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Prof. Beibei Tang is Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of China Studies at XJTLU. She is also an Honorary Professor of China Studies Centre, University of Sydney. Before joining XJTLU in 2015, she studied and worked in China, UK and Australia. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from The Australian National University (ANU). She then worked at ANU from 2011 to 2015. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China, with particular focuses on local governance, social stratification and state-society relations in urban China. She has published her research in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly, The China Journal and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China (Cornell University Press 2023) and China’s Housing Middle Class (Routledge 2018), the co-author of Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021 (Routledge 2022), the co-editor of Suzhou in Transition (Routledge 2021), and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize (The China Quarterly). She is a member of the editorial board of The China Journal and The China Quarterly.
Research interests
Social class, social stratification and mobility in contemporary China
Neighborhood governance and state-society relations in China
Urbanization in China
Deliberative democracy
Social science research methods
Experience
Professor of China Studies, XJTLU- 2022 to present
Honorary Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney - 2022 to present
Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, XJTLU - 2020 to present
Head, Department of China Studies, XJTLU - 2017 to 2020
Deputy Head, Department of China Studies, XJTLU-2015-2017
Senior Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, XJTLU - 2018 to present
Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, XJTLU - 2016 to 2018
Lecturer, Department of China Studies, XJTLU - 2015 to 2016
Postdoctoral/Research Fellow, Australian National University - 2011 to 2015
Research Assistant, Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University - 2009 to 2010
Teaching
CCS405 Chinese Society
CCS901 Understanding China
CCS104 China: Society and Development
CCS001 Introduction to Social Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Practices
Awards and honours
2015 Gordon White Prize (The China Quarterly).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD in Sociology. The Australian National Univeristy
MPhil in Sociology. University of Oxford
BA in Sociology. Wuhan University
Research areas
- China studies
- Local governance
- urbanization
- Social changes of China
Person Types
- Staff
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Restructuring Chinese Countryside: State, Market, and Villages
Tang, B. (PI) & Du, H. (Team member)
1/03/22 → 28/02/26
Project: Internal Research Project
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Spatial Planning and Rural Revitalisation Summer School
Wang, X. (PI), Chao, Q. (Team member), Chen, B. (Team member), Zhang, Q. (Team member), Tang, X. (Team member), Tang, B. (Team member), Dong, Y. (Team member), Jiang, F. (Team member), Lan, C. (Team member), Xu, K. (Team member) & Song, J. (Team member)
1/03/24 → 31/10/24
Project: Other
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Enhancing Research-Led Teaching & Learning for Postgraduate Research Students through Interdisciplinary Research
Liu, X. (PI), Tang, B. (CoI), Han, J. (CoI) & Kuang, X. (CoI)
1/04/21 → 30/04/23
Project: Collaborative Research Project
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Neighbourhood Aged Care, Civil Society and Local Governance in China
Tang, B. (PI)
1/01/16 → 31/03/20
Project: Internal Research Project
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Developments in Urban Neighborhood Governance
Tang, B., 21 Sept 2023, Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations. Ergenc, C. & Goodman, D. S. G. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 112-126 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Governing Urban Neighborhoods in China: Changing State-Society Relations
Tang, B., 2023, Cornell University Press.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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Class and the Community Party of China, 1978-2021. Reform and Market Socialism
Marc Blecher, David S G Goodman, Yingjie Guo & Jean-Louis Rocca, 2022, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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Grid governance in China's urban middle-claß neighbourhoods
Tang, B., 1 Mar 2020, In: China Quarterly. 241, p. 43-61 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Suzhou in transition: An introduction
Tang, B. & Cheung, P., 12 Nov 2020, Suzhou in Transition. Taylor and Francis, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
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Preservation, Production and Reproduction
Brillhart, A. (Organiser), Zhang, X. (Organiser), Tang, B. (Member of programme committee), Schnabel, M. A. (Participant), Han, J. (Chair), Kuang, X. (Chair), Williams, E. (Chair), Chen, G.C.-F. (Chair), Traynor, K. (Chair), Lu, X. (Chair), Bandyopadhyay, S. (Participant), Tao, Y. (Participant), Winter, T. (Participant), Baek, M. J. (Participant), Vichnevetskaia, A. (Participant), Zhu, Y. (Participant), Wu, K. (Participant), Zhang, Y. (Participant), Hu, W. (Participant), Han, Z. (Participant), Zhang, L. (Participant), Li, Y. (Participant), Corti, E. (Participant), Zhu, Y. (Participant), Azadian Qomi, M. (Participant) & Cui, N. (Participant)
29 Aug 2025 → 30 Aug 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Navigating Cross-Cultural Communication in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges
Zhang, X. (Organiser), Kuang, X. (Organiser), Adhikari, D. (Organiser), Herold, D. K. (Organiser), Huang, G. (Organiser), Pellitteri, M. (Organiser), Ma, R. (Organiser), Hu, H. (Organiser), Ji, D. (Organiser), Han, J. (Chair), Jiang, Y. (Chair), Gao, C. (Chair), Liu, L. (Chair), Zhang, H. (Chair), Milić, V. (Chair), Wang, Z. (Chair), Lin, Y. (Chair), Ong, S. W. (Chair), Wu, K. (Chair), Zhu, Z. (Chair), Wang, Q. (Chair), Zhu, Y. (Chair), Mu, H. (Chair), Liu, X. (Participant), Bilby, J. (Participant), Andriano-Moore, S. A. (Participant), Yang, L. (Participant), Lewis, A. (Participant), Zhang, J. (Participant), Wang, Q. (Participant), Liu, Z. (Participant), Prieler, M. (Participant), Chen, Y. (Participant), Liu, Y. (Participant), Van Mensel, L. (Chair), Tang, B. (Member of programme committee) & Ruan, Z. (Member of programme committee)
28 Mar 2025 → 29 Mar 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Book talk on my edited volume The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation (Palgrave 2024)
Marco Pellitteri (Speaker) & Beibei Tang (Invited speaker)
21 Oct 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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China Quarterly (Journal)
Beibei Tang (Reviewer)
2022 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial work of publications › Editorial work