Xiaorong Gu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaorong Gu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaorong |
| FAMILY NAME | Gu |
| SIGNATURE | GU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5479-9669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Between families and institutions: Mental health and biopolitical paternalism in contemporary China , by Zhiying Ma
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are underdiagnosed, underprivileged and under-supported in China. Families, particularly parents, often become primary caregivers, but research on fathers’ caregiving experiences remains sparse compared to mothers’. Understanding fathers’ roles is critical for promoting shared caregiving responsibilities and family well-being. This study analyzes publicly available we-media data of 33 family stories wr…
Of flexibility, futurality and fracture: A temporal perspective into migrant parenting in China
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China
Men's Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities
Focusing on men's negotiation of traditional norms and new gender dynamics amidst rapid social changes, the current study reveals nuanced trends and inter-regional heterogeneity in marriage behavior of men during the past decades in Asian societies. Since the 1970s, marriage age for men across Asia has risen and the slope of change is especially sharp in East Asia; while men in East and Southeast Asia increasingly remain single in their 30s and e…
Sacrifice and Indebtedness: The Intergenerational Contract in Chinese Rural Migrant Families
For four decades after China initiated economic reform, rural-urban migration has become a central experience for rural families. How do families negotiate economic production and social reproduction across geographic spaces and against institutional constraints? This article identifies the concept of intergenerational contract as an analytical tool to answer this question. Based on qualitative data gathered in Hunan and Shenzhen, I reveal that (…
Afterword: The value of children in the Global South: Current contributions and future directions
This Afterword to the Current Sociology Monograph on 'The Value Turn in Childhood Sociology' reflects on how this issue adds fundamental insights to our understanding not only of children's social positions, the roles they play and their life experiences from the perspectives of various stakeholders in a variety of Southern societies, but also of the heterogeneous, hybrid and complex trajectories of modernization in these societies. The articles …
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology
The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the 'new' social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualizations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and disengagement from mainstream sociologi…
Save the children: Governing left-behind children through family in China's Great Migration
Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China's left-behind children often frames the issues as a function of their parents' migration, which leaves a significant gap in discussing the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework that these families operate within, cope or struggle with. Through critically interrogating public discourses based on articles from a mainstream newspaper and policy documents since the early 2000…
Why do Chinese adolescent girls outperform boys in achievement tests
The current study extends our understanding of the widely documented gender educational gap in favor of females and its contributing factors through a mixed-methods analysis of the Chinese case. We develop an analytical framework that incorporates three mechanisms—intergenerational social contract, non-cognitive skills, and cumulative (dis)advantage across the life course—to empirically assess gendered achievement patterns and their social mechan…
Introduction: The Value of Children and Social Transformations in Asia
Complex Modernization: The Value of Children and Social Transformation in Contemporary Vietnam
Parenting for Success: The Value of Children and Intensive Parenting in Post-Reform China
Hopes and Hurdles: Rural Migrant Children's Education in Urban China
Rural migrant children are a rapidly growing demographic in Chinese cities. Existing sociological literature yields inconsistent findings regarding their wellbeing and adaptation to the urban society, partly due to a bifurcation of methodological approaches. Combining multilevel modelling and field research, this mixed-method study documents the coexistence of high hopes and arduous hurdles migrant children encounter in a nested system of inequal…
Four decades of transition to first marriage in China: Economic reform and persisting marriage norms
This study draws on three waves (2012, 2013, and 2015) of pooled data from the China General Social Survey to examine two major dimensions of the transition to first marriage among four cohorts of youths, i.e., the transition tempos and the homogamy patterns. Key findings include: (1) There is no evidence of systematic delays in family formation among cohorts coming of age after reform, albeit moderate cross-cohort heterogeneity. Two cohorts are …
Left Behind by Parents in China: Internal Migration and Adolescents’ Well-Being
This study investigates how growing up as a left-behind child due to parents' labor migration in China is associated with adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development, based on data from the China Family Panel Studies. We find that adolescents do worst when both parents are absent in all developmental indicators we examined: short-term and long-term word recall tests, numeracy test, self-concept, and self-expectation of educational attai…
Hopes and Hurdles: Rural Migrant Children's Education in Urban China
Rural migrant children are a rapidly growing demographic in Chinese cities. Existing sociological literature yields inconsistent findings regarding their wellbeing and adaptation to the urban society, partly due to a bifurcation of methodological approaches. Combining multilevel modelling and field research, this mixed-method study documents the coexistence of high hopes and arduous hurdles migrant children encounter in a nested system of inequal…
Parenting for Success: The Value of Children and Intensive Parenting in Post-Reform China
Sacrifice and Indebtedness: The Intergenerational Contract in Chinese Rural Migrant Families
For four decades after China initiated economic reform, rural-urban migration has become a central experience for rural families. How do families negotiate economic production and social reproduction across geographic spaces and against institutional constraints? This article identifies the concept of intergenerational contract as an analytical tool to answer this question. Based on qualitative data gathered in Hunan and Shenzhen, I reveal that (…
Left Behind by Parents in China: Internal Migration and Adolescents’ Well-Being
This study investigates how growing up as a left-behind child due to parents' labor migration in China is associated with adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development, based on data from the China Family Panel Studies. We find that adolescents do worst when both parents are absent in all developmental indicators we examined: short-term and long-term word recall tests, numeracy test, self-concept, and self-expectation of educational attai…
Of flexibility, futurality and fracture: A temporal perspective into migrant parenting in China
Save the children: Governing left-behind children through family in China's Great Migration
Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China's left-behind children often frames the issues as a function of their parents' migration, which leaves a significant gap in discussing the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework that these families operate within, cope or struggle with. Through critically interrogating public discourses based on articles from a mainstream newspaper and policy documents since the early 2000…
Why do Chinese adolescent girls outperform boys in achievement tests
The current study extends our understanding of the widely documented gender educational gap in favor of females and its contributing factors through a mixed-methods analysis of the Chinese case. We develop an analytical framework that incorporates three mechanisms—intergenerational social contract, non-cognitive skills, and cumulative (dis)advantage across the life course—to empirically assess gendered achievement patterns and their social mechan…
Introduction: The Value of Children and Social Transformations in Asia
Four decades of transition to first marriage in China: Economic reform and persisting marriage norms
This study draws on three waves (2012, 2013, and 2015) of pooled data from the China General Social Survey to examine two major dimensions of the transition to first marriage among four cohorts of youths, i.e., the transition tempos and the homogamy patterns. Key findings include: (1) There is no evidence of systematic delays in family formation among cohorts coming of age after reform, albeit moderate cross-cohort heterogeneity. Two cohorts are …
Men's Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities
Focusing on men's negotiation of traditional norms and new gender dynamics amidst rapid social changes, the current study reveals nuanced trends and inter-regional heterogeneity in marriage behavior of men during the past decades in Asian societies. Since the 1970s, marriage age for men across Asia has risen and the slope of change is especially sharp in East Asia; while men in East and Southeast Asia increasingly remain single in their 30s and e…
Complex Modernization: The Value of Children and Social Transformation in Contemporary Vietnam
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology
The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the 'new' social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualizations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and disengagement from mainstream sociologi…
Left Behind by Parents in China: Internal Migration and Adolescents’ Well-Being
This study investigates how growing up as a left-behind child due to parents' labor migration in China is associated with adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development, based on data from the China Family Panel Studies. We find that adolescents do worst when both parents are absent in all developmental indicators we examined: short-term and long-term word recall tests, numeracy test, self-concept, and self-expectation of educational attai…
Four decades of transition to first marriage in China: Economic reform and persisting marriage norms
This study draws on three waves (2012, 2013, and 2015) of pooled data from the China General Social Survey to examine two major dimensions of the transition to first marriage among four cohorts of youths, i.e., the transition tempos and the homogamy patterns. Key findings include: (1) There is no evidence of systematic delays in family formation among cohorts coming of age after reform, albeit moderate cross-cohort heterogeneity. Two cohorts are …
Parenting for Success: The Value of Children and Intensive Parenting in Post-Reform China
Hopes and Hurdles: Rural Migrant Children's Education in Urban China
Rural migrant children are a rapidly growing demographic in Chinese cities. Existing sociological literature yields inconsistent findings regarding their wellbeing and adaptation to the urban society, partly due to a bifurcation of methodological approaches. Combining multilevel modelling and field research, this mixed-method study documents the coexistence of high hopes and arduous hurdles migrant children encounter in a nested system of inequal…
Why do Chinese adolescent girls outperform boys in achievement tests
The current study extends our understanding of the widely documented gender educational gap in favor of females and its contributing factors through a mixed-methods analysis of the Chinese case. We develop an analytical framework that incorporates three mechanisms—intergenerational social contract, non-cognitive skills, and cumulative (dis)advantage across the life course—to empirically assess gendered achievement patterns and their social mechan…
Introduction: The Value of Children and Social Transformations in Asia
Complex Modernization: The Value of Children and Social Transformation in Contemporary Vietnam
Sacrifice and Indebtedness: The Intergenerational Contract in Chinese Rural Migrant Families
For four decades after China initiated economic reform, rural-urban migration has become a central experience for rural families. How do families negotiate economic production and social reproduction across geographic spaces and against institutional constraints? This article identifies the concept of intergenerational contract as an analytical tool to answer this question. Based on qualitative data gathered in Hunan and Shenzhen, I reveal that (…
Afterword: The value of children in the Global South: Current contributions and future directions
This Afterword to the Current Sociology Monograph on 'The Value Turn in Childhood Sociology' reflects on how this issue adds fundamental insights to our understanding not only of children's social positions, the roles they play and their life experiences from the perspectives of various stakeholders in a variety of Southern societies, but also of the heterogeneous, hybrid and complex trajectories of modernization in these societies. The articles …
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology
The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the 'new' social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualizations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and disengagement from mainstream sociologi…
Save the children: Governing left-behind children through family in China's Great Migration
Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China's left-behind children often frames the issues as a function of their parents' migration, which leaves a significant gap in discussing the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework that these families operate within, cope or struggle with. Through critically interrogating public discourses based on articles from a mainstream newspaper and policy documents since the early 2000…
Men's Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities
Focusing on men's negotiation of traditional norms and new gender dynamics amidst rapid social changes, the current study reveals nuanced trends and inter-regional heterogeneity in marriage behavior of men during the past decades in Asian societies. Since the 1970s, marriage age for men across Asia has risen and the slope of change is especially sharp in East Asia; while men in East and Southeast Asia increasingly remain single in their 30s and e…
Between families and institutions: Mental health and biopolitical paternalism in contemporary China , by Zhiying Ma
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are underdiagnosed, underprivileged and under-supported in China. Families, particularly parents, often become primary caregivers, but research on fathers’ caregiving experiences remains sparse compared to mothers’. Understanding fathers’ roles is critical for promoting shared caregiving responsibilities and family well-being. This study analyzes publicly available we-media data of 33 family stories wr…
Of flexibility, futurality and fracture: A temporal perspective into migrant parenting in China
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · China (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works)