FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FENG QIUSHI

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS1/04-30
Email:
socfq@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65164420
Fax:
67779579
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/socfq/
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Brief Introduction

Feng Qiushi received his doctoral degree from Duke University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is Deputy Head of the Department and Assistant Dean of Research Division of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) in NUS. His research fields are aging and health, population studies, and economic sociology. He has published extensively in these fields and is particularly interested in multidisciplinary research with various methods, such as regression-based statistics, simulation-based projection, experiment, as well as comparative/historical, and ethnographic approaches. He has been teaching social research methods and social statistics at undergrad and grad levels for more than two decades. He is Vice President of the Population Association of Singapore (PAS). He is the Associate Editor of Asian Population Studies, Deputy Editor of International Journal of Population Studies, and also serves on the editorial boards of a few leading journals and book series such as Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (JGSS) and Journal of American Geriatrics Association (JAGS). His research has been supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC). He is currently leading the MOE Tier-2 project, Lifelong Education for Aging Productively (LEAP) in Singapore, and the MOE Tier-2 project, Analyses and Projections of Households and Living Arrangements in Six ASEAN Countries (HOUSEHOLD-ASEAN). He is the PI in charge of social determinants of health for SG70, a multidisciplinary project on aging launched by NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. 

External links: Google Scholar; ORCID


Teaching Areas

Social Research Methods, Social Statistics, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Life Course and Aging


Research Interests

Aging and Health, Population Studies, Economic Sociology


Publications

BOOK

  • Feng, Qiushi. 2018. Variety of Development: Chinese Automakers in Market Reform and Globalization. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (225 pages). 

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLE

  • Feng, Qiushi and Danan Gu. 2023. “Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Expectancy among Older Adults in Asian Countries." Asian Population Studies 19(2):168-183.
  • Lu, Siyao, Ismail Shogo, Qiushi Feng* and Jean Yeung*. 2022.“Are Centenarians Successful Agers?" Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 71(5):1386-1394.
  • Barrenetxea, Jon, Yi Yang, Qiushi Feng*, and Woon-Puay Koh. 2022.“Social Disconnection and Living Arrangement among Older Adults-The Singapore Chinese Health Study." Gerontology 68:330-338. (NUS Medicine News)
  • Hoh, Jasmon and Qiushi Feng*. 2021. "Geography Matters to Disability: Regional Disparity of Bathing Difficulty among Older Adults in China." China Population and Development Review 5(4): 312-331.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Joelle Fong, Wei Zhang, Changxi Liu, and Huashuai Chen. 2020. “Trends of Leisure Activities of Chinese Oldest-olds from 1998 to 2018." American Journal of Public Health 110(10):1535-1537. 
  • Feng, Qiushi, Zhenglian Wang, Simon Choi, and Yi Zeng. 2020. “Forecast Households at the County Level: An Application of the ProFamy Extended Cohort-component Method in Six Counties of Southern California, 2010 to 2040.” Population Research and Policy Review 39(2):253-281.
  • Shen, Ke, Bin Zhang, Qiushi Feng*. 2019. “The Association between Tea Consumption and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Older Adults.” BMC Geriatrics 19:246. (NUS News)
  • Son, Joonmo and Qiushi Feng. 2019. “In Social Capital We Trust?” Social Indicators Research 144(1):167-189. 
  • Feng, Qiushi, Jean W. Yeung, Zhenglian Wang, and Yi Zeng. 2019. “Age of Retirement and Human Capital in an Aging China, 2015-2050.” European Journal of Population 35(1):29-62.
  • Gu, Danan and Qiushi Feng. 2018. “Psychological Resilience of Chinese Centenarians and its Associations with Survival and Health: A Fussy Set Analysis.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 73(5):880-889.
  • Feng, Qiushi and Paulin Straughan. 2017. “What Does Successful Aging Mean? Lay Perception of Successful Aging among Singapore Elderly.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 72(2):204-213.
  • Zeng, Yi, Qiushi Feng, Therese Hesketh, Kaare Christensen, and James W. Vaupel. 2017. “Survival, Disabilities in Activities of Daily Living, and Physical and Cognitive Functioning among the Oldest-old in China: A Cohort Study.” The Lancet 389(10079): 1619-1629.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Haiyan Zhu, Zhihong Zhen, and Danan Gu. 2016. “Self-rated Health, Interviewer-rated Health, and Their Predictive Powers on Mortality in Old Age." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 71(3):538-550.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Joonmo Son, and Yi Zeng. 2015. “Prevalence and Correlates of Successful Ageing: A Comparative Study between China and South Korea.” European Journal of Aging 12(2):83-94. 
  • Martin, Linda G., Qiushi Feng, Robert F. Schoeni, and Yi Zeng. 2014. “Trends in Function and Activity Limitations among Chinese Oldest-Old, 1998 to 2008.” Population and Development Review 40(3): 475-495.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Zhihong Zhen, Danan Gu, Bei Wu, Pamela W. Duncan, and Jama L. Purser. 2013. “Trends of ADL and IADL Disabilities in Community-dwelling Shanghai Older Adults, 1998 to 2008.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 68(3):476-485.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Jama L. Purser, Zhihong Zhen, and Pamela W. Duncan. 2011. “Less Exercise and More TV in Modernization: Trend of Physical Activity in Shanghai Elder, 1998 to 2008.” Journal of Public Health 33(4):543-550.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Zhenglian Wang, Danan Gu, and Yi Zeng. 2011. “Household Vehicle Consumption Forecasting in the United States, 2000 to 2025.” International Journal of Market Research 53(5):593-618.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Helen M. Hoenig, Danan Gu, Yi Zeng, and Jama L. Purser. 2010. “Impact of New Disability Subtypes on Three-year Mortality in Chinese Older Adults.” Journal of American Geriatrics Society 58(10):1952-1958.

