HYI Working Paper Series
The Harvard-Yenching Institute is pleased to make available working papers by HYI affiliated scholars on topics in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.
The HYI Working Paper Series welcomes submissions from all HYI-affiliated faculty and fellowship grantees (including graduate students). Scholars are invited to post papers either in English or in an Asian language. To submit a paper, please email strogatz@fas.harvard.edu.
The views expressed in the HYI Working Paper Series are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. HYI Working Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage discussion. Copyright belongs to the author(s). Papers may be downloaded for personal use only, and may not be cited without the author's permission.
2013
Intra-Cohort Growth in the Inequality of Mathematics Performance: Taiwan, the U.S. and the state of Massachusetts from an International Perspective (Huang Min-Hsiung, Academia Sinica)
共产主义中国的群众运动与乡村治理 (1945-1976) [Mass Movements and Rural Governance in Communist China, 1945-76] (Li Lifeng, Nanjing University)
Cultural Governance in Contemporary China: "Re-Orienting" Party Propaganda (Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University)
The Rise of Industrial Policy in China, 1978-2012 (Sebastian Heilmann and Lea Shih, University of Trier)
2012
Selectivity, Welfare Stigma, and the Take-up of Social Welfare: How Do Chinese People Manage Welfare Stigma? (Sophie Fenghua Zhou, School of Management, Central China Normal University; HYI Grassroots Training Program Visiting Scholar 2010-11)
新中国第一次普选运动与“国家主人翁”形象建构——以上海为例，兼及北京 (Constructing the Discourse of “Masters of the Country” in New China’s First General Election: Shanghai and Beijing Compared) (Zhang Jishun, East China Normal University)
Male Fashion Magazines and Western Capitalist Expansion in a Post-Colonial State (Cao Jin, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-10)
What Comes Next After Socialism in China? : Communist Neo-Traditionalism Twenty Five Years After (Won Jaeyoun, Yonsei University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Ideas of the University in China: A Critical Review (Tong Shijun, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Bargaining For Home: A Case Study of Urban Village Demolition Projects in Beijing (Liu Yiran, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Fellow, 2011-12)
传统媒体作为调停者：框架整合与政策变迁 (Traditional Media as Mediators: an Integrated Framework and Policy Change) (Prof. Zeng Fanxu, Zhongshan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)
劳动热情与弄虚作假——计划经济时期生产过程中生产者与国家权力的一致、分歧与互动 (Labor Enthusiasm and Deception) (Jia Wenjuan, Ph.D. candidate, Zhongshan University; HYI Grassroots Training Program Visiting Fellow 2011-12)
2011
Whose Xinjiang? The Transition in Chinese Intellectuals' Imagination of the "New Dominion" during the Qing Dynasty (JIA Jianfei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch's Vitalism to Post-WWI China (Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Women Playing Men: Same-Sex Relations in Republican Shanghai (JIANG Jin, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow in Residence, 2011-2012)
An Entrepreneurial Party-state and Its “City Manager”: The Ningbo Urban Construction Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (NBUCI) and Ningbo’s Tianyi Square Project (ZHANG Han, The University of Hong Kong; HYI Grassroots Training Program Visiting Fellow 2010-2011)
Jawaharlal Nehru and China: a Study in Failure? (Ramachandra GUHA, 2011 Harvard-Yenching Institute Ingalls Fellow)
2010
Franco-Vietnamese Schools for Girls in Tonkin at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (TRAN Thi Phuong Hoa, Vietnam Institute for European Studies; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)
Development of Property Law in Cambodia, Vietnam and China: What is behind the legal reforms in transition to a market economy? (KUONG Teilee, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)
Cambodian Constitutional Provisions on Treaties: A Story of Constitutional Evolution Beyond Rhetoric (KUONG Teilee, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)
Displaying Chinese Folklore to the World: the 2008 Olympic Games and International Folkloric Tourism in Gaobeidian Village, Beijing (YANG Lihui, Professor, Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Associate, 2006-07)
Assessment of the Social Functions and Vitality of the Yi Language from the Perspective of its Domains of Use (HU Suhua, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)
2009
Maitreya Images in Asian Buddhist Fine Arts (DINH Hong Hai, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)
The Production of Alternative Media in Mainland China: a Case Study of the Journal Friend Exchange (CAO Jin, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)
Goddess Beliefs in the Chinese Lingnan Area (NGUYEN Ngoc Tho, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Fellow, 2007-2009)
Franco-Vietnamese Schools and the Transition from Confucian to a New Kind of Intellectual in the Colonial Context of Tonkin (TRAN Thi Phuong Hoa, Vietnam Institute of History; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)
Resilient Lilong: an Ethnography of Shanghai's Urban Housing (NON Arkaraprasertkul, Oxford University; HYI Doctoral Scholar, 2008-2012)
Negotiating for a Green Home: Justifications and Forms of Associations in a Public Controversy in Shenzhen (Brenda Chun LIU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Fellow, 2008-2009)
Environmental Activism in China: 15 Years in Review, 1994-2008 (WU Fengshi, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar 2008-2009)
Friendship and Equality in Tan Sitong's Concept of Pingdeng (CHEN Jeng-Guo, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2008-2009)
