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SAGE Open, 2021

For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and study... more For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and studying in the West as well as the concomitant returning waves. This study draws on information obtained from secondhand documents and firsthand field studies to analyze and compare two returning waves involving the complex dynamics of globalization/indigenization of Christianity in China. The first returning wave began in the early 1900s and lasted until 1950, in which many went overseas because of their connections with Western missionaries. The second returning wave is currently occurring following the study-abroad fever after 1978, in which many were exposed to the proselytizing endeavor of overseas Chinese Christian communities and eventually converted to Christianity before returning to China. The article compares the following themes in relation to these two groups of Christian returnees: their negotiation with their religious identities upon the return, perceptions on the meaning of ...

Sage Open, 2021

For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and study... more For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and studying in the West as well as the concomitant returning waves. This study draws on information obtained from secondhand documents and firsthand field studies to analyze and compare two returning waves involving the complex dynamics of globalization/indigenization of Christianity in China. The first returning wave began in the early 1900s and lasted until 1950, in which many went overseas because of their connections with Western missionaries. The second returning wave is currently occurring following the study-abroad fever after 1978, in which many were exposed to the proselytizing endeavor of overseas Chinese Christian communities and eventually converted to Christianity before returning to China. The article compares the following themes in relation to these two groups of Christian returnees: their negotiation with their religious identities upon the
return, perceptions on the meaning of Christianity to themselves and to China, their transnational religious networks, and potential implications to the glocalization of Christianity in China. Consequently, it involves the following topics that are important throughout the modern Chinese history: modernity/religion paradox, East–West interaction in relation to
Christianity, contributions of Western-educated professionals to China, glocalization of Christianity in China, and complex internationalist/nationalist interaction.

Asian Population Studies, 2018

In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on interg... more In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on intergenerational contracts. The existing scholarship on elder care in rural China tends to treat the elderly as a homogeneous group and depict them mainly as ‘care recipients’. Based on a diachronic qualitative study in central rural China between 2005 and 2013, this research examines the changing intergenerational contracts between two cohorts of rural elderly and their adult children. These cohorts hold different positions in terms of family structure, number and sex composition of adult children, living arrangement, physical situation, economic standing and appreciation of intergenerational exchange. These differences further produce different social exchange patterns and disparate elder care modalities between genders and cohorts. Drawing upon insights from gender theory on social gerontology, this research identifies the ‘agency’ of older rural women and explores ageing issues among older rural men. This study also presents policy implications by identifying the most disadvantaged group in terms of elder care support.

Yangwen Zheng (ed.), Sinicising Christianity, Leiden: Brill, 2017

There has been a recent trend in the history of Christianity in China in which scholars emphasize... more There has been a recent trend in the history of Christianity in China in which scholars emphasize the efforts of Chinese Christians.2 Departing from the earlier paradigm which focused on the activities of Western missionaries and the history of missions, scholars have started to look at the crucial roles of Chinese Christians, including both church leaders and ordinary Chinese Christians, especially Chinese Christian women, and their role in shaping modern Chinese societies and the growing independence of the Chinese church.3 A later development of this trend goes further and focuses on the rise of indigenous popular Christian elements in twentieth century Chinese history, showing how the cross-cultural religious encounter was grounded in Chinese culture and politics of the time. And the rise of Christianity in rural China in the post-Mao era has seen the continued development of some popular modes of Christianity.4 Scholarly attention has also been paid to the emergence of a group of intellectual Christians in urban China who follow a "New Calvinist theology" and have a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects 1

