About

Jun (Philip) Fang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. As a sociologist of culture studying China’s engagement with the West, he explores how contrasting forces of nationalism and globalization shape creative production and ideological contention.

 

His book project, When China Meets Hollywood, is an ethnography of how Chinese and Hollywood studios coproduce global films, exploring the interplay of art, markets, and state power. His work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Poetics, Qualitative Sociology,  Journal of Chinese Sociology, and SAGE Research Methods Foundations, among other venues. He has received awards and fellowships from the American Sociological Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other institutions.

 

Before entering academia, Fang was a culture columnist for the China editions of The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek, and served as Beijing correspondent for the art magazine Art 289. Originally from Hangzhou, China, he studied English literature—focusing on the poetry of William Carlos Williams—before turning to sociology. He has previously taught at the College of William & Mary and Colby College in the United States.