Areas of Focus
- Grassroots Governance
- Rural Sociology
- History of Chinese Social Thought
Work Experience
- 2020-2023 - Waseda University - Assistant Professor at the International Academic Institute
- 2019 - Jiangxi Province Jing'an County People's Government Office - Deputy Director
- 2017 - Seoul National University - Visiting Scholar
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2013 - Bachelor's in Sociology: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 2016 - Master's in Sociology: Peking University
- 2020 - PhD in Sociology: Peking University
- Member of the Japanese Sociological Association
- Member of the Japan-China Sociological Association
Publications
- The Analects and Sociology: Waseda General Education Lectures, Wenmin Zuo, 2022
- The Concept of Ocean Space in Pre-Qin Confucian Thought, Wenmin Zuo, 2024
- New Rural Sages and Effective Governance: A Reconsideration of the Chinese Gentry Tradition, Wenmin Zuo, 2023
- Cultural Consciousness in the Age of Globalization and International Education in Sociology, Wenmin Zuo, 2023
- Diversity and Unity: Fei Xiaotong's Ethnic Studies and Recent Developments, Wenmin Zuo, 2023
- Rural Class and Peasant Revolution: Focusing on Mao Zedong's Early Rural Surveys, Wenmin Zuo, 2022
- Distant Urbanization: Migrant Enclaves and Cross-Regional Villages, Wenmin Zuo, 2021
- The Employment Difficulties of Border Villages of Directly Transferred Ethnic Minorities, Wenmin Zuo, Jiao Changquan, Huang Kangjia, 2021
- From Industrial Urbanization, Land Urbanization to Population Urbanization: A Sociological Study of China's Unique Urbanization Path, Zhou Feizhou, Wu Liucai, Zuo Wenmin, Li Songtao, 2018
- Hengqu Village: Farmer Cooperation in Rural Society, Wenmin Zuo, 2017