Zhai Xuewei
Prof. Zhai Xuewei, born in 1960 in Nanjing, is a Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Program of the National Ministry of Education. He graduated from the Sociology Department of Nankai University in 1988 with an MA degree in Sociology and the Ph. D degree in history in 2002. He is head of the Department of Sociology at Nanjing University, and serves as doctoral supervisor as well as editor for many Chinese academic journals including the Journal of Social Theory (Hong Kong), the Study of Indigenous Psychology (Taiwan), the Open Times, the Chinese Social Psychology Review.
His main research field is the Chinese Behavior Patterns and Chinese society, and he put forward a series of indigenous analysis framework, concept, pattern and ideas. Representative works include Zhai, XueWei collection, including in The Principles of Chinese Guanxi (Peking University Press, 2011), Face Favor and reproduction of power (second edition) (Peking University Press, 2013), Perspectives on Chinese Face - the formalism of the psychological motives and social representation (Peking University press, 2011), The Chinese Representation in Everyday Life: A Sociological Study of Face and Favor (Nanjing University Press, 2016) and other monographs, Daily Authority in Chinese Society ( Social Sciences Academic Press, 2004), the Logic of the Chinese Action (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2001), etc.; other papers in journal of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, sociology research, Society, Indigenous Psychological Research (Taiwan), the Oriental culture (Japan), and other influential academic journals in China's sociology, social psychology, management and cultural communication. Now he is the chief expert for the 2009 Annual National Social Science Major Bidding fund project of Research on the Social Credit System in China and has hosted projects in Social Sciences sponsored by the National Ministry of Education and Ford Foundation, etc.
Contact Details
School of Social and Behavior Science,
Nanjing University
163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023.
E-mail: zhaixw@nju.edu.cn
