Designation：Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University

    Abstract：ZHOU Min, Ph.D., is Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Head of the Division of Sociology, and Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies and Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations & Communications at the University of California, Los Angeles (on leave). Currently she is the Chair of the Section on International Migration of the American Sociological Association. Zhou’s main areas of research include international migration, ethnic/racial relations, ethnic entrepreneurship, immigrant education, Chinese Diaspora, and Asia and Asian America, and she has published widely in these areas, including 14 books and more than 160 journal articles and book chapters. She is the author of Chinatown, Contemporary Chinese America, The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies, and Synergy between American Sociology and Asian American Studies; co-author of Growing up American; and co-editor of Asian American Youth and Contemporary Asian America. Currently, Zhou is working on two projects, one on inter-group relations and racial attitudes among Chinese and Africans in Guangzhou, China, and the other on Chinese immigrant transnationalism.” She is writing three book manuscripts: Chinatown, Koreatown, and Beyond; Assimilation and the New Second Generation in the United States; Los Angeles’ New Second Generation Coming of Age.