Outputs (5)

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work (2016)
Book
Liu, J. (2016). Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and com... Read More about Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work.

Beauties at Work: Sexual Politics in a Chinese Professional Organization (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2016). Beauties at Work: Sexual Politics in a Chinese Professional Organization. NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China, 18(2), 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00182p05

Ageing in rural China: migration and care circulation (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (in press). Ageing in rural China: migration and care circulation. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 3(9), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-016-0030-5

This article applies the concept of care circulation (Baldassar and Merla, Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care: understanding mobility and absence in family life, 2013) to the processes involved in the care of old people in... Read More about Ageing in rural China: migration and care circulation.

Intimacy and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2017). Intimacy and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China. Sociology, 51(5), 1034-1049. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516639505

This article applies the concept of intimacy to examine relationships between adult children and their parents in rural China – an area which has been predominantly located in an obligatory framework. I reveal a qualitative difference i... Read More about Intimacy and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China.

Can ‘distant water … quench the instant thirst’? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration (2016)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Liu, J. (2016). Can ‘distant water … quench the instant thirst’? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration. Journal of Aging Studies, 37, 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.02.002

This article addresses debates on modernisation, ageing and intergenerational support in developing/emerging economies. By examining the impact of rural to urban migration on elder support in Chinese rural families, it examines how support is being r... Read More about Can ‘distant water … quench the instant thirst’? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration.