F F Tian
Biographic Data
| ID | 21365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F F Tian |
| GIVEN NAMES | F F |
| FAMILY NAME | Tian |
| SIGNATURE | TIAN F F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fudan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7903-7559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Green Spaces and Migrants' Social Integration in Guangzhou's Urban Villages
As China's urbanization enters a quality‐oriented phase, urban villages serve as critical sites for examining how neighborhood environmental resources intersect with everyday social life under institutional inequality. This study investigates how no‐cost green spaces in Guangzhou's urban villages are associated with residents' perceived neighborhood‐level social integration. Using survey and geospatial data, we conceptualize green space through p…
Renegotiated Boundaries Between Asian Married Women's Paid and Unpaid Work
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Same efforts, different effects
Embeddedness governs
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition
Strategies of state penetration
Introduction The Chinese state has been found to penetrate community participation to strengthen state infrastructure power, but understanding of these strategies remains equivocal. Methods This paper collect complete network data from a sample of 112 residents who were active in community activities in Kang community in Shanghai, China. Kang is an award-winning community for its active participation and excellent governance. We examine the strat…
Empathetic Solidarity
This article examines how Chinese state media tries to legitimize and promote civic solidarity in its portrayal of grassroots community participation to an international audience. It performed a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 758 articles published in major Chinese English-language newspapers between 2001 and 2022. The results reveal a message of 'empathetic solidarity' in which Western ideas of liberty are blended, or hybridized, with the…
On tiptoe
It is well documented that motherhood influences gendered outcomes in work institutions. However, how paid work influences women's private sphere and sense of self remains unclear and could vary across societies. This article focuses on identity construction among 28 college‐educated stay‐at‐home mothers in Shanghai. The findings from semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews reveal tension negotiation and reconciliation within these mothers' multiple…
Community social capital, migration status, and Chinese rural children's psychosocial development
Migration's impact on Chinese rural children's psychosocial development is the subject of growing research attention. While scholars highlight the critical role of social support, they have yet to systematically examine whether and how community social capital, which provides proximal social support for families, affects rural children's psychosocial development as well as whether such associations vary by children's migration status. Using data …
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media
Since 2007, Chinese state-run media has used the term ‘leftover women’ to describe single women who are 27 or above. While considerable research has examined patriarchal discourse surrounding China’s ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese state-run media, very little scholarship has explored the female individualisation discourse that emphasises independence and self-actualisation in Western English-language news outlets. To fill this gap, this study em…
Evolving Experience and Motivation of Older Adults’ Long-Term Community Volunteering in Shanghai
Informed by self-determination theory (SDT), this study explores older adults’ long-term community volunteering experiences and motivations in Shanghai. We took a qualitative research approach to conduct face-to-face, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with older adults who were long-term volunteers in Shanghai communities ( N = 69). We performed thematic analysis and generated themes for their experiences and evolving motivations. Participants…
Fluidity of Faith
Religiosity appears to be rising in China. However, this trend hides the extent of fluidity in religious beliefs and behaviors. Within-person changes in religiosity across time are not random but patterned in systematic ways. In this article, we examine the predictors of religiosity in a longitudinal sample of Chinese adults from 2012 to 2016. Religious outcomes are correlated with sociodemographic, political, and health variables. Notably, all r…
The Changing Patterns and Determinants of Stay-at-Home Motherhood in Urban China, 1982 to 2015
This paper documents trends in and examines determinants of stay-at-home motherhood in urban China from 1982 to 2015. China once had the world’s leading female labor force participation rate. Since the economic reforms starting from the early 1980s, however, some mothers have been withdrawing from the labor force due to diminished state support, a rise in intensive parenting, and heightened work-family conflicts. Based on data from the 1982, 1990…
The reproduction of working class? Social mobility and the stratification of parenting practice in urban Chinese families
Parenting practice, an embodied cultural capital, is class based. The findings of this study showed that in urban Chinese families, the middle class was inclined to adopt the practice of concerted cultivation while the working class was inclined to adopt the practice of natural growth. However, those who were born in working-class families but were able to achieve upward mobility to the middle class were more likely to adopt similar practices to …
