Curriculum Vitae Dr. Jun ZHANG ORCID: 0000-0002-4196-8101 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email: zhang.jun@cityu.edu.hk Office Phone: (852) 3442-4482 Education M.Phil and Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology, Yale University, USA Master of Law, School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, China Bachelor of Law, School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, China Research Interests Development and Urban Transformation Material Culture Mobility, Infrastructure and Spatial Politics Science, Technology and Society in East Asia Political Anthropology China Studies Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, 2024 till the present; Assistant Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, 2018 till 2024; Research Assistant Professor (research position): Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, 2014 till 2018; Visiting Assistant Professor (teaching position, 3 courses per semester teaching load):, Department of Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College, 2011 till 2013; Teaching Fellow, IES Abroad (Institute for the International Education of Students), Beijing Center, Spring 2011; Research Affiliate, Yale University, Fall 2009 till Spring 2010. Other Academic Affiliation Research Center for Anthropology and Health (“Technoscience, Society, and Environment” cluster), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2022 till the present. Publications Books Zhang, Jun. 2019. Driving toward Modernity: Cars and Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. * Chinese translation, published by Guangdong renmin chubanshe in 2023. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters Santos, Gonçalo D. and Zhang, Jun (corresponding author). 2024. “The Rise in Cesarean Births and the Technocratic Medicalization of Childbirth in Late-Reform China”. Modern China. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700424123, online first on February 20, 2024. 2023. Zhang, Jun. “Afterword: China’s Pandemic Governance” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13 (2): 321-326. 2022. Zhang, Jun. “Joyful Singing in Parks: Encounters, Appropriations, and Contradictions in the Dynamic of State Governance in Urban China.” Antropologia Portuguesa 39: 103-128. 2022. Zhang, Jun. “What Is Shared in Shared Bikes?: Mobility, Space, and Capital.” Mobilities 17 (5): 711-728. 2022. Zhang, Jun. “Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally Connected World: Technology, Development, and Nationalism in Contemporary Urban China.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 52 (5): 783-804. 2021. Santos, Gonçalo, Rao, Yichen Rao, Xing, Jack L. and Zhang, Jun. "Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi’s Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work-Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China." (with Gonçalo Santos, Yichen Rao, Jack L. Xing) In Work, Society, and Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era. Edited by Chris Hann, 132-157. Oxford & New York: Berghahn. 2020. Zhang, Jun. "Is Mainland China the source of all of Hong Kong’s problems?" HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10 (2):313-318. 2019. Marks, Danny and Zhang, Jun (corresponding author). “Circuits of Power: Environmental Injustice from Bangkok’s Shopping Malls to Laos’ Hydropower Dams”, Asian Pacific Viewpoint 60 (3): 296-309. 2017. Zhang, Jun. “Materializing a Form of Urban Governance: When Street Building Intersected with City Building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China.” History and Technology 33 (2):153-174. 2017. Zhang, Jun. “(Extended) Family Car, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class in Post-Socialist South China.” Modern China 43 (1): 36-65. 2016. Zhang, Jun. “Taxis, Traffic, and Thoroughfares: The Politics of Transportation Infrastructure in China's Rapid Urbanization in the Reform Era.” City & Society 28 (3): 411-436. 2015. Zhang, Jun. “The Rise and Fall of Qilou: Metamorphosis of Forms and Meanings of Built Environments in Guangzhou (Canton), China.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 26(2): 25-40. 2014. Zhang, Jun and Sun, Peidong. “When Are You Going to Get Married?" Parental Matchmaking and Middle-class Women in Contemporary Urban China.” In Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China, edited by Deborah Davis and Sara Friedman, 118-144. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Other Publications 2022. Zhang, Jun. “A History of Bicycle Mobility in Urban China: Shared Bikes, Technology, and Infrastructure (Part 2 of 2).” MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Department ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’: Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.9267 2022. Zhang, Jun. “A history of bicycle mobility in urban China: Infrastructure, economy, and urban planning (Part 1 of 2).” MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Department ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.1288 2022. Zhang, Jun. “Chinese techno-nationalism more than mere propaganda,” 360info.org, published on May 16, 2022. https://360info.org/chinese-techno-nationalism-more-than-mere-propaganda/ 2021. Santos, Gonçalo and Zhang, Jun. “Urbanization in China”, in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callen. John Wiley & sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2470 2021. Sun, Peidong and Zhang, Jun. “Parental Matchmaking in China”. Eurics Briefs. No.10. http://eurics.eu/upload/document/20210329040317_eurics-march2021.pdf. 2020. Zhang, Jun. “Divided in a connected world: Reflections on COVID 19 from Hong Kong,” City & Society. 32 (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12264 Book Reviews 2021. “Review: Globalizing Automobilism : Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980 (by Gijs Mom; Berghahn Books, 2020).” TSEG-Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 18 (3): 186-188. 