Min Zhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 119560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Min Zhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Min |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhan |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0596-7072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Work of Teaching the Canon: Reflections on Jim Ferguson’s Legacy at UC Irvine
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Qilong capsule regulates microglial function and inhibits platelet activation after multiple cerebral infarctions by regulating the P2Y12/AC/cAMP signalling pathway
A Robust Maximum Fairness Consensus Model With Limited Cost Under the Uncertain Trust Relationships and Individual Weights
The uncertainty of the trust relationships between decision makers (DMs) or the uncertainty of individual weights will lead to the uncertainty of fairness and consensus management in group. To provide a solid solution, we propose a robust maximum fairness consensus model with limited cost under the uncertain trust relationships and individual weights (RTRMFCM). Specifically, this article constructs an uncertainty set to more precisely describe th…
Risk Compensation After Initiation of Daily Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Nigeria
Variation in Long-Term Postoperative Mortality Risk by Race/Ethnicity After Major Non-cardiac Surgeries in the Veterans Health Administration
Managing Consensus in Balanced Networks Based on Opinion and Trust/Distrust Evolutions
A support-based measure of adult attachment: Links between the Attachment Style Interview and an observational measure of parenting in a sample of at-risk mothers
The Attachment Style Interview (ASI) is increasingly being used to assess parenting suitability in adoption and fostering settings. More research is needed, however, to establish how the ASI relates to parenting behaviour. This study addressed this need by examining the relations between the ASI and an observational measure of parenting behaviour in 66 women with children between the ages of one and six years in the US. The Atypical Maternal Beha…
Financial Stress and Hardship among Young Adults: The Role of Student Loan Debt
Analyzing data from the 2018 National Financial Capability Study, this study investigated the associations between student loan debt and financial stress and hardship among young adults. The results show that student loan debt was positively related to all indicators of financial stress and hardship, after controlling for a range of socioeconomic factors as well as measures of financial knowledge and behaviors. In addition, minority young adults …
After-School Childcare Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply in Low-Income American Households: Comparisons between Race and Ethnicity
Even though after-school childcare arrangements are a significant matter for working mothers in the United States, only formal childcare has been recognized as relevant by researchers. Therefore, this study aims to find the association between different types of after-school childcare arrangements (after-school programs, relative, parental, self-care, and combination of care) and low-income working mothers’ labor supply, including their working h…
Impact of Social Network Structures on Uncertain Opinion Formation
When people express their opinions about a certain issue, they often give uncertain opinions rather than exact opinions. Particularly, these uncertain opinions will evolve in social networks. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on investigating uncertain opinion formation with social networks under bounded confidence. Specifically, we define the uncertain opinions by numerical interval opinions, whose ranges are between zero and one, and the large…
Associations between after-school arrangements and labour conditions of low-income working mothers in the United States
Over one-half of U.S. low-income working mothers utilize an array of after-school options, which impacts child development and their work conditions. However, many studies have focused exclusively on children’s development in after-school programs (ASPs). Therefore, we examined the relationship between different types of after-school care and low-income working mothers’ labour conditions which include working hours and months as well as the abili…
Education loans and asset building among black and Hispanic young adults
Patterns of financial attributes and behaviors of emerging adults in the United States
The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children
Public assistance in urban and rural China: A tale of two stories
China's public assistance system has been urban–rural divided ever since its implementation in the 1990s. Despite the intention in recent years to promote an integrated public assistance system, there has been little empirical research that has systematically examined the differences between urban and rural areas. Moreover, research has focused mostly on the Minimum Living Assurance system (“ Dibao ”), paying little attention to other types of pu…
Education loans and wealth building among young adults
Cosmic Experiments: "Remaking Materialism and Daoist Ethic "Outside of the Establishment
In this article, I discuss recent experiments in 'classical' (gudian) Chinese medicine. As the marketization and privatization of health care deepens and enters uncharted territories in China, a cohort of young practitioners and entrepreneurs have begun their quest for the 'primordial spirit' of traditional Chinese medicine by setting up their own businesses where they engage in clinical, pedagogical, and entrepreneurial practices outside of stat…
