Areas of Expertise:
- Labor migration, gender, and new marriage patterns
- Family, rural life, and urbanization in contemporary China
- Aging, eldercare and population policy
- Chinese culture and language
My research interests include: family and marriage, one-child policy, intergenerational relations, population aging, gender, urbanization, rural-urban migration, social change and contemporary Chinese society. In the past two decades, I have been doing research in a village in central China documenting changes in marriage patterns and family life. In more recent years I have begun to study migrant labor and urbanization in Chinese cities and document new aging experiences and family strategies in parental caregiving due to population aging, impact of one-child policy and changes in family structure.
