BOOKS
Labor of Reinvention, Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (2023, Columbia University Press)
創業打工人：中國數字經濟時代的個體、市場與國家 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, forthcoming April 2026).
SPECIAL ISSUES
Whither China?: Chinese Communication Research at the New Conjuncture, Special Issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication published in 2025.
Platform Economies in Asia, Double Special Issues of Social Media + Society published in 2025.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (E – Equal first-authorship)
El-Hibri, Hatim, Joe F. Khalil, Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, and Rahul Mukherjee. 2025. “States and Platform Capitalisms: A Conversation.” Platforms & Society (November): 29768624251395354. PDF
Zhang, Lin, and Jingyan Elaine Yuan. Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism. Social Media + Society (2025) PDF
Zhang, Lin. Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech. Social Media + Society (2025) PDF
Zhang, Lin. China paradigm and the future of global techno-capitalism at a new conjuncture. Dialogues in Urban Research (2025). PDF
Bingchun Meng, Lin Zhang, and Elaine Yuan. Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjuncture. Chinese Journal of Communication 18 (3): 251-259 (2025). PDF
Yuan, Jingyan Elaine, and Lin Zhang. “From Platform Capitalism to Digital China: The Path, Governance, and Geopolitics.” Social Media+ Society 11.1 (2025) PDF
Zhang, Lin E, Lan, Tu E, INNOVATING URBAN CHINA: The Rise of the Local Venture State and the Making of New Entrepreneurial Spaces, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2024) PDF
Lan, Tu E, Zhang, Lin E, and Hu Yongjiao. Desired and Disposable: The economism of Chinese international students in US higher education. Geoforum (2024). PDF
Zhang, Lin. A social reproductive perspective into rural e-commerce and internet history in China. Communication and the Public (2024). PDF
Marc Steinberg, Zhang, Lin, Rahul Mukherjee. Platform capitalism, platform cultures. International Journal of Cultural Studies (2024). PDF
Lan, Tu E, Zhang, Lin E. Made in Italy by Chinese: How Migrant Entrepreneurs Refashion Global Fashion Production. Chinese Journal of Communication (2024). PDF
Zhang, Lin, Elaine Jingyan Yuan (2022) Entrepreneurs in China’s Silicon Valley: State-led Financialization and Mass Entrepreneurship/Innovation. Information, Communication, & Society. PDF
Zhang, Lin E, Julie Yujie Chen E (2022) A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The Case of Alibaba and Tencent. Media, Culture & Society. PDF
Zhang, Lin E, Lan, Tu E, (2022) The new whole state system: Reinventing the Chinese State to Promote Innovation. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space PDF
Zhang, L. (2022) Moving beyond shanzhai? Contradictions of Platformized Family Production in the Planetary Network of E-Commerce Labor. In Digital Work in the Planetary Market (ed.) Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari. MIT Press.
Zhang, L. (2021) Platformizing family production: The contradictions of rural digital labor in China. The Economic and Labor Relations Review. PDF
Zhang, L. (2021) “Assembling Alibaba: When Platformization Meets Infrastructruation in China”, in Social Media in China the US (edited by Guobin Yang and Wei Wang). PDF
Zhang, L. (2020). The entrepreneurial labor of reinvention in Beijing’s Zhongguancun high-tech district. Communication and the Public 5.3-4: 99-102. PDF
Zhang, L. (2020). When platform capitalism meets petty capitalism in China: Alibaba and an integrated approach to Platformization. International Journal of Communication 14: 114-134. PDF
Guan, Zexu, and Zhang, Lin. (2020) 阿里巴巴的进化史与小资本主义的平台化：对本土语境平台化的考察 [The Evolution of Alibaba and the Platformization of Petty Capitalism: Contextualizing the Local Platformization]. 国际新闻界 Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 42 (02) (In Chinese). PDF
Zhang, L. (2018). The contradictions of “women’s work” in digital capitalism–a “non-Western”/Chinese perspective. Feminist Media Studies. PDF
Zhang, L. (2016). Fashioning the feminine self in ‘prosumer capitalism’: Women’s work and the transnational reselling of Western luxury online. Journal of Consumer Culture.PDF
Zhang, L., Frazier, R. T. P. (2015). “Playing the Chinese card”: Globalization and the aesthetic strategies of Chinese contemporary artists. International Journal of Cultural Studies. PDF
Frazier, R. T. P., & Zhang, L. (2014). Deconstructing Lou Jing: Debates over race and Chinese identity in cyberspace. China Information 28 (2): 1—12. PDF
Zhang, L. (2014). Productive vs. Pathological: The Contested Space of Video Games in post-reform China (1980s-2012). International Journal of Communication 7 (21). PDF
Zhang, L., & Fung, A. Y. (2014). Working as playing? Consumer labor, guild and the secondary industry of online gaming in China. New Media & Society 16 (1): 38—54. PDF
Zhang, L., & Fung, A. Y. (2013). The Myth of ‘Shanzhai’ culture and the paradox of digital democracy in China. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14 (3): 401—416. PDF
Zhang, L. (2013). Third-person effect and gender in online gaming. First Monday, 18: 1—17. PDF
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Zhang, Lin & Tu Lan. Live-Work, The Logic Magazine, August 2022. PDF
Zhang, Lin. Putting Ant under the microscope, November 2020, Sixth Tone
Zhang, Lin. Review of The Media and Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life, The Communication Review 20 (4)
Henry, J. & Zhang, L. (2017). A Conversation with Henry Jenkins (Translated into Chinese by Xiqing Zheng). Communication & Society 40, pp. 1-26. PDF
Zhang, L. (2015). Review of Winnie Wong Yin Wong, Van Gogh on Demand, China and the Readymade, International Journal of Communication 9. PDF
Zhang, L. “Carnival in Cyberspace” or “Site of Resistance”? Internet Egao Culture as Popular Critique in Post-socialist Chinese Society. MA Thesis. New York: New York University, 2008. PDF
Zhang, L. “Negotiate a Space for Fans in Cyberspace”–The Cultural Politics of Online Chinese Fandom of Western TV Drama. Unpublished Manuscript. PDF (Don’t Cite Without Permission)
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