Jieyu Liu is Reader in Sociology of China and Deputy Director of China Institute, SOAS University of London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, family and generation in China. She is the author of Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (Routledge, 2007) and Beauties at Work (Palgrave, 2016). Currently she is the principal investigator of a five-year European Research Council project examining Chinese family relations and practices in East Asia.