Yang Zhang

You can download a copy of my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025) from the link below.
www.academia.edu/142956049/Ch...

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); $...

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/...

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.

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/

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...

Thinking about Richard Lachmann tonight.

Just look at them! Now that makes me happy. 🤩

You must be proud of them!

Sure thing!

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/...

Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST.
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology

The Editorial Board Boarded Bluesky!
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.

Please let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.

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.

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

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).

Hello, Bluesky!
(Photo taken in Peru)