Perseverance really pays off!
28.09.2025 02:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congrats, Weirong! Very productive!π€©
27.09.2025 21:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Please ACT! Individuals can submit anonymous comments, which have made a real difference in stopping similar rules in the past. The deadline is September 29.
23.09.2025 01:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll be sharing my paper at Harvard's βMigration & Immigrant Incorporationβ Workshop on Sep 30.
This is (to my knowledge) the first to merge 13 waves of the Pew National Survey of Latinos.
I traced TWENTY years of trends in (anti)-immigration attitudes among Hispanic Americans. Join me!
12.09.2025 22:14 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Screenshot of journal article title and byline.
Why do many Chinese students avoid politics in the US despite more freedom? New research by Weirong Guo shows students use 3 major avoidance strategies to navigate different political taboosβshaped by both their experiences in China and pressures in the US. https://loom.ly/4NS3D1s
09.09.2025 10:04 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Huge congrats, Weirong! Such critical work at this momentπͺ
04.09.2025 00:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
SKAT, always the most vibrant group!
02.09.2025 19:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congrats, Ann!
02.09.2025 19:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'll present my study on Aug 11 (4 to 5:30 pm) at regular session "Sociology of Neuroscience & Neurotechnology".
Come and join us if you're interested in pharmaceuticals, professionals, markets, and state!
08.08.2025 18:56 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Inaugural issue of journal Theory and Social Inquiry released | Department of Sociology
Congrats on the first issue!
Inaugural issue of journal Theory and Social Inquiry released | Department of Sociology sociology.columbia.edu/news/inaugur...
02.08.2025 18:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Seven Columbia sociologists to receive awards and honors at ASA 2025 | Department of Sociology
Very exciting! See you all in Chicago!
Seven Columbia sociologists to receive awards and honors at ASA 2025 | Department of Sociology sociology.columbia.edu/news/seven-c...
25.07.2025 02:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Glad to be awarded a Humane Studies Fellowship from @TheIHS to support my research on rare diseases in China!
Very grateful for the encouragement in advancing this promising fieldπͺπ»
08.07.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Look forward to engaging with fellow scholars at the intersections of markets, morality, culture, and political economy, and to visiting George Mason University over the coming year!π
25.06.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Excited to share that Iβve been awarded the 2025β2026 Elinor Ostrom Fellowship by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University! π
25.06.2025 15:23 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New publication π¨
Qing and I did a comparative study of Chinese #F-1 students in the U.S. & #WorkingHolidayMakers in Australia and found divergent responses to #racism , shaped by their pre-migration class positions and host-country contexts. @ersjournal.com
20.06.2025 20:59 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
From Engagement to Detachment: Divergent Cosmopolitanisms Among Transnational Chinese Students
Abstract
What does it mean to be cosmopolitan, or a global citizen? Often perceived as a privileged state of cultural consumption and mobility, cosmopolitanism in sociological discourse is frequently critiqued as a new form of social stratification and discussed in relation to nationalism. This paper reconceptualizes cosmopolitanism by foregrounding its moral and affective dimensions, framing it as both an ethical, deliberate practice and a forced adaptation to structural constraints. Drawing on interviews with 60 Chinese international students in the United States, I identify two distinct forms: activist cosmopolitanism, marked by βhotβ moral engagement, global awareness, and collective activism; and cynical cosmopolitanism, characterized by a βcoolβ global orientation that emphasizes individual autonomy, skepticism, and emotional detachment. Both emerge from shared experiences of liberal arts education, community engagement, and relational assimilation, but diverge in response to discrimination, residential mobility, and gendered adversity across the sending and receiving contexts, with consequences for mental health. Lacking communal support, cynical cosmopolitans adopt individualist coping strategies and may develop a stance of βnon-identityβ as a protective mechanism. This study challenges dominant views of cosmopolitanism as either elite capital or a natural outcome of mobility. It highlights how privileged Chinese students can cultivate cosmopolitan commitments that extend beyond maintaining class status, offering new insights into their potential contributions to global social change.
