Christian Sorace 劍橋大學全球中國研究副教授

克裏斯蒂安·索雷斯是劍橋大學全球中國研究副教授，也是基督聖體學院的研究員。

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2017年至2022年底，他曾任科羅拉多學院助理教授。他的研究方向為中國和蒙古的政治概念與實踐，涵蓋意識形態、話語、城市規劃、空氣汙染和美學等領域。此外，他對亞洲共產主義的曆史及其遺留問題也頗感興趣。

他的第一部著作《動搖的權威：中國共產黨與2008年四川地震》（康奈爾大學出版社，2017年）探討了中國共產黨的合法化策略如何依賴於其對意識形態、語言和美學的構想和塑造。該書還揭示了共產黨對未來的願景以及政治經濟發展模式如何成為震後重建的藍圖，包括沿海地區的資源轉移、農民的城市化以及生態文明的建設。

他將中國共產黨及其邊緣地帶視為政治概念和實踐的生成場所，認為這些概念和實踐本身就值得深入研究。為此，他組織並參與了多個跨國合作項目，包括與他人合編《中國共產主義的餘波：從毛澤東到習近平的政治概念》（澳大利亞國立大學出版社和Verso出版社，2019年）和《無產階級中國：一個世紀的中國勞動》（Verso出版社，2022年），以及2020年春季由《批判性探究》（Critical Inquiry）期刊出版的特刊《政治的魅力：審美實踐與中國國家》。他同時也是《中國製造》（Made in China）期刊的編委。

2022年，他作為富布賴特學者和訪問學者在蒙古國立大學開展研究，探討蒙古首都烏蘭巴托的城市危機（例如蒙古包區改造和長期空氣汙染）如何加劇了普遍存在的民主缺失感。雖然細節總是具有地域性，需要民族誌式的關注，但它們不能脫離正在進行的全球政治形式和未來危機來思考，因為它們就嵌入其中。

Christian Sorace is an Associate Professor of Global China at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

From 2017 to late 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at Colorado College. His work explores political concepts and practices in China and Mongolia, spanning the study of ideology, discourse, urban planning, air pollution, and aesthetics. He is also interested in the histories and legacies of communism in Asia.

His first book Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Cornell University Press, 2017) examines how the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimation strategies hinge on its conceptualisation and shaping of ideology, language, and aesthetics. The book also shows how the Communist Party’s visions for the future, and models of political economic development, became templates for post-earthquake reconstruction, including the transfer of resources from the coastal region, urbanisation of peasantry, and construction of ecological civilisation.

He approaches the Chinese Communist Party, and what goes on at its margins, as sites for the generation of political concepts and practices, which merit examination on their own terms. To this end, he has organised and participated in several collaborative, transnational projects, including co-editing the volumes Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (ANU Press and Verso Books, 2019) and Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso Books, 2022), as well as the special issue Political Enchantments: Aesthetic Practices and the Chinese State, published by Critical Inquiry in the Spring of 2020. He also serves on the editorial board of the Made in China Journal.

In 2022, he was a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the National University of Mongolia, where he conducted research on how urban crises, such as ger district redevelopment and chronic air pollution in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar, contribute to a pervasively felt deficit of democracy. Although details are always particular to their locality, and require ethnographic attention, they cannot be thought apart from the ongoing global crisis of political forms and futures, in which they are embedded.