Migration policies on migrant–native marriage
China's household registration ( hukou ) system creates internal migration patterns similar to international patterns. Variations in the stringency of city policies for acquiring local hukou provide a unique opportunity to examine how migration policies affect migrant–native marriage. In this study, we merge a city‐level index that measures the overall difficulty of obtaining local hukou in 43 Chinese cities with China's 2005 mini‐census. Results…
Rural-urban gap and career preparation trajectories in a Chinese elite university
Following Bourdieu’s classic work on habitus and field, scholars use habitus fit/misfit to distinguish students’ college experience but how students’ experiences habitus misfit and transformation in relation to their career preparation process remains understudied. This study conducted longitudinal in-depth interviews with 32 students at an elite university in China from 2014 to 2018. We highlight that how students think about the future and desi…
Is guanxi unfair? Market reform and the public attitude toward guanxi in urban China
Guanxi is a fundamental, but controversial, feature of Chinese society. This article examines public attitudes about the fairness of guanxi and how Chinese market reform is affecting these attitudes. The reciprocity-laden and tie-sensitive nature of guanxi conflicts with the efficiency-oriented goal of a market economy. Disapproval of guanxi is thus increasing as marketization progresses. Results from the 2008 Chinese General Social Survey show t…
Reinstating the Family
Prevailing research on assortative mating marginalizes the agency of third parties. Yet, in China, an intergenerational perspective may be useful because family members have participated in spouse selection to maintain homogamy. Using Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, we found 20 percent of young adults found their spouse through family introduction. Education reduces, while family resources increase, young people’s reliance…
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities
Unequal at the college door
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the inequality in career constructions among freshmen in an elite university in Shanghai, China. The authors first investigated whether rural students and those from municipalities ( zhi xia shi ) and provincial capitals differ in their career awareness when arriving at college. After finding the difference, the authors explored how this initial difference in career awareness evolves and influen…
Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China
Ancestor worship in China used to be an indispensable component of marriage and family life because it fostered an orientation toward perpetuating the family line. However, whether or not ancestor worship still matters in contemporary China is an open ques
Gendered double embeddedness
Global Interactions and Family Formation Pathways in Reform-Era Urban China
Although demographers and family sociologists have long recognized the importance of ideational diffusion to family change, few studies have examined this relationship, especially in non-Western societies. Building on the world society theory, this article proposes a positive relationship between global interactions and family change. Using reform-era urban China as a case study, latent class analysis is first used to map out innovative family be…
Weak ties, strong ties, and job mobility in urban China
Transition to adulthood in China in 1982−2005
The transition to adulthood has increasingly been postponed, shuffled, and individualized in the United States and Western Europe. Less is known about changes in the transition to adulthood in non-Western countries, especially whether they follow a similar
Transition to First Marriage in Reform-Era Urban China
Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China
Ancestor worship in China used to be an indispensable component of marriage and family life because it fostered an orientation toward perpetuating the family line. However, whether or not ancestor worship still matters in contemporary China is an open ques
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities
Transition to adulthood in China in 1982−2005
The transition to adulthood has increasingly been postponed, shuffled, and individualized in the United States and Western Europe. Less is known about changes in the transition to adulthood in non-Western countries, especially whether they follow a similar
Reinstating the Family
Prevailing research on assortative mating marginalizes the agency of third parties. Yet, in China, an intergenerational perspective may be useful because family members have participated in spouse selection to maintain homogamy. Using Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, we found 20 percent of young adults found their spouse through family introduction. Education reduces, while family resources increase, young people’s reliance…
Gender Composition of Children and the Third Birth in the United States
Pollard and Morgan (2002) argued that the parental mixed-gender preference (i.e., parents' preference to have at least one son and one daughter) will weaken in the United States as aspects of gender become increasingly deinstitutionalized. They presented evidence that mixed-gender preference weakened in the 1986-1995 period compared to earlier and coined this change as emerging gender indifference. On the other hand, credible claims and evidence …
