• PhD in University of California, Berkeley (1996)
• MA in Department of International Politics, Peking University (1984)
• BA in Department of International Politics, Peking University (1982)

• Comparative politics
• Regime in the People’s Republic of China
• Rural China, socio-economic-political change
• China’s foreign relations & theories of international politics
• Ethnic politics in contemporary China

• Farmers and Markets (《農民與市場》) 2003
• Contemporary Chinese Regime (《當代中華體制》) 2010
• Theory and Methods of Comparative Politics (《比較政治學理論與方法》) 2014
• Behind China’s Economic Miracle, 2017
• “Toward a Consultative Rule of Law Regime in China” in the Journal of Contemporary China (2000), and in Suisheng Zhao ed. Debating Political Reform in China, (a collection of papers including and discussing that paper) 2006
• On Criteria of Social Progress (“論社會進步的標準”) ，《開放時代》(Open Times) 第1期，2020

• Published papers collected in my books:

Rule of Law and the Myth of Democracy (《法治與民主迷信》) 2003

Faith in the People (《信仰人民》) 2017

Principled Intellectuals (《士者弘毅》) 2019

• Published papers collected in my edited and co-edited books

Pan & He Xuefeng: Theories and Practice in Constructing New Villages (《社會主義新農村建設的理論與實踐》) 2006

Pan & Lian Si: Thirty Years of Change in Chinese Social Values (《中國社會價值觀變遷30年》) 2008

Pan: China Model (《中國模式》) 2009

Papers in Research Report (《研究報告》) and Observation and Exchange （《觀察與交流》）, two monthly hard-copy journals circulating working papers edited by the Center for Chinese and Global Affairs, Peking University, 2003-2023.

• Papers published in books of other editors.

• Comparative Politics,
• Theories of Comparative Politics
• Frontier Issues in Comparative Politics
• Global Geo-Politics,
• Methodology of Social Sciences
• State and Society in China
• Agriculture and Rural Society in China
• Social Evolution in the United States