About My Work
My research situates the history of socialist and post-socialist factories in China within broader debates in global urban history. I examine how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) transformed peri-urban landscapes into sites of both production and social life, creating factory neighborhoods that reshaped the boundaries between city and countryside. In pursuing these questions, I engage with GUHP’s core concerns, particularly in connecting historical case studies to theorizations of planetary urbanization.
Citations
Chang, Sarah. 2025. “From Layoffs to the New Silk Road: State-Owned Factory Reform and Urban Regeneration in Southwestern China from the 1990s to the Present.” Journal of Urban Affairs, August, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2529918
Chang, Sarah. “Factory Girls and the Dancing Queen: The Gender Politics of Social Dance during China’s Early Economic Reforms”, NAN NÜ 26, 1 (2024): 59-84, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02601041
Professional Associations
Association for Asian Studies
American Historical Association