Ya-Wen Lei publishes cover story in The Wire China
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Ya-Wen Lei discusses how China built the bureaucracy it needed to crackdown on tech giants in The Wire China. Read Caging the Tech Capitalists.
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Ya-Wen Lei's research is cited on The China Project website.
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Professor Ya-Wen Lei was asked to comment on the latest reminder of how Chinese food delivery apps continue to exploit their employees, Meituan couriers go on strike in Shanwei, on The China Project website. Lei's paper on China’s platform economy was...
Ya-Wen Lei discusses China’s youth unemployment problem.
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Professor Ya-Wen Lei was interviewed by CNBC, CNN, and Voice of America on China’s youth unemployment problem and "full-time children" .
HKS Ash Center China Programs Student Research Grant
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The Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center's China Programs financially support Harvard University students pursuing China–related internships, independent research, and other forms of study conducted in China during summer academic vacation periods. Any...
Ya-Wen Lei writes on How China Bungled Techno-Development
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Project Syndicate publishes article by Ya-Wen Lei discussing how China's political environment effects innovation and social inequality.
Ya-Wen Lei discusses her book in new video series, Fairbank Center-On Books and in The Wire China.
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In the first of a new video series, Fairbank Center: On Books, Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, discusses her just-published new book, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton University...
Ya-Wen Lei Discusses China’s Techno-Developmental State and Consequences for the Working Class
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Ya-Wen Lei sat down with The Harvard Crimson to discuss her latest monograph, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China."
When the Chips Are Down
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To understand why Xi is making these decisions, there is no better guide than the Harvard sociologist Ya-Wen Lei’s The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China . Her masterful study of what she calls China’s regime of “techno...
Fangsheng Zhu
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(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Education, Inequality, and Intensive Parenting in China
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Ya-Wen Lei, and Elizabeth Perry (Department of Government, Harvard University)
Initial Placement: Assistan...
Patrick Hamm
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Research Interests: Post-socialist transition; comparative political economy; Russia; China; work and labor markets; economic sociology; social theory.
Patrick Hamm is Lecturer on Sociology for the fall 2012 term. Originally from Germany, he received his...
Martin K. Whyte
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Research Interests: Comparative sociology; comparative family systems and family change; the American family; gender roles in comparative context; inequality and stratification; bureaucracy; sociology of China; development.
Martin K. Whyte is the John...
Xiaojiang Hu
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(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: The Little Shops of Lhasa: Migrant Businesses and the Formation of Markets in a Transitional Economy
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Ezra F. Vogel, Libby Schweber
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral...