Feng WangProfessor, Sociology Department Chair, Sociology |
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Research Interests |
Comparative demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary Chinese society | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for Best Book in Social Science History. Social Science History Association. 2000. Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography. Sociology of Population Section, American Sociological Association, 2000. Distinguished Assistant Professor for Research, University of California, Irvine, 1999 Distinguished Service Award, the East-West Center, 1990 |
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| Appointments |
Assistant to Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Hawaii, 1992 -1996 Fellow, the East-West Center, 1989 - 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1990, 1992, 1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow, the East-West Center, 1988 - 1989 Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1987 - 1988 |
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Research Abstract |
Understanding Inequality: Group Membership and Patterns of Inequality in Urban China. This is a book-length manuscript analyzing how equality and inequality are formed in post-socialist China on a group membership basis, and how both the group membership and inequality have changed in post-Mao urban China. One outcome of this project is “Bringing categories back in: Institutional factors of income inequality in urban China.” (Wang Feng and Tianfu WANG). Working Paper of the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine. CSD-0301. 2003. Another is a forthcoming book (see below). Comparative Reproductive Regimes in Historical Eurasia. This is co-authored volume under preparation (with Noriko Tsuya of Keio University, Japan, George Alter and James Lee of the University of Michigan, with contributions from many others). It analyzes and presents results from a five-country (Belgium, China, Italy, Japan, and Sweden) comparative study of the interrelationships among household organization, economic contexts, and demographic behaviors in 18th and 19th century Eurasia. It attempts, among other things, to reorient historical studies of population from a European to a comparative, Eurasian perspective. Migration and Social Reintegration in China. This is an ongoing project involving collecting and analyzing data of internal migrants, especially those who migrated from rural to urban areas of China. Central research questions include patterns of migration and urbanization, patterns of social inequality between migrants and non-migrants, and the reintegration of rural migrants into urban societies. |
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| Publications | Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China (Stanford University Press, 2008). Asian Population History. (Liu T’sui-jung, James Lee, David Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, editors). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. One Quarter of Humanity, Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities 1700-2000. (James Lee and Wang Feng). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999. Translated into Chinese and published by Sanlian Press, Beijing, China. 2000. China: the Many Facets of Demographic Change (Alice Goldstein and Wang Feng, editors) Boulder: Westview Press 1996. | |
| Grants | Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California, 2001, 2003; The Ford Foundation, 1998, 2001, 2003; American Council of Learned Societies, 1999 | |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2006 | ||
| Research Centers | Center for Asian Studies, Center for the Study of Democracy, Center for Demographic and Social Analysis | |
| Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5098 | |
| Last updated | 10/16/2007 | |