Events
The Role of Assortative Mating in Marital Infidelity: Insights from China
Date: 4 Februry 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm, HK Time
Understanding and Supporting Dementia Caregivers in Rural China
Date: 30 January 2026 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Book Launch
Beyond Market Meritocracy: Work and Family Care in Chinese Societies
Date: 28 November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm, HK Time
Linked Lives: An Extended Dyadic Perspective on Income Trajectories in China
Date: 31 October 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
‘A mother has to be strong!’: Narrating the ‘strong motherhood’ in China’s online autism community
Date: 25 September 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm, HK Time
Hardship and Hard Work: Why Do Gender Egalitarian Chinese Women Still Prefer Sons?
Date: 23 May 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Child Care Interventions to Support Paid Work and Caregiving for Families at the Economic Margins in the United States
Date: 12 May 2025 (Monday)
Time: 10:00am-12:00noon, HK Time
Conference on Chinese Family in Uncertain Times
Date: 8-9 May 2025
Organized by:
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK
Centre for Chinese Family Studies, CUHK
Department of Social Work, CUHK
Funded by:
University Grant Committee (UGC) and Shanghai-Hong Kong University Alliance (SHUA, PI: Prof. Jing Song)
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK
Centre for Chinese Family Studies, CUHK
Department of Social Work, CUHK
Participating Universities:
East China Normal University
East China University of Political Science and Law
Fudan University
Hong Kong Baptist University
Lingnan University
Renmin University of China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai University
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The University of Hong Kong
Zhejiang University
Parent’s Advice and Inequality: Gender and Socioeconomic Status in the Transition to Adulthood in China
Date: 28 March 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Reinstitutionalization of Marriage among Young People in Taiwan
Date: 28 February 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Localization of Research in Population Aging: Examples from Singapore
Date: 25 November 2024 (Monday)
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm, HK Time
CCFS Forum: New Norms in Aging: Insights from East Asian Societies in a Low Fertility Context
Date: 7 November 2024
Time: 2:30pm-5:00pm, HK Time
Tracking Effect or Selection Effect? Vocational Education and Status Attainment in China
Speaker: Duoduo Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong
Date: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Peer Network Segregation an Psychological Well-being among Migrant Adolescents in China
Speaker: Lei Jin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 26 Sept 2024
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Institutionalized Negative Selection and Structural Teacher Favoritism: Signs, Mechanisms, and Heterogeneity of the Effects of Cultural Capital on Educational Achievement in China
Speaker: Wensong Shen, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 26 Jun 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Mini-Conference on Fertility and Family Challenges in East Asia
Date: May 24-25, 2024
(Not) Return to Work: A comparative study of Chinese stay-at-home mothers in Shanghai, Singapore, and New York
Speaker: Dr. Felicia F. Tian, Professor, Department of Sociology, Fudan University
Date: 25 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
The Transformation of Modern Mother-Daughter Relationship and the Rising Bilateral Family Institution in Contemporary China
Speaker: Yingchun Ji, Professor, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University
Date: 27 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Gender Occupational Equality and Men’s Share of Childcare
Date: 8 March 2024 (Friday)
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm, HK Time
Speakers:
Prof. Haijing DAI (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work; Co-director, Centre for Chinese Families Studies, CUHK)
Prof. Jing SONG (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Prof. Kecheng FANG (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK)
Dr. Lynn SUN Lin ( Lecturer, Centre for China Studies, CUHK)
Moderator:
Prof. Yuying Tong (Professor, Department of Sociology; Co-director, Centre for Chinese Families Studies, CUHK)
Discussants:
Prof. Anthony T.C. CHAN (Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President (Alumni Relations & Advancement), Master, Wu Yee Sun College, Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor of Clinical Oncology, CUHK)
Prof. Lynne Nakano (Chair, Professor, Department of Japanese Studies; Co-Director, Gender Research Centre, CUHK)
Prof. Susanne Y.P. CHOI (Professor, Department of Sociology; Co-Director, Gender Research Centre, CUHK)
Understanding the Association between Marriage and Fertility Intentions: A Comparative Quasi-Experimental Study in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore
Speaker: Zheng Mu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
Date: 26 Jan 2024 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Childlessness, Social Network Profiles in Midlife and Late Adulthood, and Their Implications for Subjective Well-Being
Speaker: Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
Date: 24 Nov 2023 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition
Speaker: Yi-lin Chiang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University Shanghai
Date: 20 Oct 2023 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
The Korean Family: A Luxury Good
Speaker: Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Date: 25 Sep 2023 (Monday)
Time: 14:30pm-16:00pm, HK Time
Parental nonstandard work schedules and children: Peril or Opportunity
Speaker: Minseop Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 23 Jun 2023 (Friday)
Time: 10:00am-11:30am, HK Time
The Fight for Representation: The State of Chinese Americans 2022
Speaker: Gao Qin, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social Work, Columbia University
Date: 31 May 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 8:30pm-10:00pm, HK Time
Book Launch | Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism
Speaker: Shu Xiaoling, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Date: 11 May 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
An egg-based intervention on child undernutrition: reasonability and effectiveness
Speaker: Jin Minchao, Clinical Associate Professor, Silver School of Social Work, New York University
Date: 14 April 2023 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, HK Time
Global China and Elite Chinese Gay Global Multiple Migrants
Speaker: CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 24 March 2023 (Friday)
Time: 10:00am-11:30am, HK Time
Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Fertility in Japan
Speaker: James M. Raymo, Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Date：17 February 2023 (Friday)
Time：9:30 am – 11:00 am
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Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
Speaker: Dr. Junming Huang, Research Scientist, Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Date：20 January 2023 (Friday)
Time：10:00 am – 11:30 am
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The Family in Contemporary China: Lessons from the Past
Speaker: Cameron Campbell, Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date：23 Nov 2022 (Wednesday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Gender Equality Paradox of Fertility: A Theoretical Thinking
Speaker：Professor Yang Juhua, Professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Minzu University of China
Date：27 Oct 2022 (Thursday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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The Intergenerational Sources of the U-turn in Gender Segregation
Speaker：Professor Ling Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date：30 September 2022 (Friday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Prof. Chunni Zhang (張春泥)
Date：16 June 2022 (Thursday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Ambitious and Anxious
Speaker：Professor Yingyi Ma
Professor of Sociology, Director of Asian/Asian American Studies and the Provost Faculty Fellow on internationalization at Syracuse University.
