Yanjie Bian
Professor
Ph.D. 1990 State University of New York, Albany
Room 967 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-9554
Email: bianx001@umn.edu
Interest Areas
Structural sociology, 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
“Nepotism and Guanxi.” Forthcoming 2009. Encyclopedia of Modern China, David Pong, ed. Farmington Hill, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
“Sociology in China,” with Lei Zhang. Forthcoming 2008. Contexts.
“Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions: Hierarchy, Market, and Networks in a Mixed System.” Forthcoming 2008. In Creating Wealth and Poverty in China, Deborah Davis and Feng Wang, eds. Stanford University Press.
“The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence.” 2008. Pp. 81-104 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. 2008. 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. 2008. 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. 2008. Pp. 66-88 in Urban China in Transition, John Logan, ed. 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.