ZHU Jiangang is author of Global-Local Learning in Civil Society: The Huangpu NGO Capacity Building Programme

ZHU Jiangang is the director of the Institute for Civil Society and the associate professor in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.

After graduating from Peking University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995, he became interested in civil society development. His postgraduate studies at Fudan University in Shanghai sparked his involvement in community development in Shanghai and led him to conduct urban community research. Jiangang helped establish Grassroots Community, a nongovernmental organization that provides legal aid to citizens in low-income neighborhoods in Shanghai.

In 2002, he received a PhD in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During this time, he lived and did his field work in a Shanghai slum for a year. This experience completely changed his ideas and visions about China’s grassroots society. At that time, he made up his mind to devote his time to developing civil society from the bottom up.  

Since 2004, he worked at Sun Yat-sen University as an associate professor and built the Institute for Civil Society with his colleagues. Nowadays, this institution is one of the most influential organizations on civil society in southern China. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2007 to 2008.

ZHU Jiangang is married and has a two-years-old daughter. He likes music, film and sport.

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