Academic Staff
JIANG, Jin 江晉
Associate Professor
PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests:
Sociology of education; Social stratification and mobility; Youth studies, Labour markets
Dr JIANG Jin joined the Department of Sociology in 2020. Her research interests include sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, youth studies, and labour markets. Dr Jiang has published articles in leading international journals such as American Sociological Review, Chinese Sociological Review, Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education, Studies in Higher Education, and Urban Studies, and book chapters published by Routledge, Springer, and Oxford University Press.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Course(s) Taught:
| CHSS 4035 | Selected Topics in the Sociology of China I |
| SOCI 2006 | Social Statistics |
| SOCI 2035 | Social Inequalities |
| SOCI 4035 | Selected Topics in the Sociology of China I |
From Jan-2024 to Dec-2026 | “Emerging ‘Triple Lost’ Young Graduates in the Chinese Mainland: A Mixed-Method Approach”. Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF). As Principal Investigator (PI), HK$902,900. |
| From Jan-2021 to Dec-2023 | “Staying in the Nest? A Study of Young Adults’ Co-residence with Parents in the United Kingdom, the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong”. Research Grants Council, Early Career Scheme (ECS). As PI. HK$588,824. |
| From Nov-2019 to Nov-2021 | “The Greater Bay Area and Career Opportunity for Hong Kong Youth: Integrating Big Data Analysis and Survey Experiments”. Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme. As PI. HK$500,000. |
(For complete list of publications, please view Staff CV.)
Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Jiang, Jin and Chunni Zhang (2025). Parental homes as feathered nets: Home-leaving trajectories of young people in China. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251395464.
Jiang, Jin, Chunni Zhang and Xiuming Pan. (2025). Changing pathways in young people’s school-to-work transition: Evidence from the 2003–2021 Chinese General Social Surveys. Chinese Sociological Review, 57(4), 389–423.
Jiang, Jin and Hon-Kwong Lui. (2025). Lifetime earnings premium of higher education: Evidence from the 40-year career of the 1951–1955 birth cohort in Hong Kong. Research in Higher Education, 66(3), 21.
Jiang, Jin and Chunni Zhang. (2025). Are parents not integral to our family? Perceptions of young adults in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong. Journal of Family Studies, 31(5), 778–802.
Jiang, Jin and Hon-Kwong Lui. (2024). Higher education expansion and earnings premium: A comparative study of two systems in China. China Perspectives, 136, 63–73.
Jiang, Jin, Shouzhi Xia, and Dong Zhang. (2024). Birds of a feather: Sharing democratic values eases immigration in a postmaterialist society. Political Behavior, 46, 1887–1911.
Jiang, Jin and Hon-Kwong Lui. (2023). Pursuing dreams in an Asia’s global city: does host language proficiency matter for Asian minorities? Urban Studies, 60(2), 360–378.
Chen, Jacqueline Chen, Jin Jiang* and Tony Tam. (2023) Social competition and the contingent legitimation of pay differentials in reform-era China, Chinese Sociological Review, 55(4), 351–383. (*corresponding author).
Shen, Wenqin and Jin Jiang*. (2023). Institutional prestige, academic supervision and research productivity of international PhD students: Evidence from Chinese returnees. Journal of Sociology, 59(2), 552–579. (*corresponding author).
Jiang, Jin and Guoguo Ke. (2021). China’s move to mass higher education since 1998: Analysis of higher education expansion policies. Higher Education Quarterly, 75(3), 418–437.
Mok, Ka Ho and Jin Jiang. (2020). Towards corporatized collaborative governance: The multiple networks model and entrepreneurial universities in Hong Kong. Studies in Higher Education, 45(10), 2110–2120.
Jiang, Jin, Ka Ho Mok, and Wenqin Shen. (2020). Riding over national and global disequilibria: International learning and academic career development of Chinese PhD returnees. Higher Education Policy, 33, 531–554.
Jiang, Jin; Jiwei Qian, and Zhuoyi Wen. (2018). Social protection for the informal sector in urban China: Institutional constraints and self-selection behaviour. Journal of Social Policy, 47(2), 335–357.
Tam, Tony and Jin Jiang. (2015). Divergent urban-rural trends in college attendance: State policy bias and structural exclusion in China. Sociology of Education, 88(2), 160–180.
Tam, Tony and Jin Jiang. (2014). The making of higher education inequality: How do mechanisms and pathways depend on competition? American Sociological Review, 79, 807–816.
PhD Supervision
I am keen to supervise PhD students working on quantitative research in areas such as sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, and youth studies, particularly within the context of Chinese societies. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact me via email and provide their research proposals along with their CVs.
Scholarships and Awards
| 2024/2025 | Performance Award for Scholarly Work (Early Career Researcher), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2021/2022 | Wiley Top Cited Paper Award. |
| 2020 | Young Researcher Output Award, Lingnan University. |
| 2020 | Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award, Lingnan University. |
| 2019 | Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Association of Chinese Political Studies. |
| 2018/2019 | Wiley Top Cited Paper Award. |
| 2015 | Director Tang Hon Kwan and Principal Chan Yau Kwong Mother and Daughter Memorial Scholarship for Sociological Studies of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2014 | Travel Grant for Starting Sociologists in East Asia, International Sociological Association. |