We are thrilled to announce the publication of Professor Mengqi Wang’s new book, Anxious Homes. About the Book Anxious Homes is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams.Mengqi Wang discusses
Professor Yeshim Iqbal’s article “Effects of an early childhood father engagement program in Rohingya camps and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: a cluster randomized controlled trial” is published in BMC Global and Public Health. This study evaluates a 6-month early childhood father engagement intervention delivered in-person to fathers in the Rohingya camps and surrounding host
Wanlin Bai, a senior undergraduate economics student at Duke Kunshan University, attended the 100th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society (AES 2026) at Wadham College and the Examination Schools, University of Oxford, from 23 to 25 March 2026, where she presented her research. This participation was supported by the
Warmest congratulations to Prof. Nellie Chu on the release of her new book, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, published by Duke University Press on February 3, 2026! This 280-page work—enriched with 10 illustrative visuals—offers an extraordinary deep dive into the lives of migrant entrepreneurs at the core of Guangzhou’s
We’re delighted to shine a light on a remarkable new publication! Prof. Lincoln Rathnam’s The Practice of Skepticism: Montaigne and Zhuangzi on Freedom, Coexistence, and the Limits of Government has just been released in electronic form (with the physical edition coming in March) via Oxford University Press. As part of
Duke Kunshan University Professor Charles Chang has recently been awarded the 2024 James Caporaso Best Paper Award for his paper published in the journal Comparative Political Studies. The paper, co-authored with Harvard University Professor Yuhua Wang, is titled “The Reach of the State.” Building upon existing literature, their work conceptualizes