Ying Yu

Contact

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  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 8232425
• fax0115 8466324
• ying.yu@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Ying Yu joined the China Policy Institute in September 2009 as a research associate for the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7) project "Chinese Perceptions of the EU."

Ying has long developed her interest in China's society and politics with years of training in sociology and political science. The title of her PhD thesis is "Contentious activities (notably of labourers, intellectuals and religious groups) and Party-state responses in contemporary China - Investigating China's democratisation during its modernisation." She has been exploring the connection between China's dramatic development and prospective political transition and is keen to test the hypothesis that contentions promote robust civil society and representative government - the substance of democracy. Her thesis concludes that the relationship between the Party-state, society and individuals is restructured as modernisation drives contentious politics, the dynamics of which is predicted to lead to China's democratisation in both bottom-up and top-down directions.

Ying has carried out extensive fieldwork and empirical research for her own research topic and has also assisted other projects including "Security governance in Beijing Olympics" and "China, Central Asia and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation" during her PhD studies at the University of Durham.

Expertise Summary

State-society-individual relations in China; China's democratisation; Civil society, social movements and contentions; Internet activism; Nationalism; Rural migrant workers; Religious movements (Christianity) in China.

Research Summary

China-EU relations; Chinese view of EU; Civil society dynamics and China's democratization; Rural migrant workers in urban China; Local governance innovation; Corporative charity organizations in… read more

Recent Publications

• YING YU, 2012. Chinese Migrant Workers in the Global Financial Crisis: Government and Stakeholder Interactions. In: PETER UTTING, REBECCA VARGHESE BUCHHOLZ and SHAHRA RAZAVI, eds., The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press.)
• YING YU, 2011. The Implications of Civil Society Innovations for Good Governance in China: Exemplification of a Voluntary Charity-Oriented Sphere. In: ZHENGLAI DENG and SUJIAN GUO, eds., China's Search for Good Governance Palgrave Macmillan.
• YING YU and JIANGYONG LIU, 2011. A comparative impact analysis of Olympic Games in Northeast Asia – From Japan, South Korea to China International Journal of the History of Sport. 28(16), 2288 -2306
• YU, Y., 2010. Olympic Aspirations: Reconstructed Images, National Identity and International Integration INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT. VOL 27(NUMBER 16-18), 2821-2841

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Current Research

China-EU relations; Chinese view of EU; Civil society dynamics and China's democratization; Rural migrant workers in urban China; Local governance innovation; Corporative charity organizations in China; Mega-event spectacles and effects such as Olympic 2008 and Expo 2010 in China.

Future Research

A series of in-depth research on social movements and contentions in contemporary China such as online civil society; environmentalist movements; anti-aids movements; religious movements in China; nationalism and ethnical conflicts.

• YING YU, 2012. Chinese Migrant Workers in the Global Financial Crisis: Government and Stakeholder Interactions. In: PETER UTTING, REBECCA VARGHESE BUCHHOLZ and SHAHRA RAZAVI, eds., The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press.)
• YING YU, 2011. The Implications of Civil Society Innovations for Good Governance in China: Exemplification of a Voluntary Charity-Oriented Sphere. In: ZHENGLAI DENG and SUJIAN GUO, eds., China's Search for Good Governance Palgrave Macmillan.
• YING YU and JIANGYONG LIU, 2011. A comparative impact analysis of Olympic Games in Northeast Asia – From Japan, South Korea to China International Journal of the History of Sport. 28(16), 2288 -2306
• YU, Y., 2010. Olympic Aspirations: Reconstructed Images, National Identity and International Integration INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT. VOL 27(NUMBER 16-18), 2821-2841
• YU, Y., KLAUSER, F. and CHAN, G., 2009. Governing Security at the 2008 Beijing Olympics International Journal of the History of Sport. VOL 26(NUMBER 3), 390-405
• YU, Y., 2007. The Role and Future of Civil Society in a Transitional China Political Perspectives. 1(1),