PUBLICATIONS

Yan, Z. (2025). Eldercare Work in Contemporary China: The Nexus of State, Family, and Market. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

Yan, Z., ten Brink, T., & Müller, A.  (2025). Gaps between de jure Entitlement and de facto Benefits: Drift and the Role of Employers in China’s Maternity Benefit System. IN-EAST Working Papers on East Asian Studies, 140, Universität Duisburg-Essen. PDF

Yan, Z., & Luo, B. (2023). “It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home. Journal of Aging Studies, 64, 101111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101111

Yan, Z. (2022). “I tried to control my emotions”: Nursing Home Care Workers’ Experiences of Emotional Labor in China. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 37, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-022-09452-4

Yan, Z. (2022). Boundary Work in Marketized Chinese Nursing Home Care. In: Rajan S.I. (eds) Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_43-1

Yan, Z. (2020). An Ethical Glimpse into Nursing Home Care Work in China: Mei banfa. Ethics and Social Welfare, 14(4), 417-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2020.1839182