Zhehang Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines Global China, borderland development, state power, and the political economy of transnational capitalism through qualitative and comparative methods. His current project, “Zones of Illegibility: Capital Flows, Transnational Labor, and Development in Global China,” studies how Chinese-led industrial development reshapes cross-border governance, institutional experimentation, and social life in China–Southeast Asia borderlands. More broadly, his work brings political sociology, economic sociology, and the sociology of development into conversation to analyze capitalism, state power, and social change in East and Southeast Asia. He holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Peking University.
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Sociology, UC Berkeley
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