Xiaodong Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaodong Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaodong |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9722-8607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Children's food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China
This article contributes to the growing sociological discussion on changing family relations in China. By conceptualizing da pei as a critical lens, it advances the emerging discussion of the interplay between food as materiality of care and intergenerational relations. Through critical engagement with a group of mothers' food narratives in Hangzhou, the article explains how parents in China negotiate their responsibilities and expectations of go…
The adventures of John Bransford
Towards cultural landscapes of care
This paper sets out a theoretical agenda for Cultural Landscapes of Care. It highlights the importance of engaging the cultural vectors within different 'care-ful geographies', in order to highlight the role of culture as both a lens of knowing a meaningful way of life, and a critical hermeneutic. Through revisiting discussions around everyday practices of care, both in this journal and elsewhere, we outline a research agenda that re-engages cult…
Virtuous eating
Probabilistic performance prediction of shield tunnels in operation through data mining
Young rural-urban migrant fathers in China
Drawing upon a study on rural–urban migrant young men at a delivery company in a southern Chinese city, I examine how they make sense of their private life as fathers. Situated within the pervasive national discourse of the ‘China Dream’ in which individual aspiration for a better life is advocated in line with the prosperity of the nation marked by neoliberal modernization, the paper seeks to understand how the marginalized urban working-class y…
Masculinizing fatherhood
Drawing on interviews with two groups of young men from different socio-economic positions in contemporary China, this paper explores how masculine ideals are justified, negotiated and lived out in their narratives of fatherhood and parenting. Reading through the lens of ‘yang’ (raise/feed) and ‘jiao’ (educate/cultivate), the paper addresses how neoliberal ideology in relation to competitiveness and traditional cultural values of parenthood and m…
Shifting discourses from boy preference to boy crisis
It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation’s neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation’s modernization project, particularly through suzhi jiaoyu (education for quality). More specifically, we eng…
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China
Drawing on my mother’s yang sheng (养生, life-nurturing) practices through food consumption as an autoethnographic ‘vignette’, this article seeks to tease out the different layers of sociocultural meanings underpinning a ‘left-behind’ ageing mother’s changing diet. It brings to light the underlying gendered embodiment of food practices articulated through changing family relations (that is, a left-behind mother and an absent son). This is of partic…
Single Male Rural-Urban Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of Masculinity in China
The chapter examines male migrant workers’ articulation and negotiation of being single. A central question is how migrant men make sense of their status of being single. The men recount heteronormative cultural values in relation to the family, which serve as central resources in forging their identities. It highlights that traditional cultural values, such as those attached to being a capable man, are lived out in single migrant men’s everyday …
East Asian Men
Student–parent attitudes toward Filipino migrant teachers in Indonesia
Using ethnographic data gleaned from a foreign-managed Christian school in Indonesia, this article situates the ethnic prejudices of Indonesian Chinese parents and students toward Filipino teachers within the organizational and cultural politics of private schooling. It is argued that the commoditization of education as a form of market consumption alongside the masculinized international curriculum help shape the feminization of teachers from th…
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, in contrast, research on rural men’s experience of migration is a neglected area of study. In response, this book seeks to add…
Filial son’, the family and identity formation among male migrant workers in urban China
This article is based on an ethnographic study of life histories of 28 rural–urban (internal) migrant men located within southern China. It explores their narratives with a particular focus on changing social relations within the family, from the perspective of migrant sons. It argues that traditional gender norms, such as those attached to being a ‘filial son’, are lived out, albeit reworked, among Chinese male migrant workers across generations…
Chinese Male Peasant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces
A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural‐based agricultural sector to urban‐based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low‐skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from…
Intercultural Adaptive Expertise
Giyoo Hatano was an international scholar – an adaptive expert himself. His creative methodologies and theoretical insights have enriched the work of researchers in many countries. How Hatano lived his life and treated others provides enriching insights as well. In this essay, we focus on ‘adaptive expertise’, one of Giyoo Hatano’s major contributions to the field. We explore both the explicit information he provided about adaptive expertise and …
Technology, Culture, and Adaptive Minds
Reflection at the Crossroads of Cultures
This paper explores how technologies can transform the obstacles of geographical and cultural distance into new opportunities for learning and personal growth. In particular, it focuses on the potential benefits of reflection in the context of cross-cultural exchange and how technology can bring those benefits to the classroom. Several instances of research explore the uses of technology for promoting cross-cultural contact as a way to expose stu…
Technologies for Learning from Intercultural Reflections