Neighborhood Disorder, Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Capital, and Maternal Stress: Exploration of a Mediating Mechanism
Stress is a critical precipitant of depression and other symptoms of mental disorder, and it is especially a concern for single mothers, given their vulnerability to various stressors. Although there is emerging research interest in parenting stress issues, few studies have examined the association between neighborhood environment and maternal stress. Even fewer studies have examined the mechanism that contributes to this relationship. Using data…
The Impact of Youth Debt on College Graduation
This study examines the associations between educational loans and credit card debt with the possibility of college graduation among a group of youth who enrolled in college. It further investigates whether the associations differ by levels of parental assets. Results indicate that, after parental assets and other variables are considered, educational loans are positively related to college graduation; however, there is evidence that educational …
The impact of family assets and debt on college graduation
The Empirical as Conceptual: Transdisciplinary Engagements with an “Experiential Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is often considered an "experiential medicine." As such, it is seen as in need of conceptual elevation by scientific experiments and theorization, which actualize and undermine scientized forms of TCM. This essay argues that the predicaments of TCM are thoroughly modern and must be understood within the "Modern Constitution" in which the production and proliferation of asymmetries are both constitutive of and ob…
The Relationship of Language Acculturation (English Proficiency) to Current Self-Rated Health Among African Immigrant Adults
Human Oriented? Angels and Monsters in China's Health-Care Reform
This article examines yihuan guanxi, or relations between medical professionals and patients, under China's health-care reform. Invoking “biopolitics” as a way of understanding the capillary workings of power in producing specific forms of lives and humans, I explore the ways in which different kinds of humans and tenuous claims to humanness are produced through the entanglement of government policy, market experimentation, and subject formation.…
The Differentiated Impact of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital on Economic Well-Being: An Individual Level Perspective
Social capital refers to trust, norms, and social networks. One of the most important features of social capital is its claimed capacity of promoting economic well-being. Theorists have assumed that any such effects vary according to the nature of different types of social capital. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative dataset, this study investigates the differentiated effects of individual bonding and bridging social capital …
Assets and liabilities, race/ethnicity, and children's college education
Assets, Expectations, and Children’s Educational Achievement in Female‐Headed Households
This study examines the relationships of mother's assets (home ownership and savings) to, respectively, mother's expectations of child's educational achievement and child's actual educational outcomes in female‐headed households. Analysis of data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) indicates that assets of single mothers are positively associated with child’s educational achievement and that this relationship is partially m…
Assets, parental expectations and involvement, and children's educational performance
Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, and David Beckham's Pajamas: Unruly Bodies after Sars
This article discusses the viscerality of consumption; in particular, consumption-as-eating and consumption-as-spending as a set of heterogeneous, contestatory discourses and practices of identity production and subject formation. To do so, I bring together two intersecting events: the Chinese government's ban on wild animal markets during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, and Chinese and European media frenzy over the visit …
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Does It Take a Miracle? Negotiating Knowledges, Identities, and Communities of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zhan traces the multiple trajectories and meanings of 'clinical miracles' in the everyday practice and discourse of traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. The marginality of Chinese medicine is constructed and constantly transformed through a set of uneven, interactive sociohistorical processes of knowledge, identity and community formation, and is itself a set of heterogeneous processes that mediate the transfig…
Neighborhood Disorder, Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Capital, and Maternal Stress: Exploration of a Mediating Mechanism
Stress is a critical precipitant of depression and other symptoms of mental disorder, and it is especially a concern for single mothers, given their vulnerability to various stressors. Although there is emerging research interest in parenting stress issues, few studies have examined the association between neighborhood environment and maternal stress. Even fewer studies have examined the mechanism that contributes to this relationship. Using data…
Asset holding and net worth among households with children: Differences by household type
Postsecondary Education and Economic Well-Being of Single Mothers and Single Fathers
We investigate the effects of postsecondary education on the economic well-being of single parents. The data for this study are from the 1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, with a sample of 930 single mothers and 168 single fathers. The results indicate that postsecondary education, particularly a 4-year college degree, improves the economic status of both single mothers and single fathers. Controlling for the effects of education and other fact…
