Jing Song (PhD Brown University) is Associate Professor in Gender Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Associate Researcher (by courtesy) at Shenzhen Research Institute, CUHK, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University (2023), and Visiting Scholar at Peking University HSBC Business School (2023). Prof. Song studies gender and family issues with a focus on work and property in urbanization and migration, especially women’s entrepreneurship, family life, and social status as shaped by state and market. She has published in China Quarterly, Urban Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Rural Studies, Work Employment and Society, Gender in Management, China Review, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Population Space and Place, Housing Studies, etc. Her book Gender and Employment in Rural China was published by Routledge in 2017.

• GDRS2010 – 性別研究的定量研究法
• GDRS3005 (UGEC3203) – 當代社會的性別與性
• GDRS4010 – 論文研討
• GDRS5030 – 性別研究高等專題(一)
• GDRS5040 – 性別研究高等專題(二)
• GDRS5085 – 性別與工作
• GDRS5090 – 性別研究專題

Gender, family, work, migration, urbanization and market transition

• National Science Foundation, China, “Business Startups on Internet: A Study of Spatial and Temporal Structures with a Gender Perspective”.
• Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, “Urbanization, Gender and Property Structures: Top-down and Bottom-up Urbanization in Rural China”. 
• The Worldwide Universities Network, “Women’s Mobility: Negotiating Work and Family Spheres in Asia”.
• Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), “A Study on Public Attitudes towards Female Political Leadership”.
• The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan. “Woman and Entrepreneurship in Japan and China”.

Song, J., & Li, L. (2026). Gender, housing, and householding: Family housing strategies in relocated rural communities in urbanizing northwestern China. China Review, 26(2), 245–275.

Song, J., & Li, L. (2026). Urban family life in China. In L. Hoffman, J. Hubbert, & Z. Liu (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of urbanization in China (pp. 391–405). Sage.

Shi, X., & Song, J. (2025). Moving together or living apart: Cross-border couples between Hong Kong and Shenzhen under the COVID-19 pandemic. In S. L. Blair & Z. Mu (Eds.), The retreat from marriage and parenthood: Examining the causes and consequences of declining rates (pp. 289–307). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Song, J., & Li, L. (2024). Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Rural families and housing properties in relocated villages in urbanizing northwestern China. Chinese Sociological Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2024.2414445

Han, L., Song, J., & Aaltio, I. (2024). New perspectives on women’s entrepreneurship in China: Identity negotiation, gender agency, and meaning-making. Gender in Management, 39(7), 849–860. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2024-471

Song, J., & Zhao, Z. (2024). Family business online and offline: Gender inequalities and regional disparities in China. China Review, 24(2), 185–208.

Song, J., & Jackson, S. (2024). Moving away, moving up, and moving back: Gender dimensions of social and geographical mobility in East Asia. American Behavioral Scientist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241242948

Song, J. (2024). Embracing a rubber rice bowl: Women’s transition from paid work to self-employed entrepreneurship in coastal China. Gender in Management, 39(7), 861–877. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-03-2023-0075

Sun, Y., & Song, J. (2024). Cherished sons and considerate daughters? Claims to resettlement housing in urbanizing Eastern China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 3(3), 241–257. https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223241258350

Song, J., Lai, W., & Fong, E. (2024). Motherhood and women’s migration: Evidence from foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. American Behavioral Scientist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241242930

Zhou, S., & Song, J. (2024). Doing business against gendered stigma: Skilled female migrants in Hong Kong’s cross-border insurance business. Gender in Management, 39(7), 919–936. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-03-2023-0084

Song, J., & Li, L. (2023). Empowered in business or penalized in marriage: Experiences of single female entrepreneurs in China. Work, Employment and Society, 37(1), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211028737

Lai, W., & Song, J. (2022). Different pathways of the second demographic transition in four East Asian societies: Evidence from the 2006 and 2016 East Asian Social Surveys. China Population and Development Studies, 6, 373–402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-022-00118-9

Tian, F., Song, J., & Du, S. (2022). Lineage solidarity and rhetorical resonance: Village strategies to retain primary schools in rural China. China Quarterly, 249, 239–258. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021001065

周思媛, & 宋婧. (2022). 從女畢業生到女保險代理人: 教育流動引導的內—港跨境就業遷移. 《婦女研究論叢》, 171(3), 58–73.

Song, J., & Lai, W. (2022). Rising cohabitation and Chinese modernity: Flexible intimacy and persistent marriage. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(135), 474–490. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2021.1966910

Du, H., Song, J., & Li, S. M. (2021). ‘Peasants are peasants’: Prejudice against displaced villagers in newly-built urban neighbourhoods in China. Urban Studies, 58(8), 1598–1614. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020911876

Song, J., Du, H., & Li, S. M. (2020). Who is the winner? Relocated rural communities and stratification in urbanizing northwestern China. Journal of Rural Studies, 77, 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.026

Song, J., & Ji, Y. (2020). Complexity of Chinese family life: Individualism, familism and gender. China Review, 20(2), 1–17.

Song, J., & Lai, W. (2020). Cohabitation and gender equality: Ideal and real division of household labor among Chinese youth. China Review, 20(2), 53–80.

Li, L., Zhou, S., & Song, J. (2019). Time poverty: An analysis of Chinese young female entrepreneurs. China Youth Study, (10), 19–26.

Song, J. (2018). Personal traits, opportunities, and constraints: Female cadres and rural politics in China’s modernization. Asian Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2018.1458404

Song, J., Lai, G., Wong, O., & Feng, X. (2018). Staying connected with ICT tools: Tracking youth respondents in a Chinese context. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-018-0070-0

Song, J., Du, H., & Li, S. M. (2018). Mobility and life chances in urbanization and migration in China: Introduction. China Review, 18(1), 1–10.

Song, J., Du, H., & Li, S. M. (2018). Smooth or troubled occupation transition? Urbanization and employment of former peasants in Western China. China Review, 18(1), 79–105.

Song, J. (2017). Gender and employment in rural China. Routledge.

Clerge, O., Sanchez-Soto, G., Song, J., & Luke, N. (2017). ‘I would really like to go where you go’: Rethinking migration decision-making among educated tied-movers. Population, Space and Place, 23(2), e1990. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1990

Lai, G., Song, J., Wong, O., & Feng, X. (2016). Transition to higher education in contemporary China: A study of high school graduates in urban Nanjing. Journal of Sociology, 52(1), 83–102.

Song, J. (2015). Women and self-employment in post-socialist rural China: Side job, individual career or family venture. China Quarterly, 221, 229–242.

Song, J. (2015). Official relocation and self-help development: Three housing strategies under ambiguous property rights in China’s rural land development. Urban Studies, 52(1), 121–137.

Song, J. (2014). Space to maneuver: Collective strategies of indigenous villagers in the urbanizing region of northwestern China. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(4), 362–380.

Song, J., & Luke, N. (2014). Fairy brides from heaven: Mate selection in rural China, 1949–2000. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 45(4), 497–515.

Song, J. (2010). Moving purchase and sitting purchase: Housing reform and transition to homeownership in Beijing. Housing Studies, 25(6), 903–919.

Song, J., & Logan, J. (2010). Family and market: Nonagricultural employment in rural China. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 30(5), 142–163.

Song, J., & Yang, S. (2005). Economic reform and the transformation of village public authority. Social Sciences in China, 156(6), 129–142.