Zhuoni Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhuoni Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhuoni |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2730-4066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Geospatial relative income and subjective well-being in Hong Kong
Cities are composed of heterogeneous local contexts. This study investigates whether and how the well-being of urban dwellers is influenced by spatially structured contextual exposure within a localized area. Using geocoded survey data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, matched with official neighborhood-level statistics, we pay special attention to relative neighborhood income (RNI), an inter-neighborhood comparison reflecting a …
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections
Policy Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Hong Kong
This article examines the policy effects of Hong Kong’s Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) on underemployment, working hours, and wages. Using a Difference-in-Differences methodology on General Household Survey data (2011–2019), we assess five SMW adjustment cycles. We define a ‘most disadvantaged’ treatment group and a ‘less disadvantaged’ group based on the concentration of minimum wage earners in their industry-occupation cell, relative to an unaffe…
The digital divide in shared bicycle use
Does distance make the heart grow fonder? Social contact and attitudes toward Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong
Embracing generative artificial intelligence tools in higher education
Generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful technological innovation that is exerting a sweeping influence in the education sector. The rapid diffusion of ChatGPT in universities worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges to higher education policy and administration. This study seeks to examine students’ behavioural and perceptual experiences with the use of ChatGPT at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology…
Generational gaps in attitudes toward migrants
Returned but separated
Political stance and identity have become major axes dividing ordinary people in Hong Kong into hostile opposing groups. Using the 2017 Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics data, we used latent profile analysis to study the social divisions within Hong Kong society. Our results confirmed that there was indeed a latent class structure with two extremes—Hongkongese identification with a pro-democracy political orientation (the Yellow camp) vers…
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way? Social and Mental Forces of Successful Adaptation of Immigrant Children in Young Adulthood
Although the twenty-first century is deemed as a new era of globalization, waves of immigration continue, due to disparities between politically and economically unstable regions and Western democratized and developed countries. Immigration research has therefore reignited its attention on the successful adaptation of immigrants' offspring, which has profound implications for Western immigrant-receiving countries, as well as worldwide stability. …
Neighborhood socioeconomic status, relative household income, and life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants in Hong Kong
This paper examines the life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants compared to that of Hong Kong natives, using microdata from the 2011 Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and aggregated neighborhood data from the 2011 Hong Kong Census. We find that Chinese mainland migrants have significantly lower life satisfaction than Hong Kong natives. As neighborhood socioeconomic status rises, life satisfaction increases, yet the positive…
Residential and industrial enclaves and labor market outcomes among migrant workers in Shenzhen, China
This study examines the association between participation in localistic enclaves and labour market outcomes among internal migrants in Shenzhen, China. Using data from the 2005 mini-census, we examine native-place residential enclaves and industrial enclaves on the basis of migrants’ counties of origin, residential neighbourhoods, and two-digit industrial sectors, and report four main findings. First, migrants who live in native-place residential…
Family background, parenting practices, and child outcomes
Using data from the 2011 population census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, this paper examines the academic performance and non-cognitive skills of the children of Chinese migrants in Hong Kong aged 14 and below. Our analyses show that the poorer academic performance of Chinese migrants’ children results mainly from disadvantageous family background and parenting practices. Children of cross-border and migrant families do not di…
Parenting Discrepancy and Child Development in Chinese Context
Although parent–child discrepant perception of the family has been increasingly noted in the west, pertinent research is limited in Chinese societies. In addition, prior pertinent studies predominantly treated parent–child discrepant effects as independent of the general and aggregate family context, which are in fact inseparable. Furthermore, these studies tended to either look at the positive side of child outcomes or those negative ones. The p…
Rural to urban migration and distributive justice in contemporary China
This paper examines perceptions of micro justice and macro justice in contemporary China, focusing on comparisons among rural–urban migrants, urban locals and rural villagers. It puts forward three possibilities concerning distributive justice among rural–urban migrants relative to other groups, based on the social position hypothesis, reference group hypothesis, and subjective mobility hypothesis. Data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey…
Not a zero-sum game
The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration
Mode of Migration, Age at Arrival, and Occupational Attainment of Immigrants from Mainland China to Hong Kong
This paper examines occupational attainment of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong by comparing immigrants from Guangdong province with people who stayed in Guangdong and Hong Kong natives. Taking advantage of comparable data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we find that Chinese immigrants have significantly lower occupational attainment, measured by International Socioeconomic Inde…
Volunteering and health benefits in general adults
Volunteering should be promoted by public health, education and policy practitioners as a kind of healthy lifestyle, especially for the social subgroups of elders, ethnic minorities, those with little education, single people, and unemployed people, who generally have poorer health and less participation in volunteering
Exodus from Hunger
This article examines the long-term health consequences of China's 1959-1961 famine by comparing people who stayed in Guangdong and endured the famine with people who crossed the border to immigrate to Hong Kong and thus escaped the famine. Based on data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we focused on two health indicators-body mass index (BMI) and self-rated health (SRH)-of the …
Occupational segregation and earnings inequality
Population migration and children's school enrollments in China, 1990-2005
Contingent Transition to Triumph
This article examines socioeconomic attainments of Chinese immigrants' children in Hong Kong. Analyses of a subsample ages twenty-three to twenty-seven from the 2006 by-census data show that, children of immigrant parents enjoy advantages in education, occupational, and earnings attainments, compared to children of native parents. Such a transition to triumph, however, is contingent upon their parents' socioeconomic backgrounds: the success of th…
Social origins, hukou conversion, and the wellbeing of urban residents in contemporary China
Social Change, Cohort Quality and Economic Adaptation of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong, 1991–2006
This paper analyzes a series of population census and by-census data from 1991 to 2006 to examine the economic adaptation of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong, focusing on their employment, occupational and earnings attainment. We pay particular attention to the adaptation of immigrants over time, and the effect of changes in the (overall) quality of the immigration cohort as a result of the immigration policy shift after Hong Kong's reunification …
Changes in educational inequality in China, 1990–2005
This chapter examines the trend in school enrollment and transitions to senior high school and to college in China for selected young cohorts since the 1990s, based on the analyses of the sample data from population censuses in 1990 and 2000 and the mini-census in 2005. We pay particular attention to educational inequality based on gender and the household registration system (hukou) in the context of educational expansion. Results show a substan…
Occupational segregation and earnings inequality
Social origins, hukou conversion, and the wellbeing of urban residents in contemporary China
Population migration and children's school enrollments in China, 1990-2005
Social Change, Cohort Quality and Economic Adaptation of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong, 1991–2006
This paper analyzes a series of population census and by-census data from 1991 to 2006 to examine the economic adaptation of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong, focusing on their employment, occupational and earnings attainment. We pay particular attention to the adaptation of immigrants over time, and the effect of changes in the (overall) quality of the immigration cohort as a result of the immigration policy shift after Hong Kong's reunification …
Not a zero-sum game
The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration
Contingent Transition to Triumph
This article examines socioeconomic attainments of Chinese immigrants' children in Hong Kong. Analyses of a subsample ages twenty-three to twenty-seven from the 2006 by-census data show that, children of immigrant parents enjoy advantages in education, occupational, and earnings attainments, compared to children of native parents. Such a transition to triumph, however, is contingent upon their parents' socioeconomic backgrounds: the success of th…
Mode of Migration, Age at Arrival, and Occupational Attainment of Immigrants from Mainland China to Hong Kong
This paper examines occupational attainment of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong by comparing immigrants from Guangdong province with people who stayed in Guangdong and Hong Kong natives. Taking advantage of comparable data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we find that Chinese immigrants have significantly lower occupational attainment, measured by International Socioeconomic Inde…
Exodus from Hunger
This article examines the long-term health consequences of China's 1959-1961 famine by comparing people who stayed in Guangdong and endured the famine with people who crossed the border to immigrate to Hong Kong and thus escaped the famine. Based on data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we focused on two health indicators-body mass index (BMI) and self-rated health (SRH)-of the …
Embracing generative artificial intelligence tools in higher education
Generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful technological innovation that is exerting a sweeping influence in the education sector. The rapid diffusion of ChatGPT in universities worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges to higher education policy and administration. This study seeks to examine students’ behavioural and perceptual experiences with the use of ChatGPT at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology…
Generational gaps in attitudes toward migrants
Neighborhood socioeconomic status, relative household income, and life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants in Hong Kong
This paper examines the life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants compared to that of Hong Kong natives, using microdata from the 2011 Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and aggregated neighborhood data from the 2011 Hong Kong Census. We find that Chinese mainland migrants have significantly lower life satisfaction than Hong Kong natives. As neighborhood socioeconomic status rises, life satisfaction increases, yet the positive…
Family background, parenting practices, and child outcomes
Using data from the 2011 population census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, this paper examines the academic performance and non-cognitive skills of the children of Chinese migrants in Hong Kong aged 14 and below. Our analyses show that the poorer academic performance of Chinese migrants’ children results mainly from disadvantageous family background and parenting practices. Children of cross-border and migrant families do not di…
Rural to urban migration and distributive justice in contemporary China
This paper examines perceptions of micro justice and macro justice in contemporary China, focusing on comparisons among rural–urban migrants, urban locals and rural villagers. It puts forward three possibilities concerning distributive justice among rural–urban migrants relative to other groups, based on the social position hypothesis, reference group hypothesis, and subjective mobility hypothesis. Data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey…
Does distance make the heart grow fonder? Social contact and attitudes toward Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong
Residential and industrial enclaves and labor market outcomes among migrant workers in Shenzhen, China
This study examines the association between participation in localistic enclaves and labour market outcomes among internal migrants in Shenzhen, China. Using data from the 2005 mini-census, we examine native-place residential enclaves and industrial enclaves on the basis of migrants’ counties of origin, residential neighbourhoods, and two-digit industrial sectors, and report four main findings. First, migrants who live in native-place residential…
Changes in educational inequality in China, 1990–2005
This chapter examines the trend in school enrollment and transitions to senior high school and to college in China for selected young cohorts since the 1990s, based on the analyses of the sample data from population censuses in 1990 and 2000 and the mini-census in 2005. We pay particular attention to educational inequality based on gender and the household registration system (hukou) in the context of educational expansion. Results show a substan…
Social Change, Cohort Quality and Economic Adaptation of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong, 1991–2006
This paper analyzes a series of population census and by-census data from 1991 to 2006 to examine the economic adaptation of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong, focusing on their employment, occupational and earnings attainment. We pay particular attention to the adaptation of immigrants over time, and the effect of changes in the (overall) quality of the immigration cohort as a result of the immigration policy shift after Hong Kong's reunification …
Social origins, hukou conversion, and the wellbeing of urban residents in contemporary China
Contingent Transition to Triumph
This article examines socioeconomic attainments of Chinese immigrants' children in Hong Kong. Analyses of a subsample ages twenty-three to twenty-seven from the 2006 by-census data show that, children of immigrant parents enjoy advantages in education, occupational, and earnings attainments, compared to children of native parents. Such a transition to triumph, however, is contingent upon their parents' socioeconomic backgrounds: the success of th…
Population migration and children's school enrollments in China, 1990-2005
Volunteering and health benefits in general adults
Volunteering should be promoted by public health, education and policy practitioners as a kind of healthy lifestyle, especially for the social subgroups of elders, ethnic minorities, those with little education, single people, and unemployed people, who generally have poorer health and less participation in volunteering
Exodus from Hunger
This article examines the long-term health consequences of China's 1959-1961 famine by comparing people who stayed in Guangdong and endured the famine with people who crossed the border to immigrate to Hong Kong and thus escaped the famine. Based on data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we focused on two health indicators-body mass index (BMI) and self-rated health (SRH)-of the …
Occupational segregation and earnings inequality
Parenting Discrepancy and Child Development in Chinese Context
Although parent–child discrepant perception of the family has been increasingly noted in the west, pertinent research is limited in Chinese societies. In addition, prior pertinent studies predominantly treated parent–child discrepant effects as independent of the general and aggregate family context, which are in fact inseparable. Furthermore, these studies tended to either look at the positive side of child outcomes or those negative ones. The p…
