Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Monograph

Lin, X. (2013) Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a ‘modern’ man. Oxon: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary China Series) ISBN: 978-0-415-62657-6

Refereed Journal Articles

Lin, X. (2012 forthcoming) ‘Filial son’, the family and mobile masculinities among male migrant workers in urban China. Gender, Place & Culture.

Lin, X. & M. Mac an Ghaill (2012) Chinese male peasant workers and shifting masculine identities in urban workspaces. Gender, Work & Organization. doi:10.111/j.1468-0432.2012.00598.x 

Lin, X. (2010) New meanings of masculinities within Chinese migration: a reflection of tradition and modernity in contemporar y Chinese society.  International Journal of Current Chinese Studies. No.1, 2010, pp. 9-26.

Selected International Conference Presentations

Lin, X. (2012) Opportunities, Risks and Wellbeing: Chinese rural-urban migrant young men on the urban shop floor.  British Sociological Association Annual Conference. Leeds, UK, April 11-13.

Lin, X. (2011) Chinese male peasant workers and shifting masculine identities in urban workspaces. The 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, USA. August 20-23.

Lin, X. (2011) Filial responsibility, family and Chinese male peasant workers' identity formation. The 2011 American Men's Studies Association conference on men and masculinities. Kansas City, USA. March 31-April 3.

Lin, X. (2010) ‘Filial son’ and Chinese male peasant workers’ identity formation. CRFR 3rd International Conference-Changing Families in a Changing World. University of Edinburgh, UK, June 16-18.

Lin, X. (2009) Migration and Masculinities: A Chinese Perspective. Research Symposium ‘Unwrapping Society and Its Cultural Perspectives- Comparative Approaches’, University of Birmingham, UK, 14th March.

Lin, X. (2008) New Meanings of Masculinities within Chinese Migration: A Reflection of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Society. The 1^st International Congress on Chinese Studies: Immigration and Cultural Exchanges, Bilbao, Spain, 26^th-29^th November.

Lin, X. (2008) Men, Masculinities and Chinese Rural-Urban Migration. International conference on ‘Selected Concepts of Comparison and Methods of Empirical Migration Research’, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 29^th September - 03^rd October.

Lin, X. & Mac an Ghaill, M. (2007) Representations of International Men and Masculinities: In Search of Epistemological Frames of Meaning.  SAI (Sociological Association of Ireland) conference. University of Limerick, Ireland, May 11-13.

Lin, X. (2007) Gender and Chinese Rural-Urban Migration. Research Symposium of ‘Migration, Ethnicity and Culture’,University of Birmingham, UK, July 21.