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Current Research

“Mutual Noncompliance” 

Developing the Theory of Mutual Noncompliance that was used to explain the missing girls in the book Lost and Found: the “Missing Girls.”

“Voices of the Missing” 

An in-depth examination of China’s hukou (household registration) system and what life is like for those who are unregistered.

“Bare Branches and Bare Necessities”

This is a research project with Shi Yaojiang on involuntary bachelorhood, poverty and public security in rural China.

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