(The event will be in Mandarin and supplemented by English)
You are cordially invited to attend the Book talk & signing for the new book titled “New Chinese Families: Women and the Reconstruction of Modern Family Landscape”, which is co-organized by The Centre for Chinese Family Studies (CCFS), The Department of Social Work, Gender Studies Programme, and The CUHK Press.
Detail as follows:
Topic: Book talk & signing | New Chinese Families: Women and the Reconstruction of Modern Family Landscape
Author: Prof. Yingchun Ji, Professor at the School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University, Director of the Center for Women's Studies
Discussants: Prof. Haijing Dai, Associate Professor and Chairperson of Department of Social Work, CUHK; Co-Director of CCFS, HKIAPS
Prof. Jing Song, Associate Professor of Gender Studies Program, CUHK
Prof. Yuying Tong, Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Social Science, CUHK; Professor of Department of Sociology; Co-Director of CCFS, HKIAPS
Time: 10:30-13:00, 21 April 2026 (Tuesday, HK Time)
Venue: FYB_LT4 (UG/F), CUHK (see the address on Google Maps)
Language: Mandarin, supplemented with English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=4234680
About the book: Ten years of refinement have gone into shaping the indigenous theory of mosaic familialism, followed by three years of dedicated writing to produce New Chinese Families. Prof. Yingchun Ji, through a sociological monograph aimed at a general audience, offers an in-depth portrayal of the ongoing transformation of the Chinese family system—a patchwork of tradition and modernity. She presents a diverse tapestry of Chinese women, where patrilineal and matrilineal ties, conjugal and intergenerational relationships, filial piety and estrangement, emotion and money, the transformation of marriage institutions and the shift in intimate relationships, as well as individual rights and moral obligations, intertwine and blend to form a mosaic of everyday reality. Using the theory of mosaic familialism, she explores the emerging Bilateral, Dual-axis and Multi-nuclear Family Model in contemporary Chinese society. She connects these with current hot-button family issues, such as the "singleton daughters in Jiangsu, Zhengjiang, and Shanghai", "widow-style parenting," and the "modernization of traditional filial piety," how to ground these topics in our daily lives, discern subtle clues of historical change, capture the deeper logic of an era in transformation, and narrate the Chinese stories of ordinary people and ordinary families.
About the author: Dr. Yingchun Ji received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research primarily focuses on family, gender, and demographic issues in East Asia, particularly in China. Over the past decade, she has developed a series of distinctive indigenous sociological concepts and theories, including mosaic modernity, mosaic familialism theory, and the social gender and development perspective, which have had broad international influence in the study of families and gender in China and East Asia. Dr. Ji has been recognized on the Stanford University and Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists list for 2024, the Elsevier "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Sociology)" list for 2023–2025, and the "China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Highly Cited Researchers Top 1%" list for 2024 and 2025. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Family Sociology Committee and the Gender Sociology Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association, an Executive Member of the Chinese Women's Research Society, and Vice President of the Shanghai Women's Studies Society. Additionally, she is an editorial board member for both Chinese and English journals, including Women's Studies and Journal of Marriage and Family.
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