Heying Jenny Zhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 300844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heying Jenny Zhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heying Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhan |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAN H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8118-7035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The making of a home in America—The journey to finding a sense of racial and ethnic belongings for sub-Saharan African immigrants in the U.S
African immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa may look very much alike “Black” Americans. But do they identify themselves as “Blacks”? Do they find a sense of home in America like other African Americans? This paper utilizes interview data with 27 African older immigrants to illustrate the process of home-making for immigrant Africans. Findings reveal that the process of finding a sense of home in America involves the journey of socially constructin…
Chinese Migrant Workers’ Financial Security in Old Age—A Cultural Shift From Reliance on Filial Piety to Public Pension
Migrant workers’ retirement in rural China need not mean that they are financially ready for retirement. This study examines which factors influence migrant workers’ public pension savings. Using a mixed-methods approach comprising surveys and interviews with Chinese migrant workers from three emigration provinces (Anhui, Henan, and Sichuan), we find that migrant workers with more social support and less spending on children are more likely to ha…
Embedding Critical Thinking in Global Virtual Exchange—Teaching Sociology Across National Borders in Virtual Classrooms
Global virtual exchange is a mode of teaching that can reach classrooms beyond national borders and across disciplines. This paper utilizes students’ online conversations and learning projects as primary data to demonstrate experiential learning and critical thinking processes in a global virtual classroom between students in the U.S. and China. Findings reveal that guided weekly online conversations between American and Chinese students provided…
Sacred Rock in the Way”—The Interplay of Modernity and Cultures in the Highway Construction of Southwest China
Highway construction in China has bolstered Chinese claims of having the longest highways in the world, yet it has led to the involuntary relocation and resettlement of millions of people all over China. This study examines the interplay of power relationships in modernity and ethnic cultures. Using interviews with 201 Zhuang ethnic minority people and participant observations from two years in the Southwest of China, this paper presents findings…
Does the one‐child generation want more than one child at their fertility age
Downward transfer of support and care: Understanding the cultural lag in rural China
The Chinese culture of filial piety has historically emphasised children's responsibility for their ageing parents. Little is understood regarding the inverse: parents’ responsibility and care for their adult children. This paper uses interviews with 50 families living in rural China's Anhui Province to understand intergenerational support in rural China. Findings indicate that parents in rural China take on large financial burdens in order to su…
The making of a home in a foreign land: Understanding the process of home-making among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S
This study discusses the interactions between social policies and aging experiences among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S. Using a life course perspective, the authors analysed how personal, familial, and environmental factors collectively shaped older immigrants' home-making experiences in a foreign land. Based on qualitative data from 21 in-depth qualitative interviews with older Chinese adults living in Atlanta, Georgia, this study reveale…
Double bind in loan access in China: The reification of gender differences in business loans
Purpose This paper aims to examine gender differences in credit access and credit default. Design/methodology/approach Using panel data drawn from 917 valid credit borrowers covering the period 2012 to 2015 drawn from among 6,849 study subjects and a national household financial survey (n = 29,500) conducted in China, this study focuses on gender differences in small and micro entrepreneurs’ financial behavior, specifically with respect to credit…
Finding a Sense of Home across the Pacific in Old Age— Chinese American Senior’s Report of Life Satisfaction in a Foreign Land
The role of the family in institutional long‐term care: Cultural management of filial piety in China
Zhan HJ, The role of the family in institutional long‐term care – cultural management of filial piety in China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: S121–S134 © 2011 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study used both qualitative and quantitative data collected in Nanjing, China, from 2008 to 2009, to examine the role of the family in long‐term institut…
Beyond the Bible and the Cross: A Social and Cultural Analysis of Chinese Elders' Participation in Christian Congregations in the United States
Mainland Chinese elders constitute a unique group in popular Christian participation and conversion. This work aims to explore the social contexts and cultural facets of Mainland Chinese elders' Christian practice in the United States. Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 20 Mainland Chinese elders as well as participant observation at selected congregational settings, this study suggests that the existing theories on aging and religio…
