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Bai Gao

Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
341 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


how big manufacturing countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Germany respond to the information revolution, especially the rise of the industrial internet of things?

industrial policy in the era of post globalization    

Selected Grants


FDI and the Chinese Model of Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2005 - 2007

Institutional Analysis of Global Production Networks: Market Competition and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Automobile Industry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2003 - 2004

Facism Versus Liberalism: The Transformation of Economic Governance in Germany, Japan, and the United States in 1930-1945

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1998 - 1999

Conspicuous Consumption in Contemporary China

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1994 - 1995

External Relationships


  • Tsinghua University
  • United Nations Industrial Organization

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