Yu Jianrong 于建嵘 b.1962

Yu Jianrong is a prominent Chinese scholar whose research focuses on China’s rural development. Yu joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Rural Development Institute (Beijing, China) in October 2001 as a research fellow, and currently serves as Professor and Director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center. He is the author of a prize-winning book on rural Chinese political change (岳村政治 — 转型期中国乡村政治结构的变迁, Politics of Yue Village: Changes in the Political Structure in China’s Rural Villages in the Transition Period) and numerous influential works on rural protests and organized crime in the countryside. In November 2012, Foreign Policy named Yu Jianrong 于建嵘 one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and described him as a ‘rare Chinese academic who has taken up the challenge of defining how exactly China could change course’.

 

Journal Articles

  • Yu, Jianrong and Raby, Geoff. “Solving China’s Peasant Issues Requires a New Way of Thinking: A Conversation between Yu Jianrong and Geoff Raby.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 23-36.
  • Yu, Jianrong. ‘From Rigid Stability to Resilient Stability: An Analytical Framework for China’s Social Order’,Study and Exploration, no.5 (2009): 113-118.
  • Yu, Jianrong. “Rigid Stability: An Explanatory Framework for China’s Social Situation.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 72-84.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”Do China’s Tang Fuzhens Regret Self-Immolation?”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 51-54.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”Shifting from “Rigid Stability” to “Resilient Stability”.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 85-91.
  • Yu, Jianrong. “What are the Systemic Roots of the Violation of Petitioning Citizens’ Lawful Rights?: A Reply to Zhang Yan, Director of the Research Department of the State Bureau for Letters and Visits.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 65-71.
  • Yu, Jianrong. “What are the Systemic Roots of the Violation of Petitioning Citizens’ Lawful Rights?: A Reply to Zhang Yan, Director of the Research Department of the State Bureau for Letters and Visits.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 65-71.
  • Yu, Jianrong, Netizens, and Netizens. “Who Closed the Schools for Migrant Workers’ Children?”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 41-50.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”The “Urbanization” of Peasants is Fundamental.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 37-40.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”Social Transformation Requires First Resolving the Problem of Social Injustice.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 17-22.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”China’s Underclass: My Research and Standpoint.”Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 45, no. 4, 2014, pp. 18-41.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”Conflict in the Countryside.”China Perspectives, no. 3, 2007, pp. 28.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”From Tool of Political Struggle to Means of Social Governance.”China Perspectives, no. 2, 2010, pp. 66-73.
  • Yu, Jianrong.”[Social Issues] Holding Tight and Not Letting Go : The Mechanisms of ‘Rigid Stability’.”Global Asia, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 28-39.
  • Yu, Jianrong, and Stacy Mosher. “The Two Stages of the Re-Education through Labour System: From Tool of Political Struggle to Means of Social Governance.”China Perspectives, no. 2 (82), 2010, pp. 66-72.
  • Yu, Jianrong, Pei Yili (Elizabeth J. Perry), Yang Xiaojun (translator), ‘Chinese Political Tradition and Development’,South Wind, no.20 (2008): 32-34.
  • Yu, Jianrong, ‘Rights Protection is Stability Preservation’,People’s Forum, no.1 (2012): 23.
  • Yu, Jianrong, ‘Can Contemporary China Avoid a Great Social Upheaval? 9 February 2009 Speech at Waseda University, Japan’,Economy and Management Digest, no.11 (2009): 38-44.
  • Yu Jianrong, ‘Social Conflicts and Rigid Stability: An Analysis of the Recent State of Social Stability in China,’Strategy and Management, no.2 (2009): 38-53.

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