Yajun Zheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 6881799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yajun Zheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yajun |
| FAMILY NAME | Zheng |
| SIGNATURE | ZHENG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4988-5375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Untangling the dominant culture in China’s elite universities
Western literature has shown that elite universities are not culturally inclusive, presuming that these institutions predominantly reflect the culture of the affluent middle class. While cultural inclusion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students is a globally relevant issue, the overarching presumption does not necessarily apply to non-Western societies. This article reconsiders this assumption in the Chinese context, addressing the lack of s…
Unemployed graduate to the next Jack Ma? A counter-narrative to the entrepreneurship movement in higher education
Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes
Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritoc…
Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes
Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritoc…
Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes
Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritoc…
Unemployed graduate to the next Jack Ma? A counter-narrative to the entrepreneurship movement in higher education
Untangling the dominant culture in China’s elite universities
Western literature has shown that elite universities are not culturally inclusive, presuming that these institutions predominantly reflect the culture of the affluent middle class. While cultural inclusion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students is a globally relevant issue, the overarching presumption does not necessarily apply to non-Western societies. This article reconsiders this assumption in the Chinese context, addressing the lack of s…
China (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (2 works) · Law (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work)