Assistant Professor, IIAS, Tsinghua University
Language: Chinese, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Email: zhou_yan@tsinghua.edu.cn
Countries/Regions: Brazil, Latin America
Research Interests: State and society relations; social class and political behaviours; culture and religion
Postdoctoral Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford;
Ph.D. in Political Science, Tsinghua University;
M.A. program in International Journalism, Tsinghua University;
Dual B.A. degree in International Relations and English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University
2025-present: Visiting Lecturer, National School of Public Administration (Escola Nacional de Administração Pública), Brazil;
2022-2025: Collaborative Researcher, Institute of Political Science, University of Brasília, Brazil;
2014-2017: Visiting Scholar, Political Science Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil;
2013-2014: Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
ZHOU, Yan. 2024. Capitals and Segregation: A Study on Educational Mobility of Brazilian New Middle Class. China Social Sciences Press. (in Chinese).
ZHOU, Yan, XIA Songze. 2024. “Green Energy Transition: The Brazilian Experience”. World Affairs, 19: 63-65. (Academic paper in Chinese).
ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “Institutional Demand and Supply: Exploring the Reasons for Brazil’s Proximity to the United States.” Area Studies, 2: 5-31. (Academic paper in Chinese).
ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “The U.S. Influence on Brazil’s ‘Capitol Riot’”. World Affairs, 4: 51-53. (Academic paper in Chinese).
ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Conservatism in Brazil: New Wave or a Return to History?” World Affairs, 1747(8): 52-53. (Academic paper in Chinese).
ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Christian Evangelicals’ Participation in Brazilian Institutionalized Politics and Its Impact.” World Religion and Culture, 117(3): 60-67. (Academic paper in Chinese, published on peer-reviewed journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index).
ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Explaining the Brazilian New Middle Class’s Weakening Support for Left-wing Parties.” International Forum, 21(1): 114-126. (Academic paper in Chinese, published on peer-reviewed journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index).
ZHOU, Yan. 2022. “The Two Worlds of the Rich and the Poor in Brazil”. In The Global as Field Site: 10 Years of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, edited by Gao Liangmin et al, China Commercial Press, pp. 325-341.
ZHOU, Yan. 2020. “The Road to Elite Higher Education for Brazilian Students with Low Socioeconomic Status.” In Area Studies: New Realities, New Conceptions, edited by Timothy Niblock, Yang Guang and Zhou Yan, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, pp.123-155.
Timothy Niblock, Yang Guang and Zhou Yan. 2020. Area Studies: New Realities, New Conceptions, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Zhou Yan. 2025. Translation in Chinese of Arnold J. Bauer, Goods, Power, History, Latin America’s Material Culture, Shanghai People’s Press.
LI, Yin and Zhou Yan. 2023. Translation in Chinese of William H. Beezley, Cheryl Martin and William French edited, Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico, Shanghai People’s Press.
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