Prof. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Seaker Chan Chair Professor in Public Management of School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Co-Director of LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He got his BA/MA in Economics from Peking University, MA in Sociology from University of Maryland College Park, and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Ohio State University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, social organizations, and collaborative service delivery, and publishes on top journals like Public Administration Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Governance. He is founding editor-in-chief of the journal Global Public Policy and Governance and a founding co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21st Century. He is a co-editor of International Public Management Journal, and was an associate editor of Public Administration Review and editor-in-chief of Chinese journal Fudan Public Administration Review. He served as a vice president of International Research Society for Public Management and an associate director of the Office of Global Partnership of Fudan University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Privatization, Governance, Collaboration, Nonprofit, Civil service reform, Public administration theories

EDUCATION

• 2005, Ph.D. in Public Policy, the Ohio State University

• 2002, MA in Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

• 2000, MA in Economics, Peking University

• 1998, BA in Economics (Minor in Law), Peking University

COURSES

Academic Papers

In English and other languages

• Yijia Jing and Zhan Hu. Why Was Apparent Evidence Ignored: The Delayed Relaxation of China's Birth Control. Australian Journal of Public Administration. In process.

• Ping Zhang and Yijia Jing. Strategies in Adopting Unpopular Policies in China: The Case of Property Tax Reform. Journal of Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1645488.

• Edoardo Ongaro, Ting Gong, and Yijia Jing. (2019). Towards multi-level governance (MLG) in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations. Public Policy and Administration. 34(2): 105-120.

• Yijia Jing and Danyao Li. (2019). Private Roles in Enhancing Multi-Level Governance: China's 'Internet+' National Strategy. Public Policy and Administration. 34(2): 144-164.

• Daniel Guttman, Oran Young, Yijia Jing, et.al. (2018.) Environmental governance in China: Interactions between the state and “nonstate actors”. Journal of Environmental Management. 220: 126-135.

• Yijia Jing. (2018). Dual Identity and Social Organizations' Participation in Contracting in Shanghai. Journal of Contemporary China. Vol. 27, No. 110, March 2018, (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2017). Creative Incrementalism: Governance Reforms in China since 1978. Chinese Political Science Review. 2(1).

• Christopher Tapscott, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Yijia Jing, Alexey Barabashev, Navdeep Mathur. BRICS in Search of Governance Models. Chinese Political Science Review. 2(1).

• Yijia Jing and Yefei Hu. (2017). From Service Contracting to Collaborative Governance: Evolution of Government-Nonprofit Relations. Public Administration and Development. 37(3): 191-202.

• Yijia Jing. (2017). The Transformation of Chinese Governance: Pragmatism and Incremental Adaption. Governance. 30(1), 37-43.

• Yijia Jing and Stephen Osborne. (2017). Public Service Innovations in China: An Introduction. In Public Service Innovations in China. Edited by Yijia Jing and Stephen Osborne. Palgrave MacMillan.

• T. J. Lah, Yijia Jing and Peter T. Y. Cheung. (2016). Public policy and administration in an era of expansion: China, South Korea and Hong Kong. In The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration. Edited by Thomas R. Klassen, Denita Cepiku and T. J. Lah. Routledge: London and New York.

• Yijia Jing, (2015). Introduction: The Road to Collaborative Governance in China. In Yijia Jing (ed.). The Road To Collaborative Governance In China. Palgrave MacMillan.

• Yijia Jing. (2015). Between Control and Empowerment: Governmental Strategies towards the Development of the Non-Profit Sector in China. 2015. Asian Studies Review, 39(4): 589-608.

• Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Yijia Jing, Paul Collins. (2015). Public Administration for Development: Trends and the Way Forward. Public Administration and Development, 35(2).

• Yijia Jing, Yangyang Cui, and Danyao Li. (2015). The politics of performance measurement in China, Policy and Society, 34: 49-61.

• Yijia Jing. (2015) Chinese Administrative History and Current Reforms. In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, third edition, Taylor & Francis LLC.

• Yijia Jing and Douglas Besharov. (2014). Collaboration among Government, Market, and Society: Forging Partnerships and Encouraging Competition. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (Conference summary), 33(3): 835-842. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (With Evan Berman, Meghna Sabharwal, et al.). (2013). The Impact of Societal Culture on the Use of Performance Strategies in East Asia: Evidence from a comparative survey. Public Management Review. 15(8): 1065-1089. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing (With Evan Berman, Chunyuan Wang, et al.). (2013). Public Executive Leadership in East and West: An Examination of HRM Factors in Eight Countries. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 33(2): 164-184. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2013). One-child Policy Needs an Overhaul. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 32(2): 392-399. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2013). Barriers to Policy Change and A Suggested Path of Change. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 32(2): 406-408. (SSCI).

• Trevor Brown, Ting Gong, and Yijia Jing. (2012). Collaborative Governance In Mainland China And Hong Kong: Introductory Essay. International Public Management Journal. 15(4): 393-404. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing and Bin Chen. (2012). Is Competitive Contracting Really Competitive? Exploring Government-Nonprofit Collaboration in China. International Public Management Journal. 15(4): 405-428. (SSCI).

• Stefanie Weil and Yijia Jing. (2012). The EU and China's Perceptions of Democracy and Their Impact on China-EU Relations. In Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations. Edited by Zhongqi Pan. UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Yijia Jing. (2012). From Stewards to Agents? A Case of Intergovernmental Management of Public-Nonprofit Partnership in China. Public Performance and Management Review. 36(2), 230-252. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2012). Cadre Education and Training in China: A General Analysis. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

•  Yijia Jing. (2012). The U. S. Experience in Prison Privatization. In Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry (Volume I: The Environment of Private Prisons), edited by Byron Price and John Morris. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers. pp55-85.

• Yijia Jing and Ting Gong. (2012). Managed Social Innovation: The Case of Government- Sponsored Venture Philanthropy in Shanghai. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 71(2): 233–245. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing and Qianwei Zhu. (2012). Civil Service Reform in China: An Unfinished Task of Value Balancing. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 32(2): 134-148. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2011). Outsourcing: Rebuilding Public Service Delivery in China, in Innovation in Public Governance in Asia, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (eds.) The Netherlands: The IOS Press. pp93-109.

• Yijia Jing. (2010). Prison Privatization: A Perspective on Core Governmental Functions. Crime, Law and Social Change. 54 (3): 263-278. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing and Chunrong Liu. (2010). Understanding China's Administrative Adaptation: The Role of Weak Organizations. Issues and Studies. 46 (2): 1-32. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing. (2010). Public Administration in China: Toward the Network Model, In Public Administration, NGO's and Public Debt: Issues and Perspectives. Marcel Kratochvil and Valentin Pokorny (eds.) New York: Nova Science Publishers. pp141-158.

• Yijia Jing. (2010). History and Context of Chinese Public Administration, In Public Administration in East Asia: Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Evan Berman, Heungsuk Choi, and Jae Moon (eds.), Taylor & Francis LLC. pp33-53.

• Yijia Jing. (2009). Action on Ageing in China: A Multi-Perspective Analysis. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2(4): 83-103.

• Yijia Jing and E.S. Savas. (2009). Managing Collaborative Service Delivery: Comparing China and the United States. Public Administration Review. 69 (Special Issue): 101-107. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing and Xinping Liu. (2009). Intergovernmental fiscal relations in China: An assessment, In Local Governance under Stress: Fiscal Retrenchment and Expanding Public Demands on Government, EROPA Local Government Center ed. Tokyo: EROPA Local Government Center, pp.73-93.

• Yijia Jing. (2008). Dissertation Research in Public Administration in China, Chinese Public Administration Review. 5(1/2): 27-38.

• Evan Berman and Yijia Jing. (2008). Assessing the State of Public Administration Research in Mainland China: Prospects and Challenges, Chinese Public Administration Review. 5(1/2): 1-6.

• Yijia Jing and Evan Berman. (2008). Editors of the Symposium on Public Administration Research and Education in China Today, Chinese Public Administration Review. Vol. 5, No. 1/2.

• Yijia Jing. (2008). Outsourcing in China: An Exploratory Assessment, Public Administration and Development. 28 (2):119-128. (SSCI).

• (Korean) Yijia Jing. (2008). Privatization of Public Services in China. Administrative Focus. 75 (3): 58-61.

• (Japanese) Yijia Jing. (2008). The Dilemmas of Public Management in the Privatization of Public Utilities in China. In Public Corporation Reform in East Asia. edited by Norimichi Goishi, Tokyo: Kokusai Shoin, pp75-89.

• Yijia Jing. (2007). Chinese Public Administration: History and Current Trends, In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, second edition. Evan Berman and Jack Rabin (ed.), Taylor & Francis LLC. pp. 297-300.

• Jianwei Zhang and Yijia Jing. (2007). Legal Pluralism in the Governance of Transitional China, In Economic Analysis of Law in China. Thomas Eger, Michael Faure and Naigen Zhang (ed.). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 55-73.

• Trevor Brown, Yijia Jing, Bert Rockman, and Eckhard Schroeter. (2006). Rolling Back the State: A tale of Privatization in the United States and Germany. In The End of Sovereignty? - A Transatlantic Perspective. David Eaton (ed.), LIT Verlag, Muenster/Germany, pp393-431.

• Yijia Jing. (1998). Analysis of Population Structure in Rural Areas of China. Chinese Journal of Population Science. 10(1): 17-30. New York: Allerton Press, INC. ( Indexed by: Journal Abstract: Population Index. Volume 65, Number 2. Summer 1999, Princeton University).

In Chinese

• Yijia Jing. 2020. The Integrated Governance System of Ageing Society: An Analysis of the Evolution in Ageing Policies from 1982 to 2015 Chinese Public Administration. Issue 5, 63-70.

• Yijia Jing and Yefei Hu. 2018. Government procurement of services: A perspective of publicness. Journal of Public Administration. Issue 3, 137-161.

• Yijia Jing. 2018. Strengthen government implementation capacities, People's Daily. May 21.

• Jianzhi Zhao, Yijia Jing, Zhe Ouyang. 2018. The governance system of international development aid of emerging countries: A comparative study of BRICS countries. Chinese Public Administration. Issue 2, 130-136.

• Yijia Jing. 2017. State governance practices bring about new opportunities for public administration research, People's Daily. Jun 26.

• Yijia Jing. 2015. Collaborative governance: Historical and realistic path. Nanjing Social Sciences. 2015 (5): 1-9.

• Danyao Li and Yijia Jing. 2015. Social enterprises and its applicability in China. Chinese Public Policy Review. Vol 8: 142-164.

• Yijia Jing and Yangyang Cui. 2015. Collaborative relation between nonprofits and grassroots governments, China Third Sector Studies, Vol 9.

• Yijia Jing. 2014. From Service Procurement to Collaborative Governance: Forms and Evolution of Government-nonprofit Collaboration. Chinese Public Administration, 2014 (7): 54-59.

• Yijia Jing and Yefei Hu. 2014. Values of Chinese Public Administration as a Discipline, Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute, Issue 1, 89-95.

• Yijia Jing. 2013.“Government-nonprofit collaboration in public services: The recent practices in Shanghai”, Jiangxi Social Sciences, Issue 4, 165-170.

• Yijia Jing. 2013. “Risks and risk management in collaborative governance”, in Governance through Intervention, Ruichang Li (ed.), Shanghai Renmin Press.

• Yijia Jing. 2012. Government-nonprofit collaboration in social service delivery, In Qianwei Zhu and Chunkui Zhu (eds. ) Report of Chinese Government Development 2012, Beijing: People's Press.

• Yijia Jing and Xinping Liu. 2012. Literature Review of Studies on Public Service Privatization in China. In Jun Ma et., al (eds.) Yearbook of Public Administration in China. The People's Press, pp315-340.

• Yijia Jing and Jifu Li. 2012. Changes and Causes of the Civil Service Examination in Chinese Mainland. National Elite, 7(4): 58-75.

• Yijia Jing. 2011. An exploration of public-nonprofit collaboration in social service: A case study of local practices in Shanghai. Journal of Public Administration, 2011(5): 5-25.

• Yijia Jing. 2011. From Administrative State to Collaborative State. Chinese Social Sciences Quarterly. 36: 110-111.

• Yijia Jing. 2011. The Characteristics and Map of Governance in China. Fudan Public Administration Review, Vol. 7: 26-50.

• Yijia Jing. 2010. Horizontalization of Government: Reforms and Challenges toward Post-Bureaucracy. Chinese Public Administration, Issue 10: 105-111.

• Yijia Jing and Ruojing Chen. 2009. The Development and Innovations in China's Home Care Service System: A Perspective of Coordination. Fudan Journal, 2009 (5): 133-140.

