People

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Chongqing University

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

Director, Research Center for Contemporary China

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail: lif@cqu.edu.cn

RESEARCH FIELDS

Modern and Contemporary China

Chinese Communist Revolution; Politics of the People’s Republic of China

History of Social Sciences in China; History of Chinese Studies in the West

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

2024.    Rationality ∙ History ∙ Irony: Lectures and Essays on Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Shanghai: Guangqi shuju.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2023    “How was Max Weber’s Sociology Introduced into China? A Pre-Parsons History,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai), No.4, pp.94-107.

2022    “Max Weber, the Comintern and the Beginning of the Debates over the Nature of Chinese Society: A Revolutionary Journey of Konfuzianismus und Taoismus, 1925-1929,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai), No.2, pp.102-116.

2021    “Qu Qiubai and the Chinese Translation of ‘Hegemony’: A Revolutionary Journey of the H-word in China, 1923-1927,” Modern Chinese History Studies (Jindai shi yanjiu), No.5, pp.4-18.

2020    “Exploring the Dao of Revolution: Between Modernity and Civilization,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai), No.5, pp.24-44.

2018    “On the Principle of ‘Liyi fenshu’ of Mao Zedong’s Thought,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai), No.3, pp.130-146.

2015 “What is it to ‘Explain Antiquity’? On the Classics, History, and Dao of the Chinese Revolution—An Exploration Based on the Land Reform Movement in China’s Northern Liberated Areas,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai), No.6, pp.12-28.      【Its English version (translated by Mark Czeller) appears in Timothy Cheek, ed., Revisiting the Revolution: A Collaborative Translation Project, forthcoming.】