Peer-Reviewed Publications
(Please see my curriculum vitae for a full list of publications)
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Sooner, Later, or Never: Changing Fertility Intentions Due to COVID-19 in China’s COVID-19
Epicentre.” Population Studies (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2134579.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Housing Characteristics and Health in Urban China: A Comparative Study of Rural Migrants
and Urban Locals.” Population, Space and Place (online first). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2600.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Local, Trans-Local, and Fellow Townspeople Ties: Differential Effects of Social Relations on
Physical Health among China’s Rural-to-Urban Migrants.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online first).
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2088485.
Zhou, Min and Xiaowei Ning. 2022. “Does Internet Use Promote or Inhibit Social Capital? Empirical Evidence from the 2017 Chinese
General Social Survey.” Journal of Asian Sociology 51(3): 225-248. http://doi.org/10.21588/dns.2022.51.3.001.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “COVID-19-Related Stigma and Its Impact on Psychological Distress: A Cross-Sectional Study in Wuhan, China.”
Health Science Reports 5(5): e758. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.758.
Deng, Yanhua and Min Zhou (equal authorship). 2022. “Why People Don’t Protest: Work Units, Selective Paternalism, and Social Ties
in China.” The China Review 22(3): 243–269. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/864172.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “Differential Effectiveness of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2012: The Conditioning Effects from Homophily and
World-System Status.” The Sociological Quarterly 63(2): 337-358.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “Core-Periphery Structure.” Pp. 309-310 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design (2nd Edition), edited by
Bruce B. Frey. SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082.n120.
Zhou, Min. 2021. “The Shifting Income-Obesity Relationship: Conditioning Effects from Economic Development and Globalization.”
SSM - Population Health 15: 100849.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Subjective Distress about COVID-19 and Its Social Correlates: Empirical Evidence from Hubei Province
of China.” Journal of Affective Disorders 289: 46-54.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Social Factors and Worry Associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a Large Survey in China.” Social
Science & Medicine 277: 113934.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Comparison of Second-Child Fertility Intentions between Local and Migrant Women in Urban China: A
Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(11): 2417-2438. .
Zhou, Min. 2020. “The International Trade Network.” Pp. 583-597 in The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, edited by Ryan Light
and James Moody. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.013.36. (online:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190251765-e-36)
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2020. “Fertility Intentions of Having a Second Child among the Floating Population in China: Effects of
Socioeconomic Factors and Home Ownership.” Population, Space and Place 26(2): e2289.
Zhou, Min and Tianyang Hu. 2020. “Social Tolerance of Homosexuality: A Quantitative Comparison of Mainland China, Singapore, and
Taiwan.” Chinese Sociological Review 52(1): 27-55.
Zhou, Min. 2019. "Gender Differences in the Provision of Job-Search Help.” Gender & Society 33(5): 746-771.
Zhou, Min. 2019. “The Shifting Burden of Obesity: Changes in the Distribution of Obesity in China, 2010-2015.” International Sociology
34(3): 347-367.
Zhou, Min. 2019. “How Elite Chinese Students View Other Countries: Findings from a Survey in Three Top Beijing
Universities.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 47(1): 167-188.
Zhou, Min and Tianyang Hu. 2019. “Jobs Found through Social Contacts: Puzzling Coexistence of Higher Job Satisfaction and
Higher Quitting Intentions.” The Sociological Quarterly 60(1): 116-137.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2018. “The Role of Rationality in Motivating Participation in Social Movements: The Case of Anti-
Japanese Demonstrations in China.” Rationality and Society 30(1): 155-186.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2017. “Anti-Japanese Sentiment among Chinese University Students: The Influence of Nationalist
Propaganda.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 46(1): 167-185.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2017. “社会运动参与动机的整合模型：以我国反日游行为例” (in Chinese). Tsinghua Sociological Review
7: 35-64.
Zhou, Min. 2016. “Environmental Skepticism and Its Impact on Environmental Behavior in Canada.” International Journal of Canadian
Studies 53: 61-84.
Zhou, Min. 2016. “Social and Individual Sources of Self-Identification as Global Citizens: Evidence from the Interactive Multilevel Model.” Sociological Perspectives 59(1): 153-176.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2016. "Participation in Anti-Japanese Demonstrations in China: Evidence from a Survey on Three Elite Universities in Beijing." Journal of East Asian Studies 16(3): 391-413.
Note: the sampling design, questionnaires (in Chinese), and data (in Stata format) are available.
Zhou, Min, Gang Wu, and Helian Xu. 2016. “Structure and Formation of Top Networks in International Trade, 2001–2010.” Social Networks 44: 9-21.