• Yijia Jing. 2009. Dissertation Research in Public Administration in China. Fudan Public Administration Review, Vol. 4: 37-56. (The paper was selected in Reflections on Chinese Public Administration: From Crisis to Rebuilding, Edited by Jun Ma, Chengfu Zhang and Yanling He, Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2009, Pp41-63).

• Evan Berman and Yijia Jing. 2008. Assessing the State of Public Administration Research in Mainland China: Prospects and Challenges, Chinese Public Administration Review, 5(1/2): 1-6.

• Yanwen Tang, Yijia Jing, Chunrong Liu. 2008. An Index in Measuring Local Governments' Anti-Corruption Efforts. Society, 2008 (5): 203-223.

• Yijia Jing. 2007. The Changing Path of Governance in the US: A Case of Prison Privatization. Fudan Public Administration Review, Vol. 3: 265-286.

• Yijia Jing. 2007. Analysis of the Aggregate Outsourcing of Public Services in China. Management World, 23 (2): 37-43. (The paper was detailed summarized by Chinese Social Sciences Digest, 2007(3): 33-34.

• Yijia Jing and Chunrong Liu. 2007. Direct Election of Urban Residents' Committee and Urban Grassroots Governance. Fudan Journal, 2007 (1):132-140.

• Yijia Jing. 2006. Practice, Discipline, and Paradigm: A Review of the Development of Organizational Theory. Society, 2006 (6): 165-189.

• Yijia Jing. 2006. The Governmental Management of Privatization in the US. Fudan Public Administration Review, Vol. 2: 190-205.

• Fangyu Liu and Yijia Jing. 1999. Understanding and Promoting Consumption. People's Daily, Theoretical Section, July 6th, 1999.

• Yijia Jing. 1997. Analysis of Population Structure in Rural Areas of China. Chinese Journal of Population Science, 1997 (5): 22-30.

Books and journal special issues

In English

-Authored Book

• Yijia Jing. 2010 (author). Prison Privatization: A Study of the Causes and Magnitude. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

-Edited books

• Yijia Jing (Co-editor) of the Oxford International Handbook of Public Administration for Social Policy: Promising Practices and Emerging Challenges. Oxford University Press, In Progress.

• Daniel Guttman, Oran Young, and Yijia Jing. Nonstate Actors in Environmental Governance. In Progress.

• Yijia Jing and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira. International Development Aid in the BRICS. Palgrave. In Progress.

• Yijia Jing, Alvaro Mendez, and Yu Zheng. 2019. New Development Assistance (NDA): Emerging Economies (EEs) and the New Landscape of Development Assistance. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Yijia Jing and Xiaoping Jiang (editors). 2018. Public Service Studies: Government Procurement and Public Private Partnerships. Beijing: Science Publisher.

• Yijia Jing and Stephen Osborne (editors). 2017. Public Service Innovations in China. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Yijia Jing (editor). 2015. The Road to Collaborative Governance in China. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Yijia Jing. 2010. Area coordinator of Handbook of Public Administration in East Asia, Evan Berman, Jae Moon, and Heungsuk Choi (eds.), Taylor & Francis LLC.

-Edited special issues on journals

• Yijia Jing and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Guest editors, 2017. BRICS in Search of Governance Models. Chinese Political Science Review. 2(1) (Special issue).

• Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Paul Collins and Yijia Jing. Symposium editors. 2015. “Public Administration for Development: Trends and the Way Forward”. Public Administration and Development. (SSCI).

• Trevor Brown, Ting Gong and Yijia Jing. Symposium editors. 2012. “Collaborative Governance in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Trends, Issues and Perspectives”, International Public Management Journal. (SSCI)

• Yijia Jing and Evan Berman. (eds.) 2008. Symposium on Public Administration Research and Education in China Today, Chinese Public Administration Review, Vol. 5, No. 1/2.

In Chinese

-Authored Book

• Yijia Jing. (author) 2009. Collaborative Governance: Reinventing the Logic of Public Services. Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Press.

-Edited special issues on journals

• Nilima Gulrajani, Yijia Jing, Christopher Tapscott. International Development Aid in the BRICS, Special issue of Public Administration and Development. In progress. (SSCI).

• Helen Dickinson, Yijia Jing, Janine O'Flynn, and Anna Li. Special Issue on Evidence-Based Policy Making in Greater China and Australia. Australian Journal of Public Administration. In progress. (SSCI).

