Prof. HU Jieren

Name: HU Jieren

Gender: Female

Professional Title: Associate Professor

Degree: Ph.D.

Position: Supervisor of Master Degree Students

E-mail: besthujieren@tongji.edu.cn

Education and Working Experiences

LL.B, Fudan University (2005)

Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009)

Post-Doc Fellowship, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong

Baptist University (2009-2011)

Lecturer, Division of Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong (2011-2013)

Associate Professor, Tongji University (2013 – present)

Vice-director, the Government Office in Xuhui District of Shanghai (2015-2016)

Visiting Professor, Qinghai Normal University (2019)

 

Research Interests

Dispute Resolution

Sociology of Law

Social Governance

Marriage and Law

 

Courses Teaching

Introduction to Law

Social Research Methods and Paper Writing

Social and Political Development in Contemporary China

Social Problems in China (General Education)

Women’s Legal Rights Protection (General Education)

Theory and Practice of Urban Legal Development

Legal Methodology

Chinese Legal System (For Sino-Germany Double-degree Program)

 

Publication

Journal papers

Jieren Hu, Peng Zeng, and Tong Wu, “How Is “Red Social Worker” Tempered? Party-building Absorption of Society in China,”The China Quarterly (SSCI), under review. （Journal Impact factor: 2.24, Q1 level）

 

Jieren Hu, Yang Zheng and Shuqin May, “Incubating NGOs in China: Mass Organization, Dispute Resolution and the Evolving State-society Relationship,”Journal of East Asian Studies(SSCI), under review. （Journal Impact factor: 0.62, Q2 level）

 

Jieren Hu and Yang Zheng, “Discourse Interaction in Chinese Urban Communities: Expressed Disenchantment and Disenchanted Conformance,” China Information (SSCI), under review. （Journal Impact factor: 1.415, Q1 level）

 

Zelin Xue, Jieren Hu (corresponding author) and Yang Zheng, “Collaborative Governance in China: An Empirical Study of Shanghai,” China: An International Journal (SSCI), under review. (Journal impact factor: 0.43, Q3 level)

 

Jieren Hu and Joshua Mauldin, “Tripartite Control of Religion: Reconceptualizing State-Religion Relations in China,”Asian Pacific Viewpoint(SSCI), confirmed to be published.（Journal impact factor: 1.211 , Q1 level）

 

Jieren Hu and Yang Zheng, “Religious Conflict in China: State Suppression, Christians’ Nonresistance, and State-church Relations,”China Perspectives (SSCI), under review. (Journal impact factor: 0.43, Q2 level)

 

Jieren Hu, “‘Fragmented Authoritarianism 3.0’: Power Centralization, Regime Legitimacy and State-led Social Pluralism in China”, The China Journal (SSCI), under review. （Journal Impact factor: 0.906, Q1 level）

 

Jieren Hu and Daniel Martin, “Labour Dispute Resolution and Migrant Workers’ Legal Rights Protection in China,” Chinese Journal of International Review 1:3 (2020)：1-24. DOI: 10.1142/S2630531320500043

 

Jieren Hu and Tong Wu, “Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution,” Journal of Contemporary China (SSCI),September 2020. (Journal impact factor: 2.345, Q1 level)

 

Xiaolin Wu, Jieren Hu (corresponding author) and Yongmei Li, “Multi-scalar Institutional Complicity: Entrepreneurial City in China’s National New Area,” China: An International Journal (SSCI), 18：2 (May 2020): 120-142. (Journal impact factor: 0.43, Q3 level)

 

Jieren Hu and Yang Zheng, “Social Media, State Control, and Religious Freedom in China,” Political Theology, 20: 5 (May 2019), pp. 1-20.

 

Ruoting Zheng and Jieren Hu (corresponding author), “Outsourced Lawyers in China: Third Party Mediator and Their Selective Response in Dispute Resolution”, China Information (SSCI), 34:3 (2020): 1-23. (Journal impact factor: 0.97, Q1 level) 34:3)  

 

Jieren Hu, Tong Wu and Jingyan Fei, “Flexible Governance in China: Affective Care, Petition Social Workers and Multi-Pronged Means of Dispute Resolution,” Asian Survey (SSCI), 58:4 (July/August 2018), pp. 679-703. （Journal impact factor: 0.6, Q2 level）

 

Jieren Hu, Yue Tu and Tong Wu, “Selective Intervention in Dispute Resolution: Local Government and Urban Community Self-governance in China”, Journal of Contemporary China (SSCI), Vol. 27, No. 111, May 2018, pp.423-439.（Journal impact factor: 2.345, Q1 level）

 

Jieren Hu, “Review of Useful complaints: How Petitions Assist Decentralized Authoritarianism in China”, China Information (SSCI), 31:1 (March 2017), pp. 121-122. （Journal Impact factor: 1.415，Q1 level）

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0920203X17694438h

 

Jieren Hu and Yang Zheng, “Breaking the Dilemma between Litigation and Non-litigation: ‘Diversified Mechanism of Dispute Resolution’ in China”, China Perspectives （SSCI）, No.2, June 2016, pp. 47-55. （Journal impact factor: 0.63, Q2 level. This paper has got the outstanding submission meritorious of $500 grant on the international conference—Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) held at LSE, London U.K. on July 2-4, 2015)

 

Jieren Hu and Lingjian Zeng, “Grand Mediation Mechanism and Legitimacy Enhancement in Contemporary China-- the Guang’an Model”, Journal of Contemporary China (SSCI),Vol. 24, No. 91, January 2015, pp.43-63. （Journal Impact factor: 2.345, Q1 level）

 

Jieren Hu, “Grand mediation: Mechanism and Application in China”, Asian Survey (SSCI), Vol. 51, No. 6, 2011, pp.1065-89. (This paper has got the outstanding submission meritorious of a $500 grant on the international conference—Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) held at MIT, U.S. in June 28-30, 2012) （Journal Impact factor: 0.6, Q2 level）

 

Book Chapters：

Jieren Hu, Tong Wu and Jingyan Fei, “Flexible Governance: Petition, Disputes and Citizen’s Rights Protection in Contemporary China,”in Zhibin Xie, Pauline Kollontai and Sebastian Kim (eds.) Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice (Springer Nature, 2020).

 

Jieren Hu, Guoqin Wang and Jingyan Fei. “Dynamic Mechanism of Collective Incidents in China: Conflict Resolution in the Pressure-Oriented Interest-Led Political System”, in Michael Howlett, Wu Xun, and M. Ramesh (eds) Policy Capacity: State and Societal Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 359-384.

 

Jieren Hu and Lingjian Zeng, “Grand Mediation Mechanism and Legitimacy Enhancement in Contemporary China-- the Guang’an Model”, in Suisheng Zhao (ed), Debating Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Popular Protests and Regime Performances, Routledge, March 2017, pp. 153-173.

 

Books

Jieren Hu, Disputes Resolution in Urban Communities in Contemporary China (Springer, December 2020).

 

Conference Papers

“Making Harmonious Community Work: How Conflicts are Handled in Communities in Shanghai?”, in the annual magazine of the 3^rd Annual Conference of Center for Development and Policy Studies, Fudan University, 2008.