Johns Hopkins University : Department of Sociology : Joel Andreas

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Joel Andreas, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685
Phone (410) 516-7325
Fax (410) 516-7590
E-mail: jandreas@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vita (PDF)

I study changes in class relations in China since 1949. I recently published a book, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class, which analyzes the contentious merger of old and new elites in China during the communist era. The book, based on a case study of Tsinghua University (China's premier school of science and technology and the alma mater of many of its top leaders), focuses on conflict over the political and cultural foundations of class power. I am currently investigating changing labor relations in Chinese factories between 1949 and the present.

I joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2003 after completing a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. I teach social theory at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as courses on political sociology and contemporary Chinese society.

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SELECTED PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

230.213: Social Theory

230.321: Revolution, Reform and Social Inequality in China

230.415: Social Problems in Contemporary China

230.603: Contemporary Social Theory

230.609: Dissertation Research Seminar

230.651: Politics and Society

“A Shanghai Model?” New Left Review, No. 64 (September/October 2010), pp. 63-85

Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class, Stanford University Press, 2009

“Changing Colours in China,” New Left Review No. 54 (Nov./Dec. 2008), pp. 123-142

"The Structure of Charismatic
Mobilization: A Case Study of Rebellion During the Chinese Cultural Revolution", AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 2007, VOL. 72 (June:434–458) (PDF)

“Institutionalized rebellion: Governing Tsinghua University during the late years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” The China Journal, Issue 55 (January 2006) (PDF)

"Leveling the 'little pagoda:' The impact of college entrance examinations- and their elimination- on rural education in China." Comparative Education Review, February 2004 (PDF )

"Battling over the future of political and cultural power during the Chinese Cultural Revolution." Theory and Society , August 2002 (PDF)