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2017

In recent years, single young women and married couples migrating from mainland China have consti... more In recent years, single young women and married couples migrating from mainland China have constituted a prominent group engaging in ministry careers among Chinese Christian communities in the UK. By investigating how they construct meaning out of their career choices that were entangled in the binaries and contradictions of the past/present, home/diaspora, public/private, men/women and
family/self, this study explores the complexity of gender, Christianity and space in a (late) socialist Chinese case, thereby revealing the paradoxical subjectivities of these Chinese ministers. The idea is advanced that apart from a structural demand for
clergies from mainland China, the complex interaction between traditional, (late) socialist and Christian gender ideologies has also affected their choices. The interaction works as a ‘transformative mechanism’ which creates a new moral order in terms of gender relations, family relations and work ethics. The new order incurs a
patriarchal backlash against women in this group as well as empowering them. This research explores an interesting relationship between feminism, socialism and Christianity.
Keywords: Missionaries; Gender; Space; Paradoxical Subjectivities; Overseas Chinese Christian Communities

《福建论坛（人文社会科学版）》, 2017

从实际生育水平和生育意愿来看，中国正处在一个“低生育陷阱”的风险中。既有经验表明，低生育率有三种发展路径: 翻升、持平、持续下坠。分析了东亚国家和地区生育率持续低迷背后的原因; 也考察了实现低生... more 从实际生育水平和生育意愿来看，中国正处在一个“低生育陷阱”的风险中。既有经验表明，低生育率有三种发展路径: 翻升、持平、持续下坠。分析了东亚国家和地区生育率持续低迷背后的原因; 也考察了实现低生育率持平甚至翻升的欧美发达国家，发现不同的福利模式具有不同的提升生育率的作法。通过比较，发现北欧模式与自由主义模式中的“去家庭化政策”( 托育) 比欧陆保守社团主义模式的“再家庭化政策”( 亲职假、津贴) 对提升生育率更为有效。而重视性别平等政策的北欧模式比自由主义模式更能普及照顾弱势，因而提升生育率的效果更好。以此总结了以上经历对中国可能的启示。

《华东理工大学学报（社会科学版）》，第五期, 2015

《中国农业大学学报（社会科学版）》，第四期, 2015

Social Compass, 2015

Since the 2000s, Chinese Christians in Europe have witnessed an increasing flow of resources and ... more Since the 2000s, Chinese Christians in Europe have witnessed an increasing flow of resources and evangelists from Chinese Christian Communities in North America. Based on information gathered in the UK, Germany and China, this article aims to reveal the mechanisms and dynamics behind the space-making and network-building in overseas Chinese Protestant Christians’ missionisation processes. The authors suggest that the increased flow takes place in an imagined faith community reinforced by the discourse on the ‘suffering’ of the Chinese nation, that it is a result of a farreaching geographical imaginary with ethnic Chinese evangelists as God’s new chosen people, and that it is linked to the dynamics in the specific locations of North America, Europe and China. These mechanisms and dynamics are entangled with a ‘network of moralities’ arising from the discourses on ‘authenticity’ and ‘suffering’. The result is a distinct ethno-religious space, which, however, does not conflict with the cosmopolitan aims of the grand missionary enterprise.

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2014

in Angela W. W. Ching, Maria Tam and Danning Wang (eds.) Gender and Family in East Asia, London & New York: Routledge, 2014

Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review, 2013

This book aims to challenge the widely-perceived images of 'victimised and helpless' (p. 3) Chine... more This book aims to challenge the widely-perceived images of 'victimised and helpless' (p. 3) Chinese women in the pre-1949 period and 'emancipated' women in the post-1949 era. It contributes to a new scholarship emerging in the last twenty years which endeavours to discover the agency of Chinese women and offer a 'more sophisticated understanding of the continuities, disjunctures and transformations in Chinese women's lives and in gender discourse' (p. 3). Proceeding chronologically, its eight main chapters cover periods from the pre-twentieth-century to the post-Mao era. In each chapter, Bailey focuses on both women's lives and gender discourses by drawing on important and updated scholarly works, as well as by offering interesting examples. The detailed bibliography of the book is very useful.

