EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. in Anthropology 2017-2023

Advisor: Jeffrey T. Martin

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

M.A. Anthropology2014-2016

Advisor: Zhou Daming (周大鸣)

Ren Min University of China, Beijing, China

B.S. Management2010-2014

Advisor: Tang Jie (唐杰)

Work Experience

Department of Anthropology, School of Sociology and Population Studies

Ren Min University of China, Beijing, China2024-

research interests

Agriculture; Supply Chain; Governance; Postsocialism; China

PUBLICATIONS

Liao, Yue. Residual Governmentality: Pesticide Policing in Neo-socialist China. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology . 2020 (05): 416-433 https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2020.1827020.

Zhou, Daming; Liao, Yue. Settlement and Transportation: China’s Urban-Rural Social Structure Change Through the Perspective of Roadology. Social Sciences in Guangdong . 2018(01): 179-191. 周大鸣, 廖越. 聚落与交通: “路学” 视域下中国城乡社会结构变迁. 广东社会科学 , 2018(01): 179-191. (人大复印报刊资料《社会学文摘》2018年02期转摘；收录于周晓虹、张静、乐江主编. 江村调查与社会科学的中国化 : 费孝通“江村调查” 80 周年纪念文集 , 2019, 北京: 社会科学文献出版社.)

Zhou, Daming; Liao, Yue. How to Understand the Changes of China’s Rural Social Structure: a Discussion on the Concept of “Atomization”. Journal of Guangxi Teachers Education University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) . 2018,39(4): 74-81. 周大鸣, 廖越. 我们如何认识中国乡村社会结构的变化:以 “原子化” 概念为中心的讨论. 广西师范学院学报 ( 哲学社会科学版 ) , 2018, 39(4): 74-81. (人大复印报刊资料《社会学》2018年第12期全文转载)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Contesting Proletarianization: Economy’s Base and Self-transformation of Chinese Farmers Engaged in Greenhouse Agriculture. The 1st International Forum of Future Rural Studies (IFFRS), College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA) & University of Nottingham Ningbo China (NUBS). 2022. (Online)

“Negotiating Proletarianization: Economy’s Base and the Self-transformation of Small Farmers in a Chinese Village.” East Asian Anthropological Association Conference. Shandong University, Jinan, CN. Nov. 2021. (Online)

“Contesting Cooperation: Making Alternative Care in Post-Socialist China.” The Illinois Symposium on Chinese Agriculture, Society and Environment. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. April 2018.

“‘Atomization’: Theoretical Context and Realistic Dilemma.” Urban China Research Conference. Shanghai University, Shanghai, CN. June 2017.

ARTICLES

2022, What If China Misdiagnosed Its Rural Malaise? . Sixth Tone

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011233/what-if-china-misdiagnosed-its-rural-malaise%3F (English Version)

2019, How China’s ‘Head Geese’ Are Changing Village Governance (不同于“模范”的“领头人”经济模式). Sixth Tone & The Paper (澎湃新闻第六声)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1004365/how-chinas-head-geese-are-changing-village-governance (English Version)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_4386994 (Chinese Version)

2019, How Village Co-ops Are Remapping China’s Rural Communities. Sixth Tone

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1004505/how-village-co-ops-are-remapping-chinas-rural-communities (English Version)

2018, How Drones Are Luring Young Chinese Back to the Countryside. Sixth Tone & The Paper (澎湃新闻第六声)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002527/how-drones-are-luring-young-chinese-back-to-the-countryside (English Version)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2320865_1(Chinese Version)

2018, Rural Land Transfers Must Benefit Farmers, Not Corporations (土地流转能否实现“没有无产化的资本化”). Sixth Tone & The Paper (澎湃新闻第六声)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002580/rural-land-transfers-must-benefit-farmers%2C-not-corporations (English Version)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2320878_1 (Chinese Version)

2018, Tourism Trap: How Long Can China’s Rural Travel Boom Last? (地方政府为什么热衷于旅游扶贫). Sixth Tone & The Paper (澎湃新闻第六声)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002676/tourism-trap-how-long-can-chinas-rural-travel-boom-last%3F-(English Version)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2327570_1 (Chinese Version)

2018, Better Together? Inside a Village's Embrace of Collectivization (一个重返集体化道路的村庄). Sixth Tone & The Paper (澎湃新闻第六声)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002719/better-together%3F-inside-a-villages-embrace-of-collectivization (English Version)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2327524_1 (Chinese Version)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UIUC，2022

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2022

Meituan Fellowship, Meituan Research Institution, 2021

Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, UIUC, 2020

Summer Supplemental Block Grant Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UIUC, 2020

Graduate Student Summer Research Assistance Awards, Department of Anthropology, UIUC, 2019

Demitri B. Shimkin Award (Honorable Mention), Department of Anthropology, UIUC, 2019

Graduate Prize for Research in the Humanities (Honorable Mention), Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, UIUC, 2019

Sixth Tone Fellowship, 2018

Li Ji Archaeology Scholarship Nomination Prize, 2016

Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, SYSU, 2015

Social Investigation Report Award, SYSU, 2014

Excellent Undergraduate Thesis, RUC, 2014

National Encouragement Scholarship, RUC, 2013

Second Prize in Humanities Knowledge Contest in Beijing, 2010 &2011

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Occasional reviewer for: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology