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Fei Yan

@fredyan

@RadInstitute Fellow 2023-24; @HarvardYenching Fellow 2023-24; @StanfordSAPARC Fellow 2014-16; Research on political sociology and historical sociology.

 Stanford & Harvard
Joined February 2009
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Damon Mayrl@yrlsocJul 13
Deeply honored to learn that After Positivism was awarded the Barrington Moore Book Award by the ASACHS. A joy to work on w/ @nickhwilson & contributors @Xiaohong__Xu @PacewiczJosh @BrundageStuart @ProfYangZhang @SimeonNewman @rjemigh & others not on X 🙏 cup.columbia.edu/book/after-…
After Positivism | Columbia University Press

After Positivism | Columbia University Press

What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that hav... | CUP

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Thawing the Past after the Red Sun: Negotiating Local History in Post-Mao China | Social Science History | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4gOs3P4
Thawing the Past after the Red Sun: Negotiating Local History in Post-Mao China | Social Science...

Thawing the Past after the Red Sun: Negotiating Local History in Post-Mao China | Social Science...

Thawing the Past after the Red Sun: Negotiating Local History in Post-Mao China - Volume 50 Issue 1

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On June 27, 9:00–11:00 P.M. (ET), THiS will hold a book talk, featuring Jing Xu’s book, “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Zoom: mcmaster.zoom.us/j/919424315…
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Project MUSE - The Making of a Sociology with Distinctive Chinese Characteristics muse.jhu.edu/article/945291
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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).
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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/978363266…
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Our June issue (no. 258) is now out and in free access for two weeks. #China #UrbanRegeneration #HongKong #Education #gazetteers journals.cambridge.org/actio…
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Please join us on June 3rd for Wenkai He’s talk about his new book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. Our discussants include Elisabeth Clemens, Andreas Wimmer, Joanna Innes, and Luke Roberts. Zoom link: american.zoom.us/j/995267163…
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On June 3rd at 10am EST, we will host a book talk with Prof. Wenkai He on Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. Elisabeth Clemens, Andreas Wimmer, Joanna Innes, and Luke Roberts will join the Zoom discussion: american.zoom.us/j/995267163…
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Highly productive and fruitful interdisciplinary workshop!
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Fantastic #harvardyenching workshop held last week on "Data Underground: Telling China Stories through Grassroots Sources"!
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Join us to celebrate an incredible soul.
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'“Turning One’s Back on the Party and the People”: Suicides during the Chinese Cultural Revolution' Fei Yan doi.org/10.1086/729112 #tcj91 #CulturalRevolution
“Turning One’s Back on the Party and the People”: Suicides during the Chinese Cultural Revolution |...

“Turning One’s Back on the Party and the People”: Suicides during the Chinese Cultural Revolution |...

AbstractDrawing upon sources that include a national dataset composed of published county annals and a large unpublished collection of internal materials from Guangxi Province, this article represe...

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The China Journal no.91 (January 2024) is finally available online: journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tc… #tcj91 #ChinaStudies
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The China Journal | Vol 91, No null

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Five scholars of history, religious studies, and gender studies--Profs. Brian DeMare @BrianDeMare, Ting Guo @tingguowrites, Ji Li @Ji_HK, Zhange Ni @NiZhange, and Aminda Smith @amindasmith--will share their thoughts about the book in the panel chaired by Ying Zhang @utopiamatcha.
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Twenty-First Century from CUHK Press, issue 200
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12 Reading Recommendations from Radcliffe’s 2023–2024 Fellows | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-a…
12 Reading Recommendations from Radcliffe’s 2023–2024 Fellows | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...

12 Reading Recommendations from Radcliffe’s 2023–2024 Fellows | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...

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My dear friend, a fellow of Mao’s China, rest in peace. In time, we shall meet again.
THiS: Theory, History, Society (@THiS_TheHisSoc) profile pictureTHiS: Theory, History, Society@THiS_TheHisSoc12 Dec 2023
We are devastated to share the news that Professor Xiaohong Xu, a co-founder of THiS, passed away after a courageous struggle with colon cancer on Dec 12, 2023. Surrounded by family and friends, Xiaohong left us peacefully and without pain. We will forever miss you, Xiaohong!
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Tuesday, December 12 -"Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement" (Prof. Fei Yan, w/ Prof. Yuhua Wang as chair/discussant). For details, see: ow.ly/JRzH50QbGpz
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New Scholar Profiles Series: HYI - @radinstitute joint fellow Fei Yan discusses his research on the dynamics of mass factionalism and collective violence during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1968. To read the profile, visit: ow.ly/upLc50Qc8jY
Getting to know... Fei Yan - Harvard-Yenching Institute

Getting to know... Fei Yan - Harvard-Yenching Institute

Photo by Lou Jones Fei Yan (Associate Professor of Sociology, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellowship recipient, 2023-24) “The Politics of Collective Decision-Making and...

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The latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies is now up on Project Muse! The cover issue features one of the many treasures of the Harvard-Yenching Library... an illustration from Bruno Petzold's collection of about five hundred scrolls! ow.ly/rkYg50PQTUh
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