Deborah S. Davis
is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. She is the author of many articles and books, including Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution (1991), Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China (2009), and Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China (co-edited with Sara K. Friedman, 2014).
Vanessa L. Fong
is Olin Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. She is interested in how the experiences of a partly transnational cohort of Chinese only-children and their families shed light on anthropological, sociological, and psychological theories. Her research focuses on a cohort of youth born under China’s one-child policy between 1979 and 1986. Since 1998, she has been engaged in a longitudinal project that will follow this cohort and their children throughout the course of their lives. She is the author of Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policy (2004) and Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World (2011).
Claudia Huang
is Assistant Professor of Human Development at California State University, Long Beach. She has conducted fieldwork in Chengdu, Sichuan, where she was born and raised before immigrating to the United States as a child. Her research interests include aging and retirement, intergenerational dynamics, and state-society relations.
Sung won Kim
is Assistant Professor of Comparative Education at Yonsei University at the Department of Education, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include comparative perspectives on education in China, and she has published in journals such as Comparative Education Review, The China Journal, and Review of Educational Research.
Greene Ko
is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.
is Professor of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has authored over 115 academic and professional publications, including Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account (1993) and Family Life in China (co-authored with Robert L. Moore, 2017). He is the editor of Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? (1995), Intimacies: Between Love and Sex Across Cultures (2008), and Stimulating Trade: Drugs, Labor and Expansion (2003) (with Dan Bradburd).
Xiaoying Qi
is Associate Professor in Sociology, Australian Catholic University. She has published articles in leading internationally refereed journals, including American Journal of Cultural Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, International Sociology, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Journal of Sociology, and Sociology. She is the author of Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (2014) and Remaking Families in Contemporary China.
Lihong Shi
is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. She studies reproductive politics and family and gender relations, particularly reproductive choice and family change under China’s birth-control policy. She examines an emerging reproductive choice in rural China where a large number of couples have decided to have only one daughter, even though the modified policy allows them to have a second child. By delving into the socioeconomic factors contributing to this drastic reproductive decision, she looks at significant changes that are occurring within Chinese families. She is the author of Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China (2017).
Erin Thomason
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China. She is a cultural and psychological anthropologist specializing in rural China. Her ongoing research considers how economic development and changes in family structure impact subjective experiences and assessments of well-being. Her book-in-progress explores how multigenerational families in rural China solve ethical problems of care.
Suowei Xiao
earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and is Associate Professor at the School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University. She is the author of Desire and Dignity: Class, Gender, and Intimacy in Transitional
Yunxiang Yan
is Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor in School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University. He is the author of The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village, Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 and The Individualization of Chinese Society. His research interests include family and kinship, social change, the individual and individualization, and the anthropology of moralities.
Cong Zhang
is an Assistant Professor of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University. Her research interest is mainly on gender, parenting, grandparenting, families and kinship in China. Her publications have appeared in China Quarterly, Journal of Marriage and Family and Journal of Family Studies.