Xiaoling Shu

Xiaoling Shu is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in the US. She served as the director of East Asian Studies at UC Davis in 2017-22, chair of the Section on Asia and Asian America of the American Sociological Association in 2018-21, president of the International Chinese Sociological Association (formerly NACSA) in 2016-17, and vice-chair and graduate director of Sociology in 2014-17. Professor Shu’s research focuses on the impacts of marketisation and globalisation; gender inequalities; subjective sense of well-being; gender, family and marriage; and sexual behaviours and attitudes. She uses data science models on national and international data to carry out country-specific (China and the US) and cross-national analyses. She is the co-author of Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism (2023) and the author of Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences: A Data Mining Approach (2020).