Chunwen Xiong is professor and head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, China Agricultural University. He received his B. A. of Education (1999) from Southwest Normal University, Chongqing; M. A. of Sociology of Education (2002) from Beijing Normal University and Ph.D. of Sociology (2005) from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University (Feb 1, 2015 - Jan 31, 2016).
Chunwen Xiong’s main interest focuses on social theory, education and agriculture. He published Modern Transformation of China Educational Spirit: A Study on Educational Democracy Thought during the early years of the Republic of China from the view of sociology of knowledge. China Renmin University Press (2012). He also authored more than forty papers in top Chinese journals in the fields of social theory, educational sociology and agricultural sociology from the perspective of cultural sociology. He also translated some books into Chinese such as Jeff Alexander’s The Dark Side of Modernity, Max Weber’s Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations.
Recently, under the inspiration of cultural sociology, Chunwen Xiong’s main work is to explore the cultural code of Chinese people’s social life through empirical and theoretical research on their agricultural production and food consumption practice.