Prof. Zhang Han

Associate Professor

 

Zhang Han is an Associate Professor of Political Science with the School of International Relations at the University of International Business and Economics. His research interests cover urban studies (urban redevelopment and urban governance) and political sociology (state theories, party politics, developmental studies and state-society relations).

 

Email: hankzh31@foxmail.com

 

Education:

2008-2012: The University of Hong Kong, PhD in sociology

2005-2008: Nanjing University, Master of Law in sociology

2001-2005: Shandong University, Bachelor of Law in sociology

 

Academic positions:

March 2015-November 2016: Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of International Business and Economics.

February 2013-March 2015: postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University (Beijing)

 

Major publications:

1. 2016. Zhang Han, (Is Qualitative Research Opposite to Quantitative Research? Ontological and Epistemological Debates in Social Science Research), guowai lilun dongtai (Foreign Theoretical Trends), No. 5. Full text reprinted in Issue 3 of Reprinted Periodical Literature (fuyin baokan ziliao) “social sciences review” volume edited by Renmin University of China.

2. 2015. Zhang Han, “Party Building in Urban Business Districts: Organizational Adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 24, No. 94, pp. 644-664.

3. 2014. Zhang Han, (“Local Developmental State” or “Local Entrepreneurial State”?: A Review of Local State-Enterprise Relations and Local State Behaviors), (Journal of Public Administration) , Issue 3. Full text reprinted in Issue 10 of Reprinted Periodical Literature (f) “management science” volume edited by Renmin University of China.

4. 2014. Zhang Han, (Seeking Structural Adjustment and Coordination in Changing Times: A Comparative Study of the Developmental State Theory and the China Model), (Comparative Economic and Social Systems), Issue 3. Full text reprinted in Issue 9 of Reprinted Periodical Literature  “theories on socialism with Chinese characteristics” volume edited by Renmin University of China.

5. 2014. Zhang Han, (Corporatism and China's State-society Relations: Theoretical Perspective, Empirical Observation and Political Choice), (The Journal of Humanities), Issue 1. Full text reprinted in Issue 4 of Reprinted Periodical Literature “political science” volume edited by Renmin University of China, and abstract reprinted in Issue 5 of Chinese Social Science Digest  edited by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

6. 2012. Zhang Han, (Territorially-Oriented Organizational Restructuring of the CPC and the Governance of China`s New Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Tianyi Square in Ningbo), (Human Geography), Issue 2.

7. 2011. Zhang Han, (Local Corporatism and Culture-oriented Urban Redevelopment: Transforming a Ferry Terminal into an Art Museum in Ningbo),(Open Times), Issue 3.

8.2010. Zhang Han, (Urban Transformation and the Changes of Danwei Neighorhood in Mainland China: Danwei Studies from a Spatial Perspective), Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 39 (Autumn and Winter).

9. 2008. Zhang Han & Song Linfei. (Review on the Domestic Studies on Urban Renewal in British and American cities), (Urban Problems), Issue 2.

10. 2018. Zhang Han, “Who Serves the Party on the Ground? Grassroots Party Workers for China’s Non-Public Sector of the Economy”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, No. 110, pp. 244-260 (SSCI).

10. “Political Parties in Society” and “Society in Political Parties”: The Historical Tradition and Research Path of Political Party Sociology, in Comparative Economic and Social Systems, No.4, 2017 (CSSCI)

 

Books

2016. Zhang Han, China’s Local Entrepreneurial State and New Urban Spaces: Downtown Redevelopment in Ningbo, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2016. Zhang Xiaojin, Zhang Han, Wang Jishu, and Meng Tianguang, nongcun zhili tixi he zhili nengli xiandaihua: Cixi nongcun zhuanzhi ganbu zhidu yanjiu (Modernization of Rural Governance System and Capability: A Case Study of Full-time Village Cadre System in Cixi), Beijing: Zhongguo shehui chubanshe (China Society Press).

 

Translations:

2010. Zhang Han (principal translator) & Jin, Qiao & Sun, Shuxia, “Zhonguo de chengshi bianqian: 1890-1949 nian Shandong Jinan de zhengzhi yu fazhan” (Urban Change in China: Politics and Development in Tsinan, Shantung, 1890-1949, written by David D. Buck, originally published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1978), Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe (Peking University Press).

 

Grants:

April 2014-Jan. 2015: the 55th round of General Financial Grant (mianshang zizhu), first class, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (grant code: 2014M550039).

Feb. 2013-Jan. 2015: International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program, The Office of China Postdoctoral Council.

 

Visiting scholar programs

October-Dec. 2014: visiting scholar of the “21st Century China Program”, the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, The University of California, San Diego, USA.

Sep. 2010-June 2011: visiting fellow of the “Grassroots Society and Popular Culture in China” training program, The Harvard-Yenching Institute, USA.

 

Service

Vice Chairman of the United Front Theory Research Association member of Political Participation and Deliberation Commission the 5th Beijing Chaoyang Committee of the China Democratic League, Chaoyang, Beijing, 100029