I am Shengbin Wei. I currently work as a research assistant in the Lee-Campbell group. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Finance from South China University of Technology in 2019, then my MSc in Global China Studies in 2021 and MPhil in Social Science in 2023 from HKUST.
My 2023 MPhil thesis on the impact of institutional, social, and household factors on reproduction of Bannermen in Liaodong and Shuangcheng in Northeast China during the late Qing period has been published in The History of the Family (https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2431494).
My current research is on the study of education, employment, and achievement of elite Chinese science students and researchers, 1979 to the present. First, since 2023 with Professor James Lee, and eventually Humanities PhD candidate Dongqian Liu, and other group members, I have been studying China–US PhD Examination and Application (CUS-PhD-EA) program alumni who came from China to the United States between 1979 and 1989 and their contributions to both the academe and industry in the US, China, and the rest of the world. Second, with Professor Lee and others, I am just beginning a study on China’s postdoctoral program, 1984 to the present, especially since 1995 as this program has become an increasingly important bridge between academic research and commercial innovation in China.
I hope by collecting, describing, and interpreting individual-level data from these two groups of natural and applied scientists to contribute to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying Chinese as well as global scientific progress and development.