Jingyu Mao

Dr Jingyu Mao is a Tutor and Guest Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science. Her PhD thesis (completed in 2020), titled ‘Using intimacy as a lens on the work and migration experiences of ethnic performers in Southwest China’, explores how the lens of intimacy can be used to understand migration and inequalities and demonstrates the value of such a theoretical lens. Her research interests include:

• Gender and politics
• Identities and inequalities
• Intimacy
• Migration and experiences of displacement
• Work and economy.

Her research outputs include:

• Mao, J. (2021). Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using "the Multiplication of Labour" to Understand Ethnic Performers' Work in Southwest China, China Perspectives,  no. 1, pp. 9-17. https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-2021-1/
• Mao, J. (2018). Book Review: Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China. Sociological Research Online, 23(3), 705–706. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418784608
• Mao, J. (2016). Book Review: Development Interventions, Gender and Social Change in Rural China—A Case Study of Three Villages in Shaanxi, Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review, vol.11. http://www.wagnet.ox.ac.uk/wagrev/journals/issue11.html