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Min Zhou

Distinguished Professor

Areas of Interest: Migration and development; urban sociology; the sociology of Asia and Asian America; race and ethnicity; Chinese diaspora Studies

Affiliations:

Asia Pacific Center (Director); Asian American Studies Center; Center for Chinese Studies; Center for the Study of International Migration

Phone: 310-825-3532

Email: mzhou@soc.ucla.edu

Office:

UCLA Dept. of Sociology 264 Haines Hall Box 951551 Los Angeles, CA 90095

Biography

Dr. Min Zhou is Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations & Communications, and Director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She currently serves on the UCLA Council on Academic Personnel (CAP), the Executive Committee of Sociological Research Association (SRA), and the Board of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). She was the founding chair of UCLA Asian American Studies Department (2001-05). Between 2013 and 2016, she took a leave of absence to be the Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor, Head of Sociology Division, and Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Zhou is an internationally renowned scholar in the areas of migration and development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora studies, urban sociology, and the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and has published 20 books and more than 230 journal articles and book chapters in these areas. She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992), Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (2009), and The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies (2011); co-author of Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States(with Bankston, 1998), The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), and The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016); editor of Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (2007); and co-editor of Asian American Youth (with Lee, 2004), Contemporary Asian America (with Gatewood, 1st ed. 2000, 2nd ed. 2007; with Ocampo, 3rd ed. 2016), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023).

Editorial Boards

  • Editorial Board, Annual Review of Sociology, 2023-2027
  • Editorial Board, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2014-present
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014-present
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chinese Overseas (2014-2022)

Education

Ph. D. in Sociology, State University of New York, Albany, 1989
Certificate of Graduate Study in Urban Policy, State University of New York, Albany, 1988
M.A. in Sociology, State University of New York, Albany, 1985
B.A. in English, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 1982

Publications

Books

  • Zhou, Min. 1992. Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 1995. Tang Ren Jie《唐人街》(translated into Chinese by Aibin Bao). Beijing: The Commercial Press.
  • Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston, III. 1998. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
  • Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston, III. 2000. Straddling Different Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States. New York: ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
  • Zhou, Min and James V. Gatewood (eds.). 2000. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. New York: New York University Press.
    • 2007. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Second Edition. New York: New York University Press.
  • Lee, Jennifer and Min Zhou (eds.). 2004. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge.
  • Zhou, Min. 2006. The Transformation of Chinese America《美国华人社会的变迁》. Shanghai: Sanlian Publishers (in Chinese).
  • Zhou, Min. 2009. Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 2011. The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press.
  • Zhang, Guoxiong, Min Zhou, and Zhang Yinglong (eds.). 2011. Transnational Migration and Qiaoxiang Research 《国际移民与侨乡研究》. Beijing: Overseas Chinese Press (Chinese and English Bilingual).
  • Zhou, Min and Guoxiong Zhang (eds.). 2012. International Migration and Social Development 《国际移民与社会发展》. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press (in Chinese).
  • Zhou, Min. 2012. Transformation and Development in Chinese America 《美国华人社会的变迁与发展》. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (Chinese and English bilingual).
  • Zhou, Min. 2013. Synergy between American Sociology and Asian American Studies: Personal Reflections of an Accidental Chinese American Scholar《美国社会学与亚美研究学的跨学科构建：一个华裔学者的机缘，挑战和经验》. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press (in Chinese).
  • Lee, Jennifer and Min Zhou. 2015. The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
  • Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III. 2016. The Rise of the New Second Generation. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
  • Zhou, Min and Anthony C. Ocampo (eds.). 2016. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (third edition). New York: New York University Press.
  • Zhou, Min (ed.). 2017. Contemporary Chinese Diasporas. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zhou, Min (ed.). 2021. Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World《長為異鄉客？— 當代華人新移民》(traditional Chinese edition). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
  • Zhou, Min and Hasan Mahmud (eds.). 2023. Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration. New York: New York University Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 2024. Tang Ren Jie《唐人街》(with a new preface by Zhou and translated into Chinese by Sam N. Guo). Beijing: The Commercial Press.

Special Issues in Journals

  • Guest editor of special issue on “Promoting Research on Global Chinese Philanthropy,” China Nonprofit Review Vol. 11 (2), 2019.
  • Editor of special issue on “Family, Gender, Ethnicity, and Pragmatism in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Chinese Overseas Vol. 17, No. 2, 2021.
  • Guest co-editor (with Xiaohua Lin) of special issue on “Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Globalized World: Culture, Place, and Mobilities,” Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2022.

