克里斯蒂安·索雷斯是剑桥大学全球中国研究副教授，也是基督圣体学院的研究员。

Christian Sorace:  cs2205@cam.ac.uk

2017年至2022年底，他曾任科罗拉多学院助理教授。他的研究方向为中国和蒙古的政治概念与实践，涵盖意识形态、话语、城市规划、空气污染和美学等领域。此外，他对亚洲共产主义的历史及其遗留问题也颇感兴趣。

他的第一部著作《动摇的权威：中国共产党与2008年四川地震》（康奈尔大学出版社，2017年）探讨了中国共产党的合法化策略如何依赖于其对意识形态、语言和美学的构想和塑造。该书还揭示了共产党对未来的愿景以及政治经济发展模式如何成为震后重建的蓝图，包括沿海地区的资源转移、农民的城市化以及生态文明的建设。

他将中国共产党及其边缘地带视为政治概念和实践的生成场所，认为这些概念和实践本身就值得深入研究。为此，他组织并参与了多个跨国合作项目，包括与他人合编《中国共产主义的余波：从毛泽东到习近平的政治概念》（澳大利亚国立大学出版社和Verso出版社，2019年）和《无产阶级中国：一个世纪的中国劳动》（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：审美实践与中国国家》。他同时也是《中国制造》（Made in China）期刊的编委。

2022年，他作为富布赖特学者和访问学者在蒙古国立大学开展研究，探讨蒙古首都乌兰巴托的城市危机（例如蒙古包区改造和长期空气污染）如何加剧了普遍存在的民主缺失感。虽然细节总是具有地域性，需要民族志式的关注，但它们不能脱离正在进行的全球政治形式和未来危机来思考，因为它们就嵌入其中。

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.