Thesis: Delaying Childbearing: Navigating Gendered Temporality and Agency in Fertility Decision-Making in Contemporary China
Supervisors: Professor Man-Yee Kan & Professor Rachel Murphy
Xijia started her DPhil project at the Department of Sociology in 2021. Prior to this, she obtained an MSc in Gender from the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020.
Xijia teaches seminars for the compulsory course, Sociological Analysis, for master-level students at the Department of Sociology, and also conducts tutorials for the undergraduate course, Sociological Theory.
Xijia’s research focuses on the intersection of gender, temporality, and fertility decision-making among young Chinese women.
Her DPhil project explores the phenomenon of postponing parenthood, influenced by shifting social fertility norms and socioeconomic dynamics in contemporary China, with fieldwork conducted in the migrant society, Shenzhen.
