Zhonghua Guo

Professor Zhonghua Guo got his master degree in Xiamen University and doctorate in Fudan University. After that, he joined in the Department of Politics, Sun Yat-Sen University, China in 2004. He has ever served as chair of the Department and vice dean of the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University. In 2010, he was promoted full professor, with Baron Anthony Giddens as referee.

Generally speaking, his academic interests include politicsl theories, which can be roughly specified as the study of Anthony Giddens’ thoughts and citizenship. His doctorate dissertation was Reflection of the Emancipatory Politics: An Inquiry into Anthony Giddens’ Modernity Thoughts (CCTP, 2006). Besides it, he authored another book Politics and Sociology in the Theoretical Context of Modernity: Outline of Anthony Giddens’ Thought (Shanghai Renmin Press, 2010). He is in charge of the publication of Giddens’ books in China and has translated more ten of Giddens’ books into Chinese, includeing Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, Central Problems in Social Theory, and A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism.

Besides the study of Giddens’s thoughts, Professor Zhonghua Guo has enormous interests in citizenship studies. He has conducted a series of dialogues with researchers who are promient in citizenship studies, incuding Engin Isin, John Keane, Ruth Lister, Thomas Janoski, and Gerard Delanty, has been in charge of a book series entitled ‘Western Citizenship Theories’ (Jilin Publisher Ltd.), and has authored five monographs concerning citizenship theories and Chinese citizenship. He was the editor of four special issues concerning citizenship studies in Journal of Chinese Political Science (2014 and 2016), Citizenship Studies (2017) and Journal of Chinese Governance (2020), and sole editor of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese citizenship (Routledge, 2021).