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yanxj@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 9321
Office
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 4006
Xiaojun YAN 閻小駿
Professor
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University (2009)
M.A. in Political Science, Havard University (2004)
Master of Law, Peking University (2001)
Bachelor of Law, Peking University (1998)
Research Interests
Public Administration
Chinese politics
Comparative political development
Institutional innovation
Local governance
Publications
Books in English
- Engineering Stability: Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities (by Yan Xiaojun), University of Michigan Press, 2024
- Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements (ISBN: 9781108478069, co-edited by Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry & Yan Xiaojun), Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Books in Chinese
- 《中國何以穩定:來自田野的觀察與思考》(ISBN: 9789620441189),三聯書店(香港),2017年。
- (簡體中文版)《中国何以稳定:来自田野的观察与思考》(ISBN: 9787520312356),中国社会科学出版社,2017年。
- 《當代政治學十講》(ISBN:9789629966201),香港中文大學出版社,2016年。
- (簡體中文版)《当代政治学十讲》(ISBN: 9787516193815),中国社会科学出版社(北京),2016年。
- 《香港治與亂:2047的政治想像》(ISBN:9789620438226),三聯書店(香港),2015年。
- (簡體中文版)《香港治与乱:2047的政治想象》(ISBN: 9787010161976),人民出版社,2016年。
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
- “Greasing the Wheels of Policy Reversal: Discursive Engineering and Public Opinion Management During the Relaxation of China’s Family Planning Policy” (with Li La), Governance, Vol.37, No.1, 2024, pp.179-199.
- “Politicization as a Policy Instrument: China’s Politicized Policy Narrative in Environmental Protection and the Control of Its Social Resonance” (with Li La and Zhang Zhenyu), Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 33, No. 149, 2024, pp.755–773.
- “Is the Chinese Entrepreneurial Welfare State an Industrial Policy in Disguise?” (with Chen Hanyu and Li La), Third World Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2020, pp.603-622.
- “To Get Rich Is Not Only Glorious: Economic Reform and the New Entrepreneurial Party Secretaries”, The China Quarterly, No. 210, 2012, pp. 335–354.
*Awarded the 2012 Gordon White Prize for “the most original article or research report published in The China Quarterly in the relevant year”.