Keming Yang
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Durham UniversityKeming Yang is an Associate Professor at Durham University’s Department of Sociology, and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. His research focuses mainly on the social origins and meanings of loneliness and its consequences, studying it as a social problem by examining the effects of social relations and social contexts (class, ethnicity, immigration, national culture, etc).
Articles by Keming Yang
Society
China got richer. Why did its older people get lonelier?
China’s economic miracle has brought prosperity and mobility to millions — but also left many older people lonely. As families shrink, children migrate and communities change, loneliness reveals the hidden social costs of a transformation built on success. Academic Keming Yang explains.
Keming Yang
23 Oct 2026