Peidong Sun

Associate researcher
SciencesPo
peidong.sun@gmail.com
01/02/2021 - 30/06/2021
Peidong Sun (Ph.D. of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris), former associate professor of History at Fudan University, is currently a EURICS fellow. Professor Sun was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute for 2016-17, the Edward Teller National Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for 2017-18, a BBRG Non-Resident Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, 2018-19, and a visiting professor of the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po Paris from February 2020 to January 2021. Professor Sun’s research interests focus on history, politics, and culture in authoritarian China by asking how a practice of everyday life in China, such as clothing choices, underground reading, and mate choices of the sent-down generation were influenced by their lived experiences and memories under Mao’s socialism and Deng’s socio-economic transformation after 1978. She is currently working on her third book entitled “Underground Reading of the Sent-down Generation: History and Memory of the Cultural Revolution” after publishing her first book, “Who Will Marry My Daughter: Parental Match-making Corner in Shanghai’s People’s Square, “and the second one “Fashion and Politics: Everyday Clothing in Guangdong Province during the Cultural Revolution.”