Publications

Publications

Books

Vangeli, A., & Pavlicevic, D. (Eds.) (2025). Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives. Routledge.

Echo Lei Wang, (2023) Social Enterprise in China: State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness (London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group)

Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino (eds.) (2024), China from the Margins: New narratives of the past and present (London: Routledge)

Chen, Z. T. (ed.), Han, J. (ed.), Kuang, X. (ed.) & Liu, X. (ed.), (2024) Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China (Palgrave Macmillan)

 

Journal Articles

Cao, L., & 林耿 (2026). 绅士化美学与城市消费景观的生产. 旅游学刊https://doi.org/10.19765/j.cnki.1002-5006.2026.00.001

Xu, X., Deng, J. & Chen, G.C, (2025), Government Supervision and Control Mechanisms for the Carbon Market in China: A Principal-Agent Perspective In: The China Quarterly.

Johnson, L. (2026). Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China. Geopolitics.

林乐峰 (2026). 走向社會學馬克思主義: 紀念布洛維與賴特. For Sociological Marxism: In Memory of Michael Burawoy and Erik Olin Wright二十一世紀, (214), 4-18.

Zhou, Y., & Liu, X. (2025). 中国当代气候小说的现实关切与叙事类型. 文字斋集刊1(1), 225-240.

Liu, X., & Zhou, D. (2025). 从“废墟”到“未来”:“赛博城乡”科幻中的东北叙事. 文学研究11(2), 44-54.

Liu, X., & Tang, F. (2025). 当代中国科幻对婚姻和家庭问题的反思. 科幻研究通讯5(2), 3-9.

Liu, X. (2025). 重构阶层和性别叙事:长篇小说《人世间》和同名电视剧对90年代社会变迁的再现 (republication). 文化研究56(1), 124-146.

Williams, E. (2025). Everyday socialism or the socialist everyday? Dong Zhongchao’s visual encyclopaedia of ordinary Maoist living. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art12(2-3), 175-199. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00130_1

Williams E., 2026 From Evidence to Intimacy: Curatorial Strategies and Memory Space in Xi’an Museums In: China Perspectives. 144, p. 7-17

Liu, X. (2024). A study of the “Representation” from the perspectives of Marxist Feminism. International Journal of Marxism Studies1(4), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.59825/ijms.2024.1.4.62

Zhou, D., & Liu, X. (2025). Class and Gender: The Deformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. In P. T. T. Ip (Ed.), Feminist Explorations of Urban China (1 ed., pp. 159-175). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442677https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442677-11

Zhou, D., & Liu, X. (2025). Spatial Disparity and Social Injustice: Interrogating Urbanization in Post-2000s Chinese Science Fiction. Asian Studies Reviewhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2025.2502970

Chen, T., Kuang, X., & Liu, X. (2025). Becoming Ayi: Chinese female domestic workers’ transformation from docile bodies to wilful subjects. Journal of Gender Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2474665

Cao, L. (2024). Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy. Urban Geography46(5), 983–1002. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2396758

Cao, L. (2025), THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation. Int. J. Urban Reg. Res., 49: 552-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13315

Chen, Geoffrey, C. (September 2024). ‘The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies’, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 29 (3), pp. 461–482.

Paweł Zygadło, (2025), ‘In search for Mingjia thought – name, reference and referent in the Yinwenzi,Asian Philosophy. 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2025.2506912

Paweł Zygadło, (2024), ‘Is human nature evil? – A re-examination of Xunzi’s argumentation and its implication for moral psychology,’ Asian Philosophy 4. 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2024.2430121

Ashton Ng, “Re-examining Shang Yang’s influence on Han Fei,” Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies 46 (2024), 75-98.

Johnson, Leif, Malene H. Jacobsen, and Patricia Ehrkamp. “The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing.” Progress in Human Geography 48.6 (2024): 843-860.

朱敬, “边疆与视觉娱乐:对“苗图”的重新思考和诠释,” 艺术与民俗 Journal of Arts and Folklore, 6, 4 ( 2024 ): 37-46.

Liu Cao (2024) “From online to onsite: Wanghong economy as the new engine driving China’s urban development”, Environment and Planning A.

Liu Cao (2023) “Consuming ‘authenticity’? Reinterpreting the ‘new middle class’ in China through the lens of retailing changes”, Urban Studies. 60, 3, p. 501-518

Miguel Hidalgo Martinez (2024) “Territorial change, urbanization and development of football clubs in China”, Territory, Politics, Governance. 12, 2, p. 258-277

Leif Johnson (2023) “Technologies of migration and citizenship: Life and work at the base of Shanghai’s digital infrastructure stack”, Global Media and China. 8, 3, p. 289-305

Kan Li (2023) “《地理全志》所见晚清传教士对科学知识的筛选” 近代史研究. 1

Kan Li (2023) “传教士与二十世纪前西方动物分类知识在华传播” 清史研究. 2, p. 108-120

Yuxing Liang (2024) “Change of Leaders’ Patronage Status and Commitment of Local Businesses: A Case of Technological Upgrading in China” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

Yuxing Liang (2024) “Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China” Journal of Chinese Political Science.