Selected Journal Articles

  • Zhou, Min and Jack Jedwab. 2023. “Evolving Trust and Rising Discrimination during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic in the United States and Canada.” Canadian Diversity 18(3): 13-18.
  • Zhou, Min and Jack Jedwab. 2023. “Ideological Orientation in Vaccine Uptake during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Canadian Diversity 18(3): 19-24.
  • Zhou, Min and Nicholas V. DiRago. 2023. “The Trajectory of the Color Line in a US Immigrant Gateway: Hyperdiverse Spatialization in Los Angeles.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 46(11): 2474-2501.
  • Zhou, Min and Ashelee Yue Yang. 2022. “Divergent Experiences and Patterns of Integration: Contemporary Chinese Immigrants in Metropolitan Los Angeles, USA.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(4): 913-932.
  • Wang, Bing and Min Zhou. 2021. “Understanding Intraethnic Diversity: The Formation of a Taiwanese American Identity.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 17(1): 58-83.
  • Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III. 2020. “The Model Minority Stereotype and the National Identity Question: The Challenges Facing Asian Immigrants and Their Children.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(1): 233-253.
  • Zhou, Min and Roberto Gonzales. 2019. “Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing up in America.” Annual Review of Sociology 45:383-99.
  • Zhou, Min and Xiangyi Li. 2018. “Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese Migrants.” International Migration Review 52(1): 4-42.
  • Zhou, Min and Jennifer Lee. 2017. “Hyper-Selectivity and the Remaking of Culture: Understanding the Asian American Achievement Paradox.” Asian American Journal of Psychology 8 (1): 7-15.
  • Zhou, Min, Tao Xu, and Shabnam Shenasi. 2016. “Entrepreneurship and Interracial Dynamics: A Case Study of Self-Employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (9): 1566-1586.
  • Zhou, Min and Xiangyi Li. 2016. “Cross-Space Consumption: Grassroots Transnationalism among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States.” Sociology of Development 2 (2): 158-182.
  • Zhou, Min and Jennifer Lee. 2014. “Assessing What Is Cultural about Asian Americans’ Academic Advantage” (a commentary). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (23): 8321-8322.
  • Zhou, Min and Rennie Lee. 2013. “Transnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647: 22-49.
  • Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 2012. “Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States.” Population and Development Review 38 (2): 191-220.
  • Zhou, Min and Myungduk Cho. 2010. “Noneconomic Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Focused Look at the Chinese and Korean Enclave Economies in Los Angeles.” Thunderbird International Business Review 52 (2) 83-96.
  • Zhou, Min. 2009. “How Neighborhoods Matter for Immigrant Children: The Formation of Educational Resources in Chinatown, Koreatown, and Pico Union, Los Angeles.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35 (7): 1153-1179.
  • Zhou, Min, Jennifer Lee, Jody Agius Vallejo, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, and Yang Sao Xiong. 2008. “Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility among the New Second Generation in Los Angeles.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620 (November): 37-61.
  • Zhou, Min, Yen-fen Tseng, and Rebecca Y. Kim. 2008. “Rethinking Residential Assimilation through the Case of Chinese Ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California.” Amerasia Journal 34 (3): 55-83.
  • Zhou, Min and Jennifer Lee. 2007. “Becoming Ethnic or Becoming American? Tracing the Mobility Trajectories of the New Second Generation in the United States.” Du Bois Review 4 (1): 189-405.
  • Zhou, Min and Susan S. Kim. 2006. “Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement: The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities.” Harvard Educational Review 76 (1): 1-29.
  • Zhou, Min and Mingang Lin. 2005. “Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital: The Case of Immigrant Chinese Communities in the United States.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 1 (2): 260-284. · Zhou, Min. 2004. “Are Asian Americans Becoming White?” Contexts 3 (1): 29-37.
  • Zhou, Min and Xiyuan Li. 2003. “Ethnic Language Schools and the Development of Supplementary Education in the Immigrant Chinese Community in the United States.” New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth Winter 100: 57-73.
  • Zhou, Min and Guoxuan Cai. 2002. “The Chinese Language Media in the United States: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life.” Qualitative Sociology 25 (3): 419-440.
  • Zhou, Min and Rebecca Kim. 2001. “Formation, Consolidation, and Diversification of the Ethnic Elite: The Case of the Chinese Immigrant Community in the United States.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 2 (2): 227-247.
  • Bankston, Carl L. and Min Zhou. 2000. “De Facto Congregationalism and Socioeconomic Mobility in Laotian and Vietnamese Immigrant Communities: A Study of Religious Institutions and Economic Change.” Review of Religious Research 41 (4): 453-470.
  • Zhou, Min. 1999. “Coming of Age: The Current Situation of Asian American Children.” Amerasia Journal 25 (1): 1-27.
  • Zhou, Min. 1998. “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families.” Educational Policy 12 (6): 682-704.
  • Zhou, Min. 1997. “Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants.” Annual Review of Sociology 23: 63-95.
  • Zhou, Min. 1997. “Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation.” International Migration Review 31 (4): 825-858. ·
  • Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 1996. “Self-employment and the Earnings of Immigrants.” American Sociological Review 61 (2): 219-230.
  • Zhou, Min and John R. Logan. 1996. “Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20 (3): 400-421.
  • Zhou, Min. 1995. “Low-Wage Employment and Social Mobility: The Experience of Immigrant Chinese Women in New York City.” National Journal of Sociology 9 (Summer): 1-30.
  • Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III. 1994. “Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans East.” International Migration Review 28 (4): 775-799.
  • Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 1993. “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 530 (November): 74-96.
  • Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 1992. “Gaining the Upper Hand: Economic Mobility among Immigrant and Domestic Minorities.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 15 (4):491-522.
  • Zhou, Min and John Logan. 1991. “In and Out of Chinatown: Residential Mobility and Segregation of New York City’s Chinese.” Social Forces 70 (2):387-407.
  • Logan, John and Min Zhou. 1990. “Adoption of Growth Control Measures.” Social Science Quarterly 70 (March): 118-129.
  • Zhou, Min and John Logan. 1989. “Returns on Human Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: New York City’s Chinatown.” American Sociological Review 54 (October): 809-820.

