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Rob Jansen @rsjansen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So excited to receive this in the mail today! (Don’t forget that you can preorder from UM Press with the discount code UMWEB30.) The official release date isn’t till October 28, but I’ll have a physical copy with me at ASA. If anyone wants to check it out, come find me!

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So pleased to hear that After Positivism, edited by @mayrl.bsky.social and @nickhwilson.bsky.social, received the Barrington Moore book award! It was such an honor to be part of this incredible collective effort

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Rare professional post: I am honored beyond words to say that @mayrl.bsky.social and me have received the @asanews.bsky.social Comparative and Historical Section Barrington Moore Award for best book in Comparative Historical Sociology for *After Positivism* (tinyurl.com/442uh3b9). 1/

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After Positivism | Columbia University Press

What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that hav... | CUP

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Roi Livne @rlivne.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Earlier today, @uofmpress.bsky.social sent me the front cover design of Xiaohong Xu’s forthcoming book. It will come out in October 2026. Gorgeous art by Dahong Liu. Provocative foreword by Ho-fung Hung. Brilliant scholarship by Xiaohong Xu.

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Please consider joining the day-long series "Historical Social Sciences and China" this Friday in the Grant Park Parlor at Palmer House @socscihistory.bsky.social. Our symposium features four sessions on elite politics, socialism & capitalism, state & empire, and a roundtable on Remaking Modernity.

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Glad to share my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Changing China in Sociological Eyes The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. $120.00 (cloth); $...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go! We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just look at them! Now that makes me happy. 🤩

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Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁 tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST. Zoom ID: 852 364 4345 Passcode: sociology

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Editorial Board Boarded Bluesky! Welcome Professor Yuanchong Wang from Delaware.

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Look what I found at the JF Books in Washington DC! Yeah, @nianshen.bsky.social made his way to Bluesky from Beijing.

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've updated the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" to include not only more sociologists but also historians, political theorists, political scientists, historical IR scholars, cultural anthropologists, critical geographers, & media scholars who examine Chinese society from various angles.

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Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words. (Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I created a starter pack for sociologists studying China: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm. We study China’s labor, gender, family, inequality, organizations, education, professions, media, civil society, protests, immigration, as well as politics and history. Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! (Photo taken in Peru)

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