Education

Ph. D., Sociology, New York University, September 2000. 

Ph. D., English Literature (area of specialization: Literary Translation). 

Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, March 1993.  

Selected Publications

The Power of the Internet: Chinese Society in the Information Age. Columbia University Press (under contract).

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. (edited with Ching Kwan Lee). Washington D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2007.

Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (Wenxin diaolong), written by Liu Xie (c. A.D., 465-521) and translated into English by Yang Guobin with an Introduction and Annotations. 2 vols. Beijing: Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation, 2003.

“Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China.” (with Craig Calhoun). China Information. Vol. 21, No.2 (2007):211-236.

“How Do Chinese Civic Associations Respond to the Internet: Findings from a Survey.” The China Quarterly No. 189 (2007), pp. 122-143.

"'A Portrait of Martyr Jiang Qing': The Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Internet." In Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds). Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. 287-316.

"Activists beyond Virtual Borders: Internet–Mediated Networks and Informational Politics in China." First Monday Vol. 11, No. 9 (September 2006).

“Days of Old Are Not Puffs of Smoke: Three Hypotheses on Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution.” The China Review Vol, 5, No. 2 (2005): 13-41.

“Emotional Events and the Transformation of Collective Action: The Chinese Student Movement.” Pp. 79-98 in Helena Flam and Debra King (eds.), Emotions and Social Movements. London: Routledge, 2005.

“Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China.” The China Quarterly (March 2005), No. 181, pp. 46-66.

"China's Zhiqing Generation: Nostalgia, Identity and Cultural Resistance in the 1990s." Modern China Vol.29, No.3 (July 2003), pp. 267-296.

"The co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China." Asian Survey Vol. 43, No. 3, (May/June 2003), pp.405-422.

"The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere." Media, Culture & Society Vol. 25, No.4 (2003), pp. 469-490.

"The Internet and Civil Society in China: A Preliminary Assessment." Journal of Contemporary China. Volume 12, Number 36 (August 2003), pp.453 - 475.

“Political Commemorations as Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Protest Mobilization in Eastern Europe and China in 1989." (with Steven Pfaff) Theory and Society No. 30(2001), pp. 539-589.

“The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity.” Sociological Forum Vol 15, No.2 (2000), pp. 379-406.

“Achieving Emotions in Collective Action: Emotional Processes and Movement Mobilization in the 1989 Chinese Student Movement.” The Sociological Quarterly Vol. 41, No. 4 (2000), pp. 593-614.