Research Team
Research Team
Fei Yan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tsinghua University and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on historical sociology, political sociology, and cultural sociology. He has held prestigious fellowships at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University, as well as at The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.
Yan is the author of Drivers of Innovation: Entrepreneurship, Education, and Finance in Asia (Stanford Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2023) and Understanding China through Big Data: Applications of Theory-oriented Quantitative Approaches (Routledge, 2022). His research has been published in numerous prestigious journals, including Social Science Research, The Sociological Review, Social Movement Studies, Poetics, Urban Studies, Environment and Urbanization, Journal of Educational Change, Development Policy Review, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern China, and China Information. Yan has been honored with grants and awards from prestigious institutions such as the Association for Asian Studies, the Institute for Humane Studies, Royal Historical Society, China and Asia-Pacific Research Society, and Cyrus Tang Foundation.
Tongtian Xiao is a PhD student in political science at the University of Washington with the interest of political economy and comparative politics. He is also interested in studying the history of communist China with multi-method approach.
Peiran Wang is a graduate student of the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University and research fellow at Departmen of Government at Harvard University. His current research interests include historical sociology and social transformation, particularly in understanding the long-term impacts of historical events and their cultural significance.