Zhou, Min. 2015. “Global Distribution of Transnational Human Rights NGOs: The Effects of Domestic Resources and Institutions.”
Sociological Inquiry 85(4): 576-599.
Zhou, Min. 2015. “The Efficacy of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2006: The Effect of Institution Creation on Market Expansion.” Sociological Forum 30(3): 721-742.
Zhou, Min. 2014. “Public Environmental Skepticism: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Analysis.” International Sociology 30(1): 61-85.
Zhou, Min. 2014. “Signaling Commitments, Making Concessions: Democratization and State Ratification of International Human
Rights Treaties, 1966-2006.” Rationality and Society 26(4): 475-508.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Public Environmental Concern in Canada: A Multidimensional Analysis.” Canadian Review of Sociology 50(4): 453- 481.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Public Support for International Human Rights Institutions: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Analysis.” Sociological Forum 28(3): 525-548.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Substitution and Stratification: The Interplay between Dyadic and Systemic Proximity in Global Trade, 1993-2005.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(2): 302-334.
Zhou, Min. 2012. “An Alternative Explanation for Anti-Japanese Sentiment in China: Shifting State-Society Interaction in China’s Japan
Policy.” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 11(2): 61-75.
Zhou, Min. 2012. “Participation in International Human Rights NGOs: The Effect of Democracy and State Capacity.” Social Science Research 41(5): 1254-1274.
- Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2013.
Zhou, Min and Chan-ung Park. 2012. “The Cohesion Effect of Structural Equivalence on Global Bilateral Trade, 1948-2000.” International Sociology 27(4): 502-523.
Beckfield, Jason and Min Zhou. 2012. “Embedded Regionalism.” Pp. 81-93 in New Visions for Market Governance: Crisis and Renewal, edited by Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall and Sanjay Pinto. New York: Routledge.
Zhou, Min. 2011. “Intensification of Geo-Cultural Homophily in Global Trade: Evidence from the Gravity Model.” Social Science Research 40(1): 193-209.
Zhou, Min. 2010. “Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000.” Social Forces 88(4): 1619-1643.
- Best Publication by a Graduate Student, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2011.
(Please see my curriculum vitae for a full list of publications)
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Sooner, Later, or Never: Changing Fertility Intentions Due to COVID-19 in China’s COVID-19
Epicentre.” Population Studies (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2134579.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Housing Characteristics and Health in Urban China: A Comparative Study of Rural Migrants
and Urban Locals.” Population, Space and Place (online first). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2600.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. Forthcoming. “Local, Trans-Local, and Fellow Townspeople Ties: Differential Effects of Social Relations on
Physical Health among China’s Rural-to-Urban Migrants.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online first).
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2088485.
Zhou, Min and Xiaowei Ning. 2022. “Does Internet Use Promote or Inhibit Social Capital? Empirical Evidence from the 2017 Chinese
General Social Survey.” Journal of Asian Sociology 51(3): 225-248. http://doi.org/10.21588/dns.2022.51.3.001.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “COVID-19-Related Stigma and Its Impact on Psychological Distress: A Cross-Sectional Study in Wuhan, China.”
Health Science Reports 5(5): e758. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.758.
Deng, Yanhua and Min Zhou (equal authorship). 2022. “Why People Don’t Protest: Work Units, Selective Paternalism, and Social Ties
in China.” The China Review 22(3): 243–269. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/864172.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “Differential Effectiveness of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2012: The Conditioning Effects from Homophily and
World-System Status.” The Sociological Quarterly 63(2): 337-358.
Zhou, Min. 2022. “Core-Periphery Structure.” Pp. 309-310 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design (2nd Edition), edited by
Bruce B. Frey. SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082.n120.
Zhou, Min. 2021. “The Shifting Income-Obesity Relationship: Conditioning Effects from Economic Development and Globalization.”
SSM - Population Health 15: 100849.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Subjective Distress about COVID-19 and Its Social Correlates: Empirical Evidence from Hubei Province
of China.” Journal of Affective Disorders 289: 46-54.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Social Factors and Worry Associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a Large Survey in China.” Social
Science & Medicine 277: 113934.
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2021. “Comparison of Second-Child Fertility Intentions between Local and Migrant Women in Urban China: A
Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(11): 2417-2438. .
Zhou, Min. 2020. “The International Trade Network.” Pp. 583-597 in The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, edited by Ryan Light
and James Moody. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.013.36. (online:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190251765-e-36)
Zhou, Min and Wei Guo. 2020. “Fertility Intentions of Having a Second Child among the Floating Population in China: Effects of
Socioeconomic Factors and Home Ownership.” Population, Space and Place 26(2): e2289.
