Yang Zhang
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Glad to share my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Changing China in Sociological Eyes The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. $120.00 (cloth); $...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Glad to share my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go! We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.
March 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go! We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.
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The Call for Papers deadline for the SSHA 2025 Conference has been extended until March 15th. Please consider submitting a paper and/or a panel. We will be celebrating our 50th conference this year in Chicago, November 20-23, at the Palmer House Hotel. For more see: ssha.org/conference/
Annual Conference
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March 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The Call for Papers deadline for the SSHA 2025 Conference has been extended until March 15th. Please consider submitting a paper and/or a panel. We will be celebrating our 50th conference this year in Chicago, November 20-23, at the Palmer House Hotel. For more see: ssha.org/conference/
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Thinking about Richard Lachmann tonight.
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship by Richard Lachmann: 9781788734080 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry af...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thinking about Richard Lachmann tonight.
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Just look at them! Now that makes me happy. 🤩
December 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Just look at them! Now that makes me happy. 🤩
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Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
December 4, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST.
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology
November 29, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST.
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology
The Editorial Board Boarded Bluesky!
Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.
Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.
Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc...
Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
Learn about The Chinese Historical Review
Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:22 AM
The Editorial Board Boarded Bluesky!
Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.
Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.
Look what I found at the JF Books in Washington DC!
Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
November 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Look what I found at the JF Books in Washington DC!
Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
I've updated the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" to include not only more sociologists but also historians, political theorists, political scientists, historical IR scholars, cultural anthropologists, critical geographers, & media scholars who examine Chinese society from various angles.
November 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I've updated the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" to include not only more sociologists but also historians, political theorists, political scientists, historical IR scholars, cultural anthropologists, critical geographers, & media scholars who examine Chinese society from various angles.
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Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol
Just published on APSR First View: "The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts" by Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol
I created a starter pack for sociologists studying China: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm. We study China’s labor, gender, family, inequality, organizations, education, professions, media, civil society, protests, immigration, as well as politics and history.
Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).
Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).
November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I created a starter pack for sociologists studying China: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm. We study China’s labor, gender, family, inequality, organizations, education, professions, media, civil society, protests, immigration, as well as politics and history.
Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).
Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).
Hello, Bluesky!
(Photo taken in Peru)
(Photo taken in Peru)
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Hello, Bluesky!
(Photo taken in Peru)
(Photo taken in Peru)