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Recruitment Patterns on RDS Estimates among a Socially Ordered Population of Female Sex Workers in China
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for recruiting 'hidden' populations through a network-based, chain and peer referral process. RDS recruits hidden populations more effectively than other sampling methods and promises to generate unbiased estimates of their characteristics. RDS's faithful representation of hidden populations relies on the validity of core assumptions regarding the unobserved referral process. With empirical recruitment…
Fluidity of Faith
Religiosity appears to be rising in China. However, this trend hides the extent of fluidity in religious beliefs and behaviors. Within-person changes in religiosity across time are not random but patterned in systematic ways. In this article, we examine the predictors of religiosity in a longitudinal sample of Chinese adults from 2012 to 2016. Religious outcomes are correlated with sociodemographic, political, and health variables. Notably, all r…
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media
Since 2007, Chinese state-run media has used the term ‘leftover women’ to describe single women who are 27 or above. While considerable research has examined patriarchal discourse surrounding China’s ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese state-run media, very little scholarship has explored the female individualisation discourse that emphasises independence and self-actualisation in Western English-language news outlets. To fill this gap, this study em…
Job Mobility and Extramarital Sex in Reform-Era Urban China
The rise of extramarital sex in China is often portrayed as a consequence of a normative shift, that is, the diversification of family and related values that has accompanied the country's move toward a less ideologically controlled society. We argue that the increase in extramarital sex is not only the result of a normative shift but also has been structurally determined by a reorganization of the labor market. We view job mobility, which was st…
Rural-urban gap and career preparation trajectories in a Chinese elite university
Following Bourdieu’s classic work on habitus and field, scholars use habitus fit/misfit to distinguish students’ college experience but how students’ experiences habitus misfit and transformation in relation to their career preparation process remains understudied. This study conducted longitudinal in-depth interviews with 32 students at an elite university in China from 2014 to 2018. We highlight that how students think about the future and desi…
The reproduction of working class? Social mobility and the stratification of parenting practice in urban Chinese families
Parenting practice, an embodied cultural capital, is class based. The findings of this study showed that in urban Chinese families, the middle class was inclined to adopt the practice of concerted cultivation while the working class was inclined to adopt the practice of natural growth. However, those who were born in working-class families but were able to achieve upward mobility to the middle class were more likely to adopt similar practices to …
Is guanxi unfair? Market reform and the public attitude toward guanxi in urban China
Guanxi is a fundamental, but controversial, feature of Chinese society. This article examines public attitudes about the fairness of guanxi and how Chinese market reform is affecting these attitudes. The reciprocity-laden and tie-sensitive nature of guanxi conflicts with the efficiency-oriented goal of a market economy. Disapproval of guanxi is thus increasing as marketization progresses. Results from the 2008 Chinese General Social Survey show t…
On tiptoe
It is well documented that motherhood influences gendered outcomes in work institutions. However, how paid work influences women's private sphere and sense of self remains unclear and could vary across societies. This article focuses on identity construction among 28 college‐educated stay‐at‐home mothers in Shanghai. The findings from semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews reveal tension negotiation and reconciliation within these mothers' multiple…
Community social capital, migration status, and Chinese rural children's psychosocial development
Migration's impact on Chinese rural children's psychosocial development is the subject of growing research attention. While scholars highlight the critical role of social support, they have yet to systematically examine whether and how community social capital, which provides proximal social support for families, affects rural children's psychosocial development as well as whether such associations vary by children's migration status. Using data …
Evolving Experience and Motivation of Older Adults’ Long-Term Community Volunteering in Shanghai
Informed by self-determination theory (SDT), this study explores older adults’ long-term community volunteering experiences and motivations in Shanghai. We took a qualitative research approach to conduct face-to-face, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with older adults who were long-term volunteers in Shanghai communities ( N = 69). We performed thematic analysis and generated themes for their experiences and evolving motivations. Participants…
Migration policies on migrant–native marriage
