Education

PhD 2021, Brwon University;

MA 2015, Columbia University

MA 2007, University of Oklahoma;

BA 2003, Peking University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology ,2021-

Research Interests

Ethnosociology
Political Sociology
Ethnic conflicts
Nationalism and State Building

Courses Taught 

UndergraduateCourses: 

    Identity Politics (2022-); 

Graduate Courses: 

    Ethnic and National Policy (2022-);

    Nationalism and State Building (2022-).

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Zhang, Zhe, and Wenhui Yang. 2026. “Xinjianger, Muslim, and Chinese Nation: Identity Transformation of Uyghur Students in Xinjiang Class.” Journal of Contemporary China, February, 1–17.

Zhang, Zhe. 2025. “Negotiating Unbelonging: Lived Citizenship and ‘Rejection Valley’ among Kandas in Kazakhstan.” Citizenship Studies 29 (5): 354–73.

Shao, Lei, and Zhe Zhang. 2023. The Social Integration of Floating Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Study of Tibetans in Beijing and Chengdu, China. Chinese Political Science Review. 9, 245–273.

Zhang, Zhe & Sansar Tsakhirmaa. 2022. Ethnonationalism and the changing pattern of ethnic Kazakhs’ emigration from China to Kazakhstan. China Information, 36(3), pp.318–343.

Zhe Zhang, Xu Zhang, Louis Putterman. 2019. Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 161, 128-144.