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Boqing Cheng
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Nanjing University
Jiangsu
Language: Chinese, English
Theory
Sociology
Emotion
Governance
History
Thought
Social Change
Modernity
Narrative
Rhetoric
Areas of Focus
- Theoretical Sociology
- Emotional Sociology
- Social Governance
- History of Sociological Thought
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor's Degree: Nanjing University
- Master's Degree: Nankai University
- Doctoral Degree: Nanjing University
- Changjiang Scholar
- National Teaching Master
- Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association
- Director of the Space-Time Sociology Professional Committee
- Vice President of the Social Change Research Association
- President of the Jiangsu Sociological Association
- Selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Program
Publications
- Georg Simmel: Diagnosis of Modernity, Boqing Cheng, 1999
- Beyond Modernity: The Reorientation of Contemporary Western Sociological Theory, Boqing Cheng, 2006
- Emotion, Narrative, and Rhetoric: Explorations in Social Theory, Boqing Cheng, 2012
- The Rhetoric of Sociology, Boqing Cheng, 2002
- Utopian Realism: Possibility and Desirability - Also on the Characteristics of Giddens' Social Theory, Boqing Cheng, 2008
- An Age Without Passion? - Reading Hirschman's 'Passions and Interests', Boqing Cheng, 2009
- Sociality in the Internet Age, Boqing Cheng, 2014
- Time, Narrative, and Imagination: Bringing the Historical Dimension Back to Sociology, Boqing Cheng, 2015
- Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Emotional Regimes, Boqing Cheng, 2017
- Passion and Society: A Preliminary Study of Marx's Emotional Sociology (co-authored with Lin Yan Li), Boqing Cheng, 2017
Awards
- Second Prize in the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Third Prize in the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- First Prize in the Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award
- Second Prize in the Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award
- Third Prize in the Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award
- Luxueyi Sociology Outstanding Paper Award
- Second Prize in the National Teaching Achievement Award
- Special Prize in the Jiangsu Province Teaching Achievement Award
- First Prize in the Jiangsu Province Teaching Achievement Award
- Second Prize in the First National Excellent Textbook Award
