Index - Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Name

XUESHI LI

Title

Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Education Background

2015 Post-doc Researcher, Tsinghua University, China

2014 Ph.D. Sociology, Michigan State University (MSU), USA

2008 M.A. Sociology, Michigan State University (MSU), USA

2006 B.A. Central University for Nationalities, China

Research

Sociology of Food and Environment；Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Globalization and China Studies;

Personal Website

lixueshi@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Phone

Teaching Area

Sociology

Other

I received my Ph.D in sociology from Michigan State University and currently work as an assistant professor (teaching) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). My research interests include food and agriculture, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Globalization and China.

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Research


Sociology of Food and Environment
2023	“Sustainable Food Practices of Conventional Food Corporations: A Case-Study Approach” China Environmental Sociology Annal Symposium, Tianjin. July 8-9.
2022	“Causes of Food Waste at the Consumption End: Based on Auto-ethnography” China Environmental Sociology Annal Symposium, Xiamen. August 27.
2021	“Governance Dilemma and Digital Transformation of Food Waste in Closed Communities” 8th International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia, November 6.
2021	“An Analysis of Major Issues of Food Waste Literature” China Environmental Sociology Annal Symposium, Chongqing, China. July 17.
2018	“An Analysis of Major Issues of Alternative Food Networks（AFNs）Literature” China Environmental Sociology Annal Symposium, Xi’an, Shanxi.
Science Technology and Society (STS)
2023	Chenjia Xu and Xueshi Li “Drink More Milk!/?": a sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) perspective on China's Dietary Guidelines (1989-2022)” URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS, SUFFICIENCY & SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN CHINA (Workshop of the ERC project “A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China”) at Sun Yat-sen University, August 26.
2021	“Research Findings on Food Waste and Sustainable Food Systems: Based on two university communities in Shenzhen, China” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting 2021: Frameworks of Responsibility that Reshape Food Systems, October 9.
2021	“The Farmer's Markets as Immutable Mobiles of Sustainable Consumption and Caring” Sustainable Consumption and Care, the European Chapter of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI Europe), May 20.
2016	“The Discourse of Organic Agriculture in China,” The 12th East Asian Science Technology and Society (EASTS) Network Conference at Tsinghua University, November18-20.
Globalization and China Studies
2023	“The "Magic" of Moyu Village: Ethnographic Observations on the Sustainable Lifestyles of an Ecological Women's Group” Women in the Threshold of Ecological Civilization: Theoretical Resources and Chinese Practices (held by the Editorial Board of the Women's Studies Series, Women's Research Institute of the All-China Women's Federation, Beijing Normal University, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), October 29.
2020	“The Farmer's Markets as Healing Space and Place” The 11th Urban Social Culture Forum, East China Normal University, Shanghai, November 14-15.
2018	“Meishi Jie in Making: Entwining the Local with the Global,” Paper presentation (paper accepted W0016164), The British Sociology Association Annual Conference.
2014	“Making Sense of High-Tech Organic Agriculture in China: A Content Analysis,” Michigan Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Muskegon, October 24-25.
2014	“The Multiplicity of Organics in China,” EL/WL Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference, Michigan, October 16-18.

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Awards and honors

2012
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2008
2006
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2012

Dissertation Funding, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
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2012

New Generation China Scholar, Fellowship, The University of Chicago Center in Beijing
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2009

The Summer Support Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
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2008

The Summer Support Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
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2006

Highest Honors Thesis, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China
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2004

Academic Scholarship, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China
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2003

First-class Scholarship, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China

Publications

English Articles

Xueshi Li. 2022. “The "Real” Organic Food in China: The Tradition-Modern Divide and the Role of Boundary Work”. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 28 (1). Paris, France:43-57.(SCOPU）
Xueshi Li and Allison Loconto 2019. "Mobile market and changing food governance: the world of non-certified organic food in Beijing. " Globalizations: 17-35.(SSCI)
Lawrence Busch, Allison Loconto, and Xueshi Li. 2008. “New Technologies, Standards, and Local Food Resources.” pp. 163-181 in the Third Afrasian International Symposium. Resources Under Stress: Sustainability of the Local Community in Asia and Africa, Y. Kawamura, H. Nakamura, and S. Ishizaka, eds. Kyoto: Afrasian Center for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University.

Chinese Articles
张劼颖 李雪石.2023. 《数字虚拟社区研究：学术脉络与关键议题》中国社会科学评价 3. 32-44.(Zhang Jiering and Li Xue Shi.2023. The Research on digital virtual communities: academic lineage and key issues China Social Science Assessment 03. 32-44.)(CSSCI)
张劼颖 李雪石.2023. 《再思垃圾分类：分类知识、标准述行与环境治理》 开放时代 3. 126-133 (Zhang Jieying and Xueshi Li. 2023. Reflections on Waste Classification: Knowledge，Standard Performantivity and Environmental Governance Open Times 3) (CSSCI).

