Lulu Li
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Lulu Li
@lulu-li.bsky.social
Research Assistant Professor at Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Gender, self-employment work and entrepreneurship, digital nomadism, family, Chinese society.
Happy trip to this year’s ASA at Chicago. Had some good chats, bought some good books, had some good runs. See you again Windy City!
August 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Academic friends (the qualitative ones:), any book or paper recommendations on writing ethnographic field notes? Please drop some titles🤩📚Summer is fieldwork and reading time!

(Photo: taken from the field 🪿 )
July 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Last week, we shared our study of Chinese female entrepreneurship and discussed about the interaction of gender, family and regional development in a beautiful bookstore at Shaoxing, China. What an amazing experience—to share research in a bookstore is like a dream come true to me😍
July 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Great opportunity to learn computational social science in June! No experience needed, qualitative researchers are also welcomed as there are text and image analysis 😍 sicss.io/2025/lingnan/
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
sicss.io
March 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Why do highly educated women move (back) to small cities in China? In the article, I shared the findings about the complicated gendered considerations for Chinese women in the return-migration activity which challenge some stereotypical views on people’s migration decisions. 💙
March 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sharing our newly published open access (FREE!) paper in Chinese Sociological Review: "Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Rural families and housing properties in relocated villages in the urbanizing northwestern China": doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Rural families and housing properties in relocated villages in the urbanizing northwestern China
China’s urbanization has relocated many rural families, but it remains unclear if such changes undermine patriarchy. This study draws on survey and interview data in northwestern China to examine w...
doi.org
December 8, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Special issue in Gender in Management on "New perspectives on women’s entrepreneurship in China" (my article, "Femininity penalties and rewards: obstacles and opportunities for Chinese female entrepreneurs in gender-segregated industries", is included:) www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
https://emerald.com/insight/public…
October 30, 2024 at 5:16 PM