Name: Wen Tiejun 溫鐵軍
Title: Professor
Position: Executive Dean & Director
Organization: Renmin University of China(Beijing), Southwest University of China(Chongqing), Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University(Fuzhou)
He is one of the founding members of the Global University for Sustainability.
Brief profile:
- 11 year pre-u experience of working, in local communities, as a peasant, truck driver, servant, etc.
- 21 year experience of being policy researcher in central governments after doctoral graduation
- 11 year teaching at universities
- Dean and Director of the schools
- Old volunteer and facilitator of the rural reconstruction movement in China.
Professor Wen Tiejun is Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar on macro- economics and agrarian issues, Independent Non-Executive Director of Postal Savings Bank of China. His monography, Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020) (Palgrave, 2021) can be free downloaded on https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0455-3
Series No. 5 : Wen Tiejun on Ten Cyclical Economic Crises in China (1949-2016)
Articles:
The Development Trap of Financial Capitalism (305.8 KB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wang Hui, Wen Tiejun, Lau Kin Chi.Should China Develop Small Cities and Towns? (2.1 MB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wen Tiejun,Wen Li.
Four Stories in One: Environmental Protection and Rural Reconstruction in China (220.7 KB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Deconstructing Modernization (876.4 KB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Chinese Strategic Transformation and Its Relationship to Industrialization and Capitalization (49.1 KB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Centenary reflections on the 'three dimensional problem' of rural China (178.5 KB) 2015-03-24 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Ecological Civilization, Indigenous Culture, and Rural Reconstruction in China (314.3 KB) 2010-06-17 Author: Wen Tiejun, et al .
Land Reform and State Building in a Peasant Society (701.9 KB) 2008-01-01 Author: Wen Tijeun, Lau Kin Chi.
Rural Development and Local Governance in China (223.6 KB) 2003-01-01 Author: Wen Tiejun, Huang Ping, et al.
Wen Tiejun - Credit for Peasant Households and Private Lending (134.6 KB) 2003-01-01 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Wen Tiejun - Reflections at the Turn of the Century on "Rural Issues in Three Dimensions " (226.0 KB) 2003-01-01 Author: Wen Tiejun.
Wen Tiejun - The Rise and Demise of the Rural Co-operative Fund: 1984-1999 (406.5 KB) 2003-01-01 Author: Wen Tiejun.
« Previous 1 2
His View on Grassroot Democracy:
“Grassroot democracy must be based on de-colonized knowledge, with historical culture of the indigenous and practical experience of the local. This should be created by mass participatory movements for self empowerment…”.
Radio Programmes:
Wen Tiejun in 2015-10-16 Rural China: Development and Challenges
This post is also available in 简体中文.