Y Bian
Biographic Data
| ID | 19660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Bian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Bian |
| SIGNATURE | BIAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4034-2497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Social capital in the Internet era across societies: Development, inequality and netizen’s advantage
Using the 2017 module of International Social Survey Program (ISSP), we explore the differences in individual social capital between netizens and non-netizens across seven countries and make a tentative analysis of how varying degrees of economic development and inequality are associated with social capital and netizen’s advantage in social capital. We find that netizens have higher social capital than non-netizens in six ISSP member countries, s…
The mechanisms of social network on subjective well-being from a life course perspective: The mediating role of individual resilience
The theoretical implications of developing social network measurement from a functional perspective and policy implications of focusing on the social support function of social networks and preventing it from disrupting social resource allocation rules are proposed
Intergenerational living arrangements and older parents' happiness in China: The role of family social capital
This study contributes a comprehensive framework to examine the roles of family social capital and gender in the association between intergenerational living arrangements and old parents' happiness. Analyzing data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2017 ( N = 1200), we find that intergenerational living arrangements have become increasingly diverse in contemporary China, with two-thirds of older parents not in coresidence with their adult chi…
The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society
A matter of life and death: The power of personal networks for medical crowdfunding performance
Chapter Twelve. Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions: Hierarchy, Market, and Networks in a Mixed System
Chapter Twelve. Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions: Hierarchy, Market, and Networks in a Mixed System was published in Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China on page 172.
Mental Health of Chinese Online Networkers under Covid-19: A Sociological Analysis of Survey Data
This paper reports the results of a recent survey of Chinese WeChat networkers ( n = 2015, August 2020) about China's mental health conditions under COVID-19. The purpose of the survey was to measure symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization by using a standard 18-item battery and assess how the results were related to an individual's socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and social capital under an ongoing pandemic. The survey reveals that th…
The Emergence of a Covid-19 Related Social Capital: The Case of China
This paper develops a new concept called virus-combat social capital and presents relevant findings from a survey of 3009 Chinese WeChat networkers. Virus-combat social capital is defined by the intensity and extensity of social connectedness under conditions of physical isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey shows that as compared to their counterparts, Chinese people with higher virus-combat social capital consistently do better in …
Guanxi: How China Works. Polity
Journal Article Guanxi: How China Works. Polity Get access Polity, 2019. 200 pp. http://politybooks.com/guanxi-how-china-works/ Yanjie Bian Yanjie Bian Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 98, Issue 4, June 2020, Pages 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz128 Published: 28 August 2019 Article history Received: 20 July 2019 Accepted: 22 July 2019 Published: 28 August 2019
Parental “love” on time: Strength and timing in homeownership transfer
Social bonding and subjective wellbeing: Findings from the 2017 ISSP Module
This paper is about the impact of social bonding on subjective wellbeing. Statistical analysis of the 2017 ISSP module data from 30 member societies provides the following findings. First, the 30 societies show a large variation in measures of social bonding and subjective wellbeing. Second, an individual’s subjective wellbeing is significantly higher when he/she is socially engaged as compared to the socially isolated, and this is so even after …
Salute to Reviewers 2017–2018/ Hommage aux évaluateurs de 2017–2018
Social Networks and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia: New Evidence from a National Survey
The article draws on data from a national survey in Australia in 2014 to examine how social networks affect life satisfaction and happiness. Findings show that social network composition, social attachment, perceived social support and the volume of social resources are significantly positively associated with life satisfaction and happiness. Stress about social commitments, feeling restricted by social demands and being excluded by a social grou…
The Prevalence and the Increasing Significance of Guanxi
This paper provides an analytical review of the social science literature on guanxi . The focus of this review is on the prevalence and the increasing significance of guanxi during China's post-1978 reforms, which were implemented to move the country towards a market economy. Since then, researchers have engaged in debates on what guanxi actually means to Chinese people in the past and today, how it has been adaptive to ongoing institutional tran…
The causal effect of social capital on income: A new analytic strategy
More or less guanxi: Trust is 60% network context, 10% individual difference
More than double jeopardy: An intersectional analysis of persistent income disadvantages of Chinese female migrant workers
