Assistant Professor
Email: qianjl@bc.edu
East Asian Politics
Authoritarian Politics聽
Historical Political Economy聽
Formal Theory聽
Jingyuan Qian studies comparative political institutions, state-building, and political economy, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. His book project, Statebuilding by Campaign: The Making of the Modern Chinese Bureaucracy, 1949鈥1976, examines the mechanisms employed by the Chinese party-state under Mao Zedong to manage and control subordinate bureaucrats during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China.聽聽
Qian鈥檚 research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, The China Quarterly, Ethnopolitics, and The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. His interviews and commentaries have been featured in global media outlets, including Bloomberg TV, The Atlantic, South China Morning Post, Made in China Journal, The Initium Media, and Azerbaijan's ARB24 News.
At Boston College, Qian teaches courses in Chinese and East Asian politics, comparative politics, and formal theory. Prior to joining Boston College, Qian served as an Earl S. Johnson Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Chicago (2023鈥25) and as an Associate in Research at the Duke-Margolis Institute at Duke University (2016鈥18).
Qian was born and raised in China. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison, a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and History from Macalester College.
Co-authored with F. Tang, 鈥淭ackling Corruption through Top-Down Politicized Campaigns: Assessing China鈥檚 Anti-Corruption Crackdown鈥 in聽The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, eds. J. Pozsgai-Alvarez and R. Bratu, Routledge, 2025.
Co-authored with S. Bai. 2024. 鈥淟oyalty Signaling, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Variation in Repression in Autocracies.鈥澛Comparative Politics聽56(4) (2024): 423-447.
Co-authored with F. Tang. 2023. 鈥淐ampaign-Style Personnel Management: Task Responsiveness and Selective Delocalization during China鈥檚 Anti-Corruption Crackdown.鈥澛The China Quarterly聽256 (2023): 919-938.
鈥淗istorical Ethnic Conflicts and the Rise of Islamophobia in Modern China.鈥澛Ethnopolitics聽22(1) (2023): 43鈥68.