Z Mu
Biographic Data
| ID | 49867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Z Mu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Mu |
| SIGNATURE | MU Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2664-4106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Flexible Motherhood and the Unequal Logics of Women’s Work: Chinese Migrant Mothers in Singapore
How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 in-depth interviews reveals how migrant women encounter shifting expe…
From status to soul: Gendered ideals and quests for compatibility in contemporary relationships
A Review of Stay‐At‐Home Motherhood: Agency and Heterogeneity
This article synthesizes research on stay‐at‐home motherhood to examine its evolving definitions and the dynamic forms of agency exercised by stay‐at‐home mothers. Drawing on preference theory, we review existing scholarship to conceptualize stay‐at‐home motherhood as a socially constructed and culturally variable phenomenon that cannot be reduced to related categories of women and that extends beyond the private sphere into the public domain. We…
Three decades of interethnic marriage in China: Ethnic boundaries, educational sorting, and status exchange
Premarital Cohabitation and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban China: Evidence From Beijing
Objective This study contributes to the emerging literature on cohabitation and marital outcomes in urban China by examining the associations between premarital cohabitation and six types of intimate partner violence (IPV). Background Premarital cohabitation has been on the rise, yet its evolving meanings and long‐term implications for post‐marital experiences remain underexplored. IPV, as a crucial indicator of marital dysfunction, provides an i…
Life on the Move: A Mixed-Method Study on Internal Migration and Divorce in China
Married Couples’ Life Satisfaction and Gender Divisions of Income and Housework in China
Settlers or floaters? Patterns and contextual determinants of internal migrants’ settlement intentions in urban China
Partnership trajectories toward childlessness in China
Renegotiated Boundaries Between Asian Married Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Policy, Social Contexts, and Gender Dynamics
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
Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China
Using data from the 2018 Chinese Family Panel Studies, this study examines the associations between premarital cohabitation, marital satisfaction, and the probability of a subsequent divorce and captures the gradated variations of marital quality by incorporating divorce and self-rated marital satisfaction into a generic measure of marital quality. Findings show positive associations between cohabitation and divorce and negative associations betw…
Parental education and children's subjective wellbeing in China: The Roles of Educational Attainment and Educational Assortative Mating
Mate selection in China: Trends and determinants
A city of two tales: Educational gradients of discrimination experiences among internal migrants in Beijing, China
Drawing on 127 qualitative in‐depth interviews in Beijing, China in 2015, we examine the similarities and differences in discrimination experiences among internal migrants across educational backgrounds. While institutional discrimination remains a significant barrier for both university‐educated and lower‐educated migrants, findings reveal a salient educational differential in the experiences of social discrimination. The reduction in social dis…
Valuation of domestic work: Construction of stay‐at‐home motherhood among elite Chinese migrants in Singapore
This study contributes to the literature on migration, motherhood, and work by exploring how migrant stay‐at‐home mothers view and interpret the values of the unpaid work that they are conducting. Using semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with 36 college‐educated Chinese stay‐at‐home mothers in Singapore, we demonstrate migrant mothers' agency, efforts, and strategies in valuing domestic work and their stay‐at‐home mother status. Drawing on their…
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration
Unequal childhoods in China: Parental education and children's time use
Drawing on Lareau's binary conceptualization of parenting as concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth, we examine how parental background determines the degree to which the two parenting practices are realized in China. To do so, we examine how parental education shapes children's weekly time use patterns on planned activities (academic and nonacademic) and unplanned activities. Using multi‐level mixed‐effects linear models base…
Hui Muslims’ Endogamy and Intermarriages: Marriage Markets, Islamic Culture, and Economic Growth
This paper examines the spousal choice dynamics among China’s largest Muslim group, the Hui, in the post-1978 reform era. Using the 2005 Chinese Inter-Census Survey data, the competing risk models show a robust and striking regional divide between China’s northwestern provinces and other areas, accounting for aging, education, and household registration status. Compared with those living in non-northwestern regions, those who live in the northwes…
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China
Ethnic identity is a highly contested issue in China. Yet, the literature on the social construction of ethnoracial identity is dominated by research on the Americas. In this study, we investigate patterns of ethnic identification among children of interethnic parents in China using census data from 2000 and survey data from 2010–2018. We focus on children who are aged 20 or younger and have one parent identified as an ethnic minority and one par…
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…
Extended gender inequality? Intergenerational coresidence and division of household labor
Some Time is Better Spent than Other Time: Chinese Adolescents’ Time Use and Developmental Outcomes
Marrying young in Indonesia: Voices, laws and practices, by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari (eds.)
Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: A mixed-method study in China
We examine how rural-to-urban migration influences marriage timing and assortative mating by family origins using data from the 2012 Chinese Family Panel Studies and in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing. To account for potential selection bias, we compare marriage timing across migration status by holding all other variables at group-specific averages based on event history analysis and propensity-score matching analysis. Results from both ap…
Migration and marriage in Asian contexts
This article reviews literature on migration and marriage and highlights contributions of the papers in this special issue. The papers show that Asian marriage migrants' experience of integration and assimilation are complex, nuanced, and heterogeneous across migrants' sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The heterogeneities in Asian marriage migrants' assimilation trajectories challenge the classic assimilation …
Migration and marriage in Asian contexts
This article reviews literature on migration and marriage and highlights contributions of the papers in this special issue. The papers show that Asian marriage migrants' experience of integration and assimilation are complex, nuanced, and heterogeneous across migrants' sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The heterogeneities in Asian marriage migrants' assimilation trajectories challenge the classic assimilation …
Some Time is Better Spent than Other Time: Chinese Adolescents’ Time Use and Developmental Outcomes
Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: A mixed-method study in China
We examine how rural-to-urban migration influences marriage timing and assortative mating by family origins using data from the 2012 Chinese Family Panel Studies and in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing. To account for potential selection bias, we compare marriage timing across migration status by holding all other variables at group-specific averages based on event history analysis and propensity-score matching analysis. Results from both ap…
Extended gender inequality? Intergenerational coresidence and division of household labor
Unequal childhoods in China: Parental education and children's time use
Drawing on Lareau's binary conceptualization of parenting as concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth, we examine how parental background determines the degree to which the two parenting practices are realized in China. To do so, we examine how parental education shapes children's weekly time use patterns on planned activities (academic and nonacademic) and unplanned activities. Using multi‐level mixed‐effects linear models base…
Valuation of domestic work: Construction of stay‐at‐home motherhood among elite Chinese migrants in Singapore
This study contributes to the literature on migration, motherhood, and work by exploring how migrant stay‐at‐home mothers view and interpret the values of the unpaid work that they are conducting. Using semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with 36 college‐educated Chinese stay‐at‐home mothers in Singapore, we demonstrate migrant mothers' agency, efforts, and strategies in valuing domestic work and their stay‐at‐home mother status. Drawing on their…
Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China
Using data from the 2018 Chinese Family Panel Studies, this study examines the associations between premarital cohabitation, marital satisfaction, and the probability of a subsequent divorce and captures the gradated variations of marital quality by incorporating divorce and self-rated marital satisfaction into a generic measure of marital quality. Findings show positive associations between cohabitation and divorce and negative associations betw…
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration
Residential concentration and marital behaviors of Muslim Chinese
This article examines how the marital behaviors of Hui Muslims respond to varying residential concentrations of Hui. Specifically, the marriage patterns indicating responses to local demographic availability of marriageable Hui and adherence to two Islamic norms – universal marriage and endogamy – were explored. Marriage market conditions were measured by local concentrations of Hui and we estimate discrete-time hazard models of marital outcomes …
A city of two tales: Educational gradients of discrimination experiences among internal migrants in Beijing, China
Drawing on 127 qualitative in‐depth interviews in Beijing, China in 2015, we examine the similarities and differences in discrimination experiences among internal migrants across educational backgrounds. While institutional discrimination remains a significant barrier for both university‐educated and lower‐educated migrants, findings reveal a salient educational differential in the experiences of social discrimination. The reduction in social dis…
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China
Ethnic identity is a highly contested issue in China. Yet, the literature on the social construction of ethnoracial identity is dominated by research on the Americas. In this study, we investigate patterns of ethnic identification among children of interethnic parents in China using census data from 2000 and survey data from 2010–2018. We focus on children who are aged 20 or younger and have one parent identified as an ethnic minority and one par…
Residential concentration and marital behaviors of Muslim Chinese
This article examines how the marital behaviors of Hui Muslims respond to varying residential concentrations of Hui. Specifically, the marriage patterns indicating responses to local demographic availability of marriageable Hui and adherence to two Islamic norms – universal marriage and endogamy – were explored. Marriage market conditions were measured by local concentrations of Hui and we estimate discrete-time hazard models of marital outcomes …
Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States, by Sari K. Ishii (ed.)
Some Time is Better Spent than Other Time: Chinese Adolescents’ Time Use and Developmental Outcomes
Marrying young in Indonesia: Voices, laws and practices, by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari (eds.)
Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: A mixed-method study in China
We examine how rural-to-urban migration influences marriage timing and assortative mating by family origins using data from the 2012 Chinese Family Panel Studies and in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing. To account for potential selection bias, we compare marriage timing across migration status by holding all other variables at group-specific averages based on event history analysis and propensity-score matching analysis. Results from both ap…
Migration and marriage in Asian contexts
This article reviews literature on migration and marriage and highlights contributions of the papers in this special issue. The papers show that Asian marriage migrants' experience of integration and assimilation are complex, nuanced, and heterogeneous across migrants' sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The heterogeneities in Asian marriage migrants' assimilation trajectories challenge the classic assimilation …
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…
Extended gender inequality? Intergenerational coresidence and division of household labor
Hui Muslims’ Endogamy and Intermarriages: Marriage Markets, Islamic Culture, and Economic Growth
This paper examines the spousal choice dynamics among China’s largest Muslim group, the Hui, in the post-1978 reform era. Using the 2005 Chinese Inter-Census Survey data, the competing risk models show a robust and striking regional divide between China’s northwestern provinces and other areas, accounting for aging, education, and household registration status. Compared with those living in non-northwestern regions, those who live in the northwes…
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China
Ethnic identity is a highly contested issue in China. Yet, the literature on the social construction of ethnoracial identity is dominated by research on the Americas. In this study, we investigate patterns of ethnic identification among children of interethnic parents in China using census data from 2000 and survey data from 2010–2018. We focus on children who are aged 20 or younger and have one parent identified as an ethnic minority and one par…
Mate selection in China: Trends and determinants
A city of two tales: Educational gradients of discrimination experiences among internal migrants in Beijing, China
Drawing on 127 qualitative in‐depth interviews in Beijing, China in 2015, we examine the similarities and differences in discrimination experiences among internal migrants across educational backgrounds. While institutional discrimination remains a significant barrier for both university‐educated and lower‐educated migrants, findings reveal a salient educational differential in the experiences of social discrimination. The reduction in social dis…
Valuation of domestic work: Construction of stay‐at‐home motherhood among elite Chinese migrants in Singapore
This study contributes to the literature on migration, motherhood, and work by exploring how migrant stay‐at‐home mothers view and interpret the values of the unpaid work that they are conducting. Using semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with 36 college‐educated Chinese stay‐at‐home mothers in Singapore, we demonstrate migrant mothers' agency, efforts, and strategies in valuing domestic work and their stay‐at‐home mother status. Drawing on their…
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration
Unequal childhoods in China: Parental education and children's time use
Drawing on Lareau's binary conceptualization of parenting as concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth, we examine how parental background determines the degree to which the two parenting practices are realized in China. To do so, we examine how parental education shapes children's weekly time use patterns on planned activities (academic and nonacademic) and unplanned activities. Using multi‐level mixed‐effects linear models base…
Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China
Using data from the 2018 Chinese Family Panel Studies, this study examines the associations between premarital cohabitation, marital satisfaction, and the probability of a subsequent divorce and captures the gradated variations of marital quality by incorporating divorce and self-rated marital satisfaction into a generic measure of marital quality. Findings show positive associations between cohabitation and divorce and negative associations betw…
Parental education and children's subjective wellbeing in China: The Roles of Educational Attainment and Educational Assortative Mating
Life on the Move: A Mixed-Method Study on Internal Migration and Divorce in China
Married Couples’ Life Satisfaction and Gender Divisions of Income and Housework in China
Settlers or floaters? Patterns and contextual determinants of internal migrants’ settlement intentions in urban China
Partnership trajectories toward childlessness in China
Renegotiated Boundaries Between Asian Married Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Policy, Social Contexts, and Gender Dynamics
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
Flexible Motherhood and the Unequal Logics of Women’s Work: Chinese Migrant Mothers in Singapore
How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 in-depth interviews reveals how migrant women encounter shifting expe…
From status to soul: Gendered ideals and quests for compatibility in contemporary relationships
A Review of Stay‐At‐Home Motherhood: Agency and Heterogeneity
This article synthesizes research on stay‐at‐home motherhood to examine its evolving definitions and the dynamic forms of agency exercised by stay‐at‐home mothers. Drawing on preference theory, we review existing scholarship to conceptualize stay‐at‐home motherhood as a socially constructed and culturally variable phenomenon that cannot be reduced to related categories of women and that extends beyond the private sphere into the public domain. We…
Sociology (20 works) · China (17 works) · Demography (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works)