Publications

Zhan, Yang. “Little Bees, Keep Moving: Hypermobility, Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination in Real Estate Promotion in Urban China.” (under review at Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

 

Zhan, Yang and Hok-Bun Ku. “The Other Side of Hollowness: Rethinking the Potentiality of Social Change through Women’s Social Experiments in Rural China.” (under review at Critical Asian Studies)

 

Zhan, Yang. “Resettlement Housing and Distributive Livelihoods in a Chinese County: Toward a Distributive Perspective on Rural-urban Transformation.” (under review at Urban Geography)

 

Xu, Jing and Yang Zhan. 2024. “Can Anthropologists Get Humor?” American Anthropologist. (both authors contributed equally to the paper, Yang Zhan is the corresponding author) https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13980

 

Lan, Xi, Hok-Bun Ku, and Yang Zhan. 2024. “Aestheticizing Development with Toilet: A Case in Rural China.” Development and Change

 

Zhan, Yang. 2024. “China in and out of World Anthropologies: Epistemic Politics Amidst Historical Ironies and Contemporary Realities.” American Behavioral Scientist 68 (3): 305-321.

 

Koo, Anita and Yang Zhan. 2023. Being a Valuable Daughter in a Rural Family: The Relational Identity and Empowered Gender Subjectivities of Female Vocational College Students. China Review 23 (4): 259-286.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2023. “Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Uncertainty and Mediated Reality in Chinese Urban Villages.” Positions: Asia Culture Critique 31 (2): 431-450.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2022. “When it is Dark in the East, It is Light in the West: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing’s Urban Villages.” Positions: Asia Culture Critique 30 (3): 595-617.

 

Garai, Joydeb, Hok Bun Ku, Yang Zhan. 2022. Climate Change and Cultural Responses of Indigenous People: A Case from Bangladesh. Current Research in Environmental Sustainablity 4: 100130.

 

Li, Zhongjin, Ying Chen and Yang Zhan. 2021. “Building Community-Centered Social Infrastructure: A Feminist Inquiry into China’s COVID-19 Experiences.” Economia Politica 39 (1) 303-321. (authors contributed equally to the paper)

 

Zhan, Yang. 2021. “Suspension 2.0: Segregated Development, Financial Speculation and Waiting among Resettled Peasants in Urban China.” Pacific Affairs 94 (2):347-369. *Shortlisted for the Holland Prize for Best Paper, 2022

 

Zhang, Qiaoyun and Zhan, Yang. 2021. “Gratitude Education: Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance.” Journal of Contemporary China 30 (132): 960-976. [Zhan Yang is the correspondence author]

 

Zhan, Yang. 2021. “Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism? Informal Housing Upgrading Programs and Fluid Gentrification in Shenzhen, China.” Cities 112:103111.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2020. “The Moralization of Philanthropy in China: NGOs, Voluntarism, and the Reconfiguration of Responsibility.” China Information 34 (1): 68-87. *winner of the Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for Best Article, 2020

 

Zhan, Yang. 2019. “Gifting as Governance: NGO-supported Service Programs and Disciplinary Power in Migrant Settlements in Contemporary China.” Anthropological Forum 29 (2): 153-171.

 

Zhan, Yang and Tong, Xiaoxi. 2019. “A Strong Neoliberal State: Rural Migrants, Informality and State Regulation in Contemporary China.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 47 (1-2): 225-257.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2018. “Urbanization of Rural Migrants and the Making of Urban Villages in Beijing.” Urban Studies 55 (7): 1525-1540.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2016. “Science as Gift: NGO-Supported Informal Science Education for Rural Migrant Children in Contemporary China.” Mind, Culture and Activity 23 (3): 247-258.

 

Zhan, Yang. 2015. “‘My Life is Elsewhere’: Social Exclusion, Stratified Urban Space and Rural Migrant Consumption of Homeownership.” Dialectical Anthropology 9 (4): 405-422.