ABOUT
Welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) at NUS as a faculty associate.
I did my undergraduate studies at Peking University. I then pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan and received my Ph.D. in sociology in December 2013. Afterwards, I worked as a senior research associate at the Center for Social Research at Peking University (2014) and joined the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and CFPR at NUS as a joint postdoctoral research fellow from January 2015 to July 2016.
My research interests include marriage and family, fertility, ethnicity, migration, subjective well-being, child development, quantitative methods, and mixed methods. My research examines trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with special focus on how marriage and family serve as inequality-generating mechanisms. My ongoing research projects study how internal migration, ethnic identification, interactions between gender and intergenerational inequality, and interactions between ideational and socioeconomic contexts shape individuals’ time use patterns, family experiences, and well-being in China and Singapore.
I did my undergraduate studies at Peking University. I then pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan and received my Ph.D. in sociology in December 2013. Afterwards, I worked as a senior research associate at the Center for Social Research at Peking University (2014) and joined the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and CFPR at NUS as a joint postdoctoral research fellow from January 2015 to July 2016.
My research interests include marriage and family, fertility, ethnicity, migration, subjective well-being, child development, quantitative methods, and mixed methods. My research examines trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with special focus on how marriage and family serve as inequality-generating mechanisms. My ongoing research projects study how internal migration, ethnic identification, interactions between gender and intergenerational inequality, and interactions between ideational and socioeconomic contexts shape individuals’ time use patterns, family experiences, and well-being in China and Singapore.