Jeffrey Weng joined the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as the Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia for the 2020-2021 academic year. His research focuses on the evolution of language, ethnicity, and nationalism in China.

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Weng, Jeffrey (panel organizer, chair, and presenter). 2022. “Hiding in Plain Sight: Language and the Construction of China's Ethnoracial Majority.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Panel, “The Outsiders Within: Contesting Majority and Minority Peoplehood in Modern and Contemporary China.” Honolulu, HI. Weng, Jeffrey. 2021.

Jeffrey Weng Appointment STANFORD UNIVERSITY Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia, 2020–21 Education UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Ph.D. in Sociology, 2020 M.A. in Sociology, 2014 YALE UNIVERSITY B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, 2008 Publications PEER-REVIEWED Weng, Jeffrey. 2020.

Currently a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University, Jeffrey received his Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley in May 2020. His research centers on the politics of language, ethnoracial formation and nation-building in China, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Theory & Society, and the ...

The social project of language standardization in early Republican China. Stop the Presses! Publishing Chinese Character Simplification, 1935–1936.

“End of an Era: Transforming Language and Society in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, ca. 1870–1950.” European Journal of Sociology. Weng, Jeffrey. 2020. “Uneasy Companions: Language and Human Collectivities in the Remaking of Chinese Society in the Early Twentieth Century.” Theory & Society 49(1):75–100. Weng, Jeffrey. 2018. “What is Mandarin?

I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. My research centers on language, race, ethnicity, and nationalism in 20th-century China.

2021年2月17日 · Weng studies the social, cultural, and political nature of language, with a focus on the evolution of language, ethnicity, and nationalism in China. His doctoral dissertation investigates the historical codification of Mandarin as the dominant language of contemporary mainland China.