Local Economy, Feb 2012

Great changes in terms of land and labour systems in rural China have been brought about by the e... more Great changes in terms of land and labour systems in rural China have been brought about by the economic reform in the late 1970s. The implementation of family planning policy and the tidal waves of rural-to-urban labour migration also caused demographic transitions. How have these changes affected the farming arrangements in rural China? Many suggest there has been a 'feminization of agriculture', while others insist it is not occurring. Based on quantitative information and ethnographic research in a central Chinese village, this article aims to reconcile the discrepancies between the discussions. It suggests that both sides might be correct in different contexts, taking into account the demographic transition among different cohorts of farming populations, regional differences in industrialization and levels of rural-to-urban labour migration. It proposes there has been a transition from the 'feminization of agriculture' to the 'ageing of farming populations' in the late 1990s, which implies a danger to farming in rural China when we ask: Who will be farming in 10 years' time?

Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2012

In "Women, Gender and Development in Rural China", 2011

SAGE Open, 2021

For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and study... more For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and studying in the West as well as the concomitant returning waves. This study draws on information obtained from secondhand documents and firsthand field studies to analyze and compare two returning waves involving the complex dynamics of globalization/indigenization of Christianity in China. The first returning wave began in the early 1900s and lasted until 1950, in which many went overseas because of their connections with Western missionaries. The second returning wave is currently occurring following the study-abroad fever after 1978, in which many were exposed to the proselytizing endeavor of overseas Chinese Christian communities and eventually converted to Christianity before returning to China. The article compares the following themes in relation to these two groups of Christian returnees: their negotiation with their religious identities upon the return, perceptions on the meaning of ...

Sage Open, 2021

For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and study... more For more than 100 years, China has seen waves of students and scholars heading overseas and studying in the West as well as the concomitant returning waves. This study draws on information obtained from secondhand documents and firsthand field studies to analyze and compare two returning waves involving the complex dynamics of globalization/indigenization of Christianity in China. The first returning wave began in the early 1900s and lasted until 1950, in which many went overseas because of their connections with Western missionaries. The second returning wave is currently occurring following the study-abroad fever after 1978, in which many were exposed to the proselytizing endeavor of overseas Chinese Christian communities and eventually converted to Christianity before returning to China. The article compares the following themes in relation to these two groups of Christian returnees: their negotiation with their religious identities upon the
return, perceptions on the meaning of Christianity to themselves and to China, their transnational religious networks, and potential implications to the glocalization of Christianity in China. Consequently, it involves the following topics that are important throughout the modern Chinese history: modernity/religion paradox, East–West interaction in relation to
Christianity, contributions of Western-educated professionals to China, glocalization of Christianity in China, and complex internationalist/nationalist interaction.

Asian Population Studies, 2018

In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on interg... more In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on intergenerational contracts. The existing scholarship on elder care in rural China tends to treat the elderly as a homogeneous group and depict them mainly as ‘care recipients’. Based on a diachronic qualitative study in central rural China between 2005 and 2013, this research examines the changing intergenerational contracts between two cohorts of rural elderly and their adult children. These cohorts hold different positions in terms of family structure, number and sex composition of adult children, living arrangement, physical situation, economic standing and appreciation of intergenerational exchange. These differences further produce different social exchange patterns and disparate elder care modalities between genders and cohorts. Drawing upon insights from gender theory on social gerontology, this research identifies the ‘agency’ of older rural women and explores ageing issues among older rural men. This study also presents policy implications by identifying the most disadvantaged group in terms of elder care support.

Yangwen Zheng (ed.), Sinicising Christianity, Leiden: Brill, 2017

There has been a recent trend in the history of Christianity in China in which scholars emphasize... more There has been a recent trend in the history of Christianity in China in which scholars emphasize the efforts of Chinese Christians.2 Departing from the earlier paradigm which focused on the activities of Western missionaries and the history of missions, scholars have started to look at the crucial roles of Chinese Christians, including both church leaders and ordinary Chinese Christians, especially Chinese Christian women, and their role in shaping modern Chinese societies and the growing independence of the Chinese church.3 A later development of this trend goes further and focuses on the rise of indigenous popular Christian elements in twentieth century Chinese history, showing how the cross-cultural religious encounter was grounded in Chinese culture and politics of the time. And the rise of Christianity in rural China in the post-Mao era has seen the continued development of some popular modes of Christianity.4 Scholarly attention has also been paid to the emergence of a group of intellectual Christians in urban China who follow a "New Calvinist theology" and have a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects 1

