Courses list
Yuhai
social and urban space
Professor of Sociology
Research Fellow, Nordic Centre at Fudan University
Yu Hai is a Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow of the Nordic Centre at Fudan University.
Professor Yu’s research has a clear focus on preserving the local culture and wisdom. His research
also covers the fields of history of Western social thoughts, urban sociology, and study of
community and volunteer organizations.
He is the recipient of 1st Class Award by Chinese Ministry of Education for his book titled History
of Western Sociological Thoughts (1995), Best Course Award by Chinese Central
Government(2002) and Shanghai Municipal Government(2001), Shanghai Excellent Course
(2006). Course of Development Studies was awarded as Model Course of Bilingual Teaching by
Chinese Ministry of Education (2009). Yu Hai has an MA in Philosophy from Fudan University.
Zhangli
urban and regional development
Professor of Urban studies and Development
Zhang Li (Ph.D., University of Washington-Seattle) is a Professor of Urban studies and
Development at Fudan University. His research interests are China’s urban and regional
development, political economy of migration and urbanization, urban social geography, and
migrant housing. He authored an academic book in English, co-authored three books in English,
and published more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles. His journal papers have been cited
more than 500 times according to SSCI. Dr. Zhang led or participated in the projects funded by
international organizations and foundations and was invited to give talks and presentations on the
international conferences a number of times. He has been invited as an external reviewer to
assess manuscripts submitted to a dozen of prominent international journals.
Renyuan
Integration of migrants
Deputy Director, Institute of Population Research, Fudan University
Vice Director and General Secretary, Fudan University Yangtze River Delta Institute
Vice Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) of Fudan University
Professor of Demography and Urban Studies
Ren Yuan (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University. He
Serves as Deputy Director of Institute of Population Research (IPR), Vice Director and General
Secretary of Fudan University Yangtze River Delta Institute, and Vice Director of Center for
Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) of Fudan University. He specializes in urban studies and
demography, and conducted several researches and published on a wide range of topics that
include population and development, employment and labor market, urbanization and rural-urban
migration, industrial cluster and regional economy, global city and global-local nexus,
environment and urban sustainability, urban affairs and public policies, climate change and coastal
urban development, and so on with a primary focus on China, especially in and around Shanghai
Area.
Sunjiaming
Global cities
Professor of Sociology
Jiaming Sun, (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago) , Professor in the Department
of Sociology, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University. His research
areas are globalization, urban study, civil society, youth problem, and consumption culture, etc. He
has published books such as "Global Connectivity and Local Transformation," "Global Sociology:
Analysis of Transnational Phenomena," "Generation Gaps: The Background of Transition Period
1991-1994" (in Chinese), and more than sixty papers in both English and Chinese in journals such
as Environment and Planning A, Journal of Social Sciences, Journal of International Consumer
Marketing, Journal of Urban Health, and China: An International Journal in the United States, the
United Kingdom, Singapore, Taiwan, and China over the last twenty seven years. He taught
courses such as, urban sociology, global sociology, social inequality, sociology of Internet,
research methods, and social statistics, etc. in United States and China. Dr. Sun received a tenured
faculty position in Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA, in 2011.
Pengxizhe
environment and urban development
Professor of Population and Development
Director, State Innovative Institute for Public Management and Public Policy Studies, Fudan
University
Director, Institute of Social Research, Fudan University
Peng Xizhe (Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Sciences) is a Professor of
Population and Development at Fudan University. He is currently the Director of the State
Innovative Institute for Public Management and Public Policy Studies, Fudan University, and also
in charge of the establishment of Fudan’s data center (The Institute of Social Research). Dr.
Peng’s research areas include population dynamics and policy, social welfare and social policy,
sustainable development, and gender studies.
Zhangyina
regional city development
Assistant Professor of urban studies and population
Zhang Yina (Ph.D. in Population, resources and environmental economics, Fudan University,
2008) is currently an Assistant Professor of urban studies and population at Fudan University.
Her research areas are urban and regional economy, population migration and urbanization, and
application and development of geographic information system (GIS).
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Wang Feng
Wang Feng (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Michigan) is the Director of Brookings-Tsinghua
Center, and a Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development of John L.
Thornton China Center. He is also a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine
(on leave). Professor Wang’s main research areas include population and economics, social
inequality, and historical comparative demography. He has conducted research at the East West
Center and taught at the University of Hawaii. Professor Wang’s main publications include One
Quarter of Humanity, Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Harvard
University Press 1999) and Boundaries and Categories, Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban
China (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Chen Xiangming
Chen Xiangming (Ph.D. Duke) is founding Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global
Studies and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at
Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as Honorary Research Fellow at the Shanghai
Academy of Social Sciences and the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences. His articles have
appeared in major urban studies and international social science journals and two dozen edited
books. Chen has served on the board of trustees of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the
International Forum of Deutsche Bank, and the advisory board of the Urban Age project based at
the London School of Economics. He has served as President of the North American Chinese
Sociologists Association and on the Council for the Community and Urban Sociology Section of
the American Sociological Association.
Zuo Xuejin
Zuo Xuejin(Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is executive vice president and senior research fellow
at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His main research areas are population economics,
population migration and urbanization, labor and employment.
Ding Jinhong
DingJinhong is Dean of the social development in East China Normal University and the professor
of Institute of Population. His main research areas are population migration, urbanization, and
human geography.
Ning Yuemin
Ning Yuemin is professor of Institute of Geography of North America in Western Europe East in
China Normal University and director of the center for modern Chinese city studies. His main
research areas are urban geography, urban economy and urban planning.