Title:
Assistant Professor

Qualifications:

PhD (SUNY)

MA (SUNY)

MA (BNU)

BA (BNU)

Email:
yang.zhan@polyu.edu.hk

Phone:
3400 3494

Office:
GH345

My URLs:
ORCID

Prizes

2020              Winner of the Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article in 2020

2018              Winner of Qian Xuesen Urban Studies Award (錢學森城市研究獎)

Teaching:

Contemporary Chinese Society and Popular Culture

Government and Public Administration in Contemporary China

Leadership Academy for Responsible Global Citizenship

Research Interests:

Rural-urban dynamics, migration and mobility

Urbanization and housing

Development, care work and social reproduction

Moral anthropology and economic anthropology

Selected Publications (Scholarly Books & Monographs, Journals, Book Chapters, Conference papers):

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Current Research Projects:

Zhan, Yang (PI). 2021-2024. When Rural Migrants Become Urban Homeowners: The Endgame for China’s Floating Population? (General Research Grant, Hong Kong Research Council)

Zhan, Yang (PI). 2019-2021. The Housing Question Revisited in Shenzhen: The Informal Housing Upgrade Program and Its Everyday Impact on Migrant Workers (Department General Research Grants, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Zhan, Yang (PI). 2018-2021. Moving Peasants Upstairs: Village Consolidation in Rural China. (Startup Grants for New Recruit, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Zhan, Yang (Co-I). 2018-2019. Class Reproduction through Education in Urban China (funded by New School for Social Research, PI Dr. Ying Chen)