SELECTED SHORT ARTICLE

  • Feng, Qiushi. 2023.  "Diversity of End-of-life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age.”American Journal of Public Health 113(7):716–717
  • Feng, Qiushi and Bei Wu. 2023. “Decade of Healthy Ageing in Asia.” Aging and Health Research 3(2): 100138
  • Gu, Danan and Qiushi Feng. 2021 "COVID-19 and its Impacts on Older Adults: Global Perspectives.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 76(7): 246-248.
  • Feng, Qiushi. 2019. “Projecting Household and Living Arrangements in Asia”. Asian Population Studies 15(3):239-242.
  • Yi Zeng, Qiushi Feng, Therese Hesketh, Kaare Christensen, James W Vaupel. 2017. “The Oldest-old in China – Authors' Reply.” The Lancet 390(10097):847.

POLICY REPORT

  • Feng, Qiushi. 2022. "Labour Force Participation of Older Persons in an Ageing China: Trends, Challenges, and Policy Recommendations.”Policy report for UN ESCAP.
  • Feng, Qiushi, Zhenzhen Zheng, and Yi Zeng. 2016. “What Can We Learn from Empirical Analysis on Cross-cohort Changes in Physical and Cognitive Functions of Oldest-old in China?”UNPFA Policy Brief in Data Analysis to Strengthen Interdisciplinary Research on Healthy Aging.
  • Gu, Danan, Qiushi Feng, Zhenglian Wang, and Yi Zeng. 2015. “Recommendation to Consider the Crucial Impacts of Trends in Smaller Household Size on Sustainable Development Goals.” UN Crowdsourced Briefs of the Global Sustainable Development Report.

SELECTED PUBLICATION IN CHINESE

  • Feng, Qiushi et al. (Proofreader: Danan Gu). 2018. Tools for Demographic Estimation, edited by Tom Moultrie, Rob Dorrington, Allan Hill, Kenneth Hill, Ian Timæus, and Basia Zaba. Paris: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). (Translation, 487 pages)
  • Feng, Qiushi and Xing Wang. 2008. The Sociology of the Economy, edited by Frank Dobbin. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press. (Translation, 344 pages)

Others

JOURNAL EDITORIALS

  1. International Journal of Population Studies, Deputy Editor, 2022-present
  2. Asian Population Studies, Associate Editor, 2018-present
  3. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Board member, 2023-present
  4. Nutrients, Board member, 2022-present
  5. Aging and Health Research, Board Member, 2020-present 
  6. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Board Member, 2018-present 
  7. Journal of Aging and Health, Board Member, 2016-present
  8. Research on Aging, Board Member, 2014-present

BOOK EDITORIALS

  1. Co-Editor, Advance in Studies of Aging and Health by Springer, 2016-present
  2. Associate Editor, Classics of Economic Sociology by Shanghai People's Press, 2008-present
  3. Section Editor, Encyclopedia of Population Aging and Gerontology by Springer, 2017-2020   

AWARDS

  1. FASS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  2. FASS Faculty Research Award for Excellent Researcher, 2018

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