China's household registration ( hukou ) system creates internal migration patterns similar to international patterns. Variations in the stringency of city policies for acquiring local hukou provide a unique opportunity to examine how migration policies affect migrant–native marriage. In this study, we merge a city‐level index that measures the overall difficulty of obtaining local hukou in 43 Chinese cities with China's 2005 mini‐census. Results…
Global Interactions and Family Formation Pathways in Reform-Era Urban China
Although demographers and family sociologists have long recognized the importance of ideational diffusion to family change, few studies have examined this relationship, especially in non-Western societies. Building on the world society theory, this article proposes a positive relationship between global interactions and family change. Using reform-era urban China as a case study, latent class analysis is first used to map out innovative family be…
Transition to First Marriage in Reform-Era Urban China
Job Mobility and Extramarital Sex in Reform-Era Urban China
The rise of extramarital sex in China is often portrayed as a consequence of a normative shift, that is, the diversification of family and related values that has accompanied the country's move toward a less ideologically controlled society. We argue that the increase in extramarital sex is not only the result of a normative shift but also has been structurally determined by a reorganization of the labor market. We view job mobility, which was st…
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Recruitment Patterns on RDS Estimates among a Socially Ordered Population of Female Sex Workers in China
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for recruiting 'hidden' populations through a network-based, chain and peer referral process. RDS recruits hidden populations more effectively than other sampling methods and promises to generate unbiased estimates of their characteristics. RDS's faithful representation of hidden populations relies on the validity of core assumptions regarding the unobserved referral process. With empirical recruitment…
Gender Composition of Children and the Third Birth in the United States
Pollard and Morgan (2002) argued that the parental mixed-gender preference (i.e., parents' preference to have at least one son and one daughter) will weaken in the United States as aspects of gender become increasingly deinstitutionalized. They presented evidence that mixed-gender preference weakened in the 1986-1995 period compared to earlier and coined this change as emerging gender indifference. On the other hand, credible claims and evidence …
Weak ties, strong ties, and job mobility in urban China
Transition to adulthood in China in 1982−2005
The transition to adulthood has increasingly been postponed, shuffled, and individualized in the United States and Western Europe. Less is known about changes in the transition to adulthood in non-Western countries, especially whether they follow a similar
Gendered double embeddedness
Global Interactions and Family Formation Pathways in Reform-Era Urban China
Although demographers and family sociologists have long recognized the importance of ideational diffusion to family change, few studies have examined this relationship, especially in non-Western societies. Building on the world society theory, this article proposes a positive relationship between global interactions and family change. Using reform-era urban China as a case study, latent class analysis is first used to map out innovative family be…
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities
Unequal at the college door
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the inequality in career constructions among freshmen in an elite university in Shanghai, China. The authors first investigated whether rural students and those from municipalities ( zhi xia shi ) and provincial capitals differ in their career awareness when arriving at college. After finding the difference, the authors explored how this initial difference in career awareness evolves and influen…
Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China
Ancestor worship in China used to be an indispensable component of marriage and family life because it fostered an orientation toward perpetuating the family line. However, whether or not ancestor worship still matters in contemporary China is an open ques
Reinstating the Family
Prevailing research on assortative mating marginalizes the agency of third parties. Yet, in China, an intergenerational perspective may be useful because family members have participated in spouse selection to maintain homogamy. Using Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, we found 20 percent of young adults found their spouse through family introduction. Education reduces, while family resources increase, young people’s reliance…
Is guanxi unfair? Market reform and the public attitude toward guanxi in urban China
Guanxi is a fundamental, but controversial, feature of Chinese society. This article examines public attitudes about the fairness of guanxi and how Chinese market reform is affecting these attitudes. The reciprocity-laden and tie-sensitive nature of guanxi conflicts with the efficiency-oriented goal of a market economy. Disapproval of guanxi is thus increasing as marketization progresses. Results from the 2008 Chinese General Social Survey show t…
The Changing Patterns and Determinants of Stay-at-Home Motherhood in Urban China, 1982 to 2015
