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Qian He is the Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.Soc.Sc. in Economics (with highest academic honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University.
Her research crosscuts international and internal migration, social stratification, culture, social psychology, and contemporary China. In U.S.-focused studies, she highlights the enduring influence of sending-country cultural norms on immigrants’ socioeconomic outcomes in destination labor markets. Her work on U.S.-China relations shows how international geopolitical tensions profoundly shape public perceptions and the treatment of individuals of East Asian descent in America. Another strand of recent research on contemporary China broadly examines the links between intergroup relations and socioeconomic inequalities.
She mainly studies the United States and China. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as Child Development, International Migration Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). For more information about her recent work, please visit her website.
- Social Stratification
- Migration
- Contemporary Chinese Society
- Quantitative Methods
| 2024 | He, Q., Gerber, T. P., & Xie, Y. (2024). Restoring culture and capital to cultural capital: Origin–destination cultural distance and immigrant earnings in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50 (16): 4041-4069. |
| 2023 | Xie, Y., Lin, X., Li, J., He, Q., & Huang, J. (2023). Caught in the crossfire: Fears of Chinese–American scientists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(27), e2216248120. |
| 2022 | He, Q., & Xie, Y. (2022). The moral filter of patriotic prejudice: How Americans view Chinese in the COVID-19 era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(47), e2212183119. |
| 2022 | He, Q., & Xie, Y. (2022). Economic inequalities in contemporary rural China: How does political capital matter? Social Science Research, 105, 102724. |
| 2022 | He, Q., Zhang, Z., & Xie, Y. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on Americans’ attitudes toward China: Does local incidence rate matter? Social Psychology Quarterly, 85 (1), 84-107. |
| 2022 | Gerber, T. P., & He, Q. (2022). Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(133), 38-56. |
| 2020 | He, Q., & Gerber, T. P. (2020). Origin-country culture, migration sequencing, and female employment: Variations among immigrant women in the United States. International Migration Review, 54 (1), 233-261. |
| 2020 | Lu, Y., He, Q., & Brooks‐Gunn, J. (2020). Diverse experience of immigrant children: How do separation and reunification shape their development? Child Development, 91(1), e146-e163. |