张劼颖 李雪石.2020. 《人类学以何研究科学:反思科技民族志》 广西民族大学学报: 哲学社会科学版 4. 126-133 (Zhang Jieying and Xueshi Li. 2020. How Can Anthropology Study Science: Reviewing Ethnography of Technoscience Journal of Guangxi University For Nationalites:Philosophy and Social Science Edition 4. 126-133) (CSSCI).
李雪石，陈欢. 2019.《解构食品安全话语：中国主流媒体视野中的舶来品 “有机农业”研究》 中国研究 1. 161-178. (Xueshi Li and Huan Chen. 2019. “Deconstructing Food Safety discourses: a Study of "Organic Agriculture" from the Perspective of Chinese Mainstream Media.” China Studies 1. 161-178.) (CSSCI).

张劼颖 李雪石.2019. 《环境治理中的知识生产与呈现--对垃圾焚烧技术争议的论域分析》 社会学研究 4. 146-169 (Zhang Jieying and Xueshi Li. 2019. Knowledge Making and Performing in Environmental Governance: An Arena Analysis of Waste Incineration Technological Disputes. Sociological Study 4. 146-169). (CSSCI).
陈越鹏, 王蒲生, 李雪石. 2018. 《封闭社区与街区制:一个边界理论的视角》 甘肃行政学院学报 86-95.（Chen Yuepeng, Wang Pusheng, Xueshi Li. 2018. “Closed community and block system: a perspective of boundary theory.” Gansu Institute of Public Administration Journal. 8695)(CSSCI)
李雪石, 张猛.2017.《国外转基因的社会科学研究热点问题评析》 国外社会科学.105-112. (Xueshi Li and Meng Zhang. 2017. “A Literature Review of GMO Issues in International Social Sciences.” Social Sciences Abroad. 105-112.) (CSSCI).
李雪石，王蒲生，张猛.2017.《中国食品安全问题的国外社会科学研究评述》, 甘肃行政学院学报 . 80-91. (Xueshi Li，Pusheng Wang and Meng Zhang. 2017. “A Literature Review of Food Safety Issues in International Social Sciences.” Gansu Institute of Public Administration Journal. 80-91) (CSSCI).

Media Articles
Xueshi Li. (2024, Febuary). “Do Ready-Made Meals Belong at China’s New Year’s Table?”
Sixth Tone https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014611
Xueshi Li. (2022, May). “China Has a Food Waste Problem. Can More Communal Dining Help?”
Sixth Tone https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010366/china-has-a-food-waste-problem.-can-more-communal-dining-help%3F
Xueshi Li. (2021, April). “How Old-School Parenting Is Holding Back Alternative Education”
Sixth Tone http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007116/how-old-school-parenting-isholding-back-alternative-education.
Xueshi Li. (2020, September). “I Tried ‘Vertical Farming’ at Home. I’m Setting My Sights Higher”
Sixth Tone http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006128/i-tried-vertical-farming-athome.-im-setting-my-sights-higher.
Xueshi Li. (2020, June). “For China’s Alternative Growers, Consumerism Trumps Idealism”
Sixth Tone https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005788/for-chinas-alternative-growers%2C-consumerism-trumps-idealism
Xueshi Li. (2018, November). “Buying to Survive: Why China Isn’t Ready to Abandon Consumerism”
Sixth Tone http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003193/buying-to-survive-whychina-isnt-ready-to- abandon-consumerism
Xueshi Li. (2018, September) “Anger Over Food Scandals Has Shoppers Looking for Fresh Options.”
Sixth Tone. http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002895/anger-over-food-scandals-hasshoppers-looking- for-fresh-options
Xueshi Li. (2018, March 7). “China’s Cities Are Making Migrant Workers Profoundly Lonely. ”
Sixth Tone.https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001862/chinas-cities-are-making-migrant-workers-profoundly-lonely
Translation

任雪飞《印度学习中国城市发展的几点反思》（Xuefei Ren. 2012. Originally published in The Wilson Quarterly.） 中国名城 . pp. 20-23. Xuefei Ren and Xueshi Li (translation). 2015. Reflections on Chinese and Indian Urban Development (Xuefei Ren. 2012. Originally published in The Wilson Quarterly.) pp. 20-23.

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Sociology of Food and Environment

Science Technology and Society (STS)

Globalization and China Studies

Xueshi Li. (2024, Febuary). “Do Ready-Made Meals Belong at China’s New Year’s Table?”