Chang XiangqunXiangqun Chang is Director of Global China Institute, Editor of Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP), and Chief Editor of Global China Press; Honorary Professor at University College London, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, Univrsity London, UK, and holder of several professorships and senior fellowships at Peking, Renmin, Fudan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China. To date the only UK-based sociologist trained in both China and the UK, she has been working at universities on social scientific studies of China interdisciplinarily since 1991, when she came to the UK as a Visiting Fellow. In the past two-plus decades Xiangqun has conducted about two dozen research projects and published over two million Chinese characters and English words. Based on a thorough and detailed ethnography of a Chinese village with longitudinal comparisons, she developed a general analytical concept - 'recipropriety' (lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来) - a Chinese model of reciprocity, relatedness and social networks (see Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, & Social Creativity in a Chinese Village, 2010). This 'recipropriety model' is being tested in many projects with both interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Read More Read Less