Education

PhD 2021 (Sociology), University of Chicago;

MA 2014 (Sociology), University of Chicago;

MPP 2012 (Planning and Economic Development), Georgia State University;

BEcon 2010 (Finance), Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, 2021-

Research Interests

Sociology of Transition

Generation and Social Change

Comparative Urban Studies

Historical Sociology

Qualitative Research Methods

Courses Taught 

Undergraduate courses：

    Sociology and the Chinese Society

    Generation and Youth

Graduate courses:

    Special Topics on the History of Chinese Social Policy

    Comparative Urban Studies

    Social Policy in China

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Xie, Wen. 2024. "Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China." Labor History 65 (3): 337–51.

Xie, Wen. 2024. "Life Experience in Transition: The Dual Temporality of Social Change in Northeast China." Sociological Studies 2: 111-133. (In Chinese)

Xie, Wen. 2023. "Du Bois and the Controversy over Reconstructing Theoretical Classics: A Sociology of Knowledge Examination." Tsinghua Sociological Review 20: 21-28. (In Chinese)

Xie, Wen. 2022. "Individual Lives in a Changing Society: Using Northeast China as an Example." China Public Administration Review 4(3): 157-166. (In Chinese)

Xie, Wen. 2022. Review of "Bin Xu, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and Memory Politics in China." Journal of Chinese Political Science 27 (4): 805–6;

Xie, Wen. 2019. "The Industrial Work-Unit Society in Northeast China and Its Transformation: A Historical Sociological Examination." Open Times 6: 25-44. (In Chinese)