Julia Chuang
Biographic Data
| ID | 162608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Chuang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chuang |
| SIGNATURE | CHUANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Organizational structure of migrant brokerage
How does the institutional field of migration brokerage change in response to state regulations? This study understands the ecosystem of brokers facilitating investment immigration to the U.S. as a migration infrastructure, and uses concepts from economic sociology to understand organizational changes in this infrastructure. Until the 2010s, investment immigration was a small-scale phenomenon, and few immigrant investors applied for this visa pro…
Regimes of dispossession in China
The Logic of Governance in China
In The Logic of Governance in China, Zhou Xueguang revisits a central question that he broached at the start of his career in his 1993 American Sociological Review article “Unorganized Interests and Collective Action in Communist China” (which is also reprinted as the final empirical chapter of the book). In that article, he had suggested that local bureaucrats in the Chinese state formed a unique class of their own: they act as state agents, and…
Polanyi and the Peasant Question in China
This article applies Karl Polanyi's concept of a double movement to the trajectory of rural state policies in China since 1949. It argues that Chinese socialism created a contradictory social contract that has fueled an ongoing struggle between state and peasantry over the surplus generated from rural land. This struggle has shaped a historical oscillation between state policies that facilitate extraction of agricultural surpluses and policies th…
Beneath the China Boom
Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video
Masculine Compromise
Factory Girls After the Factory
Many scholars of gender and migration assume that migration increases women's household bargaining power, but this article argues that migration recreates and relies on patriarchal expectations that women return to household domestic labor. It draws on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with migrant factory women in China's export processing zones as well as one migrant-sending community in China. Based on this fieldwork, I argue that despite yo…
Urbanization through dispossession
Rural land dispossession has become a dominant mechanism of capital accumulation in the Chinese economy. However, the Chinese economy continues to rely on a migrant labor system that enables enterprises to accumulate capital precisely by not dispossessing laborers, but instead enlisting rural communities in absorbing costs of workforce maintenance. These dual and contradictory mechanisms are particularly visible in China's urban construction sect…
China's Rural Land Politics
In recent years, the Chinese central state has launched the “new socialist countryside” campaign (NSCC), which authorizes the local state expropriation of rural land from farmers, and then incorporates evicted farmers into township residence and urban citizenship. In affected regions, this campaign enables local state officials to enact practices of bureaucratic absorption that undermine potential resistance by bringing resisters into formal chan…
The Withering Away of the State in China
Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking University (Nee and Layman 1969) and his ethnographic foray in Chinatown (Nee and Nee 1973), he has generated scores of impressive and influential articles and books on Chinese America and China in particular, but also more general and theoretical studies of ethnicity and immigration as well as economic sociology (e.g., Alba and Nee 2003; Nee and Swedbe…
Taming Tibet
In Taming Tibet, Emily Yeh offers a new twist to current paradigms of Chinese development, presenting a trove of new evidence from China's politically unstable western periphery. Drawing on 16 mont
Urbanization through dispossession
Rural land dispossession has become a dominant mechanism of capital accumulation in the Chinese economy. However, the Chinese economy continues to rely on a migrant labor system that enables enterprises to accumulate capital precisely by not dispossessing laborers, but instead enlisting rural communities in absorbing costs of workforce maintenance. These dual and contradictory mechanisms are particularly visible in China's urban construction sect…
Factory Girls After the Factory
Many scholars of gender and migration assume that migration increases women's household bargaining power, but this article argues that migration recreates and relies on patriarchal expectations that women return to household domestic labor. It draws on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with migrant factory women in China's export processing zones as well as one migrant-sending community in China. Based on this fieldwork, I argue that despite yo…
Polanyi and the Peasant Question in China
This article applies Karl Polanyi's concept of a double movement to the trajectory of rural state policies in China since 1949. It argues that Chinese socialism created a contradictory social contract that has fueled an ongoing struggle between state and peasantry over the surplus generated from rural land. This struggle has shaped a historical oscillation between state policies that facilitate extraction of agricultural surpluses and policies th…
Taming Tibet
In Taming Tibet, Emily Yeh offers a new twist to current paradigms of Chinese development, presenting a trove of new evidence from China's politically unstable western periphery. Drawing on 16 mont
Regimes of dispossession in China
China's Rural Land Politics
In recent years, the Chinese central state has launched the “new socialist countryside” campaign (NSCC), which authorizes the local state expropriation of rural land from farmers, and then incorporates evicted farmers into township residence and urban citizenship. In affected regions, this campaign enables local state officials to enact practices of bureaucratic absorption that undermine potential resistance by bringing resisters into formal chan…
The Withering Away of the State in China
Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking University (Nee and Layman 1969) and his ethnographic foray in Chinatown (Nee and Nee 1973), he has generated scores of impressive and influential articles and books on Chinese America and China in particular, but also more general and theoretical studies of ethnicity and immigration as well as economic sociology (e.g., Alba and Nee 2003; Nee and Swedbe…
Taming Tibet
In Taming Tibet, Emily Yeh offers a new twist to current paradigms of Chinese development, presenting a trove of new evidence from China's politically unstable western periphery. Drawing on 16 mont
Urbanization through dispossession
Rural land dispossession has become a dominant mechanism of capital accumulation in the Chinese economy. However, the Chinese economy continues to rely on a migrant labor system that enables enterprises to accumulate capital precisely by not dispossessing laborers, but instead enlisting rural communities in absorbing costs of workforce maintenance. These dual and contradictory mechanisms are particularly visible in China's urban construction sect…
Factory Girls After the Factory
Many scholars of gender and migration assume that migration increases women's household bargaining power, but this article argues that migration recreates and relies on patriarchal expectations that women return to household domestic labor. It draws on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with migrant factory women in China's export processing zones as well as one migrant-sending community in China. Based on this fieldwork, I argue that despite yo…
Masculine Compromise
Beneath the China Boom
Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video
Polanyi and the Peasant Question in China
This article applies Karl Polanyi's concept of a double movement to the trajectory of rural state policies in China since 1949. It argues that Chinese socialism created a contradictory social contract that has fueled an ongoing struggle between state and peasantry over the surplus generated from rural land. This struggle has shaped a historical oscillation between state policies that facilitate extraction of agricultural surpluses and policies th…
The Logic of Governance in China
In The Logic of Governance in China, Zhou Xueguang revisits a central question that he broached at the start of his career in his 1993 American Sociological Review article “Unorganized Interests and Collective Action in Communist China” (which is also reprinted as the final empirical chapter of the book). In that article, he had suggested that local bureaucrats in the Chinese state formed a unique class of their own: they act as state agents, and…
Regimes of dispossession in China
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Organizational structure of migrant brokerage
How does the institutional field of migration brokerage change in response to state regulations? This study understands the ecosystem of brokers facilitating investment immigration to the U.S. as a migration infrastructure, and uses concepts from economic sociology to understand organizational changes in this infrastructure. Until the 2010s, investment immigration was a small-scale phenomenon, and few immigrant investors applied for this visa pro…
China (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)