Events
New Asia College 75th Anniversary Lecture in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Partnership between New Asia College and Yale-China Association: Professor Deborah Davis
13 Dec 2024
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) LT2, CUHK
Professor Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University
Deborah Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University where she chaired the Department of Sociology, the Council on East Asian Studies and the Women Faculty Forum. Currently she is a visiting faculty member at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua and an honorary professor at Fudan. She previously served six terms as a Trustee of the Yale-China Association and chaired the International Advisory Board of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Humanities panel for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She has served on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, The China Review, and the Chinese Sociological Review. She holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard, and Boston University. Her most recent book, co-edited with Sara Friedman, was Wives, Husbands and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China.
39437609 / nac@cuhk.edu.hk
In celebration of New Asia College’s 75th Anniversary and the 70th Anniversary of Partnership between New Asia College and Yale-China Association, the College is honored to have Professor Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University to deliver an academic lecture.
Professor Davis is a world-renowned scholar on families, gender, and society in urban China. She has made significant contributions to the study of contemporary Chinese society, family dynamics, and social stratification. She joined Yale University’s Department of Sociology in 1978 and retired as a full professor in 2018.
Details of the lecture are as follows:
Date: 13 December 2024 (Friday)
I. Tea reception:
Time: 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue: Foyer of Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) LT2, CUHK
II. Lecture:
Topic: The Future of Marriage in China
Speaker: Professor Deborah Davis
Moderator: Professor Sealing Cheng (Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) LT2, CUHK
Language: English
Format: Hybrid (on-site and online)
ALL are welcome.
Twenty years ago marriage was nearly universal for men and women in the PRC. Today marriage rates have fallen to an all-time low, and some young adults now openly discuss the option of never marrying. In this lecture Deborah Davis draws on census data, surveys, Chinese social media, and extended conversations to explore the future of marriage as an institution.
