Biography
Jieyu Liu is Reader in Sociology of China and Deputy Director of SOAS China Institute at SOAS University of London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, family and generation in China. Her first monograph Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (Routledge 2007) was concerned with the gendered impact of China’s economic reforms upon women from the Cultural Revolution Generation. It examined women’s experiences in the socialist work unit.