Xiying Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiying Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiying |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6752-2266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice
As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their interpretations are linked to broader contexts. Drawing on focus group discussions among university student…
To lead or not to lead? ambivalent leadership aspirations among women academics in Chinese higher education institutions
International scholarly interest in the leadership of women academics is growing, with a strong focus on the structural barriers they face and the success stories of those in leadership roles. However, there is still limited research on the nuanced leadership aspirations of women academics in non-Western contexts, such as China. This qualitative study, informed by Butler's theory of performativity, explores how fourteen non-leader women academics…
A collaborative autoethnography of three professors’ experiences with doctoral supervision in Canada, Australia, and China
‘Chinese Childhood Through Children’s Own Eyes’
It has been more than one year since we first released the call for papers for this special issue. Right now, we are happy to see that the issue has been published. At the beginning, we received 23
Who is more likely to be bullied? Assessing the impact of person-group dissimilarity on bullying victimization among Chinese adolescents
Patterns of Masculinity Ideologies Among Chinese Adolescent Boys: A Latent Class Analysis
Workplace Sexual Harassment: Comparing the Experiences of Heterosexual and Queer Women in Urban China
This study investigates workplace sexual harassment (WSH) among 2,031 women across four major Chinese cities, including 384 queer women, offering one of the first large-scale analyses of sexual minority women's experiences in the contemporary Chinese context. Results reveal that queer women experience higher prevalence, greater variety, and more frequent WSH than heterosexual women. Patterns of perpetration also diverge: queer women are dispropor…
Teaching through ‘powerful knowledge’ in vocational higher education: Tensions of ‘relational’ approaches in China
This study addresses the problem of knowledge practices in Chinese vocational higher education institutions (HEIs) by using Bernstein's notion of a ‘pedagogic device’. China's distinctive context is characterised by a hybrid mix of discipline-based and competence-based curricula, providing a unique opportunity to explore the tensions inherent in a ‘relational’ approach. One specific concern is epistemic and social relations behind curriculum choi…
Factor structure, measurement invariance, known-groups validity, and convergent validity of Attitudes toward Women Scale for Adolescents(Awsa) in Chinese adolescents
Accidents for Boys and Shame on Girls: Gendered Perspectives on Unintended Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion Among Chinese Adolescents
Violent intimacy: Family harmony, state stability, and intimate partner violence in post-socialist China
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China
Symbolic violence or semiotic mediator? Examining the regulative order through school rituals in China
The association between gender role attitudes, rape myth acceptance and dating sexual violence: Different mechanisms among Chinese college students of different sexual orientations
Dating sexual violence (DSV) is a serious social problem among college students worldwide. This study examines the effects of gender role attitudes (GRA) in DSV and the mediating role of rape myth acceptance (RMA) among students of different sexual orientations in China. A total of 2134 Chinese college students (553 men and 1581 women, 1751 heterosexuals and 383 sexually diverse groups) participated in this study. We found that sexually diverse m…
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents
Co‐parenting, the undertaking of parents working together to raise their children, is well documented as an important consideration of children's adjustment in Western countries, but we know less about the role of co‐parenting in other cultures. In China, for example, co‐parenting has only recently emerged in the social science literature. This study aimed to examine the cultural sensitivity of the CoPAFS instrument among Chinese Mandarin‐speakin…
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China
Based on the first wave of the China Education Panel Survey, this study aims to test two competing mechanisms including son preference and meritocracy of leading to parents' expectations of and investment in their children's education. This article presents a general portrayal of academic performance among rural boys and girls. The findings depict a general pattern of parents' investment: parents are more likely to invest in their daughters than …
Negotiating the temporal and spatial complexities: Chinese international students’ learning experience at home during the Covid-19
Many Chinese international students had to or chose to leave their host universities, receiving online international higher education (HE) at ‘homes’ during the COVID-19. Inspired by the ‘glonacal’ mode of thought, this qualitative study interviewed 16 Chinese international students at ‘homes’ to explore the potential complexities of spatiality and temporality regarding their online international HE experiences during COVID-19. Physically separat…
