Publications by Subject
Civil Society
- New!Bin Xu. The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society. (2022 Polity)
- Bin Xu. The Politics of Compassion: the Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (2017, Stanford University Press). (http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26599 )
- Bin Xu. 2014. “Consensus Crisis and Civil Society: The Sichuan Earthquake Response and State-Society Relations.” The China Journal 71 (January): 91-108.
- Bin Xu. 2013. “For Whom the Bell Tolls: State-society Relations and the Sichuan Earthquake Mourning in China.” Theory and Society 42 (5): 509-542
- “The World is Yours!”: Youth and Civic Engagement from Sichuan to Parkland.” Invited piece for Made in China (Australian National University).
Collective Memory
- New!Bin Xu. Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China. (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Bin Xu. 2021.Historically Remaining Issues: The Shanghai–Xinjiang Zhiqing Migration Program and the Tangled Legacies of the Mao Era in China, 1980–2017. Modern China. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004211003280.
- Bin Xu. 2019. “Intra-Generational Variations in Autobiographic Memory: China’s “Sent-Down Youth” Generation.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 82 (2): 134-157.
- Bin Xu. 2017. “Commemorating a Difficult Disaster: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China.” Memory Studies.
- Bin Xu. 2013. “For Whom the Bell Tolls: State-society Relations and the Sichuan Earthquake Mourning in China.” Theory and Society 42 (5): 509-542
- Bin Xu. 2013. “Mourning Becomes Democratic.” Contexts 12 (1): 42-46.
- Bin Xu. “Disaster, Trauma, and Memory.” in Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, edited by Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen.
- Qian, Licheng, Bin Xu, and Dingding Chen. 2016. “Does History Education Promote Nationalism in China? A ‘Limited Effect’ Explanation.” Journal of Contemporary China (online first)
- Bin Xu and Xiaoyu Pu. 2010. “Dynamic Statism and Memory Politics: A Case Analysis of the Chinese War Reparations Movement.” China Quarterly 201(1): 156-175. (Best Graduate Student paper award from Asia and Asian America Section of American Sociological Association, 2010)
- Bin Xu and Gary Alan Fine. 2010. “Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement against Japan.” Pp.166-189 in Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory, edited by Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz. Palgrave-McMillan.
- Gary Alan Fine and Bin Xu. 2011. “Honest Broker: The Politics of Expertise in the ‘Who Lost China?’ Debate.” Social Problems 58 (4): 593-614.
Symbolic Politics
- New!Bin Xu and Ming-Cheng M. Lo. eds. Special Issue on Cultural Sociology of Disaster.
- New!Bin Xu and Ming-Cheng M. Lo. “Toward a Cultural Sociology of Disaster: Introduction“. Poetics. Online First (Open access)
- Bin Xu and John A. Bernau. “The Sympathetic Leviathan: Modern States’ Cultural Responses to Disasters.” Accepted. Poetics. Online first. (free access for 50 days, until June 21 2021, provided by Elsevier)
- Bin Xu. 2016. “Moral Performance and Cultural Governance in China: The Compassionate Politics of Disasters.” China Quarterly 226 (June): 407-430.
- Bin Xu. 2012. “Grandpa Wen: Scene and Political Performance.” Sociological Theory 30 (2): 114-129.
- Bin Xu. 2013. “For Whom the Bell Tolls: State-society Relations and the Sichuan Earthquake Mourning in China.” Theory and Society 42 (5): 509-542
Cultural Sociology
- Guo, Weirong, and Bin Xu. “Dignity in Red Envelopes: Disreputable Exchange and Cultural Reproduction of Inequality in Informal Medical Payment.” Social Psychology Quarterly, (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211044815
- Bin Xu, Licheng Qian, and Weirong Guo. 2019. “The Cultural Sociology of China: Trajectory and Dynamics of a Burgeoning Field.” Cultural Sociology. Online first.
Other Writing and Publications
翻译《卡尔曼海姆精粹》南京大学出版社 （Translation: Selected Papers of Karl Mannheim)
Bin Xu's Personal Website 