Date: November 18
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Juan CHEN
Venue: E21B-G002
Organizer: Department of Sociology
Phone: 8822 4595
This talk explores the Chinese middle-class families’ motivations for pursuing overseas education for their children. This study finds that the desire to realize traditional values as fully as possible drives the Chinese families to engage in overseas education. Despite being a relatively new practice, Chinese families’ pursuit of overseas education is primarily culturally driven, as it reproduces traditional cultural understandings in contemporary society. That said, the new practice is unable to resolve value conflicts experienced by Chinese families. This talk proposes to understand study-abroad fever, suspension (xuanfu 悬浮) and migration through the lens of values.
The Mini-Methods Meeting (M3), held right after the luncheon seminar. Hosted by faculty or graduate students, M3 will feature a 20-30 minute focused discussion on methodological techniques or topics in data science, programming, statistics, and more. The milieu of this series is informal and offers hands-on instruction.
- Date: 18 November 2025 (TUE)
- Time: 14:05 – 14:35
- Topic: Ethnographic Insights into Themed Photography Studios in the Cross-Dressing Community
- Host: ZiQi Wang (PhD student)
*This event is open only to Sociology department members and students.