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2017

In recent years, single young women and married couples migrating from mainland China have consti... more In recent years, single young women and married couples migrating from mainland China have constituted a prominent group engaging in ministry careers among Chinese Christian communities in the UK. By investigating how they construct meaning out of their career choices that were entangled in the binaries and contradictions of the past/present, home/diaspora, public/private, men/women and
family/self, this study explores the complexity of gender, Christianity and space in a (late) socialist Chinese case, thereby revealing the paradoxical subjectivities of these Chinese ministers. The idea is advanced that apart from a structural demand for
clergies from mainland China, the complex interaction between traditional, (late) socialist and Christian gender ideologies has also affected their choices. The interaction works as a ‘transformative mechanism’ which creates a new moral order in terms of gender relations, family relations and work ethics. The new order incurs a
patriarchal backlash against women in this group as well as empowering them. This research explores an interesting relationship between feminism, socialism and Christianity.
Keywords: Missionaries; Gender; Space; Paradoxical Subjectivities; Overseas Chinese Christian Communities

《福建论坛（人文社会科学版）》, 2017

从实际生育水平和生育意愿来看，中国正处在一个“低生育陷阱”的风险中。既有经验表明，低生育率有三种发展路径: 翻升、持平、持续下坠。分析了东亚国家和地区生育率持续低迷背后的原因; 也考察了实现低生... more 从实际生育水平和生育意愿来看，中国正处在一个“低生育陷阱”的风险中。既有经验表明，低生育率有三种发展路径: 翻升、持平、持续下坠。分析了东亚国家和地区生育率持续低迷背后的原因; 也考察了实现低生育率持平甚至翻升的欧美发达国家，发现不同的福利模式具有不同的提升生育率的作法。通过比较，发现北欧模式与自由主义模式中的“去家庭化政策”( 托育) 比欧陆保守社团主义模式的“再家庭化政策”( 亲职假、津贴) 对提升生育率更为有效。而重视性别平等政策的北欧模式比自由主义模式更能普及照顾弱势，因而提升生育率的效果更好。以此总结了以上经历对中国可能的启示。

《华东理工大学学报（社会科学版）》，第五期, 2015

《中国农业大学学报（社会科学版）》，第四期, 2015

Social Compass, 2015

Since the 2000s, Chinese Christians in Europe have witnessed an increasing flow of resources and ... more Since the 2000s, Chinese Christians in Europe have witnessed an increasing flow of resources and evangelists from Chinese Christian Communities in North America. Based on information gathered in the UK, Germany and China, this article aims to reveal the mechanisms and dynamics behind the space-making and network-building in overseas Chinese Protestant Christians’ missionisation processes. The authors suggest that the increased flow takes place in an imagined faith community reinforced by the discourse on the ‘suffering’ of the Chinese nation, that it is a result of a farreaching geographical imaginary with ethnic Chinese evangelists as God’s new chosen people, and that it is linked to the dynamics in the specific locations of North America, Europe and China. These mechanisms and dynamics are entangled with a ‘network of moralities’ arising from the discourses on ‘authenticity’ and ‘suffering’. The result is a distinct ethno-religious space, which, however, does not conflict with the cosmopolitan aims of the grand missionary enterprise.

