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Sun Min
Director of Media Relations
Alyssa Vine
Associate Director of Media Relations
Guobin Yang
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Guobin Yang, associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2005.
Professor Yang has doctoral degrees in both English literature (with a focus on literary translation) and sociology. His research focuses on social movements, voluntary organizing, and Internet politics in China.
Recent projects have examined China's emerging environmental movement and the role of the Internet in the transformation of Chinese society.
Professor Yang's teaching at Barnard includes such courses as "Revolutionary Movements" (a first-year seminar), "Social Science Approaches to East Asia," and "Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society."
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, ed. with C. K. Lee (Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press, 2007)
"Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China" (with C. Calhoun), China Information 21 (2007)
"How Do Chinese Civic Associations Respond to the Internet: Findings from a Survey," The China Quarterly No. 189 (2007)
"Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China," The China Quarterly No. 181 (March 2005),
"The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere," Media, Culture & Society 25 (2003)
"The Co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China," Asian Survey 43 (May/June 2003)
"Achieving Emotions in Collective Action: Emotional Processes and Movement Mobilization in the 1989 Chinese Student Movement," The Sociological Quarterly 41 (2000)
"The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity," Sociological Forum 15 (2000)
212.854.2125
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Beijing Foreign Studies University
Ph.D., New York UniversityRELATED LINKS:
Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Social movements and collective action
New media and civil society
Modern China