Zhāng Zihao
@zzhang.bsky.social
MPhil Sociology and Demography at
Oxford, BSc UCL | History, Music, Animals and Lifting | sometimes Inequality, Labour Market, Political Economy, and China
FirstGen | 🏳️🌈
Oxford, BSc UCL | History, Music, Animals and Lifting | sometimes Inequality, Labour Market, Political Economy, and China
FirstGen | 🏳️🌈
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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Spent a whole evening trying figure out why in the replication code the author didn't use the "weight" variable but instead constructed one from external sources. Turns out it was literally "body weight"...
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Spent a whole evening trying figure out why in the replication code the author didn't use the "weight" variable but instead constructed one from external sources. Turns out it was literally "body weight"...
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Proposing new measures of economic interdependence based on an integrated accounting framework of global supply chains that incorporates the role of FDIs, from Zhi Wang, Shang-Jin Wei, Xinding Yu, and Kunfu Zhu https://www.nber.org/papers/w34226
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Proposing new measures of economic interdependence based on an integrated accounting framework of global supply chains that incorporates the role of FDIs, from Zhi Wang, Shang-Jin Wei, Xinding Yu, and Kunfu Zhu https://www.nber.org/papers/w34226
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UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.
September 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.
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Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
September 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
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Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124
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#rstats #statistics
I've released my new open source book, "Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science," at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA....
Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.
I've released my new open source book, "Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science," at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA....
Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.
matloff.github.io
August 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#rstats #statistics
I've released my new open source book, "Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science," at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA....
Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.
I've released my new open source book, "Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science," at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA....
Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.
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🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
August 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
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Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle.
I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.
I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.
August 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle.
I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.
I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.
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The only liquid modernity I accept
June 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The only liquid modernity I accept
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I have a paper forthcoming in American Political Science Review, contesting Wang Yuhua's previous APSR paper on the causal mechanism of partisan support for Wang Anshi's reform. Read the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I have a paper forthcoming in American Political Science Review, contesting Wang Yuhua's previous APSR paper on the causal mechanism of partisan support for Wang Anshi's reform. Read the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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For those interested in historical political economy, this is an amazing and comprehensive reading list.
After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
June 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
For those interested in historical political economy, this is an amazing and comprehensive reading list.
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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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hello, here is a story you didn't know you needed:
a deep (DEEP) dive on the pop culture roots of the idea that rabbits love carrots
snackstack.net/2025/05/01/d...
a deep (DEEP) dive on the pop culture roots of the idea that rabbits love carrots
snackstack.net/2025/05/01/d...
Do rabbits eat carrots because of Clark Gable?
A deep dive into a pop culture and food history conspiracy theory
snackstack.net
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
hello, here is a story you didn't know you needed:
a deep (DEEP) dive on the pop culture roots of the idea that rabbits love carrots
snackstack.net/2025/05/01/d...
a deep (DEEP) dive on the pop culture roots of the idea that rabbits love carrots
snackstack.net/2025/05/01/d...
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Draft “A Practical Guide to Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects: Modern Approaches” is on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01355
w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵
w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Draft “A Practical Guide to Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects: Modern Approaches” is on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01355
w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵
w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵
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"Increased perception of gender conflict correlates with negative attitudes toward marriage & childbearing, potentially accelerating trend of fewer marriages & lower fertility among Koreans. Young women, in particular, may be inclined to reject marriage & childbearing in a gender-unequal society"
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines how perceived gender conflict relates to attitudes toward marriage and childbearing among never-married childless young adults in South Korea, with a focus on gender di...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Increased perception of gender conflict correlates with negative attitudes toward marriage & childbearing, potentially accelerating trend of fewer marriages & lower fertility among Koreans. Young women, in particular, may be inclined to reject marriage & childbearing in a gender-unequal society"
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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
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You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
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Some good-natured people (sufficientarians) have argued that we just need to make sure the poor have enough. That would be one response to this kind of problem. But what this argument fails to grasp by rejecting that inequality is problematic in itself is how inequality . . .
NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
propub.li
March 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Some good-natured people (sufficientarians) have argued that we just need to make sure the poor have enough. That would be one response to this kind of problem. But what this argument fails to grasp by rejecting that inequality is problematic in itself is how inequality . . .
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U.S. Terminates Fundind Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... "People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
U.S. Terminates Fundind Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... "People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”