Dr. Haijing Dai

Department of Social Work

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Associate Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2010 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Social Work and Sociology

2005 M.A., University of Michigan, Department of Sociology

2004 M.S., University of Michigan, Community Organizing and Child Welfare

2002 B.A., Peking University, Chinese Literature and Economics

Publications (selected)

1. Dai, H., Xia, L., Jiang, N., Liu, W., & Chen, S. (2025). The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a Coastal Region of China. Journal of Family Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2446988
2. Shuheng Jin, Haijing Dai (2024) Mismatched: Intensive Mothering in China's Urban Villages. positions 1 November 2024; 32 (4): 821–846. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11306808
3. Ma, G., Xu, C., Zhang, J., & Dai, H. (2024). Preschool advantage: economic disparities in the long-term effects of early childhood education on cognitive development in China. Chinese Sociological Review, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2024.2389239
4. Que, C., & Dai, H. (2024). Crowding in or Out？National Public Pension, Inter-Generational Contract, and Family Support to Empty-Nest Older Parents in Rural China. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2024.2349480
5. Dai, H., Ma, G., Jiang, N., & Gong, H. (2024). Behavioral and attitudinal support to zero-COVID policies among adolescents in a Chinese coastal area: direct experience and political socialization. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(2), 311–330.
6. Que, C., & Dai, H. (2024). Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China. Journal of Family Issues, 45(12), 3061-3083. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X241236554
7. Dai H, Jung N, Li N. (2024) Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong. Social Policy and Society. 23(1):19-34. doi:10.1017/S147474642100083X
8. Dai, H., Jung, N., Li, N., & Hu, M. (2022). Market merits and family virtues: Family caregivers in the labor market of Hong Kong. The China Review, 22(3), 325-351.
9. Dai, H., Jiang, N., & Li, R. (2022). Social worker turnover under the Lump Sum Grant Subvention System in Hong Kong: Organization-level analyses. British Journal of Social Work, 52, 1683-1702.
10. Dai, H., Jiang, N., & Li, R. (2022). The myth of organization autonomy: Social workers’ salary under the lump sum grant subvention system in Hong Kong. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 16, 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12244
11. Zhou, H., Dai, H. and Jung, N. (2020), Empowering migrant domestic helpers through financial education. Int J Soc Welfare, 29: 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12385
12. Dai, H. (2019). Embracing urbanity: Childcare arrangements and motherhood anxiety in China’s urban transition. Journal of Family Issues, 40(17), 2389–2411.
13. Dai, H., Lau, Y., & Lee, K. (2019). Social innovation, value penetration, and the power of the nonprofit sector: Workers’ co-operative societies in Hong Kong. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(6), 1210-1228.
14. Li, M. and Dai, H. (2019), Determining the primary caregiver for disabled older adults in Mainland China: spouse priority and living arrangements. Journal of Family Therapy, 41: 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12213
15. Dai, H. (2018). Community governance, welfare service provision and state power in changing Chinese villages. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 13(2), 227–240. https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2018.1543784
16. Liu, J., Dai, H., Li, M., & Li, M. S. (2017). Personal networks and employment: a study on landless farmers in Yunnan province of China. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 28(2), 71–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2017.1408029
17. Dai, H., Lau, Y. & Lee, K.H. (2017). The Paradox of Integration: Work-Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) and Productivist Welfare Regime in Hong Kong. Voluntas 28, 2614–2632. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-017-9832-6
18. Dai, H. (2016). From personal ties to village welfare: Changing community bonding in post-socialist rural China. Community Development Journal, 51(4), 517-533.
19. Dai, H. (2016). The making of “modern female workers” in reemployment programs in post-socialist China. Social Service Review, 90(2), 235-263.
20. Dai, H. (2014). The discontents of reform: Boundary work and welfare stigma at mixed elder homes in China. Journal of Social Policy, 43(3), 497-515.

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