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Li Zhang
张鹂
BornMay 1965 (age 59)
OccupationAnthropologist
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisStrangers in the city: space, power, and identity in China's "floating population" (1998)
Doctoral advisorDorothy J. Solinger
Academic work
DisciplineEconomic anthropology
Sub-disciplineDomestic impact of Chinese economic reform
InstitutionsUC Davis College of Letters and Science

Li Zhang (simplified Chinese: 张鹂[1]; traditional Chinese: 張鸝; pinyin: Zhāng Lí; born May 1965) is a Chinese anthropologist based in the United States. Focusing on the domestic impact of Chinese economic reform, she has written the books Strangers in the City (2001), In Search of Paradise (2010), and Anxious China (2021). She is a professor at the UC Davis College of Letters and Science Department of Anthropology.[2]

Biography

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Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, was born in May 1965.[3][4] She studied at Peking University (where she got her BA in 1987 and MA in 1990), the University of California, Irvine (where she got her second MA in 1993), and Cornell University, where she got her PhD in anthropology in 1998;[2] her doctoral dissertation Strangers in the city: space, power, and identity in China's "floating population" was supervised by Dorothy J. Solinger.[5][6]

After leaving UC Irvine, Zhang spent several years in Zhejiangcun, where she lived with migrants who had settled there from rural regions and interviewed them.[7] She subsequently complied this research for her doctoral dissertation, which would later be released as her 2001 book Strangers in the City (2001).[8][7] She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies from 1998 to 1999, before moving to UC Davis and becoming a professor.[2] She was also director of their East Asian Studies Program from 2003 until 2006, chair of their Department of Anthropology from 2011 until 2015, and interim dean of their Division of Social Sciences from 2015 until 2017.[2]

Zhang focuses on the domestic impact of Chinese economic reform.[2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008,[9] to be used for research on psychotherapy following the Chinese economic reform.[10] She won the 2012 American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section's award for Outstanding Book in Community and Urban Sociology for her 2010 book In Search of Paradise,[11] which focuses on the shift of Chinese urban home-ownership to the middle class.[12] She was president of the Society for East Asian Anthropology from 2013 until 2015.[2] She received an Honorable Mention for the Society for Humanistic Anthropology's Victor Turner Prize for her 2021 book Anxious China.[13]

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  1. ^ "【云大暑期班】张鹂 |"全球化时代下的心理热与自我重塑"" (Press release). Anthropology of Yunnan. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2024 – via Sohu.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Li Zhang". anthropology.ucdavis.edu. February 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Book review: Li Zhang's "Anxious China" humanizes the country's mental health crisis". NüVoices. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  4. ^ Zhang, Li (2020). Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy. University of California Press. p. iv. ISBN 978-0-520-97539-2.
  5. ^ Zhang, Li (1998). Strangers in the city: Space, power, and identity in China's "floating population" (PhD thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 43721155.
  6. ^ Solinger, Dorothy. "Ph.D Advising". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  7. ^ a b c Fong, Vanessa L. (2006). Yan, Yunxiang; Zhang, Li; Link, Perry; Madsen, Richard P.; Pickowicz, Paul G. (eds.). "Globalization, the Chinese State, and Chinese Subjectivities. A Review Essay". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 48 (4): 946–953. doi:10.1017/S0010417506000351. ISSN 0010-4175. JSTOR 3879370 – via JSTOR.
  8. ^ "Zhang, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population, 2001". USC US-China Institute. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Li Zhang". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  10. ^ Lindelof, Bill (10 April 2008). "UC Davis professor honored". The Sacramento Bee. p. B2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Community and Urban Sociology Award Recipient History". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  12. ^ "In Search of Paradise by Li Zhang | Paperback". Cornell University Press. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  13. ^ "Past Victor Turner Prize Winners". Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  14. ^ Pan, Tianshu (2003). "Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population (review)". Anthropological Quarterly. 76 (2): 359–360. doi:10.1353/anq.2003.0029. ISSN 1534-1518 – via Project Muse.
  15. ^ Arkaraprasertkul, Non (2012). "In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis". Student Anthropologist. 3 (1): 101–104. doi:10.1002/j.sda2.20120301.0009. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  16. ^ Gerth, Karl (2010). "Review of In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis". China Review International. 17 (1): 179–182. ISSN 1069-5834. JSTOR 23734377 – via JSTOR.
  17. ^ Hurst, William (2011). "Review of Allies of the State: China's Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change; In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis". Perspectives on Politics. 9 (4): 960–961. doi:10.1017/S1537592711003677. ISSN 1537-5927. JSTOR 41623751 – via JSTOR.
  18. ^ Xin, Tong (2012). "In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 41 (1): 114–115. doi:10.1177/0094306111430635ll. ISSN 0094-3061.
  19. ^ Song, Priscilla (15 March 2021). "Book Forum: Reflections on Li Zhang's Anxious China". Somatosphere. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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