Xiaowei ZangProfessor· China's social stratification· China's grass-roots civil servantsXiaowei ZangChair Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong KongEducation BackgroundPhD in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Min ZhouProfessor· Immigration· Immigrant adaptation in the U.S.· Race and ethnicity· Urban sociologyMin ZhouDistinguished professor, Department of Sociology, UCLAAdjunct professor, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang UniversityEducation BackgroundMay 1989Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) at AlbanyMay 1988Certificate of Graduate Study in Urban Policy, SUNY-AlbanyDecember 1985Master of Arts in Sociology, SUNY-AlbanyJanuary 1982Bachelor of Arts in English, Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, ChinaCourses TaughtInterracial Dynamics; Contemporary Asian American Communities; Asian AmericanYouth; The Sociology of Los Angeles; Theories of Ethnicity; Chinese Immigration;Immigration and the New Second Generation; Immigration and Ethnic Entrepreneurship;Urban Sociology; Introductory Sociology; Human Societies; Minority Peoples in theUnited States; The Community; Methods for Social ResearchWebsite:http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/zhou/
Shuren ZongProfessor· Social and historical anthropology· Chinese folk culture, morality and society· The idea of Great harmony, the international dissemination of Chinese culture, the cultural dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the formation of global civilization·Religious culture, minority culture·Taoism, spiritual cultivation, Asian religious studiesDavid A Palmer (Ph.D, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) is a Professor of anthropology jointly appointed by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology of the University of Hong Kong. He completed his BA in Anthropology and East Asian Studies at McGill University in 1992, with Kenneth Dean as his honours thesis supervisor. He then obtained his M. Phil in Psychology (Ethnopsychiatry) at the Université de Paris-8 in 1996, and his Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 2002, under the supervision of K. M. Schipper. He was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society in the Department of Sociology of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003-2004, and, from 2004 to 2008, director of the Hong Kong Centre of the French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient), located at the Institute for Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2008. Palmer’s interdisciplinary research and teaching is situated at the intersection of sociology and anthropology, and is informed by scholarly traditions in history, religious studies and Sinology. He is best known for his award-winning books The Religious Question in Modern China (Joseph Levenson Award of the Association for Asian Studies and PROSE award of the American Publishers’ Association, co-authored with V. Goossaert) and Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Francis L.K. Hsu Award of the Society for East Asian Anthropology), both of which have become essential reading for studies on contemporary Chinese society and religion. His contributions to the study of modern Daoism include the edited volume Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity (co-edited with Xun Liu, University of California Press) and the book Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with E. Siegler), published in 2017 by the University of Chicago Press. His latest book Civil Buddhism, Martial Daoism: The Jiao Ritual Tradition of Xicun 《广东省英德市黄花镇溪村醮仪资料汇编》, co-authored with Martin Tse, is forthcoming in the Daoist Ritual Series edited by John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi. He has also published numerous articles, journal issues and edited volumes on Chinese religion, Daoism, the Bahá’í Faith, and modern and transnational religious movements. His writings have been published in journals such as Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Economy and Society, The Journal of Asian Studies and Modern Asian Studies. He leads the “Asian Religious Connections” research cluster at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, where he co-directs with Joseba Estevez, the Yao Dao project, a major collaborative research initiative on the Daoist rituals and manuscripts of the Lanten Yao (Mun) ethnic group in northern Laos.