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2014

in Angela W. W. Ching, Maria Tam and Danning Wang (eds.) Gender and Family in East Asia, London & New York: Routledge, 2014

Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review, 2013

This book aims to challenge the widely-perceived images of 'victimised and helpless' (p. 3) Chine... more This book aims to challenge the widely-perceived images of 'victimised and helpless' (p. 3) Chinese women in the pre-1949 period and 'emancipated' women in the post-1949 era. It contributes to a new scholarship emerging in the last twenty years which endeavours to discover the agency of Chinese women and offer a 'more sophisticated understanding of the continuities, disjunctures and transformations in Chinese women's lives and in gender discourse' (p. 3). Proceeding chronologically, its eight main chapters cover periods from the pre-twentieth-century to the post-Mao era. In each chapter, Bailey focuses on both women's lives and gender discourses by drawing on important and updated scholarly works, as well as by offering interesting examples. The detailed bibliography of the book is very useful.

Local Economy, Feb 2012

Great changes in terms of land and labour systems in rural China have been brought about by the e... more Great changes in terms of land and labour systems in rural China have been brought about by the economic reform in the late 1970s. The implementation of family planning policy and the tidal waves of rural-to-urban labour migration also caused demographic transitions. How have these changes affected the farming arrangements in rural China? Many suggest there has been a 'feminization of agriculture', while others insist it is not occurring. Based on quantitative information and ethnographic research in a central Chinese village, this article aims to reconcile the discrepancies between the discussions. It suggests that both sides might be correct in different contexts, taking into account the demographic transition among different cohorts of farming populations, regional differences in industrialization and levels of rural-to-urban labour migration. It proposes there has been a transition from the 'feminization of agriculture' to the 'ageing of farming populations' in the late 1990s, which implies a danger to farming in rural China when we ask: Who will be farming in 10 years' time?

Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2012

In "Women, Gender and Development in Rural China", 2011

Springer, 2020

This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have be... more This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts. It combines perspectives from sociology, gender studies, social history and demography to investigate the changes and continuities in the lives of women and men in Lianhe, a rural village in central China, examining the period from 1926 to 2013 through the lens of labour and leisure. Employing methods from the field of ethnography, the research focuses on the life stories of three generations, including 57 women in Lianhe.
The book develops a ‘double comparison’ analytical framework to compare the organisation of labour and leisure in the three respective generations, proceeding, on the one hand, diachronically along the historical time, that is, the pre-collective era, collective era and reform era, and synchronically along the women’s life stages on the other. In so doing, the book links women’s shifting role in changing family/household forms with broader socio-economic, political, demographic and cultural changes. Moreover, it employs a holistic perspective to reflect changing patterns in women’s labour and leisure by disrupting the remunerated/unremunerated, home/labour, within/outside household and labour/leisure dichotomies, and exploring the interrelations between them.
Based on this, the book then identifies the determinants of rural women’s labour and leisure and reveals the women’s experiences of their changing identities, particularly concerning their relationships with their parents (-in-law), sisters (-in-law), husbands and children. Particularly highlighting the interdependence and inequality among women, it also reveals their own perception of their identities and relationships, and their understanding of husband–wife fairness and gender equality. Lastly, it demonstrates that the prevalent androcentrism in the remote world does not match the increasing husband–wife fairness in the local world and argues that this mismatch has caused the complex and paradoxical experiences and subjectivities of these women.
Given its scope, the book is of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, gender and development, as well as a general audience looking to explore contemporary rural China.

