Rate My Professor Beibei Tang

Tang's research specializations encompass social class, social stratification and mobility in contemporary China, neighbourhood governance and state-society relations, urbanisation, and deliberative democracy. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on urban transformation, including responses of landless villagers and village collectives to urban development, and the role of village shareholding companies in community governance. Key publications include Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations (Cornell University Press, 2023), China's Housing Middle Class: Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Routledge, 2018), Grid Governance in China's Urban Middle-class Neighbourhoods (The China Quarterly, 2020), and “Not Rural but Not Urban”: Community Governance in China's Urban Villages (The China Quarterly, 2015), for which she received the 2015 Gordon White Prize, awarded by The China Quarterly for the most innovative article. She also edited Suzhou in Transition (Routledge, 2021). Tang has delivered public lectures, such as at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and contributed to international conferences on urban heritage and governance. Her work has influenced understandings of state-society dynamics in China's urban middle-class neighbourhoods and grid management systems.