Xizi Luo

Tawney Fellow, 2024/25LSE

Xizi Luo is an Economic historian specializing in social mobility, marriage assortment, meritocracy in Qing China. She completed her PhD at London School of Economics in 2024, with a thesis titled Meritocracy or not: State, Elite Families, and the Examination System in the Qing Dynasty. Her research focuses on how social mobility and institutions interacted and shaped inequality in premodern Chinese society. She aims to reveal whether the elites were able to perpetuate their social status under the meritocracy system and how the state utilize the meritocracy system to reach its goal on maintaining public order and political legitimacy of rule. During the Fellowship, Xizi aims to transform her doctoral research projects into an article and further explore features of sibling social mobility.