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Dr. Jieh-Min WU

Dr. Jieh-Min WU
Name
Dr. Jieh-Min WU
Position
  • Research Fellow, the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica,Republic of China (Taiwan)
Education
  • Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, USA
Experience
  • Jieh-Min Wu is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and the co-founder of the Center for Contemporary China at National Tsing Hua University.
  • With a focus on geopolitics,democratization, and development policy, he has published extensively on Taiwan-China relations, China's development, and Hong Kong under China’s rule.
  • His most recent book, Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022),
  • received the 2023 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Publication (Book) by an International Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA).
  • Additionally, he co-edited China’s Influence and the Center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific (with Brian Fong and Andrew Nathan, Routledge, 2021),
  • and The Political Sociology of the “China Factor”: The Penetration of Chinese Influence in Taiwan Society (in Japanese, with Momoko Kawakami, Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2021).