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Bai Gao, Professor

Bai Gao
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Bai Gao
Professor
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Office: 341 Soc-Psych
Phone: (919) 660-5620
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Fax: (919) 660-5623
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Areas of Interest: 
Economic Sociology,
Globalization,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Comparative Political Economy
 
I received my B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature in 1983, and M.A. in Comparative Higher Education in 1986 from Beijing University. I received an M.A. in 1990 and a Ph.D in Sociology in January 1994 from Princeton University. Before entering the United States, I worked as a research fellow at Beijing University. I have worked as visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, and the Yokohama National University. My major areas of research interest are economic sociology, globalization, comparative historical sociology, comparative political economy. I teach Technology and Organizational Environments (SOC 144), The Global Responses to the Rise of China(SOC 299), and Chinese Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives (SOC 299, SOC 195, ECO 197). 
  Selected Publications/Recent Research:
 
  • Bai Gao, “The United States is Leading the Third Industrial Revolution” (in Chinese), The Phoenix Weekly, vol. 437 (June 1, 2012), pp. 76-78.
  • “The benefits of Non-separation of State-Corporate Governance.”, The Phoenix Weekly, vol. 430 (March 1, 2012), pp. p. 84.
  • Bai Gao, “International Monetary Regimes and Domestic Political Economies: The Origins of the Global Glut of Liquidity.”, in The Handbook of the Sociology of Finance., edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda (2012), Oxford University Press.
  • Bai Gao et al., High-Speed Rail and China's Grand Strategy in the 21 Century (in Chinese) (2012), Social Science Literature Press.
  • “The Informal Economy in the Era of Information Revolution and Globalization: The Shanzhai Cell Phone Industry in China, Chinese Journal of Sociology, vol. 31 no. 2 (March, 2011), Shanghai University.
 
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