I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tsinghua University with academic training from Stanford University and the University of Oxford. Currently, I am also a Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow at Harvard University. Previously, I was an APARC Postdoctoral Fellow at The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University from 2014 to 2015 and a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the City University of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2008. My research interests include political sociology, historical sociology, contentious politics, and Chinese societies.

My current book project Factions in Formation: Grassroots Conflict and Collaboration in China’s Cultural Revolution explores factional politics and contentious violence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1968. By utilizing the more abundant sources available today, this book aims to demonstrate that rival factions were constituted through a dynamic and contingent process as different groups confronted local political issues and urgent strategic demands. This book offers not only a new perspective on a revolutionary historical event but also a nuanced understanding of broader sociological and political processes of conflict, collaboration, and group identity formation.

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