Zhou, Min and Tianyang Hu. 2020. “Social Tolerance of Homosexuality: A Quantitative Comparison of Mainland China, Singapore, and
Taiwan.” Chinese Sociological Review 52(1): 27-55.
Zhou, Min. 2019. "Gender Differences in the Provision of Job-Search Help.” Gender & Society 33(5): 746-771.
Zhou, Min. 2019. “The Shifting Burden of Obesity: Changes in the Distribution of Obesity in China, 2010-2015.” International Sociology
34(3): 347-367.
Zhou, Min. 2019. “How Elite Chinese Students View Other Countries: Findings from a Survey in Three Top Beijing
Universities.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 47(1): 167-188.
Zhou, Min and Tianyang Hu. 2019. “Jobs Found through Social Contacts: Puzzling Coexistence of Higher Job Satisfaction and
Higher Quitting Intentions.” The Sociological Quarterly 60(1): 116-137.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2018. “The Role of Rationality in Motivating Participation in Social Movements: The Case of Anti-
Japanese Demonstrations in China.” Rationality and Society 30(1): 155-186.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2017. “Anti-Japanese Sentiment among Chinese University Students: The Influence of Nationalist
Propaganda.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 46(1): 167-185.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2017. “社会运动参与动机的整合模型：以我国反日游行为例” (in Chinese). Tsinghua Sociological Review
7: 35-64.
Zhou, Min. 2016. “Environmental Skepticism and Its Impact on Environmental Behavior in Canada.” International Journal of Canadian
Studies 53: 61-84.
Zhou, Min. 2016. “Social and Individual Sources of Self-Identification as Global Citizens: Evidence from the Interactive Multilevel Model.” Sociological Perspectives 59(1): 153-176.
Zhou, Min and Hanning Wang. 2016. "Participation in Anti-Japanese Demonstrations in China: Evidence from a Survey on Three Elite Universities in Beijing." Journal of East Asian Studies 16(3): 391-413.
Note: the sampling design, questionnaires (in Chinese), and data (in Stata format) are available.
Zhou, Min, Gang Wu, and Helian Xu. 2016. “Structure and Formation of Top Networks in International Trade, 2001–2010.” Social Networks 44: 9-21.
Zhou, Min. 2015. “Global Distribution of Transnational Human Rights NGOs: The Effects of Domestic Resources and Institutions.”
Sociological Inquiry 85(4): 576-599.
Zhou, Min. 2015. “The Efficacy of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2006: The Effect of Institution Creation on Market Expansion.” Sociological Forum 30(3): 721-742.
Zhou, Min. 2014. “Public Environmental Skepticism: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Analysis.” International Sociology 30(1): 61-85.
Zhou, Min. 2014. “Signaling Commitments, Making Concessions: Democratization and State Ratification of International Human
Rights Treaties, 1966-2006.” Rationality and Society 26(4): 475-508.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Public Environmental Concern in Canada: A Multidimensional Analysis.” Canadian Review of Sociology 50(4): 453- 481.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Public Support for International Human Rights Institutions: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Analysis.” Sociological Forum 28(3): 525-548.
Zhou, Min. 2013. “Substitution and Stratification: The Interplay between Dyadic and Systemic Proximity in Global Trade, 1993-2005.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(2): 302-334.
Zhou, Min. 2012. “An Alternative Explanation for Anti-Japanese Sentiment in China: Shifting State-Society Interaction in China’s Japan
Policy.” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 11(2): 61-75.
Zhou, Min. 2012. “Participation in International Human Rights NGOs: The Effect of Democracy and State Capacity.” Social Science Research 41(5): 1254-1274.
- Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2013.
Zhou, Min and Chan-ung Park. 2012. “The Cohesion Effect of Structural Equivalence on Global Bilateral Trade, 1948-2000.” International Sociology 27(4): 502-523.
Beckfield, Jason and Min Zhou. 2012. “Embedded Regionalism.” Pp. 81-93 in New Visions for Market Governance: Crisis and Renewal, edited by Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall and Sanjay Pinto. New York: Routledge.
Zhou, Min. 2011. “Intensification of Geo-Cultural Homophily in Global Trade: Evidence from the Gravity Model.” Social Science Research 40(1): 193-209.
Zhou, Min. 2010. “Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000.” Social Forces 88(4): 1619-1643.
- Best Publication by a Graduate Student, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2011.