Yang Zhang
@ProfYangZhang
Sociologist studying elite & contentious politics, state, empire, knowledge, and theory. Asst Prof @AU_SIS. Co-founder @THiS_TheHisSoc
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https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/yangz.cfm 18-09-2010 05:33:34
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Please submit to our special issue 'Toward a Hopeful Sociology of Digital China,' echoing ASA Sociology 2024 conf theme on 'Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy' Sociology at Penn Annenberg School Yang Zhang Yan Long Zhifan Luo @[email protected] Sage Journals
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Looking forward to this Zoom event at 7pm ET today. It's not a book talk, but a conversation with several sociologists and an anthropologist. Thanks to the great scholarly collective THiS: Theory, History, Society for organizing! Yan Long Yang Zhang @
On the last day of SSHA, I have the privilege to chair this great panel with historian panelists Ying Zhang 🐌🇨🇳🇩🇰🇺🇸 Shuang Chen Yuanchong Wang and with Mark Elliott Mark Elliott being the discussant. Please join us if you are still at the conference.
At SSHA, I have the distinct privilege of discussing two new books by two admired scholars. 🌟🌟
Sacred Foundations, by Anna Grzymala-Busse
Deadly Decision, by Su Yang
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congrats Yang Zhang on this one! //The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era// link.springer.com/article/10.100…
On Nov 8 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its 3rd session on Yuanhang Zhu’s project titled “Transformational Embeddedness: How the State Agents Cultivated Organizational Capacity for Poverty Alleviation in Rural China.” Join on: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
On October 25 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its second session featuring siying_fu's project titled “Revolution as the Easy Way Out: Discursive competition and elite behavior before the Xinhai Revolution.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
Coming March 2024!
Feat. chapters by Stefan Bargheer, Xiaohong Xu Josh Pacewicz Dr. Natalie Laura Ford @geosteinsoc Jonah Stuart Brundage Simeon Newman Yang Zhang Rebecca Jean Emigh Dylan Riley, Patricia Ahmed, Phil Gorski Nicholas Hoover Wilson & me
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On Sep. 27 at 8 PM (ET), we will kick off THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies with Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪's project titled “The Homeland's Long Arm: Diaspora Politics and the Limits of Global China.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
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We are excited to launch THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies (WOCS) this fall! THiS WOCS provides a virtual platform for scholars who use qualitative/mixed methods to study Chinese societies to present and discuss their ongoing projects. The Zoom link is concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893
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