Volumes of hippocampal subfields suggest a continuum between schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
The pattern of hippocampal volume reduction in SZ, MDD and BD suggests that there may be a continuum of the three disorders at the hippocampal level. The hippocampus represents a phenotype that is distinct from traditional diagnostic strategies. Combined with illness duration and drug intervention, it may better reflect shared pathophysiology and mechanisms across psychiatric disorders
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents
Drawing upon survey data collected from 632 adolescents aged from 13 to 16 in two secondary schools in Beijing, this study examined the mediating role of traditional bullying victimization and tolerance of cyberbullying between gender and cyberbullying perpetration. The results showed that 6.8% of the adolescents in the study reported cyberbullying perpetration in the past year, while 6.0% of them were victims of cyberbullying. Boys reported high…
Gender Differences in the Effects of BMI on School Bullying and Victimization in China: Comparing Normal Weight, Underweight and Overweight Secondary School Students
Weight-related school bullying and victimization have become important public health issues among adolescents around the world. This study aims to examine gender differences in the effects of Body Mass Index (BMI) on school bullying and victimization among secondary school students. This study conducted a survey among 2849 adolescents-1393 girls (48.9%) and 1456 boys (51.1%). The students were between 12 and 18 years of age and were recruited fro…
Does Friend Support Matter? The Association between Gender Role Attitudes and School Bullying among Male Adolescents in China
This study investigated the association between gender role attitudes, perceived friend support, and school bullying among male adolescents from 11 schools in two cities in China. A total of 3172 Chinese adolescents between 12 and 20 years of age (48.80% girls and 51.20% boys) completed questionnaires that included measures of bullying, gender role attitudes, and perceived social support. In terms of outcome measures, the Chinese version of the I…
Bullying Perpetration and Homophobic Teasing: Mediation through Gender Role Attitudes
Homophobic teasing or name-calling, one form of school-related gender-based violence, refers to the use of derogatory language or actions towards sexual- or gender-nonconforming individuals. Research in the Global North has indicated that it is highly prevalent among adolescents, and is associated with a broad range of negative outcomes for both victims and perpetrators. However, such behaviors remain understudied in China. Using a cross-sectiona…
Association between Child Abuse, Depression, and School Bullying among Chinese Secondary School Students
Introduction: School bullying is a serious social and public health problem. This article aims to explore the association between experiences of childhood abuse and involvement in school bullying, especially considering the mediating effects of depression. Methods: The sample of this study was 3059 students (1584 males and 1475 females) aged from 12 to 20, in eleven Chinese secondary schools, which included six middle schools, four high schools, …
A Complex Landscape of Fun, Queerness and Desire in China: Introducing Three Films by He Xiaopei
This article documents He Xiaopei’s work as a film activist who contributes significantly to feminist and queer movements in contemporary China. Trained as a social scientist, He Xiaopei then went on to become the director of the civil organization Pink Space Research Center in the mid-2000s as well as an independent filmmaker. Since 2010, she has produced more than ten documentary movies. However, despite the greatness of her contribution, the r…
Tolerance for domestic violence: Do legislation and organizational support affect police view on family violence
Police attitudes toward domestic violence are essential occupational outlooks that can potentially shape police response to such violence. Studies on Chinese officers’ attitudes toward domestic violence are scarce even after the enactment of the Counter Domestic Violence Law (the DV Law) in China in 2016. Drawing upon survey data collected from 1,139 police officers from three provinces (Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangsu) in China, this study examined th…
The Patterns and Influencing Factors of Help-Seeking Decisions among Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in China
Individualization as an Ambition: Mapping the Dating Landscape in Beijing
This article considers cultural hierarchies that may shape practices of dating and partner choice among young women and men in contemporary Beijing. Our research is mainly based on 43 in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing over the past six years. The distinction between Beijingers and waidiren (lit., outsiders) here serves as a framework to examine the cultural and socioeconomic differentiation of dating practices. We further complicate this f…
Female Virginity Complex” Untied: Young Chinese Women's Experience of Virginity Loss and Sexual Coercion
This article selects the critical moment of virginity loss in young Beijing women's lives to look at the meaning of sexual coercion in dating relationships. The authors observed that many young Chinese women presented their first experience of sex as containing some elements of sexual coercion that were being described as “minor,” do not involve obvious physical force, but are unpleasant and regretful experiences of virginity loss. This article c…