Researchers have attributed the low wages of Chinese female migrant workers to the independent effects of gender and hukou (household registration). Using an intersectional perspective that recognizes the interplay of gender, birthplace, and hukou, this paper identifies six different groups of workers in China’s urban labor market. Both in-depth interviews and survey data demonstrate that from 2003 to 2013, a decade seen as one of China’s continu…
The influence of hukou and college education in China’s labour market
This paper examines the impact of hukou and college education on job placement and wage attainment for Chinese rural migrant workers in the cities. The analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey shows that when rural-born individuals gain both urban hukou and college education, they enjoy equal job-sector placement and they earn significantly higher wages than the college-educated locals. But in the absence of a rural-to-urban hukou trans…
Occupational interactions and income level: A social capital study using the first-order difference method
This study aims to explore the impact of social resources within the workplace on individuals' income level among Chinese urban residents, using data provided by JSNET2009. To adequately address the endogeneity problem, we use the first-order difference method to help identify analysis models. The results indicate that: (1) both internal and outward interactions have positive effects on income level; (2) the effect of outward interactions is stro…
Professional Career Opportunities for Rural College Students—An Empirical Analysis Based on the Chinese General Social Survey
Rural college students are an important, integral part of the current urban labor force. This article uses a group comparison perspective to study the professional career opportunities and their impacting factors of rural college students and other related groups. Analysis of 2010 Chinese General Social Survey data shows the following: (1) college students who transfer from agricultural to nonagricultural status and urban college students have th…
Job‐search Networks and Wage Attainment in C hina: A Comparison of Job Changers and Non‐changers
This article examines job‐search networks and entry‐level wage attainment using data from a large‐scale survey conducted in eight cities in C hina in 2009. Two key issues are addressed: (i) how the use of social networks is associated with entry‐level wage attainment in urban C hina, and (ii) whether the patterns of network effects on entry‐level wage differ between job changers and first‐job seekers. The results show that both strength of ties a…
Information and favoritism: The network effect on wage income in China
The guanxi influence on occupational attainment in urban China
This article addresses a long-standing controversy about whether or not the influence of guanxi on occupational attainment has been on the decline during China’s market reforms. The authors argue that guanxi continuously plays an influential role in facilitating occupational attainment when China’s labor markets face a great deal of institutional uncertainty. A large-scale survey of job seekers shows that the number of Chinese job seekers who use…
Beyond the Strength of Social Ties: Job Search Networks and Entry-Level Wage in Urban China
This article provides an assessment of the effect of job-search networks on entry-level wage in urban China. The analysis of a 2009 large-scale survey shows that (a) users of social contacts have a significantly higher wage at job entry than nonusers; (b) both strong ties and weak ties increase entry-level wage; (c) network-mobilized information and favoritism increase entry-level wage; and (d) these network effects are stronger in sectors of les…
Subjective Wellbeing of Chinese People: A Multifaceted View
Bringing Strong Ties Back in: Indirect Ties, Network Bridges, and Job Searches in China
M. Granovetter's strength-of-weak-ties argument has led to fruitful research on how individuals are matched to jobs in market economies. In analyzing the institution for assigning jobs in China, the author makes distinctions (1) between information and influence that flow through networks during job searches and (2) between direct ties and indirect ties used by job-seekers. He finds that in China personal networks are used to influence authoritie…
Market Transition and the Persistence of Power: The Changing Stratification System in Urban China
Research on transitional socialist societies has explored trends in income inequality and issues concerning who gains and who loses during market reforms. We find that income inequality in a major Chinese city declined only slightly during the first decade of reform policies; it then increased dramatically in the subsequent five years. Strategic position in the state bureaucracy continues to be an important determinant of income, although connect…
Chinese Social Stratification and Social Mobility
This essay reviews post-1980 research on class stratification, socio-economic inequalities, and social mobility in the People's Republic of China. Chinese class stratification has transformed from a rigid status hierarchy under Mao to an open, evolving class system in the post-Mao period. Socioeconomic inequalities have also been altered. State redistributive inequalities are giving way to patterns increasingly generated by how individuals and gr…
Housing inequality in urban China in the 1990s
Access to housing of sufficient space and quality has been a central element in social stratification in urban China. We examine the sources of housing inequality in 1993 in Shanghai and Tianjin, when a market reform process had been underway in the national economy for nearly fifteen years. The Chinese housing allocation system favors people with political position and connections, those of higher socio-economic background, and those whose work …
