Xiaoling Shu
Professor of Sociology, University of California, DavisXiaoling 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).
Articles by Xiaoling Shu
Society
In marriage, do us apart: Changing family forms in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai [Eye on JiangZheHu series]
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai’s dynamic economy, great social mobility, rising cost of living, exorbitant housing prices, intense competition and costly childcare have prompted a shift towards a wider variety of family forms to cope with these modern challenges. These pragmatic and innovative family and marriage arrangements have enriched the Chinese family system, asserts US academic Xiaoling Shu.
Xiaoling Shu
17 Jan 2025