Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Mu, Zheng and Andrew Francis-Tan. Forthcoming. “Follow father or mother? Understanding the monoethnic identification of biethnic children in China.” Social Forces.
• Mu, Zheng, Qing Lai, and Yu Xie. 2024. “Arranged cohabitation among Chinese Muslims.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), e2317704121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317704121
• Mu, Zheng. 2023. “Understanding the Educational Disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The Roles of Gender, Ethnic Salience, and Residential Concentration.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100874)
• Mu, Zheng and Eunsil Oh. 2023. “Valuation of Domestic Work: Construction of Stay-at-Home Motherhood among Elite Chinese Migrants in Singapore.” Gender, Work & Organization. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13079)
• Mu, Zheng and Nicol Lee Si Jie. 2023. “A City of Two Tales: Educational Gradients of Discrimination Experiences among Internal Migrants in Beijing, China.” Population, Space, and Place. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2721)
• Mu, Zheng and Jean Wei-Jun Yeung. 2023. “Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-Method Study.” Sociological Perspectives. (https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214231180559)
• Mu, Zheng. 2023. “Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China.” Journal of Family Issues. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231155663)
• Liu, Hao and Zheng Mu. 2022. “Mate Selection in China: Trends and Determinants.” Family Relations. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12718)
• Francis-Tan, Andrew M. and Zheng Mu. 2022. “Examining ethnicity: patterns of minority identification among children of interethnic marriages in China.” Demography. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10061919)
• Mu, Zheng and Felicia F. Tian. 2022. “The Changing Patterns and Determinants of Stay-at-Home Motherhood in Urban China, 1982 to 2015.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 53(1), 48-75. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/jcfs-2021-0065)
• Mu, Zheng. 2021. Hui Muslims’ Endogamy and Intermarriages: Marriage Markets, Islamic Culture, and Economic Growth. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 52(4), 540-568. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.52.4.02) 
• Mu, Zheng and Shu Hu. 2021. “Unequal Childhoods in China: Parental Education and Children’s Time Use.” Journal of Community Psychology. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22710)
• Hu, Shu and Zheng Mu. 2021. “Extended Gender Inequality? Intergenerational Coresidence and Division of Household Labor.” Social Science Research, 93, online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102497).
• Hu, Shu and Zheng Mu. 2020. “Some Time Is Better Spent than Other Time: Chinese Adolescents’ Time Use and Developmental Outcomes.” Child Indicators Research 13: 1739–1765. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09718-8)
• Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean and Zheng Mu. 2020. “Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(14): 2863-2879. (DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1585005.)
• Mu, Zheng and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung. 2020. “Internal Migration, Marriage Timing and Assortative Mating: A Mixed-Method Study in China.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(14): 2914-2936. (DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1585009.)
• Francis-Tan, Andrew M. and Zheng Mu. 2019. “Racial Revolution: Understanding the Resurgence of Minority Ethnic Identity in Modern China.” Population Research and Policy Review, 38(5): 733–769. (DOI: 10.1007/s11113-019-09543-0).
• Mu, Zheng and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung. 2018. "For Money or for a Life: A Mixed-Method Study on Migration and Time Use in China." Social Indicators Research139: 347–379. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1698-x).
• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2016. “Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium? Fertility Effects on Parents in China.” Demographic Research 35: 1373−1410.
• Lai, Qing and Zheng Mu. 2016. “Universal Yet Local: The Religious Factor in Chinese Muslims’ Perception of World Developmental Hierarchy.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 2: 524-546.
• Mu, Zheng and Qing Lai. 2016. “Micro-Macro Interactions in Ethnoreligious Homogamy among Hui Muslims in Contemporary China: The Roles of Residential Concentration and Aging.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 36: 88-105.
• Mu, Zheng and Xiwei Wu. 2015. “Residential Concentration and Marital Behaviors of Muslim Chinese.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 1: 177-200.
• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2014. “Fertility Effects on Parents’ Subjective Well-being.” Sociological Studies 174: 124-147 (in Chinese).
• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2014. “Marital Age Homogamy in China: A Reversal of Trend in the Reform Era?” Social Science Research 44: 141-157.

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• Mu, Zheng and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung. 2021. Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts. Routledge: London. 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Mu, Zheng and Shu Hu. 2018. “Origin and Transition of Singapore Families,” in Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Shu Hu (eds.), pp. 27-52, Family and Population Change in Singapore. Routledge.
• Xie, Yu and Zheng Mu. 2014. “Chapter Eight: Conclusion” in Wellbeing Development Report of China 2014 (in Chinese). Beijing: Peking University Press.

TRANSLATION WORK ON BOOKS

• Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2008. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition. Howard House, England: Emerald. Translated to Chinese by Ren, Qiang, Xiwei Wu, Zheng Mu, and Qing Lai. 2009.《分类数据分析的统计方法》（第2版）. 北京: 社会科学文献出版社.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Mu, Zheng. 2020. Review of Marrying Young in Indonesia: Voices, Laws and Practices. Edited by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari. Asian Journal of Social Science 48 (5-6): 654-657.
• Mu, Zheng. 2018. Review of Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States. Edited by Sari K. Ishii. Asian Journal of Social Science 46 (3): 388-391.