Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the author

Yingyao Wang (王颖曜) is Assistant Professor of sociology at University Virginia, USA. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research Her interests include economic and political sociology, comparative and historical sociology, formal and complex organizations, sociology of development, and China. Based on her PhD in Sociology at Yale University she examines how social formations such as policy makers’ career trajectories, intellectual networks, and political cliques can be translated into formal organizational capacities and influence the pattern of state regulations over national economies. She has published and continuously writes about social and organizational theories.