Min Zhou

Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications Director, Asia Pacific Center Founding chair of Asian American Studies Department (2001-2005) at UCLA Honorable Mention of the 1993 Robert E. Park Award, Community of Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Dr. Min Zhou is the author of Chinatown (1992), The Transformation of Chinese America (2006 in Chinese), Contemporary Chinese America (2009); The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies (2011); co-author of Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998), The Asian American Achievement Paradox (2015), and The Rise of the New Second Generation (2016); editor of Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (2017), and Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World (2021); co-editor of Contemporary Asian America (2000, 2nd ed. 2007, 3rd ed. 2016), and Asian American Youth (2004).