华东理工大学出版社, 2019

中国的村庄在过去一个多世纪里发生了巨变，同时，男女村民的生活也面临不断的延续和变迁。本书综合了社会学、性别研究、社会历史和人口学的方法，从性别的视角，以“劳动”和“闲暇”为透镜，考察了华中莲荷村... more 中国的村庄在过去一个多世纪里发生了巨变，同时，男女村民的生活也面临不断的延续和变迁。本书综合了社会学、性别研究、社会历史和人口学的方法，从性别的视角，以“劳动”和“闲暇”为透镜，考察了华中莲荷村在过去八十多年间(1926-2013)的变与不变。本书探讨了不同代际的女性和男性劳动和闲暇的变迁及延续，劳动和闲暇组织过程中不同性别及代际间变动的权力关系，以及这些权力关系在家庭内和家庭外的表现和形成机制。本书使用了一个“双重比较”的框架，一方面纵向考察前集体时代、集体时代和改革开放时代村庄中劳动和闲暇在不同性别和代际间的分化；另一方面横向追踪村庄女性在少女时代、年轻母亲时代及老年时期劳动和闲暇生活的延续和变迁。本书采用了一个全面的、关系性的视角考察了有酬/无酬，家庭/劳动，家庭内/外，劳动/闲暇等原本被二分的领域并探讨这些领域的相互关系。在此基础上，本书将莲荷村女性和男性在变化着的家庭中的角色和更广大范围内的社会经济、政治、人口和文化变迁联系起来，展现了村庄社会性别制度的嬗变，影响这种嬗变的个体、家庭、市场和国家层面的因素及与此相关的微观宏观动态。

四川大学出版社, 2018

在整个二十世纪的历史进程中，亚洲各地的知识圈都是把眼睛往欧美看，形成了一种知识上的“欧美中心主义”。但近期世界格局的变化和中国及印度作为主要成员的第三世界国家的兴起，产生了一种在欧美之外的地区开... more 在整个二十世纪的历史进程中，亚洲各地的知识圈都是把眼睛往欧美看，形成了一种知识上的“欧美中心主义”。但近期世界格局的变化和中国及印度作为主要成员的第三世界国家的兴起，产生了一种在欧美之外的地区开展出一种“替代性的参照框架”的需要。这其中，中国和印度因具有相似的背景、相近的现代性追求轨迹和发展道路而具有较强的可比较性。作为一种脱离“欧美中心主义”的努力，本书致力从社会学的角度比较当代中国和印度社会在全球化和现代化的进程中，在发展道路与制度、城乡发展和政策、劳动与社会组织、社区与社会治理、医疗教育与法律、性别与儿童发展、文化与精神等方面相似及相异的经历，并追问这些异同背后的原因及对两国的意义。这种比较有助于我们反观中国社会的发展，并帮助我们在一种“替代性参照框架”的基础上反思既有的发展模式和学术范式。

金琅学术出版社（Golden Light Academic Publishing）, 2018

本书探讨了“青春无悔的老三届”这个集体认同的建构和坍塌的历史过程。本书认为，一方面，知青群体是分层的，对稳定的“自我认同”的追求促使不同层次的知青对“上山下乡”的经历采用了不同的叙事模式。现在生... more 本书探讨了“青春无悔的老三届”这个集体认同的建构和坍塌的历史过程。本书认为，一方面，知青群体是分层的，对稳定的“自我认同”的追求促使不同层次的知青对“上山下乡”的经历采用了不同的叙事模式。现在生活优越和中等的知青对“上山下乡”多采取一种“无悔”的态度；而仍然在为基本的生存奔忙的知青则采取一种“有悔”、“有怨”的态度。另一方面，20世纪80年代末的社会运动造成了启蒙话语的失败，主流话语的“真空”、经济体制的转型带来的文化震荡和道德失范，使得整个社会需要一种带有理想主义和英雄主义激情的精神。但 “怀旧”所需要的时间、经济实力和“怀旧”意愿这些条件使得参加“怀旧”活动的多是知青中怀有“无悔”情怀的人。而“青春无悔”所蕴涵对理想的忠诚和追求恰好也契合了时代和社会的需要。在这种背景下，知青群体集策划者、创作者和消费者为一身，使得以“青春无悔”为旗帜的“老三届文化热”轰轰烈烈地在全国蔓延，使得“青春无悔的老三届”的集体认同在20世纪90年代初形成。但之后开始步入老年的知青群体进一步分化、国家对相关主题进一步管制、知青文学和知青影视的“另类书写”和“去知青化”加剧、社会科学的知青时代迈入终结，这些都促进了“青春无悔的老三届”这一集体认同的坍塌。