Professor XIE Lizhong 谢立中教授  FGCA is Distinguished Chair Professor of Peking University, China. He served as Director of the Centre for Social Theory Studies, Head of Department of Sociology, Peking University; former Vice-President of China Sociological Association, former President of the Division of Theoretical Sociology of China Sociological Association; Vice President of East Asia Sociological Association; Chief Editor of Journal of Social Theory.

His research interests focus on social theory, the study of social development and modernization and social policy. His major publications include Pluralistic Discourse Analysis: A New Approach of Social Research (2019), The Discursive Construction of Social Reality: Analyzing the New Deal for Example (2012), Social Development: Theory, Evaluation, Policy (2012), Towards a Pluralistic Discourse Analysis: The Implications of Postmodernism Theory for Sociology (2009), Social Theory: Reflection and Reconstruction (2006), An Introduction to the Changes of the Contemporary Society in China (2000), The Duality of Social Development (1988), and other publications including nearly 100 journal articles.

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