This paper explores how technologies can transform the obstacles of geograph-ical and cultural distance into new opportunities for learning and personal growth. In particular, it focuses on the potential benefits of reflection in the context of cross-cultural exchange and how technology can bring those benefits to the classroom. Several instances of research explore the uses of technology for promoting cross-cultural contact as a way to expose st…
The Importance of Technology for Making Cultural Values Visible
This article explores the potential for using technological tools to foster teacher understanding of cultural diversity and promote teacher reflection. The authors review several studies in which different technologies were used in ways that allowed implicit teacher and student beliefs to become more explicit and thereby easier to reflect on. These studies were conducted inside and outside of the United States; the uses of technology for reflecti…
Filial son’, the family and identity formation among male migrant workers in urban China
This article is based on an ethnographic study of life histories of 28 rural–urban (internal) migrant men located within southern China. It explores their narratives with a particular focus on changing social relations within the family, from the perspective of migrant sons. It argues that traditional gender norms, such as those attached to being a ‘filial son’, are lived out, albeit reworked, among Chinese male migrant workers across generations…
Chinese Male Peasant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces
A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural‐based agricultural sector to urban‐based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low‐skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from…
Masculinizing fatherhood
Drawing on interviews with two groups of young men from different socio-economic positions in contemporary China, this paper explores how masculine ideals are justified, negotiated and lived out in their narratives of fatherhood and parenting. Reading through the lens of ‘yang’ (raise/feed) and ‘jiao’ (educate/cultivate), the paper addresses how neoliberal ideology in relation to competitiveness and traditional cultural values of parenthood and m…
Towards cultural landscapes of care
This paper sets out a theoretical agenda for Cultural Landscapes of Care. It highlights the importance of engaging the cultural vectors within different 'care-ful geographies', in order to highlight the role of culture as both a lens of knowing a meaningful way of life, and a critical hermeneutic. Through revisiting discussions around everyday practices of care, both in this journal and elsewhere, we outline a research agenda that re-engages cult…
Shifting discourses from boy preference to boy crisis
It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation’s neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation’s modernization project, particularly through suzhi jiaoyu (education for quality). More specifically, we eng…
Young rural-urban migrant fathers in China
Drawing upon a study on rural–urban migrant young men at a delivery company in a southern Chinese city, I examine how they make sense of their private life as fathers. Situated within the pervasive national discourse of the ‘China Dream’ in which individual aspiration for a better life is advocated in line with the prosperity of the nation marked by neoliberal modernization, the paper seeks to understand how the marginalized urban working-class y…
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China
Drawing on my mother’s yang sheng (养生, life-nurturing) practices through food consumption as an autoethnographic ‘vignette’, this article seeks to tease out the different layers of sociocultural meanings underpinning a ‘left-behind’ ageing mother’s changing diet. It brings to light the underlying gendered embodiment of food practices articulated through changing family relations (that is, a left-behind mother and an absent son). This is of partic…
Virtuous eating
Student–parent attitudes toward Filipino migrant teachers in Indonesia
Using ethnographic data gleaned from a foreign-managed Christian school in Indonesia, this article situates the ethnic prejudices of Indonesian Chinese parents and students toward Filipino teachers within the organizational and cultural politics of private schooling. It is argued that the commoditization of education as a form of market consumption alongside the masculinized international curriculum help shape the feminization of teachers from th…
Technologies for Learning from Intercultural Reflections
This paper explores how technologies can transform the obstacles of geograph-ical and cultural distance into new opportunities for learning and personal growth. In particular, it focuses on the potential benefits of reflection in the context of cross-cultural exchange and how technology can bring those benefits to the classroom. Several instances of research explore the uses of technology for promoting cross-cultural contact as a way to expose st…
Children's food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China
This article contributes to the growing sociological discussion on changing family relations in China. By conceptualizing da pei as a critical lens, it advances the emerging discussion of the interplay between food as materiality of care and intergenerational relations. Through critical engagement with a group of mothers' food narratives in Hangzhou, the article explains how parents in China negotiate their responsibilities and expectations of go…
Technology, Culture, and Adaptive Minds
Reflection at the Crossroads of Cultures
This paper explores how technologies can transform the obstacles of geographical and cultural distance into new opportunities for learning and personal growth. In particular, it focuses on the potential benefits of reflection in the context of cross-cultural exchange and how technology can bring those benefits to the classroom. Several instances of research explore the uses of technology for promoting cross-cultural contact as a way to expose stu…
Technologies for Learning from Intercultural Reflections
This paper explores how technologies can transform the obstacles of geograph-ical and cultural distance into new opportunities for learning and personal growth. In particular, it focuses on the potential benefits of reflection in the context of cross-cultural exchange and how technology can bring those benefits to the classroom. Several instances of research explore the uses of technology for promoting cross-cultural contact as a way to expose st…
