Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Chen, Rui, Yan Long, and Wenjuan Zheng. Forthcoming. ”Celebrating Funerals as Weddings: A Computational Text Study of Chinese Foundations’ COVID Sentiment.” Chinese Sociological Review.
Maier, Florentine, Wenjuan Zheng, Christof Brandtner, and Leila Cornips. 2025. “The Many Indicators of Nonprofit Success as Seen by Nonprofit Leaders.” Nonprofit Management and Leadership 35(4):751–63.
Zheng, Wenjuan. 2023. "Converting Donation to Transaction: How Platform Capitalism Exploits Relational Labor in Non-profit Fundraising." Socio-Economic Review, 21(4):1897–1916.
Luo, Wei, Wenjuan Zheng, and Yan Long. 2022. "Relational Work and Its Pitfalls: Organizational Responses to Government Recruitment in Performance-Based Accreditation." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 33(1), 63-79.
Zheng, Wenjuan*, Luke Elliott-Negri*, Mary C. Lennon*, and Siqi Tu*. 2021. "Hope, Emotional Change, and Online Action: An Experimental Study of the DREAM Act" Social Problems 69(3):781–98. (*Equal contribution) [HTML] [PDF]
Zheng, Wenjuan, Zhenxiang Chen, and Paul M. Ong. 2019. "Environmental Philanthropy and Civic Engagement: a Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore" The China Nonprofit Review 11(2): 328–364. [HTML]
Lu, Yao, Wenjuan Zheng, and Wei Huang. 2017. "Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China: Wukan and Beyond." The China Quarterly 299: 1-22. [HTML] [PDF]
Under Review
Wenjuan Zheng and Ziyu Wang. Pre-manufacturing Consent: The Recruitment Process and Datafication of ‘Tool Person(s)’ in the Chinese Platform Economy. Under Review.
Research Reports
Zheng, Wenjuan. 2018. "Bowling Alone or Mobilizing Online: Millennial and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age." Revisions 15: 3-4.
Zheng, Wenjuan, Paul M. Ong, and Karna Wong. 2017. "Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy Literature Review." UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative.
Zheng, Wenjuan, Paul M. Ong, Alycia Cheng, and Karna Wong. 2017. "Comparative Philanthropy Literature Review: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan." UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative.
Wong, Karna, Paul M. Ong, and Wenjuan Zheng. 2017. "American Philanthropy Literature Review." UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative.
Lu, Shuang, and Wenjuan Zheng. 2012. "A New Urban Space: The Emergence of Job-hunting Hostels in Shanghai." Asia Pacific Affairs Council Journal: 15.
Conference Presentations
Wenjuan Zheng and Ziyu Wang. Pre-manufacturing Consent: The Recruitment Process and Datafication of ‘Tool Person(s)’ in the Chinese Platform Economy. The 118th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, USA, August 2023
Wenjuan Zheng and Ziyu Wang. Pre-manufacturing Consent: The Recruitment Process and Datafication of ‘Tool Person(s)’ in the Chinese Platform Economy. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 35th Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2023
Wenjuan Zheng. Platforming Civic Inequality: COVID-19 and Social Media Affordance Gaps among Nonprofits. 38th EGOS European Group For Organizational Studies, Vienna, Austria, July 2022
Wenjuan Zheng and Florentine Maier. The manifold facets of nonprofit organizations‘ performance from the perspective of nonprofit leaders. 38th EGOS European Group For Organizational Studies, Vienna, Austria, July 2022
Wenjuan Zheng. Technology Exit: The Hidden Cost of Crowdfunding Platforms for Small Nonprofit Organizations. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2020 Virtual Conference.
Luo, Wei, Wenjuan Zheng, and Yan Long. Relational Work and Its Pitfalls: Organizational Responses to Government Recruitment in Performance-Based Accreditation. 36th EGOS European Group For Organizational Studies.
Luo, Wei, and Wenjuan Zheng. Gaining Access in a Politically Repressive Regime: The Role of Intermediary Organizations in Recruiting Survey Participants of a Random Sample, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) 46th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov 2019
Zheng, Wenjuan. Non-profit Incubators: Nurturing the Growth of Philanthropy and Civil Society in China, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) 44th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov 2017
Ong, Paul M., and Wenjuan Zheng. Philanthropy in China Overview, The Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Feb 2015
Zheng, Wenjuan. Nonprofit Organizations in China: Framing the Organization’s Goals, 11th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 2014