Associate Research Fellow
National Institute of Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topics: social governance, housing policy, collective actions

Education
2004 - 2009: Ph.D in Sociology, Peking University (Department of Sociology), joint training program with The University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Land and Environment).

Employment
2012-present: Associate Research Fellow
National Institute of Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2011- 2012: Assistant Research Fellow
National Institute of Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2009-2011: Senior Research Associate
Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong

Publications:
“Petitioning through cyberspace: an effective platform for homeowner protests”, Human Science Research Council Review, 2014, 12(1): 14-15.
“People like us? Social status, social inequality and perceptions of public rental housing”, Journal of Social Policy, 2014, 43(1): 135-151 (with Ray Forrest).
“China’s Nimby protest in the process of urbanization”, in Zhiming Cheng, Rusell Symth, Junhua Chen eds.China's Urban Workers in the New Era: Market Reform, Current State, and the Road Forward, Berlin, German: Springer , 2014.
“The governance formation in Beijing’s commercial residential areas”, in Mark Wang, Pookong Kee and Jia Gao eds. Transforming Chinese Cities, New York: Routledge, 2014.
“Housing satisfaction in social housing sector: Empirical analysis on Hong Kong public housing survey”, Comparative Economic & Social Systems, 2013, 4: 109-117 (in Chinese).
“The inclusiveness of basic public service in urban China”, in Hanlin Li ed., Annual Report of Chinese Social Development, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2013 (in Chinese).
“Social exclusiveness in public rental housing sector and the solution”, Construction Economy, 2013, 2:59-62 (in Chinese, with Junhua Chen).
“State power enhance and social vitality motivation: The changing state-society relations in contemporary China”, Journal of Social Development, 2013, 2: 141-162 (in Chinese, with Yong Gao).
“The constructive significance of homeowners’ rightful protest in China”, in Yip Ngai-Ming ed., Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China, Edward Elgar, 2012
“Assessment on the equalization of basic public service in urban China”,Journal of Social Development, 2012, 1: 75-107 (in Chinese).“The access and exit mechanism of Hong Kong public housing”,China Housing, 2012, 2: 83-85 (in Chinese)
“The policy of social housing: A case study on Beijing”,Reform, 2012, 1: 75-80 (with Junhua Chen) (in Chinese)
“The organization innovation and institution change in the process of social development”, Chinese Social Sciences Today, September 21, 2012. (in Chinese)
“Governmentality and the politicisation of social work in China”,British Journal of Social Work, 2012, 42(6):1039-1059 (SSCI). (with Leung, T. T. F.; Yip, N. M. & Huang, R.G)
“One Decade of Urban Housing Reform in China: Urban Housing Price Dynamics and the Role of Migration and Urbanization, 1995-2005”,Habitat International, 2011, 35 (1): 1-8 (with Chen, J. & Guo. F.)
“Chinese Urbanization and Urban Housing Growth since the mid 1990’s”,Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2011, 26(2): 219-323 (with Chen, J. & Guo. F.)
“The equitable and effective distribution of social housing”,Chinese Social Sciences Today, December 20, 2012.
“The visible and invisible state in grass-roots society”,Sociological Studies, 2011,1: 63-95 (with Wang, H. S. in Chinese)
“The homeowners’ protest in Beijing and Guangzhou: The rightful resistances and beyond”, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2010, 5(3): 513-524 (with Yip, N. M.)
“The new role of government in the commodity housing community governance: A case study of Fangya Garden in Beijing”, in Xiangming Chen ed.Qualitative Research: Reflection and Discussion (Vol. 2), Chongqing University 2010.
“Appealing to Internet: An Effective Way of Homeowners' Protests”, conference paper for World Social Science Forum 2013, October 13-15 2013, in Montreal, Canada.
“The governance of ecological immigrant community in ecological urbanization”, conference paper for Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociology Society 2013, July in Guiyang, China.
“Institutional integration: mobilization and sustention of commercial residential community governance in Beijing”, conference paper for2011 Melbourne Conference on China, 2011 November in Melbourne, Australia
“People Like Us? Social Status, Social Inequality and Perceptions of Public Rental Housing in Contemporary Hong Kong”, conference paper forNeoliberalism and Urbanisation in Asia Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Housing, 8-10 December 2011 in Hong Kong (with Forrest Ray)
“Involvement or detachment: the role of state in grass-roots governance”, conference paper for The Cross-Strait Conference on Public Administration, August 18-19 2010, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“The constructive significance of homeowners’ rightful protest in urban China”, conference paper forHome Owners Associations and the Reinvention of Grassroots Government in Urban China, 17-18 August 2010 in Hong Kong
“Proactive Claims for Normative Rights – Beyond Homeowners’ Resistance towards the Infringement of Material Benefits”, conference paper for17th ISA World Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden（with N.M. Yip）
“Neighbourhood activism: the emergence of a new homeowner class in urban China?” conference paper for17th ISA World Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden（with N.M. Yip）
“The homeowners’ protest in Beijing and Guangzhou: The rightful resistances and beyond”, conference paper for5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2-4, August 2010 at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
“The Dynamics of Chinese Urbanization and Urban Housing Growth since 1990s”, conference paper forConference on Urban, Regional Planning and Transportation, June 2009 in Paris, France（with J. Chen）
“The development and governance problems of commercial residential community in Urban China”, conference paper forAcademic Meeting of Chinese Studies Research Group (CSRG), May 2008, in University of Melbourne, Australia

Research Grants:
“The rebuilding of social order and reconstruction of organizations in rural communities during the urbanization” (principal investigator)
1 July 2012 – 31 March 2014, Chinese National Social Science Foundation
“The public service supply and organization rebuilding in urbanized rural communities” (principal investigator)
1 August 2012 – 31 December 2013, Research Foundation of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of Chin