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PROF Jieyu Liu's Outputs (57)

Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2024). Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(3), Article e12578. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12578

Much of the existing debate on social reproduction focuses on capitalist social relations or is framed around the distinction between the Global North and Global South. Using China, whose unique post‐1949 developmental trajectory embraces both elemen... Read More about Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait.

Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China (2024)
Thesis
Sun, N. Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides an in-depth feminist sociological investigation into the lives of tongqi, a term denoting women married to homosexual men (tongzhi) in China. Using an intersectional framework, the study probes the intricate relationships between... Read More about Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China.

Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, S., Yang, X., Liu, J., Chong, M. K.-C., Cheng, Y., Gong, W., & Zou, G. (in press). Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(9), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291231

Background
The number of empty nest elderly in China has gradually increased in recent years. There is growing concern about the physical and mental health of this population as empty nest elderly are commonly at the risk of compromising health, hom... Read More about Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study.

Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2023). Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China. Journal of Aging Studies, 64, 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101104

This article explores the intertwining issues of filial obligation, material interest and emotional intimacy in driving adult children's provision of old-age support in family settings. Drawing upon multi-generational life history interviews with urb... Read More about Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China.

Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018) (2023)
Thesis
Wan, F. Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis aims to investigate how the internet has permeated manifestations of young urban women’s sociality and creativity in mainland China over the past two decades, by exploring the “Strong Women Narrative”, one of the most popular and represent... Read More about Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018).

Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2025). Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages. Children & Society, 39(3), 636-651. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12666

This article examines how, for many in rural China, experiences of childhood are entangled within the complex processes of rural-to-urban internal migration. Drawing upon multi-generational life history data in three villages, it unpacks three common... Read More about Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages.

Life satisfaction and its influencing factors of middle-aged and elderly stroke patients in China: a national cross-sectional survey (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Liu, J., Zhou, S., Xu, X., Cheng, Y., Yi, Y., & Zou, G. (2022). Life satisfaction and its influencing factors of middle-aged and elderly stroke patients in China: a national cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open, 12(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059663

Objectives: This study reports the life satisfaction of middle-aged and elderly patients who had a stroke in China, and explores its association with patients’ sociodemographic characteristics, health status, lifestyles and family relationship. Desig... Read More about Life satisfaction and its influencing factors of middle-aged and elderly stroke patients in China: a national cross-sectional survey.

Ageing and familial support: a three-generation portrait from urban China (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2024). Ageing and familial support: a three-generation portrait from urban China. Ageing & Society, 44(5), 1204-1230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000861

Research on ageing in China has been preoccupied with the unsolved question of whether traditional filial piety is eroded or sustained by societal modernisation. This article engages with the ongoing debate on modernisation and family change, but see... Read More about Ageing and familial support: a three-generation portrait from urban China.

China: #MeToo, inequality, harassment and sexual politics in the workplace (2021)
Other
Liu, J. (in press). China: #MeToo, inequality, harassment and sexual politics in the workplace. London

This sexualised business culture often includes visits with clients to entertainment venues (involving banquets, karaoke parties and saunas). Professional women in these situations are all-too often vulnerable to sexual harassment and exploitation. O... Read More about China: #MeToo, inequality, harassment and sexual politics in the workplace.

Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Liu, J. (2021). Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’. In M. Silverstein (Ed.), Aging Families in Chinese Society (151-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015529-8

Intergenerational relations are adapting to changing socio-economic conditions in China. Rather being lodged in a dichotomy between solidarity and conflict, this chapter reveals the emergence of ambivalence in changing intergenerational ties. Through... Read More about Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’.

Can China raise its birth rate? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. Can China raise its birth rate?. [Radio]

China’s decades-long One Child Policy has led to a low birth rate, and a shrinking workforce. It has also been placing a heavy burden on the younger generations who will have to support two parents and four grandparents. It’s predicted that in five y... Read More about Can China raise its birth rate?.

What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. (2021). What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women?

China’s new policy of allowing couples to have three children (replacing the previous limit of two) is an attempt to respond to ageing population concerns and a slowing birth rate. But the policy’s implications for working women and their families me... Read More about What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women?.

Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2022). Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait. Current Sociology, 70(4), 598-617. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120985861

This article examines how the experience of childhood has changed in urban China against the backdrop of the wider political, social and economic transformations in the 20th century. Drawing on 95 life history interviews in three urban sites in China... Read More about Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait.

What is life like for people who come from one child families? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. What is life like for people who come from one child families?. [Podcast]

Because of the one child policy which ran from 1979 to 2016, millions of people in China have grown up without brothers or sisters, especially in urban settings. The media sometimes describes them as “little emperors” or “little empresses” and this s... Read More about What is life like for people who come from one child families?.

Has China’s obsession with feminine beauty liberated women? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. Has China’s obsession with feminine beauty liberated women?. [Podcast]

Should Communists care about being beautiful? In Maoist China, western ideas of beauty were derided as bourgeois. It was said to be far better to judge a woman’s worth by her intelligence, patriotism, and adherence to socialist values. Yet, as China... Read More about Has China’s obsession with feminine beauty liberated women?.

How do women in China feel about the state deciding how many children they should have? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. How do women in China feel about the state deciding how many children they should have?. [Podcast]

It is an expensive choice to have children in China, especially in big cities. Most parents struggle to afford child care and only a few employers do much to support the careers of working mothers. A new term has been coined to describe women’s chall... Read More about How do women in China feel about the state deciding how many children they should have?.

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies (2019)
Book
Liu, J., & Yamashita, J. (Eds.). (2019). Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315660523

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up to date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.

Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender... Read More about Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies.