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Yisu Zhou

Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Periodicity of sex worker touring: an image-assisted analysis

Journal Article Journal of Computational Social Science · August 2025 Full text Cite

Navigating Campus Crisis: Empowering SAO in Decision-Making in Response to Global Uncertainties

Journal Article Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice · January 1, 2025 This study investigated experiences and decision-making strategies of Student Affairs Officers (SAOs) facing significant crisis at a Sino-foreign cooperative university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using habitual decision-making and 4 R crisis management ... Full text Cite

Professional legitimacy in flux: academic tutors in a time of uncertainty

Journal Article Chinese Sociological Review · May 26, 2024 Full text Cite

Indigenous dialogic teaching: Orality in a Tibetan school in China

Journal Article Learning, Culture and Social Interaction · December 2023 Full text Cite

Extreme Education

Book Review ECNU Review of Education · November 2023 Full text Cite

Classroom compositional effects on low-ability students' achievement in China.

Journal Article Journal of community psychology · March 2023 Peer effects are at the center of educational policy debates regarding school choice, ability grouping, and instructional design. Though emerging empirical evidence suggests that positive peer effects exist, less is known about how it affects students with ... Full text Cite

Meritocracy’s Disguise

Book Review ECNU Review of Education · February 2023 Full text Cite

The Absent Family and the Education among Contemporary Tibetan Students

Journal Article Chinese Education and Society · January 1, 2023 The deficiency of educational resources is typically held as one of the major impediments to the educational development of Tibetans in China. Even though the Chinese state has committed to supportive policies and providing resources to the region, the aca ... Full text Cite

Disenchantment revisited: school life in Northwest China

Journal Article Discourse · January 1, 2023 Typically understood through a universal-statist framework, modern schooling in contemporary China often contributes to the disenchantment of ethnic students. Based on year-long research in a Tibetan-serving secondary school, we provide additional insight ... Full text Cite

Teaching under opportunism: The predicament of academic tutors in China

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 2023 Academic tutoring as a supplementary form of education has quickly spread across China. Tutoring has attracted young college-educated practitioners and has become a highly organized industry. The industry is fast-churning and opportunistic. This article ex ... Full text Cite

SES-Achievement Gaps in East Asia: Evidence from PISA 2003–2018

Journal Article Asia Pacific Education Researcher · December 1, 2022 Widening achievement gaps driven by socioeconomic disparity have become a global concern. Yet, few studies have been able to track the changes and developments of socioeconomic-achievement gaps (SES-achievement gaps henceforward) across time. Using PISA da ... Full text Cite

Trails of Data: Three Cases for Collecting Web Information for Social Science Research

Journal Article Social Science Computer Review · October 2021 As the availability of online data grows rapidly, researchers are confronted with a pressing question: How should social scientists collect Internet data for research? This study focuses on one of the most commonly used data collection techniques: ... Full text Cite

Generalized Inflated Discrete Models: A Strategy to Work with Multimodal Discrete Distributions

Journal Article Sociological Methods & Research · February 2021 Analysts of discrete data often face the challenge of managing the tendency of inflation on certain values. When treated improperly, such phenomenon may lead to biased estimates and incorrect inferences. This study extends the existing literature ... Full text Cite

A within-cultural comparison of filial piety beliefs among college students in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau

Journal Article Families, Relationships and Societies · November 2020 This study investigated variance in the structure, functions and implications of young adults’ dual filial piety beliefs in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan using the dual filial piety model (DFPM). A total of 879 Chinese college students participated i ... Full text Cite

Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary China · March 3, 2020 Full text Cite

gidm: A command for generalized inflated discrete models

Journal Article The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · September 2019 In this article, we describe the gidm command for fitting generalized inflated discrete models that deal with multiple inflated values in a distribution. Based on the work of Cai, Xia, and Zhou (Forthcoming, Sociological Methods & Research: Ge ... Full text Cite

The School Contextual Effect of Sexual Debut on Sexual Risk-Taking: A Joint Parameter Approach.

Journal Article The Journal of school health · March 2018 BackgroundPrevious research has identified individual and school-level characteristics that are associated with sexual risk-taking, but the impact of school-level mechanisms on sexual risk-taking is not well understood. We examine the aggregated e ... Full text Cite

Gender Gap Among High Achievers in Math and Implications for STEM Pipeline

Journal Article Asia Pacific Education Researcher · October 1, 2017 This study examined a new form of pervasive gender inequality: the gender gap among high achievers in math and considered its implication for developing STEM talents. Using the cross-nation Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) data from b ... Full text Cite

Variations in Chinese parental perceptions of early childhood education quality

Journal Article European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · July 4, 2017 As consumers of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), Chinese parents play a crucial role in the ongoing process of monitoring, evaluating, and improving the quality of ECEC in China. This study used questionnaires to solicit parental feedback on the ... Full text Cite

On the road to universal early childhood education in China: A financial perspective

Journal Article International Journal of Educational Development · March 2017 Full text Cite

Social Segregation in Hong Kong’s Schools: 2000–2012

Journal Article Chinese Sociological Review · July 2, 2016 Full text Cite

The Game Plan: Four Contradictions in the Development of World Class Universities from the Global South

Journal Article Education and Science · April 27, 2016 Globalization in the 21st century provides fresh opportunities for new institutions to establish themselves.  Through globalization, academic professionals, technological advancements, and capital can move across borders on a grand scale with great ... Full text Cite

Educational choice and marketization in Hong Kong: the case of direct subsidy scheme schools

Journal Article Asia Pacific Education Review · December 1, 2015 Direct subsidy scheme (DSS) schools are a product of Hong Kong’s market-oriented educational reform, mirroring global reform that champions parental choice and school marketization. Such schools have greater autonomy in matters of curricula, staffing, and ... Full text Cite

Rigidity's Echo

Book Review ECNU Review of Education Full text Cite