About
Professor Hongping Lian is a doctoral supervisor, deputy dean, and director of the Education Center for Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the School of Government, Beijing Normal University. She is also the chief specialist of the Research Center for Rural Governance and serves as the secretary-general of the public administration discipline and MPA education union for normal universities nationwide.
- Education: PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen, UK; postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong.
Research interests focus on rural land policy, urban and rural grassroots governance, housing policy, and political sociology. Her work explores the mutual transformation of state and society under new institutionalism, particularly examining women’s participation in China’s grassroots governance.
Projects and Funding: She undertakes research supported by the National Social Science Foundation, the National Rural Revitalization Administration, and the Ministry of Education.
