Xiaojian Zhao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaojian Zhao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaojian |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhao |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8821-9602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Overachieving and Obsessive Behavior as Signaling Devices under Career Concern
This paper provides an economic rationale for overachieving behavior in nonprofessional activities in the labor market. The intrinsically motivated worker uses his achievement in nonprofessional activity to signal his work ethic. When the worker's career concern is weak, he exerts no extra effort on nonprofessional activity.When the worker's career concern is strong, however, his effort level for the nonprofessional activity can go beyond the bli…
The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy
The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. In this detailed and comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for p…
Motivated False Memory
People often forget and sometimes fantasize. This paper reports a large-scale experiment on memory errors and their relation to preferential traits including time preference, attitudes toward risk and ambiguity, and psychological characteristics such as anticipatory feelings. We observe systematic incidences of false memory in favor of positive events and positive amnesia in forgetting past negative events. Both positive delusion and positive con…
Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World
China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet. Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs connecting …
Meredith Oyen. The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War
Writing U.S.-China relations in the Cold War era is a challenging task. The topic is highly political, and the available documents require careful scrutiny. Meredith Oyen’s The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War examines diplomatic relations through migration, illuminating the role of migration diplomacy in the development of U.S.-China relations at a time when the countries were m…
The Study of Asian American Families
Sent-down Youth and Rural Economic Development in Maoist China
This article explores the relationship between the sent-down youth movement and economic development in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. It examines ways in which sent-down youth themselves initiated improvements in rural life, and more importantly, how local officials used both their presence to acquire equipment and technical training and their skills and education to promote rural industry. The sent-down youth offices established in…
Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-dat…
History
History Xiaojian Zhao History Chair: Xiaojian Zhao Committee members: Jean J. Kim, Shelley Lee Winner: A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, by Greg Robinson Greg Robinson's A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America provides an exceptionally valuable synthesis of a large and continually growing volume of scholarly work on the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Robinson argues that d…
Framing contingencies in contracts
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (review)
Reviewed by: Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation Xiaojian Zhao (bio) Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation, by Min Zhou. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Xvi + 297 pp. $28.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-59213-858-6. Min Zhou is well known for her pioneering work on post-1965 Asian America and her theoretical approach to ethnicity. Beginning with her firs…
Moral Hazard With Unawareness
The article introduces unawareness of actions into the standard moral hazard model in contract theory. We allow the contracting party (the principal or the agent) to be unaware of his or the other party's actions. The principal may also have an incorrect belief about the awareness of the agent. We provide a solution concept where the principal contemplates the incentive scheme according to his conjecture of the agent's mind and also contemplates …
Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940 to 1965
On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience Lisa See Leslee Leong Michael Duchemin
Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World
China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet. Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs connecting …
Motivated False Memory
People often forget and sometimes fantasize. This paper reports a large-scale experiment on memory errors and their relation to preferential traits including time preference, attitudes toward risk and ambiguity, and psychological characteristics such as anticipatory feelings. We observe systematic incidences of false memory in favor of positive events and positive amnesia in forgetting past negative events. Both positive delusion and positive con…
Framing contingencies in contracts
Moral Hazard With Unawareness
The article introduces unawareness of actions into the standard moral hazard model in contract theory. We allow the contracting party (the principal or the agent) to be unaware of his or the other party's actions. The principal may also have an incorrect belief about the awareness of the agent. We provide a solution concept where the principal contemplates the incentive scheme according to his conjecture of the agent's mind and also contemplates …
On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience Lisa See Leslee Leong Michael Duchemin
Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940 to 1965
Moral Hazard With Unawareness
The article introduces unawareness of actions into the standard moral hazard model in contract theory. We allow the contracting party (the principal or the agent) to be unaware of his or the other party's actions. The principal may also have an incorrect belief about the awareness of the agent. We provide a solution concept where the principal contemplates the incentive scheme according to his conjecture of the agent's mind and also contemplates …
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (review)
Reviewed by: Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation Xiaojian Zhao (bio) Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation, by Min Zhou. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Xvi + 297 pp. $28.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-59213-858-6. Min Zhou is well known for her pioneering work on post-1965 Asian America and her theoretical approach to ethnicity. Beginning with her firs…
History
History Xiaojian Zhao History Chair: Xiaojian Zhao Committee members: Jean J. Kim, Shelley Lee Winner: A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, by Greg Robinson Greg Robinson's A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America provides an exceptionally valuable synthesis of a large and continually growing volume of scholarly work on the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Robinson argues that d…
Framing contingencies in contracts
Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-dat…
Sent-down Youth and Rural Economic Development in Maoist China
This article explores the relationship between the sent-down youth movement and economic development in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. It examines ways in which sent-down youth themselves initiated improvements in rural life, and more importantly, how local officials used both their presence to acquire equipment and technical training and their skills and education to promote rural industry. The sent-down youth offices established in…
The Study of Asian American Families
Meredith Oyen. The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War
Writing U.S.-China relations in the Cold War era is a challenging task. The topic is highly political, and the available documents require careful scrutiny. Meredith Oyen’s The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War examines diplomatic relations through migration, illuminating the role of migration diplomacy in the development of U.S.-China relations at a time when the countries were m…
Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World
China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet. Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs connecting …
The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy
The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. In this detailed and comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for p…
Motivated False Memory
People often forget and sometimes fantasize. This paper reports a large-scale experiment on memory errors and their relation to preferential traits including time preference, attitudes toward risk and ambiguity, and psychological characteristics such as anticipatory feelings. We observe systematic incidences of false memory in favor of positive events and positive amnesia in forgetting past negative events. Both positive delusion and positive con…
Overachieving and Obsessive Behavior as Signaling Devices under Career Concern
This paper provides an economic rationale for overachieving behavior in nonprofessional activities in the labor market. The intrinsically motivated worker uses his achievement in nonprofessional activity to signal his work ethic. When the worker's career concern is weak, he exerts no extra effort on nonprofessional activity.When the worker's career concern is strong, however, his effort level for the nonprofessional activity can go beyond the bli…
History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)