Areas of Research/Interest: Economic sociology; corporations; sociology of China.

Affiliated with other departments or programs: Joint Appointment with the Department of Management and Organization (Stern School of Business)

External Affiliations: American Sociological Association, National Committee on US-China Relations.

Fellowships/Honors: William Davidson Visiting Professor, The University of Michigan (1999); The American Sociological Association's award for best dissertation in the discipline (1998).

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Select Publications:

	China and Globalization: The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, Routledge, 2006.
	Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture and the Changing Nature of Guanxi (co-edited with Thomas Gold and David Wank), Cambridge University Press, 2002.
	Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China, Princeton University Press, 1999.

"The State, Courts, and Family-Friendly Policies in U.S. Organizations: Specifying Institutional Mechanisms," (with Louise Marie Roth), American Sociological Review, 64(1):41-63.

"Organizational Uncertainty and Labor Contracts in China's Economic Transition," Sociological Forum, 13(3):457-494.

"The Declining Significance of Guanxi in China's Economic Transition," The China Quarterly, 154:31-62, 1998.

"Between Markets and Politics: Organizational Responses to Reform in China," American Journal of Sociology, 102(5):1258-1303.