Short Biography

I have consistently emphasized interpreting China's crime issues through the integrated perspectives of cultural and processual sociology, analyzing changes in criminal subjects and crime control mechanisms over time, and offering cultural and interpretive insights into daily experiences. In terms of specific research areas, I concentrate on China's prison reform and the restoration of life order for former offenders after their release, investigating how individuals with damaged identities can reconstruct their lives amidst the increasing trend of decriminalization or the shift towards lesser offenses in China.

Project

The Life Course of Chinese Heroin Generation and Its Relationship with the Process of China's Modernization

This project embarks on an exploratory endeavor to interpret Chinese drug crime through a multidimensional lens. By incorporating the concept of "boundary" within a constitutive crime framework and leveraging cultural criminology, it contextualizes crime within cultural settings. The research unfolds in three sequential dimensions: firstly, tracing the historical evolution of punitive attitudes and strategies toward drug crime at the macro level; secondly, deconstructing drug crime's development and structure amidst social transition through individual trajectories; and thirdly, examining how drug dealers redefine their identities after "crossing the boundary." This systematic analysis constructs a cultural interpretation map of the illegal drug problem.