Research article
Digital ethnic enclaves
How Chinese immigrant online daters navigate mate preferences and platform choices in Vancouver.
Read the article ↗Teaching
I encourage students to think critically, communicate clearly, and approach social questions with a curious mind and global perspective.
Highlights: Working with students
Student podcast
Humor: A cultural boundary of online dating in Canada?
My research assistant explores how humor creates barriers in online dating.
Listen to the podcast ↗Public writing
Digital Chinatowns and finding love
How Chinese immigrants look to digital communities to find romantic partners.
Read the op-ed ↗Publications with students
I work closely with graduate students, encouraging them to write early and often and to become knowledge producers.
- Child marriage in mainland China
- Comfortably “Western”: How Chinese international students imagine Canada
- Digital ethnic enclaves: Mate preferences and platform choices among Chinese immigrant online daters in Vancouver
- Gender, parenthood, and employment during COVID-19: An immigrant-native born comparison in Canada
- Gendered age preferences for potential partners: A mixed-methods study among online daters in Shanghai
- How did COVID-19 containment policies influence depressive symptoms? Longitudinal evidence from China
- Mate selection among online daters in Shanghai: Why does education matter?
- Navigating Canadian permanent residency, citizenship, or returning home: Sources and strategies of social protection among Chinese international students amid (geo-) political and economic risks
- Separating spheres: Cohort differences in gender attitudes about work and family in China
- The efficiency paradox: A temporal lens into online dating among Chinese immigrants in Canada
- The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID-19 for work and family
Learning resources
Resources on writing, reading, academic careers, and research methods.
Writing & publishing
- A guide to writing a senior thesis in sociology
- Academic publishing
- How academics survive the writing grind: Some anecdotal advice
- How to respond to a "revise and resubmit" decision from a journal
- How to write a manuscript
- How to write good research questions
- Literature reviews
- Op-ed writing: Tips and tricks
- Publishing in the top three journals
- Revising drafts
- Setting the hook
- Suggested outline for writing an academic article
- The introduction formula
- Writing topic sentences and crafting paragraphs
Reading
Professional development
The academic job market
- A calendar guide for the academic job market
- Academic job market hacks
- Being a sociology professor at a liberal arts college: Is that a job you want?
- Getting a post-doc
- Introduction to the job market and applying for a job
- My advice for PhD students on the (altac) job market
- Navigating the job market: Real advice (and tough love) from a job market survivor
- The academic job market in Canada
- 如何在美国政治学就业市场上求职