Placing Elderly Parents in Institutions in Urban China: A Reinterpretation of Filial Piety
The authors examined changing attitudes about filial piety, or xiao, using data from intensive interviews with 20 elderly residents, 14 family members, and 9 staff members in Nanjing, China. The findings reveal that respondents interpreted the notion of xiao in terms of their own social worlds and on the basis of their own social locations and contexts. The increasing unavailability of adult children, various benefits of institutional care, and c…
Willingness and availability: Explaining new attitudes toward institutional elder care among Chinese elderly parents and their adult children
Aging, Health Care, and Elder Care: Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in China
This article examines gender inequalities in the fields of health and familial elder care in China. Based on interviews conducted from 1997 to 1999 with 110 familial caregivers who were taking care of their physically dependent parents, this study explores various aspects of gender differences in both generations of care recipients and caregivers. The variables studied include health status, health care benefits, and income disparities among care…
Joy and sorrow: Explaining Chinese caregivers' reward and stress
Through Gendered Lens: Explaining Chinese Caregivers' Task Performance and Care Reward
The Chinese cultural norm of xiao, or filial piety, has long been held responsible for the practice of familial caregiving for older parents. Yet few explore the gendered nature of such a cultural practice in the current changing economic dynamics. Using data collected in 1997-1999 from 110 Chinese caregivers who were caring for physically dependent elder parents, this researcher explores the influence of changing economic conditions and Chinese …
Willingness and Expectations: Intergenerational Differences in Attitudes Toward Filial Responsibility in China
This paper explores intergenerational differences in attitudes toward willingness to and expectations for parent care based on survey data collected during 1997-1999 with 777 one-child generation students and 110 current familial caregivers. Findings suggest that current caregivers have very low expectations for their children's provision of elder care in the future. Children from one-child families experienced high levels of obligation to provid…
Gender And Elder Care In China: The Influence of Filial Piety and Structural Constraints
The authors explore the changing dynamics of gendered familial caregiving in urban China within the context of economic reforms and the continued cultural influence of xiao (filial piety). Data collected in China through interviews with 110 familial caregivers were used to examine cultural and structural influences on the caregiving behavior of adult children. Results from multiple regression analyses provide evidence of a gendered division of pa…
Chinese Femininity and Social Control: Gender-Role Socialization and the State
This paper employs four classics of women's instructive literature and legal cases from late imperial China to analyze (1) the formation and development of Chinese femininity, and (2) the connection between gender-role socialization and the social control of women. I conclude that neither Chinese culture nor Confucianism is sufficient to explain Chinese women's subordination. The Chinese patrimonial state, with its centralized propaganda and coer…
Book of Analects for Women1: Consort Song2 (Tang)
Gender And Elder Care In China: The Influence of Filial Piety and Structural Constraints
The authors explore the changing dynamics of gendered familial caregiving in urban China within the context of economic reforms and the continued cultural influence of xiao (filial piety). Data collected in China through interviews with 110 familial caregivers were used to examine cultural and structural influences on the caregiving behavior of adult children. Results from multiple regression analyses provide evidence of a gendered division of pa…
Willingness and Expectations: Intergenerational Differences in Attitudes Toward Filial Responsibility in China
This paper explores intergenerational differences in attitudes toward willingness to and expectations for parent care based on survey data collected during 1997-1999 with 777 one-child generation students and 110 current familial caregivers. Findings suggest that current caregivers have very low expectations for their children's provision of elder care in the future. Children from one-child families experienced high levels of obligation to provid…
The role of the family in institutional long‐term care: Cultural management of filial piety in China
Zhan HJ, The role of the family in institutional long‐term care – cultural management of filial piety in China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: S121–S134 © 2011 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study used both qualitative and quantitative data collected in Nanjing, China, from 2008 to 2009, to examine the role of the family in long‐term institut…
Willingness and availability: Explaining new attitudes toward institutional elder care among Chinese elderly parents and their adult children
Joy and sorrow: Explaining Chinese caregivers' reward and stress
Chinese Femininity and Social Control: Gender-Role Socialization and the State
This paper employs four classics of women's instructive literature and legal cases from late imperial China to analyze (1) the formation and development of Chinese femininity, and (2) the connection between gender-role socialization and the social control of women. I conclude that neither Chinese culture nor Confucianism is sufficient to explain Chinese women's subordination. The Chinese patrimonial state, with its centralized propaganda and coer…
