Du YueAssociate Professor

  • Research Field : urbanization and land governance in China, and social theory
Introduction

Yue Du（杜月） is a tenured associate Professor in Sociology at Tsinghua University. She received academic training from Peking University and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on urbanization and land governance in China, and social theory. Her work has appeared in journals such as Urban Geography and Journal of Rural Studies.

Education

2018 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., Sociology

2012 Peking University, MA, Sociology

2009 Peking University, BA, Sociology

Selected Publications

2024 Du, Yue. “The marginal man and the migrant ancestor, Ching chao Wu and Quentin Pan on Migration”, Chinese Journal of Sociology, 4 [in Chinese]

2022 Du, Yue. "Holistic gentrification and the recreation of rurality: The new wave of rural gentrification in Chengdu, China", Journal of Rural Studies, 96, 237-245.

Du, Yue. "'Working the government': Poverty alleviation resettlement in two Yi villages, Sichuan, China", Geoforum, 136, 153-160.

Du, Yue. "The sacred individual: from Durkheim to Goffman", Sociological Studies, 2022(1). [In Chinese]

2020 Du, Yue. “Remote sensing, land quotas, and mass relocation: China’s governance of farmland.” Development and Change, 52 (1), 113-133.

Du, Yue. "Taxi dancers, Chinese laundryman, and Peking prisoners: Strangers in the city ", Chinese Journal of Sociology, 4,1-25. [in Chinese, translated in English and published in Chinese Journal of Sociology, 8(2), 268-290]

2019 Du, Yue. “Urbanizing the periphery: infrastructure funding and local growth coalition in China’s peasant relocation programs.” Urban Geography, 40 (9).

2017 Du,Yue. “Cartography: A new framework of state governance”, Sociological Studies, 2017(5). [In Chinese]

2016 Du, Yue. “The Institutionalization of the sacred- a rereading of the Evolution of Educational Thought”, Peking University Education Review, 14(4). [In Chinese]

2012 Du, Yue. “Social structure and Confucian ideology: a rupture in Ch’u T’ung- tsu’s Social and Historical Studies ”, Chinese Journal of Society, 32(4).[In Chinese]

2007 Du, Yue. “Indirect reciprocity in an evolutionary perspective, Sociological Studies,2007 (3). [In Chinese]