Min Zhou

Min Zhou (* July 14, 1956 in Zhongshan, Guangdong) is an American sociologist and teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). She is a founding professor of the Department of Asian American Studies there. Professor Zhou has expanded with Carl L. Bankston, the definition of social capital and this is particularly concerned with social interactions.

Studies

In 1982, she joined the Zhongshan University in Guangzhou from an undergraduate degree in English and American Language and Literature and then attended the State University of New York sociology.

Teaching

Min Zhou is a professor of Sociology and Asiaamerikanische Studies and the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair of the Sino-US relations and conversations from the University of California, Los Angeles. It is Sun Yat-sen " Changjiang Scholar " Chair Professor of Central China Normal University and a visiting professor at Korea University. She is also a Visiting Fellow of the Overseas Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Centre.

Research fields

It deals with the issue of international migration, integration and assimilation and inter-cultural and inter -ethnic issues, from education to specific economic aspects. According to her biography she has written more than 130 articles in journals and books, some of which were translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Zhou is currently working on a book on the relevance of ethnicity 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 such as Chinese migrants abroad to African migrants in Guangzhou, China.

Book publications

• 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 with: 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.
• As an editor with James V. Gatewood: Contemporary Asian America. A Multidisciplinary Reader. New York University Press, New York, NY, inter alia, 2000, ISBN 0-8147-9690-7.
• As an editor with Jennifer Lee: Asian American Youth. Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. Routledge, New York, NY 2004, ISBN 0-203-49054-1 (For everyday and youth culture of the Chinese-American community ).