• Ting Gong, Yijia Jing and Edoardo Ongaro. Multi-Level Governance in China's Special issue of Public Policy and Administration. In progress. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira. Editors. 2017. BRICS in Search of Governance Models. Chinese Political Science Review. 2(1).

• Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Yijia Jing, Paul D Collins. Editors. 2015. Public Administration for Development: Trends and the Way Forward, Public Administration and Development. (SSCI).

• Yijia Jing, Trevor Brown and Ting Gong. Editors. 2012. Symposium on “Collaborative Governance in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Trends, Issues and Perspectives”, International Public Management Journal. (SSCI).

-Fudan Public Administration Review (CSSCI)

• Yijia Jing. (ed.) 2018. Philosophy and public administration. Issue 19.

• Ping Zhang and Yijia Jing. (eds.). 2018. Citizen assets and state finance. Issue 18.

• Yijia Jing and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira. (eds.) 2017. BRICS in Search of Governance Models. Issue 17.

• Shuhua Liu and Yijia Jing. (eds.). 2016. Data governance and government capacities. Issue 16.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2016. Service contracting and social governance. Issue 15.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2015. Public Finance and Public Service Innovation. Issue 14.

• Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Paul Collins and Yijia Jing. (eds.) 2015. Public Administration for Development: Trends and the Way Forward. Issue 13.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2014. S&T Innovation and Urban Governance. Issue 12.

• Yijia Jing, Ting Gong, and Tsai-Tsu Su. (ed.). 2014. Public Administration Development: Seeking Large Forces. Issue 11.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2013. Public Crisis and Emergency Management. Issue 10.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2012. Public Management in the coming Decade. Issue 9.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2012. Intergovernmental Relations and Management. Issue 8.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2011. Public Management in an Era of Network. Issue 7.

• Yijia Jing (ed.). 2009. Knowledge Growth and Governance Innovations, Issue 5.

Translation (into Chinese)

• Yijia Jing. 2012. The Status of Non-mission Based Public Values in Contemporary Performance-Oriented Public Administration (by David H. Rosenbloom). Fudan Public Administration Review, 9: 5-20.

• Yijia Jing. 2007. Organizations In Action: The Social Science Base of Administrative Theory (by James Thompson), Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press.

• Yangyang Wang and Yijia Jing. 2008. High Expectations, Varying Outcomes: Decentralization and Participation in Brazil, Japan, Russia and Sweden (by Christina W. Andrews and Michiel S. de Vries, published in International Review of Administrative Sciences 2007 (73): 424-451), Chinese Public Administration, 2008 (10): 122-127.

Book review, essay on papers, and conference summary

In English

• Yijia Jing. 2015. Book review for Morgan, Douglas F. and Cook, Brian J. Editors. 2014. New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. International Review of Public Administration.

• Yijia Jing. 2011. A Preliminary Analysis of Competitive Contracting for Social Services in Shanghai. In Public (Newsletter of the Institute of Public Governance & Management, ESADE), May 10, 2011.

• Yijia Jing. 2010. Balancing formal and informal institutions: A dilemma of modernization. Review for Accountability without democracy: Solidary groups and public goods provision in rural China. (Lily L. Tsai, 2007, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press), Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Yijia Jing. 2009. Fragmentation or Unity: China’s Public Administration in Transition, In the Inaugural Newsletter of China-America Association for Public Affairs, September 2009.

• Yijia Jing. 2007. Conference Summary of “Public Administration Research and Education in China Today”, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 (4): 187-191.

In Chinese

• Yijia Jing. 2014. Interview with Professor Stephen Osborne. Fudan Public Administration Review, 11: 236-245.

• Yijia Jing. 2013. “Building Rules to Induce Good Governance”, book review on the Ten Principles for a Rule-Ordered Society Enhancing China’s Governing Capacity. Chinese Public Administration, by Shuiyan Tang, 2013(9): 127-128.

• Yijia Jing. 2013. Government-nonprofit collaboration: From service procurement to community collaborative governance. Social Science Weekly. August 8, 2013, P2.

• Yijia Jing. 2012. Summaries of the 2011 Fudan-IPMJ conference, the 2011 Fudan International Forum of Management, and the 2012 Fudan-PMRC conference. Fudan Public Administration Review, 9: 249-297.

• Yijia Jing. 2012. Interview with Professor David Harry Rosenbloom. Fudan Public Administration Review, 8: 220-226.

