Education

PhD 2015 (Sociology), University of Chicago;

MA 2006 (Sociology), Peking University;

BA 2003 (Sociology), Peking University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Lecturer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, 2015-

Research Interests

Political sociology

Social theory

Historical sociology

Weber's theory

The social transition of modern China

Courses Taught 

Undergraduate courses:

    Sociological Studies of the Chinese Societies on the Periphery (2015-2017)

    Family Sociology (2015-2016)

Graduate courses:

    Domination and Society: Weber's "Economy and Society" study (2016-2017);

    Sociological Research on Chinese Frontier Society (2017);

    Sociological Methodology (2017);

    Research on Political Sociology (2020);

    Classical Reading of Sociological Theory (2021).

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Wang, Liping and Geng Tian. 2022. "Breaking the Containment: Horse Trade between the Ming Empire and its Northern Neighbors, 1368–1570." Journal of World History, vol. 33 no. 1, 2022, p. 37-71.；

Wang, Liping and Geng Tian.2021. "Clients, double clients or brokers? The changing agency of intermediary tribal groups in the Ming empire (1368–1644)." Theory and Society. Online Publication.

Wang, Sining; Jia, Yujing; Tian, Geng. 2022."Pricing the bridewealth: On moral embedding in the mechanism of rural betrothal gifts negotiation-case analysis based on L County, Gansu Province" Chinese Journal of Sociology. 8(1):104-128

Hongwei Xu and Geng Tian.2020. "Is Lying Contagious? Spatial Diffusion of High-Yield 'Satellites' during China's Great Leap Forward." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(3):632-672.；

Tian, Geng. 2020. "Nation and Political Communities: Two Intellectual Connections between Weber's Freiburg Address and Economy and Society." Shehui. 2020,40(06) : 1-30.(in Chinese)

Wang, Sining, Jiayu Jing, Geng Tian. 2019. "Pricing the Bride wealth:On the Moral Embedding in the Mechanism of Rural Betrothal Gifts Negotiation——Case Analysis Based on L County, Gansu Province." Shehui. 2020,40(01) : 1-24.(in Chinese)

Tian, Geng. 2019. "A Survey of the Southwest Frontier in the History of Social Studies in China: The Power of the Sociological Ethnography: Revisiting Some Fieldwork of Early Social Research." Academia Bimestrie, 2019(02):21-33.(in Chinese)

Wang, Mingke, Rong Ma, Geng Tian.2018. "The Social Identity and Identity Crisis of Contemporary Urbanites." Northwestern Journal of Ethnology. 2018(01):5-22.(in Chinese)

Tian, Geng. 2018. "Science and the Movements to Directional Values: The Centnnial of Max Weber's WIsssenchaft als Beruf." Shehui. 2018,38(02):154-187.(in Chinese)

Tian, Geng.2017. "Within and Outside Social Research: Two Approaches of Early Social Research." Academia Bimestrie. 2017(05):87-94. (in Chinese)