The Importance of Technology for Making Cultural Values Visible
This article explores the potential for using technological tools to foster teacher understanding of cultural diversity and promote teacher reflection. The authors review several studies in which different technologies were used in ways that allowed implicit teacher and student beliefs to become more explicit and thereby easier to reflect on. These studies were conducted inside and outside of the United States; the uses of technology for reflecti…
Intercultural Adaptive Expertise
Giyoo Hatano was an international scholar – an adaptive expert himself. His creative methodologies and theoretical insights have enriched the work of researchers in many countries. How Hatano lived his life and treated others provides enriching insights as well. In this essay, we focus on ‘adaptive expertise’, one of Giyoo Hatano’s major contributions to the field. We explore both the explicit information he provided about adaptive expertise and …
Chinese Male Peasant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces
A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural‐based agricultural sector to urban‐based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low‐skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from…
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, in contrast, research on rural men’s experience of migration is a neglected area of study. In response, this book seeks to add…
Filial son’, the family and identity formation among male migrant workers in urban China
This article is based on an ethnographic study of life histories of 28 rural–urban (internal) migrant men located within southern China. It explores their narratives with a particular focus on changing social relations within the family, from the perspective of migrant sons. It argues that traditional gender norms, such as those attached to being a ‘filial son’, are lived out, albeit reworked, among Chinese male migrant workers across generations…
East Asian Men
Student–parent attitudes toward Filipino migrant teachers in Indonesia
Using ethnographic data gleaned from a foreign-managed Christian school in Indonesia, this article situates the ethnic prejudices of Indonesian Chinese parents and students toward Filipino teachers within the organizational and cultural politics of private schooling. It is argued that the commoditization of education as a form of market consumption alongside the masculinized international curriculum help shape the feminization of teachers from th…
Single Male Rural-Urban Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of Masculinity in China
The chapter examines male migrant workers’ articulation and negotiation of being single. A central question is how migrant men make sense of their status of being single. The men recount heteronormative cultural values in relation to the family, which serve as central resources in forging their identities. It highlights that traditional cultural values, such as those attached to being a capable man, are lived out in single migrant men’s everyday …
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China
Drawing on my mother’s yang sheng (养生, life-nurturing) practices through food consumption as an autoethnographic ‘vignette’, this article seeks to tease out the different layers of sociocultural meanings underpinning a ‘left-behind’ ageing mother’s changing diet. It brings to light the underlying gendered embodiment of food practices articulated through changing family relations (that is, a left-behind mother and an absent son). This is of partic…
Probabilistic performance prediction of shield tunnels in operation through data mining
Young rural-urban migrant fathers in China
Drawing upon a study on rural–urban migrant young men at a delivery company in a southern Chinese city, I examine how they make sense of their private life as fathers. Situated within the pervasive national discourse of the ‘China Dream’ in which individual aspiration for a better life is advocated in line with the prosperity of the nation marked by neoliberal modernization, the paper seeks to understand how the marginalized urban working-class y…
Masculinizing fatherhood
Drawing on interviews with two groups of young men from different socio-economic positions in contemporary China, this paper explores how masculine ideals are justified, negotiated and lived out in their narratives of fatherhood and parenting. Reading through the lens of ‘yang’ (raise/feed) and ‘jiao’ (educate/cultivate), the paper addresses how neoliberal ideology in relation to competitiveness and traditional cultural values of parenthood and m…
Shifting discourses from boy preference to boy crisis
It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation’s neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation’s modernization project, particularly through suzhi jiaoyu (education for quality). More specifically, we eng…
Virtuous eating
Towards cultural landscapes of care
This paper sets out a theoretical agenda for Cultural Landscapes of Care. It highlights the importance of engaging the cultural vectors within different 'care-ful geographies', in order to highlight the role of culture as both a lens of knowing a meaningful way of life, and a critical hermeneutic. Through revisiting discussions around everyday practices of care, both in this journal and elsewhere, we outline a research agenda that re-engages cult…
The adventures of John Bransford
Children's food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China
This article contributes to the growing sociological discussion on changing family relations in China. By conceptualizing da pei as a critical lens, it advances the emerging discussion of the interplay between food as materiality of care and intergenerational relations. Through critical engagement with a group of mothers' food narratives in Hangzhou, the article explains how parents in China negotiate their responsibilities and expectations of go…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · China (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Negotiation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works)