• Yijia Jing. 2012. Interview with Professor Kuotsai Tom Liou. Fudan Public Administration Review, 7: 160-165.

• Yijia Jing. 2010. Public Service Privatization: A Global Perspective. Chinese Social Science Newspaper, May 2, 2010.

• Yijia Jing. Analysis of social service bidding. Jiefang Daily, Feb 6, 2010.

• Lingmin Jia, Yijia Jing and Jie Liu. 2008. Conference Summary of “Public Administration Research and Education in China Today”, Chinese Public Administration, 2008 (2): 126-127.

Other research publications

In Chinese

• Yijia Jing. 2008. The Status Quo and Management Requirements of English-Taught MA Education in China. Study of the Foreign Students Work, 2008 (2): 28-34.

Academic Services

• Vice President, International Research Society for Public Management (2013-2019)

• Director, Center for Collaborative Governance Research

• Vice Director, the Dr. Seaker Chan Center for Comparative Political Development Studies

• Member, Academic Committee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs

• Member, Academic Committee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security

• Member, International Chapter, American Society for Public Administration

•   (Founding) co-editor, Governing China in the 21 Century (Palgrave Book series)

• Editor in chief, Fudan Public Administration Review (CSSCI, 2011-)

• Associate editor, Public Administration Review (2015-2017)

• Co-editor, International Public Management Journal (2014-)

Editorial board membership

• Australian Journal of Public Administration (SSCI) 2018-

• International Review of Administrative Science (SSCI) 2017-

• China Policy Journal 2017-

• Social Policy Review 2017-

• Governance (SSCI) 2016-

• Public Administration and Development (SSCI) 2016-

• Chinese Political Science Review 2016-

• Public Management Review (SSCI) 2015-

• Policy and Politics (SSCI) 2015-

• Public Administration Review (SSCI) 2014-2017

• International Review of Public Administration 2014-

• International Public Management Journal (SSCI) 2012-

• Social Policy Review (Chinese) 2017-

• Journal of Gansu Administrative School (Chinese) 2016-

• International Review of Administrative Sciences (Chinese version) 2015-

• China Third Sector Studies (Chinese) 2014-

• Public Administration and Policy Review (Chinese) 2013-

• Journal of Public Administration (Chinese) (CSSCI) 2009-

• Social Science Research (Chinese)

Founder of annual conference, forum and workshop

• China-India Forum on Development and Governance, since 2017

• Fudan University-Peking University Conference on State Governance, since 2017

• BRICS Forum on Development and Governance, since 2016

• Public Governance Forum in Greater China, since 2013

Chair of major conference

• May 2015. Co-chair (with Stephen Osborne) and keynote speaker, Conference “Social Innovation Research Conference', Cosponsored by IRSPM, ASPA, PSA, and Fudan University.

• May 2013. Co-chair (with Douglas Besharov) and keynote speaker, “Collaboration between Government, Market, and Society: Forging Partnerships and Encouraging Competition”, Cosponsored by the Fudan University School of International Relations and Public Affairs, the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

• May 2012. Co-Chair (with Richard Walker), Public Management Research Conference on “Seeking Excellence in a Time of Change”, Cosponsored by the Fudan University, Public Management Research Association (PMRA), International Research Society of Public Administration (IRSPM), and China-America Association for Public Affairs (CAAPA).

Academic Awards

• Shanghai Leading Talent, Shanghai Municipal Government, 2018

• Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, 2017

• Dr. Seaker Chan Chair Professor in Public Management, 2016

• Shuguang Scholar, Shanghai Municipal Government, 2014

• New Century Excellent Talent, Ministry of Education, 2010

• Pujiang Talent, Shanghai Municipal Government, 2006

Teaching awards

• Excellent Teaching Award (First-tier), Shanghai Municipal Government, 2017

• Excellent Teaching Award (First-tier), Fudan University, 2016

• No. 1 in the Evaluation of CAMPUA ASIAN Programs (as program directors), Ministry of Education, 2014

• Brand English-Taught Course in China (Chinese Public Administration), Ministry of Education of China, 2013

• Demonstration English-Taught Course in Shanghai (Chinese Public Administration, 2013; Comparative Public Management, 2014), Shanghai Municipal Government

• Excellent Teaching Award (Second-tier), Shanghai Municipal Government, 2013

• Excellent Teaching Award (First-tier), Fudan University, 2012