Beyond the Bible and the Cross: A Social and Cultural Analysis of Chinese Elders' Participation in Christian Congregations in the United States
Mainland Chinese elders constitute a unique group in popular Christian participation and conversion. This work aims to explore the social contexts and cultural facets of Mainland Chinese elders' Christian practice in the United States. Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 20 Mainland Chinese elders as well as participant observation at selected congregational settings, this study suggests that the existing theories on aging and religio…
Downward transfer of support and care: Understanding the cultural lag in rural China
The Chinese culture of filial piety has historically emphasised children's responsibility for their ageing parents. Little is understood regarding the inverse: parents’ responsibility and care for their adult children. This paper uses interviews with 50 families living in rural China's Anhui Province to understand intergenerational support in rural China. Findings indicate that parents in rural China take on large financial burdens in order to su…
Finding a Sense of Home across the Pacific in Old Age— Chinese American Senior’s Report of Life Satisfaction in a Foreign Land
The making of a home in a foreign land: Understanding the process of home-making among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S
This study discusses the interactions between social policies and aging experiences among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S. Using a life course perspective, the authors analysed how personal, familial, and environmental factors collectively shaped older immigrants' home-making experiences in a foreign land. Based on qualitative data from 21 in-depth qualitative interviews with older Chinese adults living in Atlanta, Georgia, this study reveale…
Double bind in loan access in China: The reification of gender differences in business loans
Purpose This paper aims to examine gender differences in credit access and credit default. Design/methodology/approach Using panel data drawn from 917 valid credit borrowers covering the period 2012 to 2015 drawn from among 6,849 study subjects and a national household financial survey (n = 29,500) conducted in China, this study focuses on gender differences in small and micro entrepreneurs’ financial behavior, specifically with respect to credit…
Chinese Femininity and Social Control: Gender-Role Socialization and the State
This paper employs four classics of women's instructive literature and legal cases from late imperial China to analyze (1) the formation and development of Chinese femininity, and (2) the connection between gender-role socialization and the social control of women. I conclude that neither Chinese culture nor Confucianism is sufficient to explain Chinese women's subordination. The Chinese patrimonial state, with its centralized propaganda and coer…
Book of Analects for Women1: Consort Song2 (Tang)
Gender And Elder Care In China: The Influence of Filial Piety and Structural Constraints
The authors explore the changing dynamics of gendered familial caregiving in urban China within the context of economic reforms and the continued cultural influence of xiao (filial piety). Data collected in China through interviews with 110 familial caregivers were used to examine cultural and structural influences on the caregiving behavior of adult children. Results from multiple regression analyses provide evidence of a gendered division of pa…
Through Gendered Lens: Explaining Chinese Caregivers' Task Performance and Care Reward
The Chinese cultural norm of xiao, or filial piety, has long been held responsible for the practice of familial caregiving for older parents. Yet few explore the gendered nature of such a cultural practice in the current changing economic dynamics. Using data collected in 1997-1999 from 110 Chinese caregivers who were caring for physically dependent elder parents, this researcher explores the influence of changing economic conditions and Chinese …
Willingness and Expectations: Intergenerational Differences in Attitudes Toward Filial Responsibility in China
This paper explores intergenerational differences in attitudes toward willingness to and expectations for parent care based on survey data collected during 1997-1999 with 777 one-child generation students and 110 current familial caregivers. Findings suggest that current caregivers have very low expectations for their children's provision of elder care in the future. Children from one-child families experienced high levels of obligation to provid…
Aging, Health Care, and Elder Care: Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in China
This article examines gender inequalities in the fields of health and familial elder care in China. Based on interviews conducted from 1997 to 1999 with 110 familial caregivers who were taking care of their physically dependent parents, this study explores various aspects of gender differences in both generations of care recipients and caregivers. The variables studied include health status, health care benefits, and income disparities among care…
Joy and sorrow: Explaining Chinese caregivers' reward and stress
Willingness and availability: Explaining new attitudes toward institutional elder care among Chinese elderly parents and their adult children
Placing Elderly Parents in Institutions in Urban China: A Reinterpretation of Filial Piety