This paper documents trends in and examines determinants of stay-at-home motherhood in urban China from 1982 to 2015. China once had the world’s leading female labor force participation rate. Since the economic reforms starting from the early 1980s, however, some mothers have been withdrawing from the labor force due to diminished state support, a rise in intensive parenting, and heightened work-family conflicts. Based on data from the 1982, 1990…
The reproduction of working class? Social mobility and the stratification of parenting practice in urban Chinese families
Parenting practice, an embodied cultural capital, is class based. The findings of this study showed that in urban Chinese families, the middle class was inclined to adopt the practice of concerted cultivation while the working class was inclined to adopt the practice of natural growth. However, those who were born in working-class families but were able to achieve upward mobility to the middle class were more likely to adopt similar practices to …
Migration policies on migrant–native marriage
China's household registration ( hukou ) system creates internal migration patterns similar to international patterns. Variations in the stringency of city policies for acquiring local hukou provide a unique opportunity to examine how migration policies affect migrant–native marriage. In this study, we merge a city‐level index that measures the overall difficulty of obtaining local hukou in 43 Chinese cities with China's 2005 mini‐census. Results…
Rural-urban gap and career preparation trajectories in a Chinese elite university
Following Bourdieu’s classic work on habitus and field, scholars use habitus fit/misfit to distinguish students’ college experience but how students’ experiences habitus misfit and transformation in relation to their career preparation process remains understudied. This study conducted longitudinal in-depth interviews with 32 students at an elite university in China from 2014 to 2018. We highlight that how students think about the future and desi…
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media
Since 2007, Chinese state-run media has used the term ‘leftover women’ to describe single women who are 27 or above. While considerable research has examined patriarchal discourse surrounding China’s ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese state-run media, very little scholarship has explored the female individualisation discourse that emphasises independence and self-actualisation in Western English-language news outlets. To fill this gap, this study em…
Evolving Experience and Motivation of Older Adults’ Long-Term Community Volunteering in Shanghai
Informed by self-determination theory (SDT), this study explores older adults’ long-term community volunteering experiences and motivations in Shanghai. We took a qualitative research approach to conduct face-to-face, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with older adults who were long-term volunteers in Shanghai communities ( N = 69). We performed thematic analysis and generated themes for their experiences and evolving motivations. Participants…
Fluidity of Faith
Religiosity appears to be rising in China. However, this trend hides the extent of fluidity in religious beliefs and behaviors. Within-person changes in religiosity across time are not random but patterned in systematic ways. In this article, we examine the predictors of religiosity in a longitudinal sample of Chinese adults from 2012 to 2016. Religious outcomes are correlated with sociodemographic, political, and health variables. Notably, all r…
On tiptoe
It is well documented that motherhood influences gendered outcomes in work institutions. However, how paid work influences women's private sphere and sense of self remains unclear and could vary across societies. This article focuses on identity construction among 28 college‐educated stay‐at‐home mothers in Shanghai. The findings from semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews reveal tension negotiation and reconciliation within these mothers' multiple…
Community social capital, migration status, and Chinese rural children's psychosocial development
Migration's impact on Chinese rural children's psychosocial development is the subject of growing research attention. While scholars highlight the critical role of social support, they have yet to systematically examine whether and how community social capital, which provides proximal social support for families, affects rural children's psychosocial development as well as whether such associations vary by children's migration status. Using data …
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition
Strategies of state penetration
Introduction The Chinese state has been found to penetrate community participation to strengthen state infrastructure power, but understanding of these strategies remains equivocal. Methods This paper collect complete network data from a sample of 112 residents who were active in community activities in Kang community in Shanghai, China. Kang is an award-winning community for its active participation and excellent governance. We examine the strat…
Empathetic Solidarity
This article examines how Chinese state media tries to legitimize and promote civic solidarity in its portrayal of grassroots community participation to an international audience. It performed a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 758 articles published in major Chinese English-language newspapers between 2001 and 2022. The results reveal a message of 'empathetic solidarity' in which Western ideas of liberty are blended, or hybridized, with the…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · China (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 works)