Yujing Tan is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies and International Studies. Yujing Tan doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

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Fields of interest

• Political economy of innovation (Fieldwork: ICT industry, creative industry)
• Mobilities and migration
• Sociology of work
• Sociology of institutions/associations (Fieldwork: economic zones; industrial associations; insurance; etc.)
• Government-business relations in modern and contemporary China
• Global China

Research

Tan's research explores how innovation is practiced, imagined, mobilized, and reinterpreted by China’s local developers and its subjects. The Chinese innovation movement is not the same as the “disruptive innovation” of recent years mainly driven by digital technology in the European and North American contexts. The state plays a very salient role in innovation, investing in the social and economic system to provide a constant demand for innovation to unleash the dynamism of development. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of the state’s role in socio-economic transformation and its governance model in innovation activities. This research discusses the state-market-society relationship not merely from an institutionalist perspective. Tan is updating this research with new data and cases and is completing the book manuscript.

In addition, Tan's collaborative research focuses on the role of local state in China and the European Union in science and technology innovation, globalization, urban redevelopment, immigration, etc.

Grants and awards

Recent:
2024-2025 Aspasia Travel Fund 
2024 Junior Fellowship at Leuven Institute for Advanced Study
2024 The Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund for teaching innovation
2022-2024 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seed fund
2020-2022 Leiden University Fund: Rijke-Hamaker/Humanities 
2019-2021 Yongyou Scholarship for Socio-economic Studies 
2019 Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) SUPRA scholarship 

Education

2022 June: PhD in Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University
2014 July: Survey Data Analysis, University of Michigan-Peking University Joint Institute, Summer Program for Graduate Student, Beijin
2012: Research MA in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang
2010: BA in Chinese Linguistic and Literature, Hunan Normal University, Changsha

Publications