The authors examined changing attitudes about filial piety, or xiao, using data from intensive interviews with 20 elderly residents, 14 family members, and 9 staff members in Nanjing, China. The findings reveal that respondents interpreted the notion of xiao in terms of their own social worlds and on the basis of their own social locations and contexts. The increasing unavailability of adult children, various benefits of institutional care, and c…
Beyond the Bible and the Cross: A Social and Cultural Analysis of Chinese Elders' Participation in Christian Congregations in the United States
Mainland Chinese elders constitute a unique group in popular Christian participation and conversion. This work aims to explore the social contexts and cultural facets of Mainland Chinese elders' Christian practice in the United States. Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 20 Mainland Chinese elders as well as participant observation at selected congregational settings, this study suggests that the existing theories on aging and religio…
The role of the family in institutional long‐term care: Cultural management of filial piety in China
Zhan HJ, The role of the family in institutional long‐term care – cultural management of filial piety in China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: S121–S134 © 2011 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study used both qualitative and quantitative data collected in Nanjing, China, from 2008 to 2009, to examine the role of the family in long‐term institut…
Finding a Sense of Home across the Pacific in Old Age— Chinese American Senior’s Report of Life Satisfaction in a Foreign Land
Double bind in loan access in China: The reification of gender differences in business loans
Purpose This paper aims to examine gender differences in credit access and credit default. Design/methodology/approach Using panel data drawn from 917 valid credit borrowers covering the period 2012 to 2015 drawn from among 6,849 study subjects and a national household financial survey (n = 29,500) conducted in China, this study focuses on gender differences in small and micro entrepreneurs’ financial behavior, specifically with respect to credit…
The making of a home in a foreign land: Understanding the process of home-making among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S
This study discusses the interactions between social policies and aging experiences among immigrant Chinese elders in the U.S. Using a life course perspective, the authors analysed how personal, familial, and environmental factors collectively shaped older immigrants' home-making experiences in a foreign land. Based on qualitative data from 21 in-depth qualitative interviews with older Chinese adults living in Atlanta, Georgia, this study reveale…
Does the one‐child generation want more than one child at their fertility age
Downward transfer of support and care: Understanding the cultural lag in rural China
The Chinese culture of filial piety has historically emphasised children's responsibility for their ageing parents. Little is understood regarding the inverse: parents’ responsibility and care for their adult children. This paper uses interviews with 50 families living in rural China's Anhui Province to understand intergenerational support in rural China. Findings indicate that parents in rural China take on large financial burdens in order to su…
Chinese Migrant Workers’ Financial Security in Old Age—A Cultural Shift From Reliance on Filial Piety to Public Pension
Migrant workers’ retirement in rural China need not mean that they are financially ready for retirement. This study examines which factors influence migrant workers’ public pension savings. Using a mixed-methods approach comprising surveys and interviews with Chinese migrant workers from three emigration provinces (Anhui, Henan, and Sichuan), we find that migrant workers with more social support and less spending on children are more likely to ha…
Embedding Critical Thinking in Global Virtual Exchange—Teaching Sociology Across National Borders in Virtual Classrooms
Global virtual exchange is a mode of teaching that can reach classrooms beyond national borders and across disciplines. This paper utilizes students’ online conversations and learning projects as primary data to demonstrate experiential learning and critical thinking processes in a global virtual classroom between students in the U.S. and China. Findings reveal that guided weekly online conversations between American and Chinese students provided…
Sacred Rock in the Way”—The Interplay of Modernity and Cultures in the Highway Construction of Southwest China
Highway construction in China has bolstered Chinese claims of having the longest highways in the world, yet it has led to the involuntary relocation and resettlement of millions of people all over China. This study examines the interplay of power relationships in modernity and ethnic cultures. Using interviews with 201 Zhuang ethnic minority people and participant observations from two years in the Southwest of China, this paper presents findings…
The making of a home in America—The journey to finding a sense of racial and ethnic belongings for sub-Saharan African immigrants in the U.S
African immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa may look very much alike “Black” Americans. But do they identify themselves as “Blacks”? Do they find a sense of home in America like other African Americans? This paper utilizes interview data with 27 African older immigrants to illustrate the process of home-making for immigrant Africans. Findings reveal that the process of finding a sense of home in America involves the journey of socially constructin…
China (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works)