Profile
Prof. X.L. Ding is interested in extra-ordinary phenomena in socio-political processes in China in particular with a comparative perspective. Currently, he teaches courses on Modern Dictatorship in West and East, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-76. He intends to develop courses on The Politics of Chinese Higher Education and Dynamics of the Communist Party-State System in West and East.
Research Interests
• Comparative Capitalisms
• State-Society Relations
• Modernization and Globalization
• Social History