Gender and Politics, Legislative Studies, Interjurisdictional Relations, Chinese Politics, and Qualitative & Multi-Methods Research

Ph.D. Political Science and International Relations                     2013-2019

Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, US

M.A. Political Science and International Relations                      2013-2015

Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, US

B.A. Political Science, Double Major in Economics                     2008-2012

Department of Political Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China 

Assistant Research Fellow                                   2022-present

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

 

Postdoctoral Researcher                                      2019-2022

Institute of Chinese Studies, Freie Univerity of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Jiang, Xinhui, Nan Lin, and Meichao Song. 2025. “The Everyday Representation of Women through China’s Women’s Congresses.” Journal of Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2025.2549099 (online first)

Jiang, Xinhui and Yunyun Zhou. 2025. “When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China.” Journal of Contemporary China. 34(151): 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2299964 

Jiang, Xinhui, Sarah Eaton, and Genia Kostka. 2025. “Women’s Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China.” Government and Opposition. 60(1):63-85. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2023.34 

Tu, Wenyan and Xinhui Jiang. 2024. “Gender and Corruption in China: Negotiating Female Officials’ Place in a Gendered Dual-track System.” In Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies, edited by Tiffany D. Barnes and Emily Beaulieu, 292-304. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Jiang, Xinhui and Chuanmin Chen. 2024. “Gender Differences in Policy Preferences of Legislators: Evidence from China’s National Legislature.” Politics & Gender. 20(01): 137-161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X23000405

Soylemez-Karakoc, Busra, Xinhui Jiang, and Maryam Hussain. 2024. “Social Exclusion and Conversion Factors: The Case of Married International Graduate Students at One US University.” Journal of International Students. 14(01): 367-385. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v14i4.5159

Jiang, Xinhui, Sarah Eaton, and Genia Kostka. 2023. “Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020).”  Journal of Contemporary China. 144(32): 963-983.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2202629 

Jiang, Xinhui, Sarah Eaton, and Genia Kostka. 2023. “No County is an Island: The Rise of Interjurisdictional Cooperation among Counties in China.” Regional Studies. 57(10): 2021-2036. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2154333  

Jiang, Xinhui and Yunyun Zhou. 2022. “Coalition-Based Gender Lobbying: Revisiting Women’s Substantive Representation in China’s Authoritarian Governance.” Politics & Gender. 18(4): 978–1010. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000210 

Jiang, Xinhui. 2022. “Gendered Pathways to the County-Level People’s Congress in China.” The China Quarterly. 249: 68-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021001156

Jiang, Xinhui, Sarah Eaton, and Genia Kostka. 2022. “Not at the Table but Stuck Paying the Bill: Perceptions of Injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang Eco-compensation Program.” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 24(6): 581–597.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2008233 

Jiang, Xinhui, Busra Soylemez-Karakoc, and Maryam Hussain. 2021. “A New Generation of ‘Incorporated Wife’? Making Sense of International Students’ Spouses in the US.” Gender, Place & Culture. 28(7): 933–954. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1760216 

            o   Political Science Graduate Paper Award, University of Delaware, 2018.

·        H. Khan Award for Excellence in Graduate Research on Social Justice, University of Delaware, 2021.

·         Frauenfördermittel (Funding for Women), Freie Universität Berlin, 2020

·         Centennial Center Research Grant, American Political Science Association, 2019

·         Political Science Graduate Paper Award, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, 2018                                  

·         International Fellowship for Dissertation (1 out of 50 recipients, nationwide), American Association of University Women, 2017

·         Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (1 out of 2 recipients, nationwide), Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, 2016