Xi Liu (2024) “Counter-discourses to social inequalities and urban modernity: Subaltern women in post-2000s Chinese science fiction” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies

Xi Liu (2024) “Social reproduction with socialist characteristics in Shanghai: Destitute and disadvantaged women (pinkun funü) and their affective lives in the Workers’ New Villages during the COVID-19 pandemic” Journal of Gender Studies

Xi Liu (2023) “ 新本体论、主体观和性别观:后人类女性主义理论新变探究”Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art. 43, 3, p. 130-139

Xi Liu (2023) “日常生活中的城乡、阶层和性别: 家政女工身份认同与意义构建” 中国研究. 30, 2, p. 268-297

Echo Lei Wang (2024) “Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

Echo Lei Wang (2024) “Understanding regional growth of social enterprises: the art of the state” Management Decision. 62, 3, p. 986-1007

 

Book chapters

Chen, G. C., & Lees, C. (2025). (Re)Centralization and Local Renewable Governance in China: The Case of Zhejiang Province. In J. C. Olmeda, & A. Armesto (Eds.), Recentralization Around the World (pp. 285-309). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93209-0_13

Pavlicevic, D., & Vangeli, A. (2025). Re-thinking Yugo-Chinese Relations Past and Present. In Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives Routledge.

Schwendener, C. (2026). From welfare to real estate: a generational perspective of the financialisation of Chinese steelworkers’ housing. In M. T. N. Nguyen, & J. Mao (Eds.), The Contradictions of Market Socialism: Labour, Capital and Welfare in Privatising China and Vietnam (pp. 203-220). (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy). Policy Press. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781447379249/ch010.xml

Williams, E. (2025),’Defining ‘Red’ in Contemporary China: Locating a Chinese-English Divide’ in Ludwig, S., Bideaux, K., Liu, C., Karliczek, A., Real Colors and cultures: Interdisciplinary Explorations, Salana: Berkeley pp. 130-140

Williams, E. (2026). Revolutionary Filial Piety: Red Collecting and the Creation of Intimacy. In F. Gill (Ed.), Gender, Intimacy, and Class in a Changing China: The Individual and Social Change (pp. 95-111). Taylor and Francis – Balkema. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003590651-6

Chen, Geoffrey, C. (June 2024). ‘Rethinking China’s Clean Energy Transitions: Eco-Security and Authoritarian Sustainability’, in: Xiaowei, Zang, & Xiaoling, Zhang (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 86–101.

Paweł Zygadło, (2025), ‘Was Gongsun Long a logician? – Examining the Baima dilemma with the principles of categorical logic,’ in Dialogues with Classical Chinese Philosophy, Aleksandar Stamatov (ed.), London, Routledge. 167–191.

Emily Williams, (2024) ‘Chairman Mao’s Good Soldier: Red Collecting, Lei Feng and Revolutionary Selfhood in Contemporary China’, in Alex Burchmore (ed.) Material Selves: Object Biographies and Identities in Motion, London: Bloomsbury, 153-170

Xi Liu (2024), Introduction, Chen, Z. T. (ed.), Han, J. (ed.), Kuang, X. (ed.) & Liu, X. (ed.), (2024) Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China (Palgrave Macmillan)

Catrina Schwendener (2023), “A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary China” in Wilcox, P., Rigg, J. & Nguyen, M. T. N. (eds.) Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future (Leiden: Brill), p. 240-262

Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino (2024) “China from the Margins: Introduction” in Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino (eds.) (2024), China from the Margins: New narratives of the past and present (London: Routledge)

Emily Williams (2024) “Marginal Histories at the Centre of the Revolution: Red Collecting in Shaanbei” in Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino (eds.) China from the Margins: New narratives of the past and present (London: Routledge)

 

Media coverage

Ng, A. (2025). Evergrande’s Delisting Exposes China’s Slow Bankruptcy Trap. The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/evergrandes-delisting-exposes-chinas-slow-bankruptcy-trap/

Ng, A. (2025). From Treaty Ports to BRI Courts: China’s Legal Statecraft, Then and Now. E-International Relationshttps://www.e-ir.info/2025/09/29/from-treaty-ports-to-bri-courts-chinas-legal-statecraft-then-and-now/

Ng, A. (2025). Malacca of the Moon: Asia Amid the China-US Lunar Race. The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/malacca-of-the-moon-asia-amid-the-china-us-lunar-race/

Ng, A. (2025). Unlike Japan’s ‘Lost Decade,’ China’s Deflation Risk Is Going Global. The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/unlike-japans-lost-decade-chinas-deflation-risk-is-going-global/

Ashton Ng, “The ripples of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s corruption purge,” CNA. June 29, 2024. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/china-xi-jinping-corruption-crackdown-officials-defence-ministers-military-4434406

Williams, Emily, “China’s history lessons for the present”, Asialink (2024) (Online: China’s history lessons for the present | Asialink)