The Chinese General Social Survey (2003-8): Sample Designs and Data Evaluation
The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), launched jointly since 2003 by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Renmin University, continued to be jointly organized by the two institutions in the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 surveys. This article introduces the background of the first phase of the CGSS, and describes the research agenda, sample designs, and fieldwork implementation strategies. It also provides an assessment of data qual…
Getting Ahead in Urban China
This article argues that structural segmentation is a universal phenomenon in all complex societies and across political economies. Each political economy uses specific criteria in delineating segments of its economic and work organizations. Furthermore, it is argued that segmentation identification constitutes a critical destination status for individuals engaged in the status-attainment process. A representative sample of the working population…
Gendered Resources, Division of Housework, and Perceived Fairness-A Case in Urban China
Drawing upon equity and gender theories, we investigate Chinese couples' perceived fairness of the wife's disproportionately heavy household responsibility. Data come from in-depth interviews with 39 married couples in Beijing during the summer of 1998. Although housework division remained unequal among dual-earner couples, the majority of wives and husbands saw it as fair. We explore the notion of gendered resources by examining husbands' and wi…
Intergenerational relations in urban China: Proximity, contact, and help to parents
Although most older Chinese parents live with an adult son or daughter, most adult offspring do not live with parents. We examine the relations of these noncoresident offspring with parents in terms of proximity, frequency of contact, and exchange of help. Based on a 1993 random sample survey conducted in two major Chinese cities, we find that although rates of coresidence are high, noncoresident sons and daughters live close to parents, have fre…
Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements
Journal Article Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements Get access John R. Logan, John R. Logan State University of New York, Albany Direct all correspondence to John Logan, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fuqin Bian, Fuqin Bian State University of New Yor…
Marketization and income distribution in urban China, 1988 and 1995
Subjective Wellbeing of Chinese People: A Multifaceted View
Guanxi Networks and Job Mobility in China and Singapore
Journal Article Guanxi Networks and Job Mobility in China and Singapore Get access Yanjie Bian, Yanjie Bian University of Minnesota Direct corresponde to Yanjie Bian, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Soon Ang Soon Ang Nanyang Technological University of Singapore Search for other works by this author…
Inequalities in Access to Community Resources in a Chinese City
Despite their strongly egalitarian ideology, there is considerable evidence from socialist countries that individuals of higher socioeconomic and political status have privileged access to housing of good quality and at a low cost In this study of urban China, we examine the broader issue of the quality of neighborhoods to which people have access. We find that the political position of one's work unit has strong effects on locational resources. …
Intercity variation in gender inequalities in China: Analysis of a 1995 national survey
Parental “love” on time: Strength and timing in homeownership transfer
The influence of hukou and college education in China’s labour market
This paper examines the impact of hukou and college education on job placement and wage attainment for Chinese rural migrant workers in the cities. The analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey shows that when rural-born individuals gain both urban hukou and college education, they enjoy equal job-sector placement and they earn significantly higher wages than the college-educated locals. But in the absence of a rural-to-urban hukou trans…
The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital: Book Reading in Urban China
Drawing on interviews with 400 couples in four cities in 1998, this exploratory study focuses on variation in reading habits to integrate the concept of cultural capital into the theoretical and empirical analysis of inequality and social stratification in contemporary urban China. Overall, we find that volume and composition of cultural capital varies across social classes independent of education. Thus, to the extent that cultural capital in th…
Beyond Resources and Patriarchy: Marital Construction of Family Decision-Making Power in Post-Mao Urban China
This paper takes as its starting point recent claims by Beck-Gernsheim (2002) that we are living in an era of "post-familial families." Beck-Gemsheim (2002) argues that our lives are no longer structured as they once were by tradition, class, religion and kin. Instead the family has become a transitional phase as individuals strive for fulfillment of personal goals and personal life projects. The demographic evidence to support these claims is cl…
The Emergence of a Covid-19 Related Social Capital: The Case of China
This paper develops a new concept called virus-combat social capital and presents relevant findings from a survey of 3009 Chinese WeChat networkers. Virus-combat social capital is defined by the intensity and extensity of social connectedness under conditions of physical isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey shows that as compared to their counterparts, Chinese people with higher virus-combat social capital consistently do better in …
Beyond the Strength of Social Ties: Job Search Networks and Entry-Level Wage in Urban China
