Research

Publications

Yan, Hairong, Barry Sautman, and Yao Lu. 2021. Contract Mobility, Self Mobility, and Chinese Localization in Africa. Open Times. 1:131-155. 严海蓉、沙伯力、路瑶.“合同流动、自主流动和中国人在非洲的本地化.”《开放时代》

Yan, Hairong, Barry Sautman, and Yao Lu. 2019. “Chinese and ‘Self-Segregation’ in Africa.” Asian Ethnicity 20(1): 40–66. Reprinted in Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the Complexities
of Identities, edited by Obert Hodzi. Routledge.

Working Papers

Enumerating Race, Ethnicity, and Tribe in African Censuses, 1955-2024. (Revise and Resubmit)

State and Racial Classification in Africa: Ethnic Conflict and Post-
Independent Statecraft in Zambia and Zimbabwe. (Presented at the Junior Theorists Symposium, American Sociological Association, 2025.)

What Shapes Racial Attitudes in Post-Colonial Africa? Evidence from Zambia (Best Qualifying Paper, University of California Davis)

Big Dispersal and Small Concentration: Chinese Spatial Assimilation in Lusaka, Zambia (with YAN Hairong and Barry Sautman). (Under Review)

Works in Progress

How Mobile Money Reshapes Inequality in Zambia (with Stephanie Mudge)