Keywords: cosmopolitanism; Chinese international students; discrimination; identity formation; mental health; transnationalism
Privilege or Marginalization: How Chinese Youth from Divergent Class Backgrounds Make Sense of Racism in the U.S. and Australia
Abstract:
This study examines how Chinese youth in the U.S. and Australia perceive and respond to racism as temporary migrants, focusing on the influence of pre-migration class positions and host-country contexts. Based on interviews with 60 Chinese students in the U.S. and 45 working holiday makers in Australia, we find that U.S.-based students, primarily from urban, upper-middle-class backgrounds, experience status shock as they encounter systemic racial hierarchies and institutional barriers, fostering heightened sensitivity to racism and strong racial consciousness. Conversely, working holiday makers, largely from rural or economically disadvantaged areas, experience status uplift and a sense of empowerment. Viewing multiculturalism and mobility opportunities in Australia as an improvement over class-based discrimination in China, they tend to normalize or downplay racism. These contrasting responses are further shaped by each countryβs immigration policies and labor markets. This study advances racialization research through a comparative, intersectional approach to Chinese diasporas.
Keywords: class, intersectionality, overseas Chinese youth, racialization, racism, transnational migration
Received two paper acceptances in June: a solo-author article in Social Problems and an equal-author article in Ethnic & Racial Studies, both based on my dissertation research. Thanks to Harvard Weatherhead Scholars Program for a highly productive year. Watch for these papers when theyβre published!
10.06.2025 23:42 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
The China Reading & innovation Lab (CRiL) is launching our second event at Columbia Sociology, featuring Yingxiang Liu (PhD student in Sociology at Shanghai University) and myself on the topic of rare diseases in China!
Welcome to joining us in person and online!
14.04.2025 18:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The China Reading & innovation Lab (CRiL) is launching our first event at Columbia Sociology, featuring Prof. Larry Au on the topic of precision medicine in China!
Welcome to joining us in person and online!
Please feel free to email cril@columbia.edu to join the listserv.
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Well... I've never expected I'd count on this guy some dayπ
19.01.2025 05:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Look what I found at the JF Books in Washington DC!
Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
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Congrats BK! I just love this article so much :)
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of 'Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Womenβs Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia' forthcoming with @stanfordfordpress.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @Colorado.Edu. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)
Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Sociology PhD student @Vanderbilt. Singlehood, networks, policy, and health.
UX Researcher, anthropologist, reader, doodler, and amateur cook π³οΈβπ
Asst Director at UCSD 21st Century China Center. Politics Phd, Princeton, studying grassroots civil society and protestantism in China.
Posts are mine. RT β Endorsement. Senior Researcher at perilresearch.com. Social scientist on religion, politics, and nationalism. Big foodie.
U Mich prof. Anna like Donna. Author of Health Care Civil Rights (new and open access from University of California Press), Vaccine Court (2016), and Fat Rights (2008). www.profannakirkland.com Speaking for myself.
PhD Student @UCSanDiego
Culture, Politics, Immigration Attitudes, Networks, and Global Sociology
Computational & Qualitative Methods
www.annjiang.org
Asst. Professor @ SUNY Farmingdale. UT Austin alum. Interested in race, immigration, health disparities, and Asian Americans.
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, McGill University
https://gvlevesque.github.io/
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Previously Yale Law & ISP. Working on the First Amendment / constitutional law issues.
Fueling pathbreaking social science research that delves deep to examine complex global issues / at Harvard since 1958
Postdoc at Stanford's Ethics Center and HAI
https://profiles.stanford.edu/wanhenghu
Continuously learning as an MPT/PhD Candidate at UBC - sustained by home-baked goods, reading binges, hockey nights, and sci-fi adventures β¨
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Professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC
Author of Faked in China (2016) and Disorienting Politics (2024).
Researching media, infrastructure, robots, drones, and AI in Shenzhen and Hangzhou
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