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Hong Zhang

Title

Professor of East Asian Studies

Department

East Asian Studies

Information

Address

4400 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
CN322 Third-Year Chinese II A
CN434 Docu-China: Advanced Readings in Chinese A
EA355 Aging and Public Policy in East Asia A
EA493 Seminar: Advanced Research in East Asia A

Education

Post-Doctoral fellow, Fairbank Center for China Studies, Harvard University
Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University
M.Phil., Anthropology, Columbia University
M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University
M.A., English, Wuhan University, China
B.A., English, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China

Areas of Expertise

  • Labor migration, gender, and new marriage patterns

  • Family, rural life, and urbanization in contemporary China

  • Aging, eldercare and population policy

  • Chinese culture and language

 

Current Research

Impact of One-Child Policy on Daughters, Intergenerational Relation, and Parental Old-age Support

Labor Migration, Urbanization, and Environmental Studies

Missionary Studies and US-China Relations 

Popular Culture, Propaganda, Media Studies 

 

Publications (Selective)

2022 (paperback edition) Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asia. Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang (eds.). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Publishing House.

2020 Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian. Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang (eds.). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Publishing House.

2020 “Globalizing Late Life in China” in the 4th edition of Jay Sokolosky (ed.), The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. Chapter 22. Pp. 252-275.

2017  Chapter 12, “Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family and Market Interests in China?” eds. by Harrell and Santos in Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century. University of Washington Press. Pp. 234-250.

2017 Jeanne Shea and Hong Zhang, guest editors for a special issue on Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary China for Ageing International. Vol. 42.

2017 Jeanne Shea and Hong Zhang, “Introduction to Aging and Caregiving in Chinese populations”. Ageing International. Vol. 42(2):137-141.

2009. “Labor Migration, Gender, and the Rise of Neo-local Marriages in the Economic Boomtown of Dongguan, South China.” Journal of Contemporary China. 18 (61): 636-651.

2009. “Navigating a Space for Labor Activism: Emergent Labor NGOs in the Pearl River Delta of South China,” co-authored with Marsha Smith, a chapter in State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the People , eds by Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh. New York/London: Routledge.

2009. “The New Realities of Aging in Contemporary China: Coping with the Decline of Family Care,” a book chapter for the 3rd edition of Cultural Context of Aging: World-Wide Perspective, edited by Jay Sokolovsky. Westport/CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

2008. Translation of Selected Works of Western Feminist Literature and Culture. On the translation team. Guangxi Normal University Press.

2007. “From Resisting to ‘Embracing’? the One-Child Policy: Understanding New Fertility Trends in a Central Chinese Village.” The China Quarterly . Vol. 192: 855-875.

2007. “China’s New Rural Daughters Coming of Age: Downsizing the Family and Firing up Cash Earning Power in the New Economy.” Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol 32, no.3:671-698.

2007. “Toil and Tears behind the Shenzhen Miracle: Migrant Labor in Shenzhen.” Guest Editor’s Introduction. Chinese Economy (M.E. Sharpe). May-June 2007. Vol. 40, NO. 3, pp.3-11.

2007. On the Margins of Society: Migrant Labor in South China (Bianyuan ren: Shenzhen wailaigong yanjiu. Liu Kaiming. Xinhua Press, 2003). Translation of four chapters of the book for a special issue of Chinese Economy (M.E. Sharpe).May-June 2007. Vol. 40, NO. 3.

2007. “Who Will Care for Our Parents? Changing Boundaries of Family and Public Roles in Providing Care for the Aged in China.” Journal of Long Term Home Health Care. Vol. 25 (1):39-46.

2007. “Chinese Numeral Classifiers.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 16:43-59.

2006. Chapter 6. “SARS Humor for the Virtual Community: Between the Chinese Emerging Public Sphere and the Authoritarian State.” In Deborah Davis and Helen Hsu, eds., SARS: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities. London/New York: Routledge. Pp. 119-145.

2006. “Family Care or Residential Care? The Moral and Practical Dilemmas Facing the Elderly in Urban China.” Asian Anthropology. Vol. 5:57-83.

2006. Chapter 8: “Making Light of the Dark Side: SARS Jokes and Humor in China. In Arthur Kleinman and James Watson, eds., SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? Stanford University Press.

2005. “Bracing for an Uncertain Future: A Case Study of New Coping Strategies of Rural Parents under China’s Birth Control Policy.” The China Journal, pp.53-76.

2004. “Chinese Shamanism (Contemporary),” with Constantine Hriskos. In Mariko Walter and Eva Fridman (eds.) Encyclopedia of Shamanism. Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-CLIO Publishing, pp.713-721.

2004. ‘Living Alone’ and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao Rural China.” In Charlotte Ikels (ed.), Filial Piety: Practice and Discourse in Contemporary East Asian Countries. CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 63-87.

2003. “Contemporary Chinese Shamanism: The Re-Invention of Tradition,” with Constantine Hriskos,Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 26 (6): 55-57.

2002. “Between Reality and Representation: Social Control and Gender Relations in Chinese Proverbs.” In Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann, (eds.), Gender Across Languages: The De/construction of Gender Roles through Language Variation and Change. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 73-80.

2001. Guest Editor’s Introduction, “Eldercare Issues in Contemporary China,” Journal of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology. Vol.34 (1), pp. 1-25.

2001 Guest editor and co-translator, “Eldercare Issues in Contemporary China, Part I,” Journal of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 34 (1)

2002. Guest editor and co-translator, “Eldercare Issues in Contemporary China, Part II,” Journal of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 34 (2)

1995. English-Chinese Lexicon of Women and Law. Beijing: China Translation and Publishing Corporation and UNESCO (Participated in the Chinese team to translate the lexicon entries from English into Chinese).

1992. “Spare Women a Beating for Three Days, They Will Stand on the Roof and Tear the House Apart”- Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs”. In Locating Power: the Proceedings of the Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Kira Hall et al. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.590-600.