Xiaoying Qi

Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi has expertise in business and economic relations, social capital and social networks, and contemporary China. Her most recent book, Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis, is published by Cambridge University Press. A previous book, Remaking Families in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2021) won the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of the Australian Sociological Association. An earlier book, Globalised Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (London & New York: Routledge, 2014), was awarded The Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association.

Xiaoying Qi's recent articles

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: How the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: How the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order

For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and foreign influence, helping shape the world order.