About Dr Jieyu Liu

Dr Liu gained her PhD from the University of York, and was Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow before taking up her present post. Trained as a feminist sociologist, Dr Liu specialises in sociology of gender with a regional focus on China and other East Asian societies. She has published widely on gender, sexuality and socio-economic development in China.

Ongoing Research

• August 2010-Jan 2011 on study leave; February 2011-May 2012 Principal Investigator for an ESRC funded project on ageing in rural China;
• Principal Investigator for a British Academy funded research project examining the sexualization and aestheticization of white-collar work in urban China;
• Working on a research monograph on gender and organizational changes in China;
• Writing papers on gender, sexuality and inequality in the Chinese workplaces;
• Writing papers on unemployment and welfare reforms in China.

Key Publications and Activities

Books and Monographs

• Gender and Work in Urban China : Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation. London: Routledge, 2007
• East Asian Sexualities: Modernity, Gender and New Sexual Cultures. (co-edited with Stevi Jackson), London: Zed Books 2008.
• Women's Studies in the West, (co-edited with Ying Zhu) Beijing: China People's University, forthcoming, 2010.

Journal Articles

• 'Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China', Feminist Economics , 13(3 – 4), July/October 2007, 91 – 124.
• 'Researching Chinese Women's Lives: "Insider" Research and Life History Interviewing', Oral History, Spring 2006, 34 (1): 42-52.
• 'Hold Up the Sky? Reflections on Marriage in Contemporary China'. Feminism and Psychology, 2004: 14(1): 195 – 202.

Book Chapters

• 'Life Goes On: Unemployed Women Workers in Nanjing', in Jane Duckett and Beatriz Carrillo Garcia (eds) China Changing Welfare Mix, forthcoming, Routledge. 
• 'Women and Work', in Women's Studies in the West, People's University Press, Beijing, forthcoming. 
• 'The Stratification of Youth Employment in Contemporary China', pp.182-187, in Andy Furlong (ed) Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New Perspectives and Agendas, Routledge, 2009. 
• 'Sexualized Labour? 'White-Collar Beauties' in Provincial China', pp. 85-103, in Jackson, S. and Liu, J. (eds) East Asian Sexualities, London: Zed Books. 2008. 
• 'Reflections on Gender, Modernity and East Asian Sexualities', (with Jackson, S. and Woo Juhyun), pp. 1-31, in Jackson, S and Liu, J. (eds) East Asian Sexualities, London: Zed Books, 2008.

Research Grants and Funded Projects  

• ESRC Small Research Grant 2011-2012 (co-applicant: Dr Joanne Cook);
• WUN Research Mobility Fund 2010;
• Faculty of Arts Knowledge Transfer Fellowship 2009 (co-applicant: Dr Ming-Yeh Tsai Rawnsley);
• British Academy Small Research Grant, 2008;
• Solidarity Fund, conference grant, 2005;
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, conference grant, 2005;
• Feminist Review Trust, conferences grant, 2004;
• British Sociological Association Support Fund, conference grant, 2004.
• British Federation of Women Graduates: foundation Grant, 2003-2004.
• Sino-British Fellowship, fieldwork grant, 2002.

Invited Speaker

• (2009) Invited Speaker, 'Gender and Economic Restructuring in urban China, at the international conference Risk and East Asia, Berlin, Germany, 20-22 November. 
• (2009) Invited speaker at International Workshop Women Crossing Borders: International Careers in East Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 19 November. 
• (2009) Invited Speaker, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) China seminar series, Brighton, March. 
• (2009) Invited Speaker, University of York, Centre for Women's Studies Anniversary seminar series, Jan. 
• (2008) Invited to participate at Provincial China Workshop, Nankai University, Tianjing, Oct. 
• (2007) Invited Speaker, Department of Sociology seminar series, University of Birmingham, Nov. 
• (2007) Invited Speaker, Contemporary China Seminar Series worldwide video conference, Nov. 
• (2007) Trainer/Invited Speaker, China in the World Postgraduate Research Summer School: 'China, Globalisation and Social Stratification', University of Leeds, July 
• (2007) Invited Speaker, Gender: East-West International Conference, University of York, June. 
• (2006) Invited to participate in the 'Gender, China and WTO' Workshop, Rice University, Houston, March. 
• (2006) Invited to participate in the International Association for Feminist Economics Panel for the Allied Social Science Association meetings, Boston. Jan, supported by Ford Foundation.

• (2010) Work Employmeng and Society Conference, Brighton University, September.
• (2009) East Asian Social Policy conference, Sheffield University, July. 
• (2009) International Conference on Sexualities in China, People's University, Beijing, June. 
• (2009) International Conference on Gender, Fudan University, Shanghai, June. 
• (2005) 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul , June. Supported by Solidarity Fund. 
• (2005) ESRC Programme of Research Methods in Organization Studies, Turkey, May. 
• (2005) British Sociological Association Annual Conference, York , March. 
• (2005) 'Women and Gender in Chinese Studies', International Sinological Centre at Charles University, Jan. Prague. Attendance funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. 
• (2004) Employment Research Unit Nineteenth Annual Conference, Cardiff , September. Attendance funded by Advancement of Management Studies. 
• (2004) Work, Employment and Society Conference, September, Manchester. Attendance funded by British Sociological Association Support Fund. 
• (2004) XV Biennial Conference of European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Heidelberg Germany, August. Attendance funded by the Feminist Review Trust. 
• (2004) 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Beijing, July 7-11. Attendance funded by the Feminist Review Trust. 
• (2004) British Sociological Association Annual Conference, York, March 22-24.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• EAST2090 Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies
• EAST3590 Gendering China: Theory and Practice

Postgraduate

• EAST5902 Chinese for Research (postgraduate level)
• EAST5051M Postgraduate Dissertation

Knowledge Transfer activities

Speaker in BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' debate on the social consequences of the Chinese one child policy, 26 January 2010

PhD Supervision

I am happy to provide PhD supervision in the following areas:

• Gender, sexuality and development
• Organizational culture in China
• Social policy and welfare reforms in China