This article provides an assessment of the effect of job-search networks on entry-level wage in urban China. The analysis of a 2009 large-scale survey shows that (a) users of social contacts have a significantly higher wage at job entry than nonusers; (b) both strong ties and weak ties increase entry-level wage; (c) network-mobilized information and favoritism increase entry-level wage; and (d) these network effects are stronger in sectors of les…
Social Networks and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia: New Evidence from a National Survey
The article draws on data from a national survey in Australia in 2014 to examine how social networks affect life satisfaction and happiness. Findings show that social network composition, social attachment, perceived social support and the volume of social resources are significantly positively associated with life satisfaction and happiness. Stress about social commitments, feeling restricted by social demands and being excluded by a social grou…
Chinese Occupational Prestige: A comparative analysis
Prestige ratings of 46 occupations from a 1988 sample of adult residents in Tianjin, a large industrial city of China, are reported and analyzed in this paper. Tianjin's prestige ratings are similar in overall pattern to rating scales from Beijing, Taiwan and the US and to Treiman's Standard International Occupational Prestige. However, certain occupations received significantly different ratings from Tianjin's raters than from those in these oth…
Social bonding and subjective wellbeing: Findings from the 2017 ISSP Module
This paper is about the impact of social bonding on subjective wellbeing. Statistical analysis of the 2017 ISSP module data from 30 member societies provides the following findings. First, the 30 societies show a large variation in measures of social bonding and subjective wellbeing. Second, an individual’s subjective wellbeing is significantly higher when he/she is socially engaged as compared to the socially isolated, and this is so even after …
Guanxi: How China Works. Polity
Journal Article Guanxi: How China Works. Polity Get access Polity, 2019. 200 pp. http://politybooks.com/guanxi-how-china-works/ Yanjie Bian Yanjie Bian Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 98, Issue 4, June 2020, Pages 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz128 Published: 28 August 2019 Article history Received: 20 July 2019 Accepted: 22 July 2019 Published: 28 August 2019
More than double jeopardy: An intersectional analysis of persistent income disadvantages of Chinese female migrant workers
Researchers have attributed the low wages of Chinese female migrant workers to the independent effects of gender and hukou (household registration). Using an intersectional perspective that recognizes the interplay of gender, birthplace, and hukou, this paper identifies six different groups of workers in China’s urban labor market. Both in-depth interviews and survey data demonstrate that from 2003 to 2013, a decade seen as one of China’s continu…
Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong
Getting Ahead in Urban China
This article argues that structural segmentation is a universal phenomenon in all complex societies and across political economies. Each political economy uses specific criteria in delineating segments of its economic and work organizations. Furthermore, it is argued that segmentation identification constitutes a critical destination status for individuals engaged in the status-attainment process. A representative sample of the working population…
Inequalities in Access to Community Resources in a Chinese City
Despite their strongly egalitarian ideology, there is considerable evidence from socialist countries that individuals of higher socioeconomic and political status have privileged access to housing of good quality and at a low cost In this study of urban China, we examine the broader issue of the quality of neighborhoods to which people have access. We find that the political position of one's work unit has strong effects on locational resources. …
Guanxi and the Allocation of Urban Jobs in China
There has been considerable documentation concerning the use of guanxi to acquire power, status and resources in Communist China. More recently, guanxi has been seen as a mechanism to explain status trans-mission from the older generation to the younger under state socialism, as a key factor in the development of private businesses in the cities during market reforms, and as an effective strategy for individuals to get ahead in a more open, marke…
Market Transition and the Persistence of Power: The Changing Stratification System in Urban China
Research on transitional socialist societies has explored trends in income inequality and issues concerning who gains and who loses during market reforms. We find that income inequality in a major Chinese city declined only slightly during the first decade of reform policies; it then increased dramatically in the subsequent five years. Strategic position in the state bureaucracy continues to be an important determinant of income, although connect…
Chinese Occupational Prestige: A comparative analysis
Prestige ratings of 46 occupations from a 1988 sample of adult residents in Tianjin, a large industrial city of China, are reported and analyzed in this paper. Tianjin's prestige ratings are similar in overall pattern to rating scales from Beijing, Taiwan and the US and to Treiman's Standard International Occupational Prestige. However, certain occupations received significantly different ratings from Tianjin's raters than from those in these oth…
Bringing Strong Ties Back in: Indirect Ties, Network Bridges, and Job Searches in China