The Empirical as Conceptual: Transdisciplinary Engagements with an “Experiential Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is often considered an "experiential medicine." As such, it is seen as in need of conceptual elevation by scientific experiments and theorization, which actualize and undermine scientized forms of TCM. This essay argues that the predicaments of TCM are thoroughly modern and must be understood within the "Modern Constitution" in which the production and proliferation of asymmetries are both constitutive of and ob…
Assets and liabilities, race/ethnicity, and children's college education
Parental Assets: A Pathway to Positive Child Educational Outcomes
A growing body of evidence suggests parental assets have positive effects on children's well-being. Using 2004 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study tests the effect of parental asset holding on child educational outcomes, and explores whether parental involvement and expectations mediate this relationship. Results indicate that assets are a significant predictor of all child academic outcomes of our study; however,…
Financial Knowledge of the Low-income Population: Effects of a Financial Education Program
This study examines the effects of one large financial management training program for low-income people. The data are from tests of pre- and posttraining financial knowledge of 163 participants. The test was designed to measure basic knowledge of participants in five content areas: predatory lending practices, public and work-related benefits, banking practices, savings and investing strategies, and credit use and interest rates. The findings de…
Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts: Does Marital Status Matter
Research indicates that marriage has a large effect on reducing the risk of poverty and is associated with a higher probability of attaining affluence over the life course when compared with nonmarriage. Using data from the American Dream Demonstration (N =2,364), this study compares savings performances of married and unmarried low-income participants in a matched savings program-Individual Development Accounts. The results indicate that both ma…
The Differentiated Impact of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital on Economic Well-Being: An Individual Level Perspective
Social capital refers to trust, norms, and social networks. One of the most important features of social capital is its claimed capacity of promoting economic well-being. Theorists have assumed that any such effects vary according to the nature of different types of social capital. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative dataset, this study investigates the differentiated effects of individual bonding and bridging social capital …
Asset holding and educational attainment among African American youth
Education loans and wealth building among young adults
Worlding Oneness
This essay argues for the “reworlding” of Daoist “oneness” by making it visible, thinkable, and doable as an immanent analytic. With a focus on dynamic articulations of oneness, especially how the idea “heaven and human are one” animates and is animated by the translocal reinventions of traditional Chinese medicine, this essay explores possibilities for thinking, doing, and being human that unsettle various strategies of bifurcation both constitu…
A Doctor of the Highest Caliber Treats an Illness Before It Happens
A doctor of the highest caliber treats an illness before it happens," a seemingly antiquated doctrine in traditional Chinese medicine, is enjoying surging popularity among practitioners in urban China and the United States today. In this essay, I examine how the meanings and contours of traditional Chinese medicine have shifted in recent decades as it is molded into a "preventive medicine" through translocal encounters. From the 1960s and the ear…
Patterns of financial attributes and behaviors of emerging adults in the United States
The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children
Cosmic Experiments: "Remaking Materialism and Daoist Ethic "Outside of the Establishment
In this article, I discuss recent experiments in 'classical' (gudian) Chinese medicine. As the marketization and privatization of health care deepens and enters uncharted territories in China, a cohort of young practitioners and entrepreneurs have begun their quest for the 'primordial spirit' of traditional Chinese medicine by setting up their own businesses where they engage in clinical, pedagogical, and entrepreneurial practices outside of stat…
The impact of family assets and debt on college graduation
Developing Financial Management Training in Low-Income Communities: Assessing Needs and Community Practice Implications
As welfare policy contractions and declines in real wages have placed severe financial pressures on low-income families, programs to improve financial management practices and to help the poor accumulate assets have grown. This article examines the need for such programs and the implications associated with implementing two prominent training strategies-one that focuses solely on financial management training and another that combines such traini…
Public assistance in urban and rural China: A tale of two stories
China's public assistance system has been urban–rural divided ever since its implementation in the 1990s. Despite the intention in recent years to promote an integrated public assistance system, there has been little empirical research that has systematically examined the differences between urban and rural areas. Moreover, research has focused mostly on the Minimum Living Assurance system (“ Dibao ”), paying little attention to other types of pu…
