About
Junchao Tang is a PhD student in sociology and scientific computing at the University of Michigan. He is also a student affiliate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and the Center of Inequality Dynamics at U-M.
Growing up in Shanghai, China, Junchao got his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Fudan University. He also received an M.A. in Regional Studies – East Asia from Harvard before his move to Ann Arbor.
Junchao's research interests lie in the intersection of economic inequality, social stratification and political sociology, with a regional focus on contemporary United States, East Asia, and Central-Eastern Europe. His past research explored the patterns of educational inequality in China and investigated how the Chinese government responds to distributive demands from homogenous communities. Junchao’s dissertation traces the evolution of wealth inequality in post-socialist China, and quantifies the wealth returns to various employment relations in the United States.
Junchao has been a proud supporter of Real Madrid for over ten years. Besides watching La Liga and European Championship League, he enjoys anime and console gaming, during the time he is not wrestling with sociological tomes or programming fresh bugs.
