Yang Zhang
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
So excited to receive this in the mail today! (Don’t forget that you can preorder from UM Press with the discount code UMWEB30.) The official release date isn’t till October 28, but I’ll have a physical copy with me at ASA. If anyone wants to check it out, come find me!
So pleased to hear that After Positivism, edited by @mayrl.bsky.social and @nickhwilson.bsky.social, received the Barrington Moore book award! It was such an honor to be part of this incredible collective effort
Nick Wilson@nickhwilson.bsky.social · 3w agoRare professional post: I am honored beyond words to say that @mayrl.bsky.social and me have received the @asanews.bsky.social Comparative and Historical Section Barrington Moore Award for best book in Comparative Historical Sociology for *After Positivism* (tinyurl.com/442uh3b9). 1/
Rare professional post: I am honored beyond words to say that @mayrl.bsky.social and me have received the @asanews.bsky.social Comparative and Historical Section Barrington Moore Award for best book in Comparative Historical Sociology for *After Positivism* (tinyurl.com/442uh3b9). 1/
After Positivism | Columbia University Press
What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that hav... | CUP
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My paper on the emergence and structure of the first American party system of the 1790s just came out in the American Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1177/0003...
The State and the Emergence of the First American Party System: Roll Call Voting in the New York State Assembly during the Early Republic - Benjamin Rohr, John Levi Martin, 2025
Prevailing theories about the nature and development of the democratic party system fail to account for the important case of the United States. Using a novel d...
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My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
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Earlier today, @uofmpress.bsky.social sent me the front cover design of Xiaohong Xu’s forthcoming book. It will come out in October 2026. Gorgeous art by Dahong Liu. Provocative foreword by Ho-fung Hung. Brilliant scholarship by Xiaohong Xu.
With Ho-fung Hung and @profyangzhang.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of discussing David McCourt's latest book at the @socscihistory.bsky.social conference at the #PalmerHouse (flashback to @mpsa.bsky.social times) in #Chicago. Highly recommended for anyone interested in #Russia or #China experts!
The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 [McCourt, David M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
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Please consider joining the day-long series "Historical Social Sciences and China" this Friday in the Grant Park Parlor at Palmer House @socscihistory.bsky.social. Our symposium features four sessions on elite politics, socialism & capitalism, state & empire, and a roundtable on Remaking Modernity.
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/...
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); $...
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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.
Thinking about Richard Lachmann tonight.
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...
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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
Le Lin@zedzeppelin2048.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease mark your calendar for Dec. 6, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, for @yingyaowang.bsky.social ’s talk on her wonderful new book “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State” (Columbia University Press, 2024).
The Editorial Board Boarded Bluesky! Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.
YC Wang@yuanchongwang.bsky.social · 2y agoDear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc... Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
Look what I found at the JF Books in Washington DC! Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.
Nianshen Song@nianshen.bsky.social · 2y agoMy new book in 2025， Mapping Asia (《制造亚洲：一部地图上的历史》，广西师范大学出版社2025)
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
American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2y agoJust published on APSR First View: "The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts" by Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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).
