Welcome! My name is Licheng QIAN (Q is pronounced: /ch/). I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 2017, and I am currently an Assistant Lecuturer (permanent position) in Sociology at Birmingham City University (BCU). Prior to joining BCU in 2023, I worked at the University of Macau (2021-2023) and Zhejiang University (2017-2021) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and taught at the University of Virginia as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lecturer (2010-2017). My academic interests lie in the intersection of culture, politics, and collective memory, including the study of national, transnational, and postcolonial identities. In terms of regional focus, I am interested in the Greater China area, the Chinese diaspora, and the transnational comparison between China and other societies.
I also received a graduate certificate in social sciences (studying comparative politics and Asian immigration) from the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. My book project, tentatively entitled Remembering Chairman Mao: Authoritarianism and Memory in the Twenty-First Century, examines five “faces” of Chairman Mao, that is, Mao as god, commodity, hero, villain, and stranger, and investigates the political, religious, economic, and psychological forces behind. Based on the study of Mao nostalgia in China, my book contributes a field-relational approach to the study of memory and forgetting in an authoritarian context. In addition to the book project, my research has been published in top journals in both social science and China studies, such as Cultural Sociology, Memory Studies, Nations and Nationalism, the Journal of Contemporary China, and Sociological Studies (社会学研究). |
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