Rural to urban migration and distributive justice in contemporary China
This paper examines perceptions of micro justice and macro justice in contemporary China, focusing on comparisons among rural–urban migrants, urban locals and rural villagers. It puts forward three possibilities concerning distributive justice among rural–urban migrants relative to other groups, based on the social position hypothesis, reference group hypothesis, and subjective mobility hypothesis. Data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey…
Not a zero-sum game
The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration
Mode of Migration, Age at Arrival, and Occupational Attainment of Immigrants from Mainland China to Hong Kong
This paper examines occupational attainment of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong by comparing immigrants from Guangdong province with people who stayed in Guangdong and Hong Kong natives. Taking advantage of comparable data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we find that Chinese immigrants have significantly lower occupational attainment, measured by International Socioeconomic Inde…
Family background, parenting practices, and child outcomes
Using data from the 2011 population census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, this paper examines the academic performance and non-cognitive skills of the children of Chinese migrants in Hong Kong aged 14 and below. Our analyses show that the poorer academic performance of Chinese migrants’ children results mainly from disadvantageous family background and parenting practices. Children of cross-border and migrant families do not di…
Returned but separated
Political stance and identity have become major axes dividing ordinary people in Hong Kong into hostile opposing groups. Using the 2017 Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics data, we used latent profile analysis to study the social divisions within Hong Kong society. Our results confirmed that there was indeed a latent class structure with two extremes—Hongkongese identification with a pro-democracy political orientation (the Yellow camp) vers…
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way? Social and Mental Forces of Successful Adaptation of Immigrant Children in Young Adulthood
Although the twenty-first century is deemed as a new era of globalization, waves of immigration continue, due to disparities between politically and economically unstable regions and Western democratized and developed countries. Immigration research has therefore reignited its attention on the successful adaptation of immigrants' offspring, which has profound implications for Western immigrant-receiving countries, as well as worldwide stability. …
Neighborhood socioeconomic status, relative household income, and life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants in Hong Kong
This paper examines the life satisfaction of Chinese mainland migrants compared to that of Hong Kong natives, using microdata from the 2011 Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and aggregated neighborhood data from the 2011 Hong Kong Census. We find that Chinese mainland migrants have significantly lower life satisfaction than Hong Kong natives. As neighborhood socioeconomic status rises, life satisfaction increases, yet the positive…
Residential and industrial enclaves and labor market outcomes among migrant workers in Shenzhen, China
This study examines the association between participation in localistic enclaves and labour market outcomes among internal migrants in Shenzhen, China. Using data from the 2005 mini-census, we examine native-place residential enclaves and industrial enclaves on the basis of migrants’ counties of origin, residential neighbourhoods, and two-digit industrial sectors, and report four main findings. First, migrants who live in native-place residential…
Generational gaps in attitudes toward migrants
Embracing generative artificial intelligence tools in higher education
Generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful technological innovation that is exerting a sweeping influence in the education sector. The rapid diffusion of ChatGPT in universities worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges to higher education policy and administration. This study seeks to examine students’ behavioural and perceptual experiences with the use of ChatGPT at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology…
Policy Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Hong Kong
This article examines the policy effects of Hong Kong’s Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) on underemployment, working hours, and wages. Using a Difference-in-Differences methodology on General Household Survey data (2011–2019), we assess five SMW adjustment cycles. We define a ‘most disadvantaged’ treatment group and a ‘less disadvantaged’ group based on the concentration of minimum wage earners in their industry-occupation cell, relative to an unaffe…
The digital divide in shared bicycle use
Does distance make the heart grow fonder? Social contact and attitudes toward Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong
Geospatial relative income and subjective well-being in Hong Kong
Cities are composed of heterogeneous local contexts. This study investigates whether and how the well-being of urban dwellers is influenced by spatially structured contextual exposure within a localized area. Using geocoded survey data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, matched with official neighborhood-level statistics, we pay special attention to relative neighborhood income (RNI), an inter-neighborhood comparison reflecting a …
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections
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