Guobin Yang
Guobin Yang
Ph.D. New York, 2000
Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures and the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is also a faculty in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures of Columbia University and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Sociology.
Yang has published on a wide range of social issues in China, including the internet and civil society, environmental NGOs, the 1989 student movement, the Red Guard Movement, and collective memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His books include The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009. Winner of best book award, Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010), Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (edited with Ching-Kwan Lee, 2007), China's Red Guard Generation: Loyalty, Dissent, and Nostalgia, 1966-1999 (under contract, Columbia University Press), and Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (2 volumes. Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation, Beijing, 2003).
A member of the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, Public Culture, and the International Convention for Asian Studies Publications Series of the Amsterdam University Press, Yang is also an affiliate researcher at the Center for Global Communication Studies of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Writing and Research Grant” (2003), was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington , D.C. (2003-2004), and taught as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2000-2005). He has a Ph. D. in English Literature with a specialty in Literary Translation from Beijing Foreign Studies University (1993) and a second Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (2000).
