• Doctoral Program, Economics, Nankai University (China), 1994-1998,      

• MA Program in Sociology, Nankai University (China), 1984-1986,     

• Und   ergraduate (BA) in Philosophy, Sichuan University (China), 1980-1984  

Employment:

• Teaching Assistant, 1986-1988, Department of Sociology, Nankai University  

• Lecturer, 1989-1994, Department of Sociology, Nankai University  

• Associate Professor, 1994-1998, Department of Sociology, Nankai University  

• Professor, 1999-, Department of Sociology, & (from 2003) Department of Social Work & Social Policy, and Director of Institute for Social Development and Administration, Nankai University  

Overseas Exchanges and Researches (of 6  months and longer)

• July-September, 2018, British Academy Visiting Scholar at the University of Leeds, UK
  Sep 2003 - Sep 2004, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, School of Social Welfare, University of California- Berkeley, USA.  

• June-Dec. 1998, Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Funded by “EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Program”.  

• Sept. 1991- Nov.1992, Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Funded by The British Council and Chinese Government.  

Dissertations for Degrees

• PhD Dissertation: “China Urban Poverty” (1998)  

• MA Dissertation: ""An Analysis of the Senior Urban Workers’ Attitudes toward Retirement” (1988)

Research interests:

• Social policy, Social security, Social work, and Social demography.     

Main research areas

• China’s social policy transition in the background of market transition and globalization;     

• Comparative social policy,     

• Poverty and social assistance in urban and rural China,     

• Social policy for rural migrant workers in urban China;     

• Social policy issues in the new economic and social transition in China, and     

• Social policy for elderly care in China, etc.     

Current Research Projects

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  2018，The needs of urban poor in social assistance study, funded by the Section of Social Assistance, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs

  2018-19, The problems in the remolding of rural dilapidated houses in Tianjin, funded by Tianjin Administration of Housing and Urban Development

  2017-18, A research on poor household, funded by the Policy Research Center, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs

  2015-16，Social Participation in Social Assistance in Tianjin, Sponsored by Tianjin Bureau of Civil Affairs  

  2015-16, Reform and Development of Elderly Care Institutes under the Five Guarantee System, Sponsored by Tianjin Bureau of Civil Affairs  

  2015-16, The Functions of Market Mechanism in the Service Delivery of Social Assistance, Sponsored by the Section of Social Assistance, Ministry of Civil Affairs  

  2015-16, Social Assistance’s Roles in the Poverty Reduction, Sponsored by the Centre for Policy Research, Ministry of Civil Affairs  

  2015-16, Research on Improving the Environment of the Assistance and Services for the Disabled People in Tianjin in the Background of Coming National Games of the Disabled People and the Special Olympic Games in Tianjin 2019, by Tianjin Federation of Disabled People.  

• Selected    Social Policy    Issues     

• Social Work Theories and Practice     

• China   ’   s    Social Security         

• Contemporary Theories and Methodology of Sociology     

• Advanced Analysis of Social Policy     

• Theories and Practices of Social Work      

• Contemporary Demograph   ical    Theories    

Selected Books

• Guan, Xinping (2014), Introduction to Social Policy, Beijing: Higher Education Press  

• Zhang, Jing & Xinping Guan(2009),      “Social development in China”, Co-editor,      Beijing:      China Renmin University Press       

• Guan, Xinping (1999)     “Urban Poverty in China”,      Changsha:      Hunan People’s Press       

Selected Journal PapersGuan, X (2018) An integrated development model led by active social policy: On the new development dynamics in China’s new stage, National Governance (《国家治理》), No. 11

• Guan, X (2018), The current complexity of poverty and the long-term anti-poverty actions in China，Social Science Journal (《社会科学辑刊》)，No. 1

  Guan X (2018) The significance of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Conference Report on social work development in the new stage, China’s Social Work (《中国社会工作》)，Total No. 322, the first issue of December 2017 

  Guan, X (2017), The foundation and significance of reaching the current goals of China’s social assistance. Social Security Review, (     《社会保障评论》     )     ，     No. 4, pp.73-83  

  
  

  
  

  Guan, X (2017), institutional building of professional social work in China, Journal of the National College of Public Administration (《国家行政学院学报》)，No. 5, pp21-27

  Guan, X (2017), Capacity building of China’s social work and the requirements for social work education, Social Construction, (《社会建设》)Vol.4, No.4, pp12-15

  Guan, X (2017), An analysis of the goals and welfare level in China’s social policy. Social Sciences in China, 《中国社会科学》，NO.6: pp. 91-101

  Luan, H & Guan, X (2017), The Impacts of Labor Rights on Employees’ Decision to Change Jobs: An Empirical Analysis Based on A Survey  in Seven Chinese Cities, Nankai Academic Journal (Social Sciences)（《南开学报（社会科学版）》） , No2, pp. 141-150

  Guan, X (2017), Understanding Disability and Public Actions to Tackle Discrimination, Disability Research (《残疾人...

• 2010, The Third Prize, in the Twelfth Best Researches in Social Sciences, Tianjin Government, for the paper “Needs, institution and social condition: The rural migrants’ participation in urban social security system,  Teaching & Research, No 1, 2008  

• 2003, The Second Prize, in the Third Best Researches in Social Sciences, Ministry of Education,  for the book, “Urban Poverty in China”   ”    

• 2000, The Third Prize, in the Seventh Best Researches in Social Sciences, Tianjin Government, for the paper “European Union’s Social Policy: History, Principles and Problems”, Nankai Academic Journal (Humanity & Social Sciences), No. 2, 2000