Name: Zijuan Shang

Job Title: Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D.

Graduated from: Xi’an Jiaotong University

Email: stacy670@163.com

Personal Profile

Shang Zijuan, female, born in 1985 in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, earned her Doctorate in Management from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014. She is currently an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Marxism, Chang’an University, as well as the Deputy Director of the Public Culture Service Research Center at Chang’an University. She holds multiple academic and professional roles, including membership in the Expert Committee on Gender Studies of the Chinese Population Association, researcher at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Urban Economy and Culture, and adjunct researcher at the Xi’xian New Area Research Institute. From September 2012 to September 2013, she participated in a joint Ph.D. training program at the Institute for Population and Resource Environment Studies, Stanford University, USA. From September 2019 to September 2020, she served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA.

Her research focuses on social and cultural development, specifically public governance, public policy, public culture, and population-social sustainability. Building on her foundational research, Dr. Shang collaborates with institutions such as the University of University of Washington, Stanford University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and various Chinese governmental departments. She works closely with governments, civil societies, and international organizations to advance applied policy research and drive innovation in population-social development and public culture governance.

Her key achievements include leading one National Social Science Fund project and multiple provincial/ministerial-level projects, directing or participating in over 20 national key research initiatives and collaborative projects with international organizations and provincial governments, authoring more than 10 research reports, publishing two monographs (with contributions to two additional collaborative works), and producing over 40 Chinese papers in CSSCI-indexed journals (frequently republished in Xinhua Digest, China Social Science Digest, and Renmin University Reprints), along with four English papers and three international conference papers. She has received four provincial/ministerial-level awards.