Date：18 May 2022 (Wednesday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Rising Cohabitation, Flexible Intimacy, and Persistent Marriage in China
Speaker：Prof. Jing Song, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date：27 April 2022 (Wednesday)
Time：10:00 am – 00:30 am
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Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences
Speaker：Professor Tianji Cai (Associate Professor at University of Macau)
Date：23 March 2022 (Wednesday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Multiracial Families in the Era of International Migration
Speaker: Professor Kate H. Choi
Date: 23 February 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Stratified Fertility Responses to China’s Two-Child Policy
Speaker: Hao Dong
Date: 12 January 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Professor SHEN Wensong （Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
Date：24 November 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:30 am
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Gender Constitutionalism And Reproductive Rights In Asia
Speaker：Prof. Mara Malagodi（Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
Date：29 October 2021 (Friday)
Time：14:30 pm – 16:00 pm
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Couple’s Ideal Family Size and the Realization of a Second Child under China’s Two-child Policy
Speaker：Yuying Tong（Professor of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
Date：27 October 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Professor Yue Qian, University of British Columbia
Date：29 September 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：11:00 am – 12:30 pm
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Active Response to Population Aging in China: Rural Vitalization and Toilet Revolution
Speaker：Professor Feng Qiushi, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology &Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR), National University of Singapore
Date：24 June 2021 (Thursday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Professor Feinian Chen, Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Date：20 May 2021 (Thursday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Market Merits and Family Virtues: Family Caregivers in the Labor Market of Hong Kong
Speaker：Professor Haijing Dai, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date：14 April 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：10:00 am – 11:30 am
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Going Solo in China: Prevalence and Characteristics of those who Live Alone, 2010 to 2050
Speaker：Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Date：24 February 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：10:00 am – 11:30 am
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Understanding Ideal Family Size in China: A Social Contextual Approach
Speaker：Professor Jia Yu, Assistant Professor, Center for Social Research, Peking University
Date：20 January 2021 (Wednesday)
Time：10:00 am – 11:30 am
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The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge (Stanford University Press, 2020)
Presented by: Prof. Minhua Ling (Associate Professor, Centre for China Studies, CUHK)
Time: Dec. 4th, 9:30 am-10:30 am (HK Time)
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Brothers and Sisters in China: No Longer the One-child Family
Speaker：Professor Chen Bin-Bin, Fudan University
Date：20 November 2020 (Friday)
Time：15:00 pm – 16:30 pm
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Welfare Participation and Depression Symptoms Among Youth in China
Speaker：Shiyou Wu
Date：13 November 2020 (Friday)
Time：13:00 pm – 14:30 pm
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Political Standing and National Identity of Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong
Speaker：Zhuoni Zhang（Associate Professor of Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong）
Date：18 September 2020 (Friday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Adolescent Gender Attitudes and Adulthood Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Taiwan
Speaker：Professor Ran Liu（Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison）
Date：19 June 2020 (Friday)
Time：10:00 am – 11:30 am
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The Household Structure Transition in China: 1982-2015
Speaker：Professor Ting Li（School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China）
Date：15 May 2020 (Friday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Professor Emma Xiaolu ZANG（Yale University）
Date：08 May 2020 (Friday)
Time：09:30 am – 11:00 am
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Speaker：Professor Adam Cheung（Hong Kong Baptist University）
Date：17 January 2020 (Friday)
Time：10:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Trends in Social Closure in Post-Revolution China
Speaker：Professor Yu XIE（Princeton University）
Date：15 March 2019 (Friday)
Time：14:00 pm – 16:00 pm
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Young Adults Out- Migration and Health Inequality among Older Parents in Rural China
Speaker：Professor Zhen Liu（Chinese University of Hong Kong）
Date：14 February 2019 (Thursday)
Time：14:30 pm – 16:00 pm
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Speaker：Prof. Yue Qian, Assistant Professor of University of British Columbia
Date：13 June 2018 (Wednesday)
Time：11:30 am – 13:00 pm
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A Mosaic Temporality: New Dynamics of the Gender and Marriage System in Contemporary Urban China
Speaker：Professor Yingchun Ji（Eastern Scholar Professor, Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University）
Date：26 February 2018 (Monday)
Time：15:30 pm – 17:00 pm
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Living Arrangements and Old-Age Psychological Health: Evidence from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand
Speaker：Professor Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan（School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University）
Date：26 October 2017 (Thursday)
Time：14:30 pm – 16:30 pm
