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Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi

Associate Professor in Sociology

Areas of expertise: family and family change; economic relations; social capital and social networks; globalisation; social movements; emotions; gender; contemporary China

Email: Xiaoying.Qi@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0704-6864

Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi was awarded a PhD from the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Her thesis won the Jean Martin Award of The Australian Sociological Association, given biennially to 'the best PhD thesis in social science disciplines from an Australian tertiary institution'. Her most recent book, Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis, is published by Cambridge University Press. A previous book, Remaking Families in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2021) won the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of the Australian Sociological Association. An earlier book, Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (London & New York: Routledge, 2014), was awarded The Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association. Qi has published articles in leading international journals, including American Journal of Cultural Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, International Sociology, Journal of Sociology, Sociological Review and Sociology. Research innovation is evidenced in Qi's introduction of analytical concepts in sociology, including 'intellectual entrepreneurs', 'paradoxical integration', and 'veiled patriarchy'. Qi has extensive teaching experience and was a recipient of The National Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Select publications

Single author books

• Qi, Xiaoying. (2023) Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2021) Remaking Families in Contemporary China. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [winner of the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of The Australian Sociological Association in 2022]
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2014) Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory. London and New York: Routledge. [winner of The Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association]

Edited Collection

• Qi, Xiaoying. (2016) (guest editor). Special issue: Chinese Sociology, Sociology of China. Journal of Sociology 52(1).

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Qi, Xiaoying. (2024) Emotion in and through Crisis. British Journal of Sociology. First online.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2022) Trust Upset: Redefining the Terms of Trust in Maintaining Exchange Relations. Sociological Review 70(3): 599-615.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2022) Social Networks as Contexts, for Engagement and Initiative: An Empirical Investigation. Current Sociology. 70(3): 436-453.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2021) Aging in Contemporary China: The Ziran Approach. Journal of Gender Studies 30(5): 584-595.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2018) Floating Grandparents: Rethinking Family Obligation and Intergenerational Support. International Sociology 33(6) 761-777.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2018) Neo-traditional Child Surnaming in Contemporary China: Women's Rights as Veiled Patriarchy. Sociology 52(5): 1001-1016.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2017) Social Movements in China: Augmenting Mainstream Theory with Guanxi. Sociology 51(1): 111-126.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2017) Reconstructing the Concept of Face in Cultural Sociology: In Goffman's Footsteps, Following the Chinese Case. Journal of Chinese Sociology 4: 1-19.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2016) Family Bond and Family Obligation: Continuity and Transformation. Journal of Sociology 52(1): 39-52.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2016) Sociology in China, Sociology of China: Editor's Introduction. Journal of Sociology 52(1): 3-8.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2015) Filial Obligation in Contemporary China: Evolution of the Culture-System. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 45(1): 141-161.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2013) Intellectual Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Ideas: Two Historical Cases of Knowledge Flow. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 1(3): 346-372.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2013) Guanxi, Social Capital Theory and Beyond: Toward a Globalized Social Science. British Journal of Sociology 64(2): 308-324.
• Barbalet, Jack and Qi, Xiaoying. (2013) The Paradox of Power: Conceptions of Power and the Relations of Reason and Emotion in European and Chinese Culture. Journal of Political Power 6(3): 405-418.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2012) A Case Study of Globalized Knowledge Flow: Guanxi in Social Science and Management Theory. International Sociology 27(6): 707-723.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2011) Face: A Chinese Concept in a Global Sociology. Journal of Sociology 47(3): 279-296.

Book Chapters

• Qi, Xiaoying. (2021) Floating Grandparents. Forthcoming in Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century, edited by Yunxiang Yan. Leiden: Brill
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2018) Social Capital. Pp. 2125-2127 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by B Turner et al. London: Wiley Blackwell.
• Qi, Xiaoying. (2016) Globalized Higher Education. Pp 328-343 in The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, 2^nd edition, edited by Bryan Turner and Robert Holton. London & New York: Routledge.
• Barbalet, Jack and Qi, Xiaoying. (2015) The Paradox of Power. Pp. 51-64 in Power and Emotion, edited by Jonathan G. Heaney and Helena Flam. London: Routledge.

Projects

Selected Funded Projects

• Small Business Entrepreneurs, Crisis and Resilience: A Study of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, US$ 86,000, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, 2023-2026. [Project Director]
• Floating Grandparents in China's Internal Migration, HK$628,861, Research Grants Council, 2017-2020 [Principal Investigator]

Accolades and awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of the Australian Sociological Association [A biennial award for the best authored monograph in sociology published in the previous two years] - 2022
• The Raewyn Connell Prize of The Australian Sociological Association, Special Commendation ['In recognition of excellence of a first book by an author in Australian Sociology 2014-2015'] - 2016
• The Jean Martin Award of The Australian Sociological Association. [A biennial award for the 'Best PhD Sociology Thesis in Australia'] - 2013
• 2012 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, awarded by the Office of Teaching and Learning, Australian National Awards for University Teaching - 2012
• College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, UWS - 2011

Editorial roles

• Member, Associate Board, Sociology. 2013-2016

Public engagement

• Interviewed by The Economist (29 August 2020), discussing child surnaming practices in contemporary China.
• Podcast interview by Professor Gurminder Bhambra discussing social movements in comparative perspective.