{"id":2674,"date":"2026-01-31T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/people\/professor-zhan-jing-vivian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:59:01","slug":"professor-zhan-jing-vivian","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/people\/professor-zhan-jing-vivian\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor ZHAN Jing, Vivian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section block-name=\"banner\" class=\"relative\">\n    <div class=\"bg-banner-gradient w-full h-full absolute left-0 top-0 z-[1]\"><\/div>\n\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/wp-content\/themes\/cuhk-sgps\/public\/images\/our-mission\/mission-banner.png\" alt=\"Academic Staff\"\n        class=\"w-full aspect-[1920\/480] object-cover min-h-[400px]\" \/>\n\n    <div class=\"container py-5 md:py-10 lg:py-[60px] w-full h-full flex items-end absolute left-0 bottom-0 z-[2]\">\n        <div 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               \n                            <div>\n                                <div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<p>Vivian Zhan is a Professor in the School of Governance and Policy Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her BA in English and International Studies from Foreign Affairs College of China, and her PhD in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests span comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, and research methodology, with a focus on post-Mao reforms, intergovernmental relations, local governance, and development studies. She is also interested in informal institutions and their impact on political and economic behaviours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpa.cuhk.edu.hk\/images\/content\/people\/zhan-cv201707.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sgps.cuhk.edu.hk\/zhan-cv-202410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click for the CV of Professor Vivian Zhan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social Science Research Network:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/author=1320905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ssrn.com\/author=1320905<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research Gate:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jing_Zhan6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jing_Zhan6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Scholar:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com.hk\/citations?user=mC1hWEYAAAAJ&amp;hl=zh-CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com.hk\/citations?user=mC1hWEYAAAAJ&amp;hl=zh-CN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Teaching Interests:<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <ul>\n<li>Comparative Politics<\/li>\n<li>Chinese Politics<\/li>\n<li>Research Methodology<\/li>\n<li>Game Theory<\/li>\n<li>International Relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Research Interests:<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative Politics<\/li>\n<li>Chinese Politics<\/li>\n<li>Research Methodology<\/li>\n<li>Formal and Informal Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Development Studies<\/li>\n<li>Corruption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                    \n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":2675,"menu_order":139,"template":"","people_category":[50],"department":[],"class_list":["post-2674","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-academic-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_category?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}