Qin JIANG is a professor in the Department of History, School of Humanities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He mainly works on the socioeconomic history in late Imperial China, including the Imperial Exam system and social mobility, the traditional rural industries, adopting theories and methods in social sciences.
PhD. Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2012

2021, "Social Mobility in Late Imperial China: Reconsidering the 'Ladder of Success' Hypothesis", with James Kai-sing Kung, Modern China,47(5): 628-661, https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700420914529.

2020, "Lineages, Gentry and Imperial Examination Foundation in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province in Late Qing China", The Qing History Journal， no.6，pp. 98-114 [in Chinese], PDF.

2020, "Civil and Military Examination participation of the Que lineage in Shicang village in the Qing Dynasty", Chinese Journal of Sociology, 6(4): 547-570, https://doi.org/10.1177/2057150X20957457.

2020, "The Employment Structure and Wage Level in Shicang Village in Qing China (1836－1870)", with Wang Zekun, Researches in Chinese Economic History, no. 5, pp. 103-116  [in Chinese].

2019, "The Construction of Price Database in Shicang in Qing China", Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences), no. 2, pp. 96-100  [in Chinese].

2019, "The Breeding，Circulation and Consumption of Pigs in Local Market in Shicang in Qing China", with Gao Yuzhou, Researches in Chinese Economic History, no. 3, pp. 42-57  [in Chinese].

2018, "Civil and Military Examination Participation of the Que Lineage in Shicang Vilage in Qing Dynasty", Society, no.5, pp. 106-125  [in Chinese].

2017,  "Fieldwork and Regional Social History
——Taking the Shicang Model as an Example", Journal of China West Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), no.5, pp. 1-7  [in Chinese].

2016, "The Identification and Interpretation of the Numbers in Account books of Rural Households in Shicang in Qing Dynasty", with Prof. Shuji Cao, Social Science Journal, no.5, pp. 133-141  [in Chinese].

2015, "The Traditional Iron Industry and the Iron-making Movement in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province", CPC History Studies, no.10，pp. 109-121  [in Chinese].

2015，"Regional Market and the Survival of the Traditional Iron-making Industry in Southern Zhejiang in the Late Qing Period"，The Qing History Journal， no.3，pp. 96-108  [in Chinese].

Shuji CAO and Qin JIANG’s paper, “Rural Industry and Market in Southern Zhejiang in Qing China: Evidence from the Shicang Village”, was granted the Third Prize for “The Sixth Excellent Achievements in Social & Humanity Science Research of Chinese Universities”of the Ministry of Education (P.R. China).

Edited Books

Cao, Shuji, Qin Jiang and Longxing Que. 2018. Shicang Contracts Vol. 5 (1-8). Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press.

Book Chapters.

2006. “The Non-agricultural Economy in the People’s Commune in a Southern east Zhejiang Village”, in Yefu Zheng etc, edited, Selected Sociological MPhil Theses from Peking University, Tsinghua University and Renmin University(2006). Shandong Renmin Press, pp. 116-171.