Min Zhou
Min Zhou ( Chinese 周敏 , Pinyin Zhōu Mǐn , Jyutping Zau 1 Man 6 , born July 14, 1956 in Zhongshan , Guangdong ) is an American sociologist and teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is founding professor of the Department of Asian American Studies there. Together with Carl L. Bankston, Professor Zhou expanded the definition of the term social capital and focused in particular on social interactions .
Studies
In 1982 she graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou with a bachelor's degree in English and American Language and Literature and then studied sociology at the State University of New York .
Teaching
Min Zhou teaches as Professor of Sociology and Asia-American Studies and at the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair on Sino-American Relations and Conversation at the University of California , Los Angeles. She is Sun Yat-sen "Changjiang Scholar" Chair Professor at Central China Normal University and has a visiting professorship at Korea University. She is also a Visiting Fellow of the Overseas Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences Research Center.
Research fields
She deals with the topic of international migration, integration and assimilation and intercultural and interethnic topics, from education to specific economic aspects. According to her biography, she has written more than 130 articles in magazines and books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Zhou is currently working on a book on the relevance of ethnic origin among immigrants (working title: Chinatown, Koreatown and beyond) and a monograph on the second generation of immigrants in Los Angeles. She also conducts research on transnational organizations of Chinese migrants abroad such as African migrants in Guangzhou, China.
Book publications
- Min Zhou: Chinatown . The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (= Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development ). Temple University Press, Philadelphia PA 1995, ISBN 1-56639-337-X .
- Carl L. Bankston III, Min Zhou: Growing Up American. How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation Press, New York NY 1998, ISBN 0-87154-994-8 .
- Min Zhou (Editor), James V. Gatewood: Contemporary Asian America. A multidisciplinary reader. New York University Press, New York NY et al. 2000, ISBN 0-8147-9690-7 .
- Min Zhou (Editor), Jennifer Lee: Asian American Youth. Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. Routledge, New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-203-49054-1 (On the everyday and youth culture of the Chinese-American community).
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| SURNAME | Zhou, Min |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhongshan , Guangdong |