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Dr. Wenjing Liang, Department of Chinese Language and Literature,

Boya Xiaoyuan, Chongqing University (Campus A)

No. 174 Shazhengjie, Shapingba

Chongqing, 400044, China

Cellphone: +86-15320473379

E-mail: Wenjingliang07@qq.com

Teaching and Research Specialties:

Folklore, Anthropology, Overseas Ethnography, Middletown Studies, American Studies, Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations

Education and Professional Experience:

September 2004-July 2007, Culture Management, School of History and Culture, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei Province. B.A.

September 2007-November 2013, Master-Doctor Combined Program, Institute of Sociology & Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Peking University. Ph.D.

January 2011-January 2012, visiting Student, University of Wisconsin Madison & Ball State University, studying Habitat for Humanity in Muncie as fieldwork for dissertation.

March 2014-  , Lecturer, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University.

Funded Research:

Chinese National Social Science Fund research project “A comparative study of the professionalization of Chinese and American private voluntary organizations”, 2015-2020

Publications:

“Volunteering as Daily Life: The Case of Volunteers’ Involvement in Habitat for Humanity in Middletown, USA”, N. W. Journal of Ethnology, 2013(3): 200-209.

“Labor and Its meaning in the States: The case of Habitat for Humanity in Middletown, USA”, Journal of Beifang University of Nationalities, 2013(3): 116-121.

“Associational Cooperation Witness the Growth of Social Sector: Cases of Nujiang Anti-Dam Event and Narada Foundation”, Journal of Shihezi University, 2015(3): 51-58. (Second author)

“Moral Economy of Nonprofit Organizations: The Case of Middletown Habitat for Humanity, U. S. A.”, Qinghai Journal of Ethnology, 2017(2): 28-32.

“American Spirit of Community as ‘Moral Imagination’: The Experience of Middletown Habitat for Humanity”, Social Sciences of Beijing, 2017(3): 95-101.

“Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization in Muncie, Indiana: A Case Study of the Lynds’ ‘Middletown, U.S.A.’”, The Chinese Journal of American Studies, 2020(2): 105-128. (First author)

“The Moral Economy of Non-profit Organizations and The Market Economy: The Case of Middletown Habitat for Humanity, U. S. A.”, in The World Society with Cultural Diversities: A Chinese Anthropological Perspective, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2020.