https://www.fangxu.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605a1c0138289a57b7ab9e80/1616522157865-8LMX4J288H9EFKIYPYLO/in%252Bmontreal.jpg Contact - Contact fangxu@berkeley.edu 269 Evans Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 https://www.fangxu.org/bio daily 0.75 2022-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605a1c0138289a57b7ab9e80/1620018476327-CHEVR5XR36ASEC8OGC7D/IMG_8894.jpeg Bio - Fang Xu B.A. Tongji University. Shanghai, China. M.A. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. Canada. M.Ph. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Ph.D. in Sociology. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Fang Xu is an urban sociologist with expertise in language, cultural identity, and public policies in urban China. Her other research interests lie in urban studies, consumption, sociolinguistics, nationalism, and migration. Dr. Xu is a Continuing Lecturer teaching in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field major program at University of California Berkeley. Fang Xu currently works on two San Francisco Bay Area based research projects. One explores place identity and sense of belonging among local residents during the Covid-19 pandemic. The other investigates the notion, “Be American, Speak English” among first generation immigrants. https://www.fangxu.org/publicity daily 0.75 2023-01-20 https://www.fangxu.org/work daily 1.0 2025-08-02 https://www.fangxu.org/work/selected-publications monthly 0.5 2021-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605a1c0138289a57b7ab9e80/1617667652679-WCBQ9UM8E8P6QCLNVF7F/IMG_9647.jpg Work - Selected Publications - Book Reviews 2023. Book Review of Urbanization of the People: : The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City. Journal of Asian Studies 82 (4): 682–684. 2022. Book Review of The Future Conditional:The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China. Asian Ethnology 81 (1&2): 334-35. 2022. Book Review of The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public. Contemporary Sociology: 51(3):204-206. 2017. “What is in an Asian Gene?” Book Review of Aihwa Ong’s Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian city of life. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter. 2017. Book Review of Rojas, Carlos and Ralph A. Litzinger’s Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China. Journal of International and Global Studies. Volume 8, Number 2:97-9. 2016. Book Review of Valerie Imbruces From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatowns Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace. Food, Culture and Society. Volume 19(4): 737-38. 2016. Book Review of Goodman, D. S. G. (ed.) The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives. Journal of International and Global Studies. Volume 8, Number 1:81-4. 2014. “Transnational Architectural Production with Chinese Characteristics.” Book Review of Xuefei Ren’s Building Globalization:Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Sociological Forum. Volume 29, Number 2:511-15. 2013. Book Review of Jill M. Bystydzienski’s Intercultural Couples: Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference. Social Problems Forum. Volume 44, Issue 3:10-1. https://www.fangxu.org/work/conferences monthly 0.5 2025-08-02 https://www.fangxu.org/work/book monthly 0.5 2021-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605a1c0138289a57b7ab9e80/1621877657290-NRQFHAGMXXGWF1GARG8G/XU+Silencing+Shangha_Proof3.jpg Work - Book