M. Granovetter's strength-of-weak-ties argument has led to fruitful research on how individuals are matched to jobs in market economies. In analyzing the institution for assigning jobs in China, the author makes distinctions (1) between information and influence that flow through networks during job searches and (2) between direct ties and indirect ties used by job-seekers. He finds that in China personal networks are used to influence authoritie…
Guanxi Networks and Job Mobility in China and Singapore
Journal Article Guanxi Networks and Job Mobility in China and Singapore Get access Yanjie Bian, Yanjie Bian University of Minnesota Direct corresponde to Yanjie Bian, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Soon Ang Soon Ang Nanyang Technological University of Singapore Search for other works by this author…
China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform
Intergenerational relations in urban China: Proximity, contact, and help to parents
Although most older Chinese parents live with an adult son or daughter, most adult offspring do not live with parents. We examine the relations of these noncoresident offspring with parents in terms of proximity, frequency of contact, and exchange of help. Based on a 1993 random sample survey conducted in two major Chinese cities, we find that although rates of coresidence are high, noncoresident sons and daughters live close to parents, have fre…
Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements
Journal Article Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements Get access John R. Logan, John R. Logan State University of New York, Albany Direct all correspondence to John Logan, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fuqin Bian, Fuqin Bian State University of New Yor…
Housing inequality in urban China in the 1990s
Access to housing of sufficient space and quality has been a central element in social stratification in urban China. We examine the sources of housing inequality in 1993 in Shanghai and Tianjin, when a market reform process had been underway in the national economy for nearly fifteen years. The Chinese housing allocation system favors people with political position and connections, those of higher socio-economic background, and those whose work …
From Family to Market: Labor Allocation in Contemporary China . Fei-Ling Wang
Making Sense of China's Transformations
Gendered Resources, Division of Housework, and Perceived Fairness-A Case in Urban China
Drawing upon equity and gender theories, we investigate Chinese couples' perceived fairness of the wife's disproportionately heavy household responsibility. Data come from in-depth interviews with 39 married couples in Beijing during the summer of 1998. Although housework division remained unequal among dual-earner couples, the majority of wives and husbands saw it as fair. We explore the notion of gendered resources by examining husbands' and wi…
Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This 2002 volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work o…
Intercity variation in gender inequalities in China: Analysis of a 1995 national survey
Marketization and income distribution in urban China, 1988 and 1995
Chinese Social Stratification and Social Mobility
This essay reviews post-1980 research on class stratification, socio-economic inequalities, and social mobility in the People's Republic of China. Chinese class stratification has transformed from a rigid status hierarchy under Mao to an open, evolving class system in the post-Mao period. Socioeconomic inequalities have also been altered. State redistributive inequalities are giving way to patterns increasingly generated by how individuals and gr…
Urban Elites and Income Differential in China: 1988–1995
Urban elites and their relative income levels are windows on the emerging socioeconomic order in China. We add to the research literature a new view that economic sectors are the institutional contexts in which different elites seek their material gains. Conducting a trend analysis with 1988 and 1995 national surveys of urban China, we found that political, administrative, and managerial elites maintained consistently higher levels of income rela…
Beyond Resources and Patriarchy: Marital Construction of Family Decision-Making Power in Post-Mao Urban China
This paper takes as its starting point recent claims by Beck-Gernsheim (2002) that we are living in an era of "post-familial families." Beck-Gemsheim (2002) argues that our lives are no longer structured as they once were by tradition, class, religion and kin. Instead the family has become a transitional phase as individuals strive for fulfillment of personal goals and personal life projects. The demographic evidence to support these claims is cl…
The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital: Book Reading in Urban China
Drawing on interviews with 400 couples in four cities in 1998, this exploratory study focuses on variation in reading habits to integrate the concept of cultural capital into the theoretical and empirical analysis of inequality and social stratification in contemporary urban China. Overall, we find that volume and composition of cultural capital varies across social classes independent of education. Thus, to the extent that cultural capital in th…
Sociology in China
The Chinese General Social Survey (2003-8): Sample Designs and Data Evaluation
The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), launched jointly since 2003 by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Renmin University, continued to be jointly organized by the two institutions in the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 surveys. This article introduces the background of the first phase of the CGSS, and describes the research agenda, sample designs, and fieldwork implementation strategies. It also provides an assessment of data qual…
East Asian Social Networks
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