Attended the @wfrn.bsky.social conference at Montreal in June, great experience! And the pre-conference writing workshop was wonderful!

Attended the @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference at Bordeaux, great experience! Had nice chats with colleagues, received constructive comments and explored the beautiful Bordeaux.

Another sparkling collection for my Happiness Folder ✨🤗👩‍🏫

Book recommendation: The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China books.google.com.hk/books?id=dBd... 😊✍️📚

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Very grateful for the recognition😊 Our article could be read at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📣📣📣🥳[Sociology Seminar Series 2025 - 2026] Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Gender, family and relocated housing in rural China

Happy trip to this year’s ASA at Chicago. Had some good chats, bought some good books, had some good runs. See you again Windy City!

Academic friends (the qualitative ones:), any book or paper recommendations on writing ethnographic field notes? Please drop some titles🤩📚Summer is fieldwork and reading time! (Photo: taken from the field 🪿 )

Last week, we shared our study of Chinese female entrepreneurship and discussed about the interaction of gender, family and regional development in a beautiful bookstore at Shaoxing, China. What an amazing experience—to share research in a bookstore is like a dream come true to me😍

Great opportunity to learn computational social science in June! No experience needed, qualitative researchers are also welcomed as there are text and image analysis 😍 sicss.io/2025/lingnan/

Why do highly educated women move (back) to small cities in China? In the article, I shared the findings about the complicated gendered considerations for Chinese women in the return-migration activity which challenge some stereotypical views on people’s migration decisions. 💙

Sharing our newly published open access (FREE!) paper in Chinese Sociological Review: "Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Rural families and housing properties in relocated villages in the urbanizing northwestern China": doi.org/10.1080/2162...

Special issue in Gender in Management on "New perspectives on women’s entrepreneurship in China" (my article, "Femininity penalties and rewards: obstacles and opportunities for Chinese female entrepreneurs in gender-segregated industries", is included:) www.emerald.com/insight/publ...