Selected Book Chapters

  • Zhou, Min and Hong Liu. 2023. “Diasporic Development and Socioeconomic Integration: New Chinese Migrants in a Globalized World.” Pp. 141-161 in Khatharya Um and Chiharu Takenaka, eds., Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Wang, Jun and Min Zhou. 2021. “Family Formation and Parenting Practices among New Chinese Immigrants in Singapore.” Pp. 79-92 (Chapter 5) in Ajaya K. Sahoo (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Lee, Jennifer, Sean Drake, and Min Zhou. 2019. “The Asian F and the Racialization of Achievement.” Pp. 141-154 in Thurston Domina, Benjamin Gibbs, Lisa Nunn, and Andrew Penner, eds., Education & Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Zhou, Min and Hong Liu. 2017. “Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Diasporic Development: The Case of New Chinese Migrants in the United States.” Pp. 403-423 in Min Zhou (ed.). Contemporary Chinese Diasporas. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zhou, Min and Hong Liu. 2015 “Transnational Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Integration: New Chinese Immigrants in Singapore and the United States.” Pp. 169-201 in Jody Agius Vallejo (ed.), Immigration and Work. Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 27. Bingley UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
  • Zhou, Min, Margaret M. Chin, and Rebecca Kim. 2013. “The Transformation of Chinese America: New York v. Los Angeles.” Pp. 358-382 in David Halle and Andrew Beveridge (eds.), New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 2009. “Conflict, Coping, and Conciliation: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families.” Pp. 21-46 in Nancy Foner (ed.), Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America. New York: New York University Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 2007. “The Non-Economic Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship.” Pp. 279-288 in Léo-Paul Dana (eds.), Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-Evolutionary View on Resource Management. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Zhou, Min, Carl L. Bankston III, and Rebecca Kim. 2002. “Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States.” Pp. 37-70 in Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim (eds.). Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press.
  • Zhou, Min. 2001. “Progress, Decline, Stagnation? The New Second Generation Comes of Age.” Pp. 272-307 in Roger Waldinger (ed.), Strangers at the Gate: New Immigrants in Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Awards

  • Inducted to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States, 2023
  • Inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), 2022
  • Inducted to the inaugural class of UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honor Society, 2022
  • The 2020 Contribution to the Field Award, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America
  • The 2017 Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association Section on International Migration
  • The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015) — the 2016 Book Award on Asian America, American Sociological Association Section (ASA) on Asia and Asian America; the 2016 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, ASA Section on International Migration; the 2016 Pierre Bourdieu Outstanding Book Award, ASA Section on Sociology of Education; the 2017 Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies; Honorable Mention for the 2017 Outstanding Book Award, ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility
  • The 2007 Chiyoko Doris’34 & Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies, UCLA
  • Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Lee, 2004) — the 2006 Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America
  • Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Bankston, 1998) — the 1999 Thomas and Znaniecki Award, American Sociological Association Section on International Migration; the 2000 Best Book Award, Mid-South Sociological Association
  • Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992) — Honorable Mention of the 1993 Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association Section on Community of Urban Sociology
  • The 1989 President’s Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, State University of New York at Albany

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