I received my Ph. D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. At Colby College, I teach both Chinese language and Chinese culture courses. My research interests include: family and marriage, intergenerational relations, population aging, gender, urbanization, rural-urban migration, social reforms and contemporary Chinese society. In the past ten years, I have been doing research in a village in central China documenting changes in marriage patterns and family dynamics. In more recent years I have begun to study migrant labor and urbanization process in the Pearl River Delta where many rural young people from the interior provinces including the village I have studied come to seek wage labor and urban life. Click here for my publications.