Assistant Professor
Email: qianjl@bc.edu
East Asian Politics
Authoritarian Politics
Historical Political Economy
Formal Theory
Jingyuan “Juan” Qian studies comparative political institutions, power-sharing, and bureaucracy in both historical and contemporary contexts, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. His ongoing book project, titled Statebuilding by Campaign: The Making of Modern Chinese Bureaucracy (1949-76), studies the various mechanisms employed by the Chinese party-state under Chairman Mao Zedong to manage and control subordinate bureaucrats during the first three decades of the People’s Republic of China.
Qian’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Comparative Politics, The China Quarterly,ٳԴDZDZپ, and The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. His interviews and commentaries have also been featured in major English- and Chinese-language media outlets, including Bloomberg TV,The Atlantic,South China Morning Post,Made in China Journal, and The Initium Media.
At Ϲ College, Qian teaches courses in Chinese politics, comparative politics, statebuilding in East Asia, and political game theory. Qian holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Macalester College.
Prior to joining Ϲ College, Qian was an Earl S. Johnson Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Chicago (2023-25) and an Associate in Research at the Margolis Institute at Duke University (2016-18). Before entering academia, he worked as a project consultant at Navigant Consulting and as a government affairs assistant at the E.U. Chamber of Commerce in China. He also served as a legislative intern with Minnesota State Senator Foung Hawj and as a communications intern with Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.
Co-authored with F. Tang, “Tackling Corruption through Top-Down Politicized Campaigns: Assessing China’s Anti-Corruption Crackdown” in The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, eds. J. Pozsgai-Alvarez and R. Bratu, Routledge, 2025.
Co-authored with S. Bai. 2024. “Loyalty Signaling, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Variation in Repression in Autocracies.” Comparative Politics 56(4) (2024): 423-447.
Co-authored with F. Tang. 2023. “Campaign-Style Personnel Management: Task Responsiveness and Selective Delocalization during China’s Anti-Corruption Crackdown.” The China Quarterly 256 (2023): 919-938.
“Historical Ethnic Conflicts and the Rise of Islamophobia in Modern China.” Ethnopolitics 22(1) (2023): 43–68.