About the CST

Chunwen Xiong

Chunwen Xiong is professor and head of Department of Sociology and Anthropology, China Agricultural University. He has been a Visiting Fellow of CCS at Yale University (2015 - 2016). His academical interest focuses on social theory, education and agriculture. He published some books such as Modern Transformation of China Educational Spirit: A Study on Educational Democracy Thought during the early years of the Republic of China. China Renmin University Press (2012). He also authored more than forty papers and translated some works into Chinese such as Jeff. Alexander's The Dark Side of Modernity & Max Weber's The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations.