Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification (University of California Press, April 2019) by Eddy U, professor of sociology, redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. The book is the co-winner of the 2020 Barrington Moore Book Award from the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology.

Eddy U's research areas include Political Sociology, Social Change, Social Organization, Social Interaction, Classification and Identity, China Studies. His recent book (2019) is about the rise of a primary classification of people in China and how the process shaped societal structures and culture. It tells a compelling story of social change. The book was awarded the 2020 Barrington Moore Book Award by the American Sociology Association Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology. He also has a book (2007) on bureaucratic organization in the Chinese socialist system. It reexamines how the workplace was organized between the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. His third book (2016) is a co-edited volume with two exceptional historians that deals with knowledge production in Republican China, or the emergence of new systems of knowledge amid war, revolution, and China's incorporation into the world economy.

View the book at University of California Press