Yifei Zhu

Graduate Student

Email:

yfzhu

ucdavis.edu

Office: 290 SS&H
Phone: 754-8066

EDUCATION

PhD Sociology, University of California – Davis, expected 2010

Dissertation: “Globalization and Value Change in China: Historical Trends and Contextual Effects on Gender, Marriage, Family and Sexual Values.”

Committee: Xiaoling Shu (Co-chair), Diane Felmlee (Co-chair), Mary Jackman

MA Sociology, University of California – Davis, September 2003
BA English, Beijing Foreign Studies University, June 2000

Social Stratification; Gender Inequality; Family; Social Demography;

Social Psychology; Contemporary Chinese Society; Quantitative methods.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Xiaoling Shu, Yifei Zhu and Zhanxin Zhang. 2007. “Global Economy and Gender Inequalities: the Case of Chinese Urban Labor Market.” Social Science Quarterly 88 (3): 1307-1332 (special issue on Women in Global Society).

Xiaoling Shu and Yifei Zhu. 2008. “Quality of Life in China.” Social Indicators Research 92: 191-225 (special issue on The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia).

Edited Book

Chenling Ding and Yifei Zhu (eds). 2001. Popular English Expressions. Shanghai: East China University of Science and Technology Press.

Yifei Zhu and Xiaoling Shu. “Uneven Transitions: Period- and Cohort-Related Changes in Gender Attitudes in China: 1995-2001.” Article Under Review.

Yifei Zhu and Xiaoling Shu. “Changes in Sexual Attitudes in China, 1995-2001: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis."

Xiaoling Shu, Yifei Zhu and Zhanxin Zhang.“Gender, Resource Dependence and Utility Maximization: Marital Decision-Making Power in Urban China.”

Xiaoling Shu, Yifei Zhu and Zhanxin Zhang. “Market Transition, Gender Ideology, and Marital Power in Urban China: 1991 and 2000.”