Zizhen Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zizhen Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zizhen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xiamen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0024-4107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Equalizing or Reinforcing? The Impact of Organized Sports Club Membership on Gender Role Attitudes
Despite the egalitarian potential of voluntary sports organizations, existing evidence remains inconclusive as to whether membership in organized sports clubs reinforces or challenges traditional gender role attitudes. Drawing on data from 65,378 respondents across 50 countries in Wave 7 of the World Values Survey, this study examines the relationship between organized sports club membership and individuals' gender role attitudes. The main findin…
Performing inclusion
This study investigates the widespread installation of tactile paving as a form of inclusive urban infrastructure in China, analysing how state-led accessibility initiatives shape the social understanding of visual disability. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus group discussion with 26 visually impaired individuals, the research uncovers a disjuncture between the symbolic promise of accessibility and the practical realities of navigation. R…
Southern School-to-Work Transition and the Determinants of Becoming Young Neet in China
This study contributes to the scant literature on the individual and structural determinants of being young ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) in China. Drawing from six waves of the Chinese General Social Survey (2010–2021), it finds that (a) China’s NEET rate stands at 16% for the studied period, with significant internal regional variations. (b) The common wisdom that education reduces the incidence of becoming NEET is challenge…
Inclusion for sale
Fresh off the boat again? The conversion of cultural capital and distinction-making among Western-educated returnee scholars in China
This article investigates how Western-educated scholars negotiate the distinction-making process and strategise the conversion of acquired cultural capital to social capital upon return to China. Building on Bourdieusian theory, it finds anti-Western distinction constructed by local scholars monopolises their privileged positions in Chinese academic reproduction. Cultural capital obtained by returnee scholars is often devalorised by nationalist r…
Racialised mobilities in China
The scholarship on how race and mobilities intersect and interact has emerged mainly from the Western context, such as the UK and the US. Minimal to no research has examined this relation within Global South settings. As an emergent destination country for international migration, China offers an interesting case to research the mechanisms through which foreign migrants' mobilities are racialised and hierarchised by the local population. This art…
Investigating the role of multilevel social capital in ethnic income inequality in the Chinese labour market
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis
In an age of unprecedented decline in global biodiversity levels, the task of designing laws that effectively protect nature and biodiversity is urgent. To help address this enforcement deficit, European policymakers have sought to democratise environmental enforcement by conferring citizens and environmental nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) with legal rights of access to environmental information, public participation and access to justice i…
Europe’s nature governance revolution
In the battle to address Europe’s biodiversity crisis, fixing its implementation gap—the gap between EU nature law on the books, and on the ground—is vital. Europe’s private nature governance revolution, underpinned by the UNECE Aarhus Convention, is a core part of its response. This article breaks new empirical ground in understanding how those mechanisms have been working in practice, and their knock-on effects for traditional enforcement by th…
The incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland
This study investigates how different forms of social capital and job searching methods influence the incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland. While most studies have concentrated primarily on human capital factors in explaining overeducation among immigrant workers, this study emphasises the effect of bonding and bridging social capital, as well as different job searching channels, on the likelihood of …
The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015
European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of environmental law has been the responsibility of public authorities (public authorities of the EU Member States, themselves policed by the European Commission), this paradigm has now taken a democratic turn. Led by changes in international environmental law and in particular the UNECE Aarhus Convention (UNECE, United Nations E…
The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015
European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of environmental law has been the responsibility of public authorities (public authorities of the EU Member States, themselves policed by the European Commission), this paradigm has now taken a democratic turn. Led by changes in international environmental law and in particular the UNECE Aarhus Convention (UNECE, United Nations E…
Europe’s nature governance revolution
In the battle to address Europe’s biodiversity crisis, fixing its implementation gap—the gap between EU nature law on the books, and on the ground—is vital. Europe’s private nature governance revolution, underpinned by the UNECE Aarhus Convention, is a core part of its response. This article breaks new empirical ground in understanding how those mechanisms have been working in practice, and their knock-on effects for traditional enforcement by th…
The incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland
This study investigates how different forms of social capital and job searching methods influence the incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland. While most studies have concentrated primarily on human capital factors in explaining overeducation among immigrant workers, this study emphasises the effect of bonding and bridging social capital, as well as different job searching channels, on the likelihood of …
The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015
European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of environmental law has been the responsibility of public authorities (public authorities of the EU Member States, themselves policed by the European Commission), this paradigm has now taken a democratic turn. Led by changes in international environmental law and in particular the UNECE Aarhus Convention (UNECE, United Nations E…
Europe’s nature governance revolution
In the battle to address Europe’s biodiversity crisis, fixing its implementation gap—the gap between EU nature law on the books, and on the ground—is vital. Europe’s private nature governance revolution, underpinned by the UNECE Aarhus Convention, is a core part of its response. This article breaks new empirical ground in understanding how those mechanisms have been working in practice, and their knock-on effects for traditional enforcement by th…
Investigating the role of multilevel social capital in ethnic income inequality in the Chinese labour market
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis
In an age of unprecedented decline in global biodiversity levels, the task of designing laws that effectively protect nature and biodiversity is urgent. To help address this enforcement deficit, European policymakers have sought to democratise environmental enforcement by conferring citizens and environmental nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) with legal rights of access to environmental information, public participation and access to justice i…
Inclusion for sale
Fresh off the boat again? The conversion of cultural capital and distinction-making among Western-educated returnee scholars in China
This article investigates how Western-educated scholars negotiate the distinction-making process and strategise the conversion of acquired cultural capital to social capital upon return to China. Building on Bourdieusian theory, it finds anti-Western distinction constructed by local scholars monopolises their privileged positions in Chinese academic reproduction. Cultural capital obtained by returnee scholars is often devalorised by nationalist r…
Racialised mobilities in China
The scholarship on how race and mobilities intersect and interact has emerged mainly from the Western context, such as the UK and the US. Minimal to no research has examined this relation within Global South settings. As an emergent destination country for international migration, China offers an interesting case to research the mechanisms through which foreign migrants' mobilities are racialised and hierarchised by the local population. This art…
Equalizing or Reinforcing? The Impact of Organized Sports Club Membership on Gender Role Attitudes
Despite the egalitarian potential of voluntary sports organizations, existing evidence remains inconclusive as to whether membership in organized sports clubs reinforces or challenges traditional gender role attitudes. Drawing on data from 65,378 respondents across 50 countries in Wave 7 of the World Values Survey, this study examines the relationship between organized sports club membership and individuals' gender role attitudes. The main findin…
Performing inclusion
This study investigates the widespread installation of tactile paving as a form of inclusive urban infrastructure in China, analysing how state-led accessibility initiatives shape the social understanding of visual disability. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus group discussion with 26 visually impaired individuals, the research uncovers a disjuncture between the symbolic promise of accessibility and the practical realities of navigation. R…
Southern School-to-Work Transition and the Determinants of Becoming Young Neet in China
This study contributes to the scant literature on the individual and structural determinants of being young ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) in China. Drawing from six waves of the Chinese General Social Survey (2010–2021), it finds that (a) China’s NEET rate stands at 16% for the studied period, with significant internal regional variations. (b) The common wisdom that education reduces the incidence of becoming NEET is challenge…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)