Start

09-02-2022
09:00 AM

End

09-02-2022
11:00 AM

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Friday, 2 September, 9 a.m. to 11.a.m. China

Thursday, 1 September, 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST

Zoom: 927 1797 2230 Passcode: CSCC

In-person: IB 1046

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9:00                       Welcome

9:05                       Doing Social Science with Fieldwork, Dr. Keping WU

9:45                       Doing Social Science with Big Data, Dr. Charles CHANG

10:20                     Doing Social Science with Surveys, Dr. Yu WANG

11:05                      Wrap-up

Organized by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at Duke Kunshan University

FACULTY

Dr. Keping WU is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences Division at Duke Kunshan University. She was educated at Peking University and received her PhD from Boston University (2007). Her research focuses on the making and crossing of ethnic, spiritual, gender, as well as urban-rural boundaries in China and the United States. Her articles have appeared in journals including Modern China, Journal of Asian Studies, and Current Anthropology. Her most recent publication is a co-edited book, It Happens Among People: Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth (Berghahn 2019).

Dr. Charles CHANG is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Urban Studies at Duke Kunshan University. He earned his B.A. from Beijing Normal University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016). He was elected as the 2016–2017 Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Stanford and as the 2018–2019 Postdoctoral Associate in Chinese Studies at Yale. His research focuses on the design of the built environment and on how the study of such environment is affected by the quality of information and the rise of communication technologies in contemporary China. Broadly speaking, his research addresses issues in the use of big data and computational methods in social science and in certain aspects of the humanities. His articles have appeared in journals including Landscape and Urban Planning, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Political Analysis, and Journal of Chinese History

Dr. Yu WANG is an Assistant Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Sociology from Renmin University and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2017). Her research focuses on the role of intermarriage and individual achievement as pathways to social mobility in China. A second line of her research focuses on sexuality and reproductive behavior in the United States. Her current project is about the interaction between demographic changes and assortative mating in contemporary China. Her articles have appeared in journals including Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, American Journal of Public Health, and Contraception.