Yuling Wu

CONTACT INFORMATION

No.30 Xueyuan Road, Department of Sociology

University of Science and Technology Beijing, China 100083

E-mail: WUYU0018@e.ntu.edu.sg

EDUCATION

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

PhD in Sociology, 2012-2016

Dissertation Title: “Rural-Urban Migrants’ Social Mobility in China’s

Reform Era”

Waseda University, Japan,

Exchange student, April-Aug., 2014

Nankai University, China

Master of Law in Sociology, 2007-2009

Bachelor of Law in Sociology, 2003-2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social policy, rural migrants, children, social class and values

RESEARCH PAPERS

Yuling Wu and Hong Xiao. China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law and the Economic Integration of Rural Migrants in Urban China. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (SSCI). Accepted for publication 31 August, 2020, forthcoming January, 2021.

Yuling Wu and Hong Xiao. 2020. Rural-Urban Migration and Childrearing Values of Rural Migrants in Contemporary China. Chinese Journal of Sociology (Scopus). 6(3): 364-383.

Yuling Wu and Hong Xiao. 2018. Social Insurance Participation among Rural Migrants in Reform Era China. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 27(4): 383-403.

Yuling Wu. 2020. Settlement Intention, Hukou status and Rural Migrants’ Childrearing Values (in Chinese). Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 35(01):166-176. (in Chinese)

Yuling Wu, Suo Deng and Sibin Wang. 2020. The Second Demographic Transition and the Reconstruction of the Relationship between the State and Family: the UK and US Child Welfare Reforms and Implication. Jiangsu Social Sciences (05):53-63. (in Chinese)

Grant

2019. PI. “Rural Migrants’ Childrearing Values and Practice”. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

2018. Academic Exchange Funding Project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

SELEECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020 Gender Role Attitudes and Gender Preferences for Children in Contemporary China (accepted), American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting, Cancelled

2019 Parental Values of Rural Migrants in Reform Era China, 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), 20-23 August, Manchester, UK.

2018 The Prevailing Balance Preference: A Strategical Choice? - A Study on Parental Gender Preference of China, International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) Asia Conference, 19-20 Dec., Hong Kong

2018 Income Determinants of Rural Migrants in Urban China, American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting on “Feeling Race”, 11-14 Aug., 2018, Philadelphia, the US

2018 Gender Preference for Children in China, Urban China Research Network (UCRN) Conference on “China Urban Studies in a New Era”, 22-24 June, 2016, Wuhan, China

2017 The Effects of Family Backgrounds on Children’s Educational Performance and Achievement in China’s Market Transition, American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting on “Culture, Inequality and Social Inclusion Across the Globe”, 12-15 Aug., 2017, Montreal, Canada

2016 Social Insurance Participation in Urban Workers and Rural Migrants, Urban China Research Network (UCRN) Conference on “China’s Urbanization in a New Era”, 28-30 June, 2016, Xi’an, China

2016 The Psychological Effects of Urban-rural Divide on Child Socialization Values in Reform Era China, International Sociological Association (ISA) RC06 Conference on “Social Change and Family Developments”, 25-28 May, 2016, Beijing, China

2015 The Structural Childrearing Values among Rural Residents and Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China, 12th Conference of European Sociological Association 2015 (ESA) on “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination”, 25-28 Aug. 2015, Prague, Czech

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant

Social Institutions of Contemporary China, Spring 2014

Person and Society, Fall 2014

Sociology of Gender, Fall 2015

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2012-2016

JASSO Scholarship, Waseda University, April-Aug., 2014

Postgraduate Scholarship, Nankai University, 2007-2009

Triple-A Outstanding Student, Nankai University, 2007

First-Prize of the 100 Academic Projects Competition, Nankai University, 2006