Email: writetoxingyan@163.com

Affiliation: College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University

Nationality: Chinese

Xingyan Chen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Development Studies at China Agricultural University. His research interests include China’s land issues, social protests, and rural-urban relations. His recent publication is ‘Drawn-out Protests in China’s Rustbelt: Land Revenue and the Limits to Bargained Authoritarianism’ (The China Quarterly) and “Building a collective economy, but for whom? ‘Three conversions’ and rural revitalization in China” (Journal of Peasant Studies).