Yanjie Bian
Professor
Ph.D. 1990 State University of New York, Albany
Room 967 Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-9554
email: bianx001@umn.edu
Interest Areas
Structural sociology, with a special interest in social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, social networks, and contemporary Chinese societies in East Asia.
Current Research
Social capital of Chinese firms; Social networks and employment processes in Chinese society; Institutional change and social stratification and mobility in post-Mao China.
Recent Publications
"The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence." In press. Chapter in Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan Lin and Bonnie Erickson, eds. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Institutional Transformation and the Dynamics of Social Stratification in Urban China, edited with Lulu Li. In press. Beijing: Renmin University of China Press.
Social Stratification and Mobility: Overseas Researchers’ New Advancements and Analyses of China, edited with Xiaogang Wu and Lulu Li. In press. Beijing: Renmin University of China.
"Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance," with Ted Gerber. In press. Chapter in New Trends in Urban China, John Logan and Susan Fainstein, eds. New York: Blackwell.
"Family Social Capital: A Social Network Approach," with Deborah Davis and Shaoguang Wang. 2007. Pp. 219-232 in Social Change in Contemporary China, Wenfang Tang and Berkart Holzner, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
"The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital: Book Reading in Urban China," with Shaoguang Wang and Deborah Davis. 2006. Modern China, 32: 315-348.
"Born Out of Networks: A Sociological Analysis of the Emergence of Firms" (Wangluo Tuosheng: Qiye Tuosheng de Shehuixue Fenxi). 2006. Journal of Sociological Research, 6: 41:52.
The Management and Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, edited with Anne Tsui and Leonard Cheng. 2006. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
"Explaining the Growth and Development of the Chinese Domestic Private Sector," with A. Tsui and L. Cheng and "Explaining China’s Emerging Private Economy: Sociological Perspectives," with Zhanxin Zhang. 2006. Chapters in China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance, A. Tsui, Y. Bian, and L. Cheng, eds. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
"Editorial: Lessons from the Practice of Household Surveys." 2006. Management and Organization Review, 2(2): 1-12.
"Guanxi." 2005. Pp. 312-314 in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski, eds. New York: Routledge Ltd.