Making transnational intimacies: Intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing
In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview n…
Evidence for a Comprehensive Sexuality Education Intervention that Enhances Chinese Adolescents’ Sexual Knowledge and Gender Awareness and Empowers Young Women
Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China
Research Article| May 01 2008 Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China Weihua Wu; Weihua Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Xiying Wang Xiying Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (2): 409–433. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2008-007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Beyond Virtual Carnival and Masquerade: In-Game Marriage on the Chinese Internet
This article documents the brief history of cyber marriage on the Chinese Internet and shows how in-game marriage, with its game codes and marriage regulations, turns out to be the most visualized, institutionalized, and heteronormative form of cyber marriage, by exploring the game players' gender performativity, especially the gender swapping of male gamers. This study sheds light on Chinese youth subculture under the influence of new media and …
Gender differences in cyberbullying tolerance, traditional bullying victimization and their associations with cyberbullying perpetration among Beijing adolescents
Drawing upon survey data collected from 632 adolescents aged from 13 to 16 in two secondary schools in Beijing, this study examined the mediating role of traditional bullying victimization and tolerance of cyberbullying between gender and cyberbullying perpetration. The results showed that 6.8% of the adolescents in the study reported cyberbullying perpetration in the past year, while 6.0% of them were victims of cyberbullying. Boys reported high…
When There Are No Therapists: A Psychoeducational Group for People Who Have Experienced Social Disasters
A social disaster is when categories of people are politically or socially targeted by virtue of their social identities and suffer ongoing targeting and oppression. Survivors of social disasters often experience similar traumatic symptoms as those of survivors of natural disasters but, unlike most other types of disasters, the threats that caused the trauma and the conditions that undermine survivor’s identity, safety, trust, and sense of contro…
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China
Based on the first wave of the China Education Panel Survey, this study aims to test two competing mechanisms including son preference and meritocracy of leading to parents' expectations of and investment in their children's education. This article presents a general portrayal of academic performance among rural boys and girls. The findings depict a general pattern of parents' investment: parents are more likely to invest in their daughters than …
Migrant Women’s Help-Seeking Decisions and Use of Support Resources for Intimate Partner Violence in China
In China, women who domestically relocate from rural or less developed regions to major cities are at a higher risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) than their non-migrant counterparts. Few studies have focused on Chinese domestic migrant women's help-seeking for IPV and their use of different sources of support. The present study aimed to identify factors that influence migrant women's help-seeking decisions. In addition, we also examined fac…
Police Officers’ Preferences for Gender-Based Responding to Domestic Violence in China
Sex, Drug, and HIV/Aids: The Drug Career of an Urban Chinese Woman
This case study is based on the life history of an urban Chinese woman, Lydia, who has become an AIDS patient through injecting heroin use. Adopting theories of drug career and biopolitics, this study depicts Lydia’s drug-centered life. From the perspective of a drug career, this article vividly illustrates her experience of drug initiation, escalation, maintenance, and finally achievement of abstinence. In addition, this study also shows how dru…
Violence and Desire in Beijing: A Young Chinese Woman's Strategies of Resistance in Father–Daughter Incest and Dating Relationships
In Mainland China, there is a lack of public awareness of and systematic research on dating violence and incest. This article fills a gap in the research in this area by examining a woman's lived experience of father-daughter incest and dating violence. The article adopts the standpoint of third-wave feminists and highlights women's agency and resistance to abuse. Meng Xi, the subject of the case study in this article, is regarded as a "survivor"…
Violence and Desire in Beijing: A Young Chinese Woman's Strategies of Resistance in Father–Daughter Incest and Dating Relationships
In Mainland China, there is a lack of public awareness of and systematic research on dating violence and incest. This article fills a gap in the research in this area by examining a woman's lived experience of father-daughter incest and dating violence. The article adopts the standpoint of third-wave feminists and highlights women's agency and resistance to abuse. Meng Xi, the subject of the case study in this article, is regarded as a "survivor"…