2021. “Review: Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China (by Jun Liu; Oxford University Press, 2020).” Journal of Contemporary Asia 52 (5): 858-860. 2021. “Review: Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (by Karl Gerth; Cambridge University Press, 2020).” Technology and Culture 62 (1): 318-319. 2021. “Review: Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (By Chika Watanabe; University of Hawai’s Press, 2019).” Asian Studies Review 45 (1): 187-188. 2016. “Review: Consumption in China: How China's New Consumer Ideology Is Shaping the Nation (By LiAnne Yu; Polity 2014).” American Anthropologist 118 (3): 702-703. 2014. “Review: The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces (by Hai Ren; Routledge 2013).” Pacific Affairs 87(3): 577-579. 2014 “Review: J. P. Sniadeck’s Ethnographic Film Chai-Qian (Demolition),” Visual Anthropology Review 30 (1): 74-75. Selected Talks, Conference Presentations and Workshop Papers 2023. “Mythologies of Wealth in the Platform Economy: The case of Didi in China” (co-authored with Jack Linzhou XING and Gonçalo Santos), The East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography-Global Political Economy (EARCAG-GPE) 2023 Conference, December 12-15, Hong Kong. 2023. “How WeChat and Didi became super-sticky: Designs, contingencies, and open-endedness in the infrastructuralization of platforms” (co-authored with Jack Linzhou XING), The 118th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 15-19, Toronto, Canada. 2023. “Automobility, Imagined Modernity, and Urbanization: The Remaking of Canton in Early Twentieth Century China.” The 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M), October 25-28, Seoul, South Korea. 2023. “Individual Stress-Coping amid/after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Role of Civic Engagement and Stress-Management Interventions” (co-authored with Yi KANG), annual meeting of the Associate for Asian Studies, March 16-19, Boston, USA. 2022. (Invited) “Book talk: Driving toward Modernity: Cars and Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China.” Department of Sociology, University of Macau, February 17. 2021. (Invited) “The Anthropocene and the Culture of Flushing.” (co-authored with Gonçalo Santos) International Colloquium: Pluralizing the Anthropocene II. Reenvisioning the Future of the Planet in the 21st century, November 23, Portugal. 2021. (Invited) “Political Ecologies of Human Shit: The Recycling Economy of Night Soil and Human Manure in Early 20th Century China.” (co-authored with Gonçalo Santos). Public Talk series “BioSocial” by Research Center for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra, July 28, Portugal. 2021. “Hardening boundaries in a connected world: Technology, platform economy and nationalism in Contemporary China.” The 26th World Congress of Political Science: New Nationalism in an Open World, July 10-15, Lisbon, Portugal. 2020. “Technology, Ideology and Economy.” The 16th EASA biennial conference: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, 21-24 July, Lisbon, Portugal. 2019. “What is shared in Shared Bikes?: Mobility, Space, and Capital.” Ride-Hailing Workshop, November 24, Vancouver, Canada. 2019. “Caring for the People, Caring like a State: The Politics and Ethics of Non-Governmental Philanthropic Practices in Contemporary China" (co-authored with Gonçalo Santos), November 20-24, The 118th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, Canada. 2019. “Hardening boundaries in a connected world: Technology, platform economy and nationalism in Contemporary China.” Journal of Contemporary Asia workshop, University of Macau, October 1-2, Macau. 2019. (invited talk) “What is shared in Shared Bikes?: Mobility, Space, and Capital.” Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2019. “Corruption, Ethics, and Philanthropy: The Case of Lions Clubs in South China” (co-authored with Gonçalo Santos). International Convention of Asia Scholars 11, July 16-19, Leiden, the Netherlands. Professional Activities Peer Reviewer for international journals Anthropological Forum, Antropologia Portuguese, American Ethnologist, China Information, China Quarterly, China Review, Economic Anthropology, Ethnos, Ethnography, Etnográfica, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Human Organization, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Material Culture, Modern China, Research Policy, Social Inclusion, Transfers, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Urban Geography, and Urban Studies; book publishers Berghahn Books and Palgrave MacMillan; and funding agency the National Science Foundation (USA). Member of the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary Asia (since 2021); Member of the editorial board of Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (since May 2022). Member of the International Advisory Board for Palgrave’s series “Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy” (since 2021). An executive member of the International Research Network: Sci-Tech Asia; producer of its book talk podcast series “TechnoViews”; The Treasurer for Society for East Asian Anthropology under the American Anthropological Association (2022 to 2025); Board member first in the Greater Bay Area Committee and later the Impact Committee in the international NGO “Habitat for Humanity” (since 2022). Executive member for the Hong Kong Anthropological Society and organizer for the monthly talk at the Hong Kong History Museum (2016-2020); Being interviewed and quoted by major newspapers (English) such as The New York Times, BBC and the Deutsche Welle, Chinese newspaper, magazines, and other media platforms, and broadcast networks such as CNA (Singapore-based), and industries such as Japan Tobacco International and Great Wall Motor Company). Languages Mandarin (native), Cantonese (native), English (fluent) 1 8