Researcher Bio
Sung Hee Ru earned his PhD in sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA (2020). His dissertation, entitled “China’s incorporation process into the capitalist world-economy, 1780s-1890s,” argued that Chinese society experienced unprecedented economic, political, and social changes when the capitalist world-economy penetrated China. Comparative historical sociology, East Asian studies, and classical sociological theory are his research areas of interest.
Key Publications
Forthcoming. “Toward a Historical Sociology of the COVID-19.” Journal of Historical Sociology
Forthcoming. “Historical Geographies of Korea’s Incorporation: The Rise of Underdeveloped Colonial Cities and Modernized Colonial Cities” Journal of Historical Geography
Forthcoming. “Bringing Back the Global Geopolitical Dynamics: Historical Origins of Late Qing China’s Modern State Transition” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
2021. “Theorizing the nineteenth century China’s Tea history: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World-Economy.” Journal of Agrarian Change https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12469.
2020. “Forging a Pure Military Identity: The Rise of Jurchen Heritage in Northeast Asia (15th-17th Century)” Journal of Historical Sociology 33(4): 628-643.
2020. “Sorry, but G. Arrighi is not Almighty: Why Did He Fail to Explain China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World-Economy.” Journal of Asian Sociology 49(2): 253-280
2020. “Two Theoretical Resources for the Nineteenth century China’s incorporation Process: A Strategy for understanding China’s Capitalist Transition.” Korean Journal of Sociology 54(2): 193-226
2019. “Mapping Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Chinese Cities within China’s Incorporation Process” Comparative Sociology 18(5-6): 822-848
2019. “The Critical Appraisal of Existing Comparison Methods: Bringing the Connected Histories into Chinese Stagnation Studies”. Journal of Asian Sociology 48(2): 231-262
Other Experience
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton (2020-2021)