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Curriculum Vitae Wu Jieh-Min Curriculum Vitae Wu Jieh-min Contact Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: 886-2-2652-5100, 2652-5105 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/wujiehmin Major Employments Research fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2019-present. Adjunct Associate professor, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, 2011-present. Executive board member, Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, 2007-present. Director, Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, 2005- 2007. Coordinator, Joint MA Degree Program in China Studies, National Tsing Hua University and Academia Sinica, 2003-2006. An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1998-99. Education Ph.D. in Political Science, Columbia University, 1998 M.A. in Political Science, National Taiwan University, 1990 B.A. in Political Science, National Taiwan University, 1987 Research Interests Political sociology, political economy, social movement, democratization Fellowships and Scholarships Visiting Professor, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), June 2016. Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholarship, Department of Sociology, UCLA, 2007-8. Abroad Research Fellowship, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2007-8. 1 University Research Fellowship for Junior Faculty, National Tsing Hua University, 2001. An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1998-99. Journal Editorial Board Taiwanese Sociology, 2012-2014 (2013-4 associate editor), 2001-2002. Research Projects and Academic Projects PI, “China's Influence Operations and Impacts: Comparing Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Australia,” Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2019-2021. PI, “Exploring the Causes of Political Power Shift: Socioeconomic Changes, Political Protest Cycle, and Public Opinion Trends in Taiwan 2000-2016,” Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2017-2019. PI, “Globalization, China Factor, Politico-economic Changes and Social Protest: Comparing Taiwan and Hong Kong,” Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2015-2017. PI, Book writing project on “Taiwanese Capital and the Changing Pearl River Delta Development Model: 1980s-Present”, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2013-2015. PI, Integrated project on "Globalization and the Making of Market Society in China," National Science Council, Taiwan, 2006-2009 PI, Integrated project on "Globalization and the Making of Market Society in China," a boosting matching project, funded by National Tsing Hua University, 2007-2009 PI, "Internationalization of the China Studies in Taiwan," National Tsing Hua University, 2006-2007 PI, "Data Center in Market Society Development in China-Modernity and Postsocialist Transformation," Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2004-2006 PI, "Issues and Research Community Integration in Social and Political Studies on China, NSC, 2005-2006 PI, "The Figuration and Transformation of Differential Citizenship, A Study on the Migrant Workers in China, NSC, 2004-2006 PI, "Birth of a Local Public Sphere: Public Communication between Capital, Livelihood, and Ecological Conservation in the Ching-Shan-Mian Area," 2 NSC, 2002-2004 PI, "From 'Collective Ownership' to Cadre Manipulation of Property Rights: Rural Land Institutional Changes in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, China," NSC, 2000-2001 Publications https://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/wujiehmin Books and Edited Books Wu Jieh-min, 2019. Rent-Seeking Developmental State in China: Taishang, Guangdong Model and Global Capitalism (in Chinese). Taipei: National Taiwan University Press and Harvard-Yenching Institute. Wu Jieh-min, Tsai Hung-jeng, Cheng Tsu-bang eds., 2017, Anaconda in the Chandelier: Mechanisms of Influence and Resistance in the "China Factor” (in Chinese). Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min, Yun Fan and Gu Er-Teh (Thomas Kuo), eds., 2014, The Era of Significant Changes: Taiwan 1990-2010 (in Chinese, second edition) Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min ed., 2013, Double Helix of Power and Capital: China and Cross- Strait Studies from the Taiwanese Perspective (in Chinese). Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min, 2012. Third View of China (in Chinese). Taipei: Rive Gauche. Translation Into Chinese, Albert O. Hirschman, The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy, the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991), published by Journalist Culture in 2002 and by Rive Gauche 2013. Journal Papers and Book Chapters Hsu, En-en, Wu Jieh-min, Tsung-tang Lee, I-lun Shih, 2019, “The Story of ‘We- NGO’: Explaining the Networks and Solidarity of the Sunfl ower Occupy Movement” (in Chinese), Taiwanese Sociology Number 38 (December): 1-61. Wu Jieh-min, 2019, "Taiwan’s Sunflower Occupy Movement as a Transformative Resistance to the “China Factor," in Ching Kwan Lee and Ming Sing eds., Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Political Sociology of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (Cornell University Press). 