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Dr. Yu Jianrong
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(Institute of Rural Development)

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Dr. Yu Jianrong was born in 1962. He received a Ph.D. in Legal Studies from Huazhong Normal University in 2001. He currently serves as Professor and Director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences in Beijing, China, and is a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard Yenching Institute at Harvard University. His published works include:

Politics of Yue Village: Changes in the Political Structure in China’s Rural Villages in the Transition Period

Organized Peasant Resistance and it Political Risk: A Survey of H County, Hunan Province

Rural Organized Crime and the Retreat of Local Sovereignty

Contemporary Chinese Peasants’ Activism Through Law

Social Conflict in Transitional China: Observations on the Rights Advocacy Activities of Workers and Peasants in Contemporary China.