She has published several journal articles and book chapters on globalization, labor and labor movements, and the political economy of development in China. Her forthcoming book, From Detroit to Shanghai? Globalization, Market Reform, and Labor Unrest in the Chinese Automobile Industry (Cambridge University Press), explores how global and national industry dynamics, state institutions and socialist legacies, and shop-floor labor activism interact in complex ways to produce the specific labor relations and dynamics of labor unrest in the Chinese automobile industry. The book is based on twenty months of fieldwork and around 300 in-depth interviews in seven automobile factories in six Chinese cities. Zhang is currently researching capital relocation strategy and labor politics in the high technology electronics industries of China and Vietnam.