Publications

Book

Chuang, Julia. 2020. Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market. University of California Press.

  • American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Labor and Labor Movements, Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award, 2021
  • ASA Development Section, Best Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2021
  • ASA Section on Asia and Asian America, Transnational Asia Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2021
  • Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Asian Studies, The China Journal

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Articles

Chuang, Julia. N.d. “Organizational Structure of Migrant Brokerage: The Case of Investment Immigration to the U.S.” Under review at Comparative Migration Studies.

Smith, Nick R. and Julia Chuang. N.d. “Who Controls China’s Rural Land? Village Leadership Under State Pressure,” In “New Actors in Rural China”, ed. Jesper Zeuthen, Elena Meyer-Clement, Kristin Looney, John Donaldson. Cornell University Press. Revise and resubmit.

Chuang, Julia and Nick Smith. 2025. “Regimes of Dispossession in China: Intra-state Competition and Land Dispossession Outcomes,” Journal of Peasant Studies online first.

Chuang, Julia. 2022. “Questions of Culture in the Life of Off-shored Chinese Capital.” Economic Sociology: Perspectives and Conversation. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

Chuang, Julia and John Yasuda. 2021. “Polanyi and the Peasant Question in China: State, Peasant, and Land Relations in China, 1949-present.” Politics & Society, forthcoming.

Tian, Fengrui and Julia Chuang. 2021. “Depoliticizing China’s Grassroots NGOs: State and Civil Society as an Institutional Field of Power.” The China Quarterly, forthcoming.

Chuang, Julia. 2016. “Factory Girls After the Factory: Female Return Migrations in Rural China,” Gender & Society Vol. 30 (3): 467-489.

Chuang, Julia. 2015. “Urbanization Through Dispossession: Survival and Stratification in China’s New Townships,” Journal of Peasant Studies Vol. 42 (2), 275-294.

  • ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements, Distinguished Graduate Student Paper
  • Bharadwaj and Wolf Prize for outstanding article by a young scholar, Journal of Peasant Studies

Chuang, Julia. 2014. “China’s Rural Land Politics: Bureaucratic Absorption and the Muting of Rightful Resistance,” The China Quarterly Vol. 219, 649-669.

Chuang, Julia. 2014. “Chains of Debt: Labor Trafficking as a Career in China’s Construction Industry,” in Kimberly K. Hoang and Rhacel Parrenas (eds.), Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the Problem, Envisioning New Solutions, pp. 58-68. New York: Open Society Institute.

Other publications

Chuang, Julia. 2026. Review of Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China, by Anthony Spires. Asian Perspective.

Chuang, Julia and Fengrui Tian. 2025. Review of Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How economic bureaucrats make policies and remake the Chinese state, by Yingyao Wang. Contemporary Sociology 54(5): 454-457.

Chuang, Julia. 2024. Review of The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach, by Xueguang Zhou. Journal of Asian Studies 83 (1): 179–181.

Deomeniconi, Carlotta, Sibel Tari, et al. 2021. “Role Detection and Prediction in Dynamic Political Networks.” Women in Data Science 2019 Workshop Proceedings.

Chuang, Julia. 2018. Review of Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China, by Yuk-Ping Choi and Yinni Pang. Contemporary Sociology 47(3): 308-310.

Chuang, Julia. 2017. Review of Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat, by Sarah Swider. Industrial Labor Review 70(5): 1291-1293.

Chuang, Julia. 2014. Review of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, by Emily Yeh. Journal of Peasant Studies 40(2): 1-4.

Chuang, Julia. 2014. “The Withering Away of the State in China?” Review of Capitalism From Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper. Second author with John Lie. Contemporary Sociology 43(37): 37-39.

Lie, John and Julia Chuang. 2008. “Peoplehood.” In Richard T. Schaefer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society. Sage Publications.

Working papers

Chuang, Julia and Laith Ulaby. “Workplace Organization and AI Automation.” In preparation.