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Professor TANG Wenfang is the Presidential Chair Professor, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Receiving his BA in Law from Peking University and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Professor TANG served as the former Head and Chair Professor of the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019-2022), C. Maxwell and Elisabeth M. Stanley and Hua-Hsia Chair Professor of Chinese Culture and Institutions, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa (2009 – 2019), Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (1990 – 2009). He was a Visiting Professor to Peking University, Tsinghua University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Visiting Research Professor at East Asian Institute, National Singapore University, and National Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Professor Tang’s research focuses on public opinion, political culture and mass politics. He has authored and co-authored several books published by academic presses, including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Stanford University Press, and University of Pittsburgh Press. He also published many articles in academic journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Communication, Journal of Public Policy, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, among others. His book Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2016) won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award.
Professor Tang played a leading role in the 6th and 7th World Values Surveys. He also served as an Academic Advisory Committee member of Chinese Family Panel Survey (CFPS) at Peking University, Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) at Renmin University, and Chinese Labor Dynamics Survey (CLDS) at Sun Yat-Sen University. He is Co-editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Political Science, Comparative Governance Section, editorial board member of Political Psychology and Advances in Political Psychology, Executive Committee member of International Political Science Association’s Comparative Public Opinion Section.
Books and monographs
Tang, Wenfang. 2016. Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability. New York: Oxford University Press (winner of CHOICE Best Academic Title Award).
Edited books
Articles
Yang, Qing and Wenfang Tang. 2010. “Exploring the Sources of Institutional Trust in China: Culture, Mobilization, or Performance?” Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 415-436. Click to read
Tang, Wenfang. 2009. “Dispute Resolution and Legal Reform in China”, China Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 73-96. Click to read
Tang, Wenfang and Qing Yang. 2008. “The Chinese Urban Caste System in Transition”, China Quarterly. December. Vol. 196:759-779. Click to read
Tang, Wenfang, 2001. "Political and Social Trends in Post-Deng Urban China: Crisis or Stability?" China Quarterly, December, Vol 168:890-909. Click to read
Tang, Wenfang, 2001. "Religion and Society in Taiwan and China: Evidence from Survey Data," in Shiping Hua, ed., Politics and Political Culture in Contemporary China, M.E. Sharpe. Click to read
Tang, Wenfang and William Parish. 1996. "Social Reaction to Urban Reform in China," Problems of Post-Communism, November-December. Click to read