Beyond Virtual Carnival and Masquerade: In-Game Marriage on the Chinese Internet
This article documents the brief history of cyber marriage on the Chinese Internet and shows how in-game marriage, with its game codes and marriage regulations, turns out to be the most visualized, institutionalized, and heteronormative form of cyber marriage, by exploring the game players' gender performativity, especially the gender swapping of male gamers. This study sheds light on Chinese youth subculture under the influence of new media and …
Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China
Research Article| May 01 2008 Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China Weihua Wu; Weihua Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Xiying Wang Xiying Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (2): 409–433. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2008-007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Women, Poverty, and the Epidemic in China: Case Studies on Rural People Living with HIV/Aids
Based on in-depth interviews with 110 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this qualitative study is a preliminary endeavor to delineate the socio-cultural scripts of rural PLWHA in China including their illness experience, everyday lives, and strategies of coping with stigma, poverty, and social barriers. This study documents the new wave of the “feminization of HIV/AIDS” in China. There is a gender difference of infection routes. Women were inf…
Health Service Access for Rural People Living with HIV/Aids in China: A Critical Evaluation
The increasingly serious HIV/AIDS epidemic creates a significant burden for the public health system; however, little attention has been paid to the issue of health service access in rural China. Based on a qualitative study of 34 Chinese rural People Living with HIVIAIDS (PLWHA) and 13 health providers, this study fills a gap by examining health service access from both the demand and supply-side. Utilizing access theory, this study explores the…
Female Virginity Complex” Untied: Young Chinese Women's Experience of Virginity Loss and Sexual Coercion
This article selects the critical moment of virginity loss in young Beijing women's lives to look at the meaning of sexual coercion in dating relationships. The authors observed that many young Chinese women presented their first experience of sex as containing some elements of sexual coercion that were being described as “minor,” do not involve obvious physical force, but are unpleasant and regretful experiences of virginity loss. This article c…
An Eye Movement Study about the Effect of the Illustration-text Relativeness on the Reading of College Students with Different Cognitive Styles: An Eye Movement Study about the Effect of the Illustrat…
摘要: 阅读是我们日常生活中的一项重要认知活动。利用插图来帮助人们提高阅读理解能力是一种常用的方法。本研究选取了40名大学生做被试, 使用眼动仪考察了图文相关程度(高和低)对不同认知方式大学生(场依存型和场独立型)图文阅读的影响。结果发现:(1)图文相关性对不同认知方式读者影响不同, 图文相关程度对场独立型读者的阅读成绩无显著影响, 但对场依存型读者影响显著。场依存型读者对高相关材料的阅读理解成绩显著优于低相关材料。(2)场依存型读者在阅读不同相关图文时会主动调整加工对象。图文相关高时, 场依存型读者更多注视插图; 而图文相关低时, 场依存型读者更多注视文字内容。此外, 场依存型读者在图文之间的转换和对文字的注视点平均持续时间多于场独立型读者。本研究认为,高相关插图有助于提高场依存型读者的阅读成绩;场依存型读者在阅读不同相关程度图文时会主动调整加工对象
The camera as an exception: The ethnographic poetics of the ‘Second Spring’ films
Individualization as an Ambition: Mapping the Dating Landscape in Beijing
This article considers cultural hierarchies that may shape practices of dating and partner choice among young women and men in contemporary Beijing. Our research is mainly based on 43 in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing over the past six years. The distinction between Beijingers and waidiren (lit., outsiders) here serves as a framework to examine the cultural and socioeconomic differentiation of dating practices. We further complicate this f…
Making transnational intimacies: Intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing
In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview n…
Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China
This book explores young people’s experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing over a decade, and focusing especially on dating violence, the book reveals provides insights into a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China. It shows how young Chinese people’s attitudes and behaviors are changing a…
When There Are No Therapists: A Psychoeducational Group for People Who Have Experienced Social Disasters
A social disaster is when categories of people are politically or socially targeted by virtue of their social identities and suffer ongoing targeting and oppression. Survivors of social disasters often experience similar traumatic symptoms as those of survivors of natural disasters but, unlike most other types of disasters, the threats that caused the trauma and the conditions that undermine survivor’s identity, safety, trust, and sense of contro…
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women's Lives in Modern Times
"It was a warm fall evening in Beijing when the idea for this book was born. Three social work academics, one Chinese and two Americans, discussed the state of the world for women in the 21st century and the longing for a text that could describe the struggles, and the successes of women in the fight for equity and safety throughout the world, on the table of Beijing style hotpot. As professors and feminist researchers, three of us share some sim…