Gender, Alcohol Consumption Patterns, and Engagement in Sexually Intimate Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Nha Trang, Viet Nam
A randomly selected cross-sectional survey was conducted with 880 youth (16 to 24 years) in Nha Trang City to assess relationships between alcohol consumption and sexual behaviors. A timeline followback method was employed. Chi-square, generalized logit modeling and logistic regression analyses were performed. Of the sample, 78.2% male and 56.1% female respondents ever consumed alcohol. Males reporting sexual behaviors (vaginal, anal, oral sex) h…
The Higher Education Option for Poor Women with Children
Postsecondary education is the key to exiting from poverty permanently. Yet, the PRWORA allows women only up to 12 months of vocational training while on welfare. This paper focuses on bringing back the importance of investing in the education of poor women, particularly the postsecondary education of poor women with children, to the forefront of the welfare debate. In this paper we review federal and state level welfare policies toward postsecon…
Effect of Urban Poverty on Parents' Expectation of their Children's Achievement
In this study we examine if parents' expectation of their children's success in life varies by type of urban neighborhood. Do parents' expectations of their children's educational achievement and age at which their offspring may start their first job, marry and have children vary by type of urban neighborhood in which they reside? Analysis of data taken from inner city Chicago indicates that residents in urban neighborhoods varied in their demogr…
Does It Take a Miracle? Negotiating Knowledges, Identities, and Communities of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zhan traces the multiple trajectories and meanings of 'clinical miracles' in the everyday practice and discourse of traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. The marginality of Chinese medicine is constructed and constantly transformed through a set of uneven, interactive sociohistorical processes of knowledge, identity and community formation, and is itself a set of heterogeneous processes that mediate the transfig…
Postsecondary education and the well-being of women in retirement
Journal Article Postsecondary education and the well-being of women in retirement Get access Min Zhan, PhD, Min Zhan, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 West Oregon, Urbana, IL 61801; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shanta Pandey, PhD Shanta Pandey, PhD associate professor George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washingt…
Assets, Expectations, and Children’s Educational Achievement in Female‐Headed Households
This study examines the relationships of mother's assets (home ownership and savings) to, respectively, mother's expectations of child's educational achievement and child's actual educational outcomes in female‐headed households. Analysis of data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) indicates that assets of single mothers are positively associated with child’s educational achievement and that this relationship is partially m…
Families' experience with welfare reform on reservations in Arizona
Journal Article Families' experience with welfare reform on reservations in Arizona Get access Shanta Pandey, PhD, Shanta Pandey, PhD associate professor George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Box 1196, St. Louis, MO 63130; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Min Zhan, PhD, Min Zhan, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Illino…
Welfare recipiency and savings outcomes in individual development accounts
Both theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence show that asset-based, means-tested welfare programs have negative effects on savings behaviors of welfare recipients. In this study, we examine how welfare recipiency is associated with savings outcomes in Individual Development Accounts. The results suggest that when other factors are controlled, receipt of welfare either before or at enrollment of IDAs is not correlated with savings outcomes. …
Economic Well-being of Single Mothers: Work First or Postsecondary Education
This article investigates the relationship between single mothers' education and their economic well-being. Through the analysis of the 1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we examine the effect of education on a sample of White and African American single mothers. The results indicate that past work experience is a weak predictor of current economic well-being. Having education, particularly postsecondary education, on the other hand…
Postsecondary Education and Economic Well-Being of Single Mothers and Single Fathers
We investigate the effects of postsecondary education on the economic well-being of single parents. The data for this study are from the 1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, with a sample of 930 single mothers and 168 single fathers. The results indicate that postsecondary education, particularly a 4-year college degree, improves the economic status of both single mothers and single fathers. Controlling for the effects of education and other fact…
Saving for Post-Secondary Education in Individual Development Accounts
Low-income people have less access to opportunities for post-secondary education, and the welfare reform in 1996 further limited access for welfare recipients. Since welfare reform, there has been an increasing interest in strategies meant to enhance the well-being of low-income people through education and the development of human capital. In this study, we examine how low-income people saved for post-secondary education in Individual Developmen…