3 Wu Jieh-min, 2017, “Commercialization of China’s United Front Strategy: How Beijing Manipulates Cross-Strait Government-Business Relations” (in Chinese), pp. 632-675 in Lee Zong-rong and Lin Thung-hong eds., Unfinished Miracle: Taiwanese Economy and Society in Transition, Taipei: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. Wu Jieh-min, 2017, "Migrant Citizenship Regimes in Globalized China: A Historical-Institutional Comparison," Rural China. Volume 14, No. 1. Wu Jieh-min, 2017, "Mechanisms of Influence and Resistance in the China Factor" (in Chinese), pp. 21-85 in Wu Jieh-min, Tsai Hung-jeng, Cheng Tsu-bang eds., Anaconda in the Chandelier: Mechanisms of Influence and Resistance in the "China Factor”. Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min, 2016, “The China Factor in Taiwan: Impact and Response”, pp. 425-445 in Gunter Schubert ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. London and New York: Routledge. Wu Jieh-min and Mei Liao, 2016, “Occupy, to Break the Dismal Determinism” (in Chinese), pp. 117-63 in Hsiu-hsing Lin and Rwei-ren Wu eds., Penetration: Vibration, Depth and Vision of the Sunflower Occupy Movement. Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min, 2016, “Business as Political Game: On Political Roles of Taiwanese Firms” (in Japanese) in Shigeto Sonoda and Michael H.H Hsiao eds, How to cope with China Risks: Challenges of Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Firms. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press. Wu Jieh-min and Mei Liao, 2015, “From Unification-Independence Divide to the China Factor: How Changing Political Identity Influences Voting Behavior” (in Chinese) Taiwanese Sociology (29): 87-130. Wu Jieh-min, 2015, “The Path to the Sunflower Movement: How the Taiwanese Civil Society Has Resisted the China Factor” (in Japanese), Nihon Taiwan Gakkaihou (17): 1-36. Wu Jieh-min, 2015,“The China Factor: Local Collaborative Mechanism” (in Chinese), Taiwanese Sociological Studies Newsletter, No.83, pp. 4-11. Wu Jieh-min, 2015, “Why are the Resistance Movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan Converging?” (in Chinese) Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies (No. 18, 2014 Spring): 162-167. Wu Jieh-min, 2015. "Taiwan after the Colonial Century: Bringing China into Foreground," in Shu-Mei Shih and Ping-Hui Liao eds., Comparatizing Taiwan. London and New York: Routledge. 4 Wu Jieh-min, 2014, “The Resistance Movements of Taiwan and Hong Kong under the China Factor, pp. 130-144 in Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Nobuo Takahashi, and Ying-Che Huang eds., Cooperation and Peace in East Asia. Taipei: Avanguard. Wu Jieh-min, 2014, “‘1992 Consensus’ and Taiwan’s Presidential Election under the Influence of China” (in Japanese) pp. 195-210 in Takeshi Baba and Cheng-Yu Hsieh eds., Democracy and the Cross-Strait Relationship from the East Asian Perspective. Tokyo: Eastern Bookstore. Wu Jieh-min, 2013, “Double Helix of Power and Capital,” pp. 5-18 in Wu Jieh- min ed., Double Helix of Power and Capital: China and Cross-Strait Studies from the Taiwanese Perspective (in Chinese). Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min and Yen-fen Tseng, 2013, “Cross-State Governing Field: Identity Politics between Taiwan and China,” pp. 410-436 in Wu Jieh-min ed., Double Helix of Power and Capital: China and Cross-Strait Studies from the Taiwanese Perspective (in Chinese). Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min, 2013, “Imagining China from the Taiwanese Perspective” (in Chinese), Reflexion (24): 321-339. Wu Jieh-min, 2013, “Taiwan’s Democracy, the China Factor and the Cross- Strait Civil Society Forums” (in Chinese), pp. 376-388 in Ji-Dong Hao ed., Political Culture and Civil Society in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Singapore: World Scientific Press. Wu Jieh-min, 2012, “Revolution Elsewhere? Remembering the 1980s” (in Chinese) Reflexion (22): 157-178. Wu Jieh-min, 2012, "China Factor and Cross-Strait Civic Dialog" (in Chinese), collected in Tseng Kuo-hsiang and Hsu Szu-chien eds, Calling for Civility: In Search of Peace between Taiwan and China. Taipei: Rive Gauche. Wu Jieh-min and Yen-fen Tseng, 2012, "Identity Politics in the Cross-Strait Governance Field" (in Japanese), China 21 Vol.36 (March): 13-34. Wu Jieh-min, 2011, "Strangers Forever? Differential Citizenship and China’s Rural Migrant Workers" (in Chinese), Taiwanese Sociology, No 21: 51-99. Tseng, Yen-fen and Wu Jieh-min, 2011, “Reconfiguring Citizenship and Nationality: Dual Citizenship of Taiwanese Migrants in China,” Citizenship Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 265 - 282. Mark Selden and Wu Jieh-min, 2011, “The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of
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