Propriety, empowerment and compromise: Challenges in addressing gender among sex educators in China
Although the past two decades have witnessed the substantial development of sex education in mainland China, Chinese society at large is both conservative and silent in addressing sex-related issues, especially with children and adolescents. Against this background, how do Chinese sex educators understand gender, sexuality and sexuality education, and how do they put their understandings into practice? In this article, we explore these questions …
Sex, Drug, and HIV/Aids: The Drug Career of an Urban Chinese Woman
This case study is based on the life history of an urban Chinese woman, Lydia, who has become an AIDS patient through injecting heroin use. Adopting theories of drug career and biopolitics, this study depicts Lydia’s drug-centered life. From the perspective of a drug career, this article vividly illustrates her experience of drug initiation, escalation, maintenance, and finally achievement of abstinence. In addition, this study also shows how dru…
The Patterns and Influencing Factors of Help-Seeking Decisions among Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in China
Tolerance for domestic violence: Do legislation and organizational support affect police view on family violence
Police attitudes toward domestic violence are essential occupational outlooks that can potentially shape police response to such violence. Studies on Chinese officers’ attitudes toward domestic violence are scarce even after the enactment of the Counter Domestic Violence Law (the DV Law) in China in 2016. Drawing upon survey data collected from 1,139 police officers from three provinces (Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangsu) in China, this study examined th…
Migrant Women’s Help-Seeking Decisions and Use of Support Resources for Intimate Partner Violence in China
In China, women who domestically relocate from rural or less developed regions to major cities are at a higher risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) than their non-migrant counterparts. Few studies have focused on Chinese domestic migrant women's help-seeking for IPV and their use of different sources of support. The present study aimed to identify factors that influence migrant women's help-seeking decisions. In addition, we also examined fac…
Police Officers’ Preferences for Gender-Based Responding to Domestic Violence in China
Evidence for a Comprehensive Sexuality Education Intervention that Enhances Chinese Adolescents’ Sexual Knowledge and Gender Awareness and Empowers Young Women
Gender Differences in the Effects of BMI on School Bullying and Victimization in China: Comparing Normal Weight, Underweight and Overweight Secondary School Students
Weight-related school bullying and victimization have become important public health issues among adolescents around the world. This study aims to examine gender differences in the effects of Body Mass Index (BMI) on school bullying and victimization among secondary school students. This study conducted a survey among 2849 adolescents-1393 girls (48.9%) and 1456 boys (51.1%). The students were between 12 and 18 years of age and were recruited fro…
Does Friend Support Matter? The Association between Gender Role Attitudes and School Bullying among Male Adolescents in China
This study investigated the association between gender role attitudes, perceived friend support, and school bullying among male adolescents from 11 schools in two cities in China. A total of 3172 Chinese adolescents between 12 and 20 years of age (48.80% girls and 51.20% boys) completed questionnaires that included measures of bullying, gender role attitudes, and perceived social support. In terms of outcome measures, the Chinese version of the I…
Bullying Perpetration and Homophobic Teasing: Mediation through Gender Role Attitudes
Homophobic teasing or name-calling, one form of school-related gender-based violence, refers to the use of derogatory language or actions towards sexual- or gender-nonconforming individuals. Research in the Global North has indicated that it is highly prevalent among adolescents, and is associated with a broad range of negative outcomes for both victims and perpetrators. However, such behaviors remain understudied in China. Using a cross-sectiona…
Association between Child Abuse, Depression, and School Bullying among Chinese Secondary School Students
Introduction: School bullying is a serious social and public health problem. This article aims to explore the association between experiences of childhood abuse and involvement in school bullying, especially considering the mediating effects of depression. Methods: The sample of this study was 3059 students (1584 males and 1475 females) aged from 12 to 20, in eleven Chinese secondary schools, which included six middle schools, four high schools, …
A Complex Landscape of Fun, Queerness and Desire in China: Introducing Three Films by He Xiaopei
This article documents He Xiaopei’s work as a film activist who contributes significantly to feminist and queer movements in contemporary China. Trained as a social scientist, He Xiaopei then went on to become the director of the civil organization Pink Space Research Center in the mid-2000s as well as an independent filmmaker. Since 2010, she has produced more than ten documentary movies. However, despite the greatness of her contribution, the r…
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