Developing Financial Management Training in Low-Income Communities: Assessing Needs and Community Practice Implications
As welfare policy contractions and declines in real wages have placed severe financial pressures on low-income families, programs to improve financial management practices and to help the poor accumulate assets have grown. This article examines the need for such programs and the implications associated with implementing two prominent training strategies-one that focuses solely on financial management training and another that combines such traini…
Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, and David Beckham's Pajamas: Unruly Bodies after Sars
This article discusses the viscerality of consumption; in particular, consumption-as-eating and consumption-as-spending as a set of heterogeneous, contestatory discourses and practices of identity production and subject formation. To do so, I bring together two intersecting events: the Chinese government's ban on wild animal markets during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, and Chinese and European media frenzy over the visit …
Economic Mobility of Single Mothers: The Role of Assets and Human Capital Development
This study examines the economic mobility of single mothers. It highlights the relationships between single mothers' financial assets and human capital development (educational advancement, job training, and work hours) with their economic mobility. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) indicates that assets may help improve upward economic mobility. Assets, however, have differential impact on single mothers wi…
Financial Knowledge of the Low-income Population: Effects of a Financial Education Program
This study examines the effects of one large financial management training program for low-income people. The data are from tests of pre- and posttraining financial knowledge of 163 participants. The test was designed to measure basic knowledge of participants in five content areas: predatory lending practices, public and work-related benefits, banking practices, savings and investing strategies, and credit use and interest rates. The findings de…
Assets, parental expectations and involvement, and children's educational performance
Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts: Does Marital Status Matter
Research indicates that marriage has a large effect on reducing the risk of poverty and is associated with a higher probability of attaining affluence over the life course when compared with nonmarriage. Using data from the American Dream Demonstration (N =2,364), this study compares savings performances of married and unmarried low-income participants in a matched savings program-Individual Development Accounts. The results indicate that both ma…
Asset holding and net worth among households with children: Differences by household type
Parental Assets: A Pathway to Positive Child Educational Outcomes
A growing body of evidence suggests parental assets have positive effects on children's well-being. Using 2004 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study tests the effect of parental asset holding on child educational outcomes, and explores whether parental involvement and expectations mediate this relationship. Results indicate that assets are a significant predictor of all child academic outcomes of our study; however,…
A Doctor of the Highest Caliber Treats an Illness Before It Happens
A doctor of the highest caliber treats an illness before it happens," a seemingly antiquated doctrine in traditional Chinese medicine, is enjoying surging popularity among practitioners in urban China and the United States today. In this essay, I examine how the meanings and contours of traditional Chinese medicine have shifted in recent decades as it is molded into a "preventive medicine" through translocal encounters. From the 1960s and the ear…
Asset holding and educational attainment among African American youth
Human Oriented? Angels and Monsters in China's Health-Care Reform
This article examines yihuan guanxi, or relations between medical professionals and patients, under China's health-care reform. Invoking “biopolitics” as a way of understanding the capillary workings of power in producing specific forms of lives and humans, I explore the ways in which different kinds of humans and tenuous claims to humanness are produced through the entanglement of government policy, market experimentation, and subject formation.…
The Differentiated Impact of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital on Economic Well-Being: An Individual Level Perspective
Social capital refers to trust, norms, and social networks. One of the most important features of social capital is its claimed capacity of promoting economic well-being. Theorists have assumed that any such effects vary according to the nature of different types of social capital. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative dataset, this study investigates the differentiated effects of individual bonding and bridging social capital …
Assets and liabilities, race/ethnicity, and children's college education
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Worlding Oneness
This essay argues for the “reworlding” of Daoist “oneness” by making it visible, thinkable, and doable as an immanent analytic. With a focus on dynamic articulations of oneness, especially how the idea “heaven and human are one” animates and is animated by the translocal reinventions of traditional Chinese medicine, this essay explores possibilities for thinking, doing, and being human that unsettle various strategies of bifurcation both constitu…
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