Ho-fung Hung
Ho-fung Hung is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. Professor Hung researches and publishes on contentious politics, globalization, nationalism, and social theory. His current projects include one that expounds how the Confucianist legacy shaped China’s trajectories of state formation and social protests from the eighteenth century to the present, in contrast to the western trajectories. Another project examines the dynamics and limits of the current economic ascendancy of China, as well as its impact on global capitalism. A third project traces China’s changing conception of nationhood in light of Beijing’s contentious interaction with Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1949. Besides these major projects, he also published about the orientalist origins of classical social theories, globalization of epidemics, China’s environmental movements, among others.
Courses Taught
- Development and Globalization (Graduate Seminar)
- Global Society
- Politics and Society
- Nations, States, and Boundaries
- Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology: Rise of China
Awards and Distinctions
- 2004, Biannual best article award, Section on the Political Economy of World System, American Sociological Association
- 2003, Reinhard Bendix award, Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association
- 2003, Social Science History Association, Rockefeller Graduate Paper Award
- 2002, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
- 2002, Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation
Publication Highlights
- Ho-fung Hung. ed. Forthcoming. China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Ho-fung Hung. Forthcoming. “Cultural Strategies and the Political Economy of Protest in Mid-Qing China.” Social Science History.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2008. “Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited.” American Sociological Review. Vol. 73, No. 4.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2008. “Rise of China and the Global Overaccumulation Crisis.” Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 15, No. 2. (Lead article)
- Ho-fung Hung. 2007. “Changes and Continuities in the Political Ecology of Popular Protest: Mid-Qing China and Contemporary Resistance.” In Richard Louis Edmonds and Peter Ho. eds. special issue on “China’s Environmental Movement.” China Information. Vol. 21, No. 2
- Ho-fung Hung. 2005. "Contentious Peasants, Paternalist State, and Arrested Capitalism in China's Long Eighteenth Century." In Christopher Chas-Dunn and Engene N. Anderson eds. The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. New York, NY: Palgrave.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2004. "Orientalism and Area Studies: The Case of Sinology." In Richard Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein eds. Overcoming the Two Cultures. Boulder, CO: Paradigms.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2004. "Early Modernities and Contentious Politics in Mid-Qing China, c. 1740-1839." International Sociology. Vol. 19, No. 4, 479-504.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2004. "The Politics of SARS: Containing the Perils of Globalization by more Globalization." Asian Perspective. Vol. 28, No. 1. 19-44.
- Ho-fung Hung. 2003. “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900.” Sociological Theory. Vol. 21, No. 3. 254-79 (winner of the Reinhard Bendix Award and PEWS article Award, ASA)
Work in Progress
- Ho-fung Hung. Beyond Western Modernity: Grandpa State and Popular Contention in Mid-Qing China, 1740-1839. (Book manuscript in progress)
- Ho-fung Hung. “Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State: Fictitious Patrimonial Politics in China’s Age of Commerce, 1644-1839.” in Julia Adams and Mounira Charrad. ed. Lineages of Patrimonial Politics, Then and Now. (Book manuscript in progress)
- Ho-fung Hung and Jaime Kucinskas. “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the “Chindia” Impact, 1980-2005” (Journal article manuscript in preparation)
- Ho-fung Hung. “Flexible Nationalism: 1950s Tibet and 1980s Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective” (Journal article manuscript under review)
- Ho-fung Hung. “Saving a State by Culture: Neo-Confucianism, Capital Appeal, and Delayed State Breakdown in Qing China” (Journal article manuscript under review)
