Zheng Haolan
郑浩澜

Haolan Zheng is an Associate Professor at the faculty of policy management of Keio University, Japan. She received her bachelor’s degree at Fudan University and Ph.D. at Keio University, Japan. Her research interests are modern and contemporary Chinese history, grassroots politics and historical sociology. Her research monograph, entitled “Chinese Rural Society and Revolution: The Historical Transformation of the Villages in the Jinggang Mountains” (Keio University Press, 2009), examines how Chinese rural society interacted with different waves of revolutionary movements in the villages of the Jinggang Mountains from the 1920s to the 1960s. It won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Her second book, “Mao’s Campaigns and the Everyday Life of the People” (co-edited, Keio University Press) was published in 2021. She is also the editor of two other volumes: “Revolution and Intimacy: Everyday Politics under Mao” (Toho-shoten, forthcoming in 2024) and “Chinese Society in History: Exclusion and Inclusion” (Keio University Press forthcoming in 2024). During her time at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, she will work on a new research project on the history of Chinese villages in the 20th century.