ICSA Mentorship Program: Social Stratification in Chinese Society

Topic: Social Stratification in Chinese Society

Time: April 7, 9:00 – 10:00 p.m. (US Eastern Time), (Hong Kong/Beijing Time: April 8, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.).

Speakers: Siwei Cheng, Associate Professor, New York University; Xi Song, Professor, Columbia University; Xiaogang Wu, Yufeng Global Professor, NYU Shanghai and New York.

Moderators: Hao Dong, Boya Young Fellow Associate Professor (tenured), Peking University

Registration link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/register/FAxjaO6bQ2aKrBlsc1rdvw

Short bios of our distinguished speakers and moderator:

Siwei Cheng is an associate professor of sociology at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy (2015) and M.A. in Statistics (2012) from the University of Michigan. She received B.A. in Economics and Mathematical Statistics from Peking University (2009). Prior to joining the faculty of NYU, she was assistant professor of sociology at UCLA (2015-2016). Cheng's research encompasses various areas of inequality, mobility, labor market, networks, and quantitative methodology. Her current work examines the interconnectedness of jobs, occupations, and skills, leverages image data to study social dynamics in public spaces, and traces the unequal pathways to publication using two decades of digitized conference programs.

Xi Song is a Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on social mobility, occupations and labor markets, Asian American studies, demography, and quantitative methods. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Renmin University of China in 2008, an M.Phil. in Social Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010, an M.S. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2015. Professor Song is a member of the Sociological Research Association and received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). Her scholarship has received multiple honors, including awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA), the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (ISA-RC28), the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), and the Demographic Research.

Xiaogang Wu is Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at both NYU Shanghai and New York, where he also serves as the founding Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) since 2020. His research and teaching interests include Chinese society, education, inequality and social stratification, social demography, survey and quantitative methods, and urban sociology. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Sociological Review (2011-2026). 

Hao Dong is a Peking University Boya Young Fellow Associate Professor (tenured) at Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management. His research broadly concerns social demography, social stratification and mobility, and comparative historical demography. ​ He is especially interested in understanding how family and social context shape demographic differentials and socioeconomic inequality.