Yujing Tan
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. Y. Tan
- Telephone
- 070 8009303
- y.tan.5@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9374-9579
Yujing Tan is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies and International Studies. Yujing Tan doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.
More information about Yujing Tan
Fields of interest
- Political economy of innovation (Fieldwork: ICT industry, creative industry)
- Mobilities and migration
- Sociology of work
- Sociology of institutions/associations (Fieldwork: economic zones; industrial associations; insurance; etc.)
- Government-business relations in modern and contemporary China
- Global China
Research
Tan's research explores how innovation is practiced, imagined, mobilized, and reinterpreted by China’s local developers and its subjects. The Chinese innovation movement is not the same as the “disruptive innovation” of recent years mainly driven by digital technology in the European and North American contexts. The state plays a very salient role in innovation, investing in the social and economic system to provide a constant demand for innovation to unleash the dynamism of development. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of the state’s role in socio-economic transformation and its governance model in innovation activities. This research discusses the state-market-society relationship not merely from an institutionalist perspective. Tan is updating this research with new data and cases and is completing the book manuscript.
In addition, Tan's collaborative research focuses on the role of local state in China and the European Union in science and technology innovation, globalization, urban redevelopment, immigration, etc.
Grants and awards
Recent:
2024-2025 Aspasia Travel Fund
2024 Junior Fellowship at Leuven Institute for Advanced Study
2024 The Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund for teaching innovation
2022-2024 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seed fund
2020-2022 Leiden University Fund: Rijke-Hamaker/Humanities
2019-2021 Yongyou Scholarship for Socio-economic Studies
2019 Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) SUPRA scholarship
Education
2022 June: PhD in Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University
2014 July: Survey Data Analysis, University of Michigan-Peking University Joint Institute, Summer Program for Graduate Student, Beijin
2012: Research MA in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang
2010: BA in Chinese Linguistic and Literature, Hunan Normal University, Changsha
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty office
- International Studies
- Tan Y. & Zhou Z. (2025), Urbanizing Entrepreneurial Women in China: The Chinese State, Female Entrepreneurs, and Urban Redevelopment. In: Tsz Ting P. (Ed.), Feminist explorations of Urban China. Routledge Studies on China in Transition. London: Routledge.
- Tan Y. (2025), Zoning trans-regional projects in the belt and road initiative: how does Chinese local government re-assemble policy and capital in the China–Myanmar economic zones, Competition & Change : .
- Jiang B., Zhou Z., Tan Y. & Meng H. (Eds.) (2024), State, market and Salt-Tobacco Road in modern China (1935–1949): Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.
- Tan Y. & Meng H. (2024), Making Cooperatives on the Salt-Tobacco Road: State Organizational Embeddedness in the Distribution and Production of Salt and Tobacco (1937–1949). In: Jiang B., Zhao Z., Tan Y. & Meng H. (Eds.), State, Market and Salt-Tobacco Road in Modern China (1935–1949) . Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 147-163.
- Tan Y. (2023), Opening the city through debordering IT: the making of an innovation ecosystem in a post-industrial special economic zone in China. In: Creemers R., Papagianneas S. & Knight A. (Eds.), The emergence of China's smart state: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Tan Y. (29 June 2022), Innovating China: governance and mobility in China's new economy (Dissertatie. Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Pieke F.N., Saptari R.
- Wang J. & Tan Y. (2020), Social factory as prosaic state space: redefining labour in China’s mass innovation/mass entrepreneurship campaign, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53(3): 510-531.