About

Jun Fang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colby College. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. As a cultural and political sociologist studying China’s engagement with the West, he broadly addresses how contrasting forces of nationalism and globalization shape processes of creative production and ideological contention. His book project, When China Meets Hollywood, is an ethnography of how Chinese and Hollywood studios coproduce global movies, exploring the interplay of art, markets, and the state. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Qualitative Sociology,  Poetics, and SAGE Research Methods Foundations, among other journals. He has won fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and elsewhere. A former columnist, he wrote on culture and education for the China editions of The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.