Dr Eddy U

PhD (Berkeley), BA (Cal Poly Pomona), MA (Berkeley)
Lecturer
eddy.u@arts.usyd.edu.au

I received my Ph.D. from the Sociology Department of the University of California in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford. I joined the Department of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney in August 2004. My research focuses on twentieth-century China, specifically, organization and representation. My works are based on the theoretical ideas of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. Empirically, they are based on historical documents and interviews.

• Contemporary Chinese political economy
• Political Sociology
• Sociology of Organization

• Research on the social construction of the intellectual category in 20th century China
• Book manuscript on socialism and bureaucracy in China

• Eddy U (forthcoming). /Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism./ Stanford University Press.
• Eddy U (forthcoming). "The Making of Chinese Intellectuals: Representations and Organization in the Thought Reform Campaign." /The China Quarterly/.
• Eddy U (forthcoming). ³Modernization Theory² in /Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History/, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Eddy U. 2005. “State Management of Careers, Workplace Conflict, and Regime Legitimacy in Socialist China.” Sociology Quarterly (June)
• Eddy U. 2005. “Leninist Reforms, Workplace Cleavages, and Teachers in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” Comparative Studies of Society and History 47 (Jan): 106-133
• Eddy U. 2004. “The Hiring of Rejects: Teacher Recruitment and the Crises of Socialism in the Early PRC Years.” Modern China (January): 46-80
• Eddy U. 2003. “The Making of Zhishifenzi (Chinese Intellectuals): The Critical Impact of the Registration of Unemployed Intellectuals in the Early PRC.” The China Quarterly (March): 100-121

• Sociology of Contemporary China
• Theory and Methods in Asian Studies
• Political Sociology

I have presented my research in major US, British, Canadian, Australian, and Chinese universities such as University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of London, University of British Columbia, University of Sydney, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.