2026. The Incompatibility of Rights. Cambridge University Press (Elements in Gender & Politics Series) [Video Abstract]

In Progress. Make or Break: Gender, Fertility, and Selfhood in Autocratic China.

2024. “How Gendered Lived Experiences Shape Sex Preference Attitudes in Contemporary Urban China.” Journal of Marriage and Family. [PDF]

2022. “Gendering the Second Demographic Transition: Gender Asymmetry, Gendered Tension, and Cohabitation in Contemporary Urban China.” China Population and Development Studies. [PDF]

2021. “The Personal and The Political: Gender Equity and Attitudes Toward Birth Restriction in Contemporary Urban China”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7: 1-15. [PDF]

2020. “‘Good Mothers Work’: How Maternal Employment Shapes Women’s Expectation of Work and Family in Contemporary Urban China”, Journal of Social Issues (76)3: 659-680. [PDF]

In the media: The Washington Post; South China Morning Post; Initium

2019b. “Economic Resources, Cultural Matching, and the Rural-Urban Boundary in China’s Marriage Market”, Journal of Marriage and Family (81)3: 567-583. [PDF]

2019a. “The Dual Demands: Gender Equity and Fertility Intentions After the One-Child Policy”, Journal of Contemporary China (28)117: 367-384. [PDF]

In the media: National Public Radio; Bloomberg; France 24

Forth. “Mixed Methods Analyses and Displays” in Handbook of Research Methods and Methodologies for the Social Sciences. Routledge.

2026. “China’s Age of Ascendance, Ambition, and Atrophy.” Political Science Quarterly. DOI: 10.1093/psquar/qqaf129

2022. “Visualizing Gendered Attitudes toward Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in China over a Decade”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8: 1-3. [PDF]

2023c. “The Individuals in the Numbers: Reproductive Autonomy in the Shadow of Population Planning in China and India”, (with Holly Donahue Singh), Made in China Journal.

2023b. “Gender Inequality: A Key to Understand China’s Population Decline”, Australian Outlook.

2023a. “Toward a Feminist Re-problematization of China’s Low Birth Rate”, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.

2021. “Beijing Wants a Baby Boom. Its New Three-Child Policy Probably Won’t Make One Happen”, The Washington Post, Monkey Cage.