Critical Issues Confronting China series
Techno-Capitalism: Social Challenges and Fissures in Today's China
Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
with
Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor
of Chinese Society in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
November 15, 2023
In addition to being a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, Ya-Wen Lei is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology, she holds a LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. After graduating from Michigan in 2013, she was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (2013-2016). In academic year 2018-2019, she was a visiting professor at Sciences Po in France. She is the author of The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her second book, The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China, will be published by Princeton University Press on November 21, 2023. She has been published in general sociological journals (American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Socius), specialized social science journals (Law and Society Review, Work, Employment and Society, and Political Communication), and a China studies journal (The China Quarterly). Her publications have received various awards from the American Sociological Association, the Law and Society Association, and The China Quarterly-the leading interdisciplinary journal in China studies.