· Historical Sociology

· Quantitative History

· Organization Theory

· Economic History

· Economic Sociology

· Political Sociology

· State formation and evolution in early China

Xiaoming Zhang

ZJU100 Young Professor(Category II), Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University

Education Background

Ph.D. in Organization and Strategy, The University of Hong Kong, 2018-2022

Study for doctorate , Zhejiang University，2014-2018

Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Xiangtan University, 2010-2014

Courses Taught

Social Statistics, Advanced Quantitative Methods, Quantitative History

Website：https://xiaoming-zhang.wixsite.com/academics

Working papers

Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China (with Joy Chen and Erik Wang) 2021. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3893130

Information Foundations of State Capacity: Evidence from the Imperial Bureaucracy of China (May 19, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3849139

Discretion, Talent Allocation, and Governance Performance: Evidence from China’s Imperial Bureaucracy (with Zhengcheng Liu),2021. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3813754

Hedging Desperation: How the Confucian Clan as an Internal Financial Market Reduced Cannibalism in Historical China (with Zhiwu Chen and Zhan Lin),2021. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3943899

Work-in-progress

The Rise and Fall of Complex Society in Prehistoric China (3500BCE-1500BCE): An Evolutionary Theory of Social Power

From God to Father: The Ritual Reform of Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BCE) (with Yuqi Chen)

Meritocracy and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence form Random Assignment in China’s Imperial Bureaucracy (with Kevin Zhengcheng Liu)

Awakening Latent Human Capital: Entrepreneurship and the Opening of China's Treaty Ports (with Li Duan)

Task Complexity, Disciplinary Sanction and Dynamic Incentive Provision in Imperial Bureaucracy (with Zhiwu Chen, Jin Li, and Zhan Lin)