Jiaxuan Yu

Visiting Positions

2022-2023 Visiting Graduate Student, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017  Visiting Graduate Student, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, CT
2015 Summer Session Scholar, Duke University, NC

Publications

Articles
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2022. “When the Local Encounters the Global: Aesthetic Conflicts in the Chinese Traditional Music World.” The Journal of Chinese Sociology 9(1). doi: 10.1186/s40711-022-00169-y. [HTML][PDF]
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2018. “The Cohesion of Square Dancing Groups: A Sociological Study on a ‘Ritual-like’ Community”. Journal of Sociological Studies (1): 142-170. (In Chinese)[HTML][PDF]
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2017. “Taste Classification of Urban Square Dancing Participants ——A Case Study on Square Dancing Participants in Central Shanghai”, China Studies (22): 37-57+191. (In Chinese)[HTML][PDF]

Book Chapters
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2020. “The Divergent Understandings of Meanings: The Square Dancing as a Cultural Symbol.” Pages 399-434 in Selected Sociology Master’s Theses in the China Yangtze River Delta Region (2020), edited by Wenhong Zhang and Dan Mao. Beijing: China Society Press. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan, Yingyi Ma, Danke Wang, Keren Zhou, Zhifan Yan, and Yi Zhou. 2017. “A Case Study of Large Square Dancing Group in Shanghai.” Pages 137-153 in Shanghai Public Culture Service Report (2017), edited by Yueming Rong and Chongxuan Zheng. Shanghai: Shanghai People Press; Shanghai Bookstore Press. (In Chinese)

Academic Translation
Goldthorpe, John. 1987. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain (2nd edition). Translated by Jiaxuan Yu, Dongni Shu, Qunru Liang, Hao Yin, Junqing Xing, Yuwei Gao. 2021. Shanghai: Fudan University Press. 

Yu, Jiaxuan, Timothy Dowd and Karen Hegtvedt. 2023. “From the Musical Stage to the Media Front Page: Cultural Entrepreneurship, Networks, and Mass Media Coverage of Musicians from the Chinese Music Field (1912-1949)” (Winner of the Maureen Blyler Graduate Research Award, Department of Sociology, Emory University, 2022)

Yu, Jiaxuan. 2023. “National Cultural Repertoires in Action: A Case Study of the Shifted Public Image of Square Dancing in China” (Winner of the Best Master’s Thesis Award, Sociological Association of the China Yangtze River Delta Region, 2020)

Presentations

Invited Lectures & Talks
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2022. “When the Local Encounters the Global: Aesthetic Conflicts in the Chinese Traditional Music World.” Lecture at the Institute for Sinology, Heidelberg University, October 26, Heidelberg, Germany. [HTML]
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2017. “Anomie and Integration in the Formation of Subcultures: A Study on Square Dancing Groups in China.” Presented at the Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop, Yale University, December 8, New Haven, CT, USA. [HTML]
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2016. “Taste Classification of Square Dancing Participants ——A Case Study on Square Dancing Participants in Central Shanghai.” Presented at the Mid-term Symposium of Research on the Social Form of the Aging Society of the Future (Major Project of the National Nature Science Foundation of China, grant number 71490733), December 21, Hangzhou, China. (In Chinese)

Conference Presentations
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2023. “To Be a ‘New Musician’ or Not? How Chinese Musicians Approach New Music in the German Classical Music World.” Colloquium of the Graduate School of East Asia Studies(GEAS), Freie Universitat Berlin, January 23, Berlin, Germany
Li, Dongyu and Jiaxuan Yu. 2022. “Ancestor Worship and Generalized Trust: An Analysis Based on Survey Data from China.” Panel of Cultural Sociology, 2022 Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association, August 28, Online. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan and Timothy Dowd. 2022. “Popularity, Legitimation, and Communal Hybridity: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurships in the Chinese Music World (1912-1949).” Roundtable Session of Occupation, Organization and Works, American Sociological Society 2022 Annual Meeting, August 5-9 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Yu, Jiaxuan and Timothy Dowd. 2022. “Popularity, Legitimation, and Communal Hybridity: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurships in the Chinese Music World (1912-1949).” Political Sociology and Inequality – Paper Session, Southern Sociological Society 2022 Annual Meeting, April 6-9 2022, Birmingham, AL, USA
Yu, Jiaxuan and Dongyu Li. 2020. “Socio-economic Statuses and College Students’ Perception of Social Conflicts: Evidence from Beijing College Student Panel Survey (2009).” Presented at the Panel of Cultural Sociology, Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association, September 9, Online. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2020. “When Local Encounters Global: Inhabiting Divergent Conventions in the Chinese Traditional Music World.” Accepted by the Panel of Sociology of Culture: Music, Literature, and Film – Paper Session, Southern Sociological Society 2020 Annual Meeting, April 1-4 2020, Jacksonville, FL, USA (Accepted-Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2020. “When Local Encounters Global: Inhabiting Divergent Conventions in the Chinese Traditional Music World.” Presented at Sociology of Culture Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 8-11, Online
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2018. “Anomie and Integration in the Formation of Subcultures: A Study on Square Dancing Groups in China.” Presented at the Winter Panel of Cultural Sociology, November 16-18, Xiamen, China. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2018. “Anomie and Integration in the Formation of Subcultures: A Study on Square Dancing Groups in China.” Presented at the Life Course Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 11-14, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2018. “Turning ‘Positive’ into ‘Negative’: The Formation of Moral Panic Toward Square Dancing in China (2009-2018).” Presented at the Panel of Cultural Sociology, Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association, July 15-17, Nanjing, China. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2017. “The Cohesion of Square Dancing Groups: A Sociological Study on a ‘Ritual-like’ Community.” Presented at the Panel of Cultural Sociology, Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association, July 16-18, Shanghai, China. (In Chinese)
Yu, Jiaxuan. 2016. “Taste Classification of Square Dancing Participants ——A Case Study on Square Dancing Participants in Central Shanghai.” Presented at the Panel of Cultural Sociology, Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association, July 16-18, Lanzhou, China. (In Chinese)

Teaching

Course Instructor & Guest Lecturer
2022 Instructor. SOC 275: Social Statistics. (Department of Sociology, Emory University)
2021 Guest Lecture. “Probability Sampling” in SOC 355: Social Science Research Method (Instructor: Dimitri Zaras, Emory University)
2021 Guest Lecture. “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance” in SOC 457w: Development of Social Theory (Instructor: Timothy Dowd, Emory University)
2020 Instructor. “Statistics of Musical Psychology”. (Department of Musicology, Shanghai Conservatory of Music)

Teaching Assistants
2023 SOC 457w Development of Social Theory (Instructor: Timothy Dowd, Emory University)
2021 SOC 457w Development of Social Theory (Instructor: Timothy Dowd, Emory University)
2020 SOC 344 Mass Media and Social Influence (Instructor: Timothy Dowd, Emory University)
2019 SOC 389 Digital Inequality (Instructor: Cassidy Puckett, Emory University)
2017 SOCI130132 Social Stratification and Mobility (Instructor: Yi Zhou, Fudan University)

Contact

Email: jiaxuan.yu@emory.edu
Address: 1555 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322