Dr Christian Sorace
BA (Trinity College, CT) MA (Chicago) PhD (Texas)
Christian Sorace is a Lecturer of Global China in POLIS. His work explores political concepts and practices in China and Mongolia, spanning the study of ideology, discourse, urban planning, air pollution, and aesthetics. He is also interested in the histories and legacies of communism in Asia.
He is the author of Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Cornell University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (ANU Press and Verso Books, 2019) and Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso Books 2022). He is on the editorial board of the Made in China Journal.
He arrived in Cambridge in January 2023 and is currently working on a new book on the crisis of political forms, which are inadequate to deal with the scale of global issues, such as the pandemic, climate change, and social inequality.
College Position
Fellow
University Position
Assistant Professor in the Politics of China in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
