.zoom.us/j/93192817950
Looking forward to this event featuring Yingyao's wonderful new book!
Please mark your calendar for Dec. 6, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, for @yingyao_wang822’s talk on her book “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State” (Columbia University Press, 2024).
This Friday at 9 am EST, we'll host Jack Goldstone @jgoldsto to offer a demographic view on the competition among the U.S., China, Russia, and India in the 21st century. It is followed by an interdisciplinary panel by @hofunghung @ZhangTaisu etc. Join us: american.zoom.us/j/8391626681
Join us tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET for a discussion of Loïc Wacquant’s book “Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory.”
Please mark your calendar for Oct. 8, 8:30–10:00 p.m. ET, for Loïc Wacquant’s talk about his book “Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory.” Discussants: Marco Garrido, @EricKlinenberg, and Yue Zhang. Host: @fredyan. Moderator: @YanLong_SOC. Zoom: berkeley.zoom.us/j/97836326646
On Oct 18 at 8 AM ET, @fu10zheng will present her paper (coauthored with Gil Eyal), “The Work of Legitimacy: The Implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law in a Chinese City.” Discussants: @EliDFriedman and @ProfLiuSida. Chair: @Yimang_SOC. To register: tinyurl.com/workoflegitima…
“Navigating the Nexus in Politics, History, and Methodology,” a conference in honor of Professor Dingxin Zhao on the occasion of his retirement, will be held on October 11-12 at the University of Chicago. See details in the poster. Registration link: forms.gle/UeVYxGDJSoUN2f…
My review essay of The Logic of Governance in China by @XueguangZhou is out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
On May 8 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its last Spring session featuring Hanyu Zhao’s project, “Varieties of Formalism: Deciphering Organizational Red Tape in the Chinese Bureaucracy” Join on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
Now available? My book, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics," analyzes the role of technocrats in crafting China's economic policy paradigms. Coupon code below.
Looking forward to it!
On April 24 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its 3rd Spring session featuring @syshachter’s project, “The Double-Conscious Formation of Organizational Life: Chinese Civil Society Organizations in the U.S., 1849-1911.” To join: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
Tomorrow 4/17 12pm HST, UBC Prof. Qiang Fu will give a hybrid talk on big data study on China-USSR at UH CCS. Please register below: manoa.hawaii.edu/chinesestudies…
On April 25 (Th) at 8:00pm EST, we will host a discussion with Prof. Xiaofei Kang about her new book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953. Join the webinar: american.zoom.us/j/99526716338
We are excited to announce the Spring schedule of THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies (WOCS). THiS WOCS offers a virtual platform for scholars who use qualitative/mixed methods to study Chinese societies to present and discuss their ongoing projects. Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
How do 0.1 percenters get into their top-choice schools? For our new cover story, @caitmosc reports on elite educational consultants—like Command Education— who charge upwards of $120,000 a year to sculpt high-school kids into Ivy League bait. Read now: trib.al/rR8vrIT