Tu Wenyan is an assistant professor in the Institute for Global Public Policy at Fudan University. Her leading research interests cover corruption and integrity management, bureaucratic politics and behavior, and gender policy. Her research has been published on some high-quality SSCI and CSSCI journals, such as Public Management Review, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Zhejiang University (CSSCI), Journal of Chinese Women's Studies (CSSCI), and Social Sciences in China (internal journal).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Corruption and integrity management, Bureaucratic politics and behavior, Gender policy

EDUCATION

• 2017-2020, City University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. in Public Policy

• 2014-2016, Zhejiang University, Master of Public Administration

• 2010-2014, Nanjing Agricultural University, Bachelor of Public Administration

Academic papers

In English

• Tu, W., Zhang, X., & Zheng, X. (2025). Does Anti-Corruption Enforcement Trigger Bureaucratic Slack in China? The Moderating Effect of an Administrative Reform. Problems of Post-Communism, 1-13.    

• Tu, W. (2024). The Interactive Effect of Extrinsic Controls and Public Service Motivation on Blame Avoidance. Public Personnel Management, 00910260241283549.    

• Tu, W., & Jiang, X. (2024). Gender and corruption in China: negotiating female officials’ place in a gendered dual-track system. In Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies (pp. 292-304). Edward Elgar Publishing.     

• Tu, W., & Gong, T. (2021). Bureaucratic Shirking in China: Is Sanction-based Accountability a Cure. The China Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2021.1936117

• Tu, W., & Guo, X. (2021). Gendered clientelism and corruption: are women less corrupt than men in China?. International Feminist Journal of Politics , DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2021.1936117

• Tu, W., & Gong, T. (2021). Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: a survey experiment in China. Public Management Review, 1-23.

• Tu, W., Yang, J., &Zheng, Y. (2020). 'Influence of individual values on attitudes toward corruption: What undermine formal anticorruption effectiveness. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23(3): 264-277.

• Guo, X., & Tu, W. (2017). Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants. Journal of Chinese Governance, 2(3): 307-328.

In Chinese

• Li, H., & Tu, W. (2024). Induction, Immersion, and the Life-cycle of Corruption: How Social Interactions Affect Temporal Factors in Corruption Behavior. Society, 44 (05): 125-159. (in Chinese)

• Tu, W., & Li, H (2024). The Practice and Challenges of Digital Power Supervision in China. Exploration and Free Views, (12): 127-139. (in Chinese)        

• Xiao Hanyu and Wenyan Tu* (forthcoming 2021, vol 2). The season’s choice of four noteworthy Chinese publications: Winer 2020. China Public Administration Review (*corresponding author).

• Guo Xiajuan and Wenyan Tu*. 2019. Anti-corruption institution and individual moral development: Based on the change of corruption tolerance among Chinese civil servants since the 18th CPC national congress. Journal of Zhejiang University 49(03):160-176 (In Chinese, *corresponding author).

• Guo Xiajuan and Wenyan Tu*. 2017. Are women more incorruptible than men: An analysis of corruption tolerance among Chinese civil servants. Journal of Chinese Women's Studies, (04):5-16 (In Chinese, *corresponding author, reprinted by copy materials of Renmin University).

• Guo Xiajuan and Wenyan Tu*. 2017. Investigation report on corruption tolerance of Chinese civil servants. Internal periodical of Social Sciences in China, (04): 111-127 (In Chinese, *corresponding author).

Academic awards

• 2025, Nomination for Best Paper Award from the ASPA-SCPA Article of the Year

• 2023, Second Prize for Outstanding Paper at the Annual Conference on Public Administration in China

• 2023, Second Prize for Outstanding Paper at the Annual Academic Conference on Corruption Research in China

• 2019, Outstanding academic performance, City University of Hong Kong

• 2018, The excellent master thesis of gender study, Chinese Women’s Research Society

• 2017, The excellent master thesis, Zhejiang Province

• 2017, The excellent master thesis, Fei Xiaotong Diligence Award

• 2017, The second prize of the best paper, Annual Conference of Anti-corruption Research