Xiaochun Huang

Xiaochun Huang joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2011–12 academic year from the department of sociology at Shanghai University. His main area of research is on local governance reform in contemporary China, focusing on urban grassroots governance and state-society relationships. He received his BA, MA, and PhD in sociology from Shanghai University.

Huang's research project at Shorenstein APARC is a study of the performing mechanisms of e-government in China. His research will focus on the following question: When new forms of information technology that are characteristic of de-bureaucratization suddenly encounter China’s traditional government structure, what complex and compound interactive mechanisms are produced?

Huang’s most recent publication is the article “Understanding China's Information Revolution: The Structural Force that Drives Social Transformation” (Studies in Science of Science, 2010).