BICC Position
University Lecturer in the Sociology of China
Home Institution
University of Oxford
Contact Information
St Antony's College, Oxford, rachel.murphy@sant.ox.ac.uk
01865 284765
Teaching
East Asian Research Methods, Contemporary China Survey Course, Sociology of China, contribution to Development Studies, MPhil and DPhil dissertation supervision.
Research Interests
Migration studies; population and development; social development; gender; media and information communication technologies (ICTs); qualitative methods.
Current Projects:
Impact of informal social and cultural institutions on sex ratios in rural China (fieldwork funded by BICC)
Sources of political will for social development in China (fieldwork funded by Nuffield)
ICTs, migrants and mobile livelihoods in China
Rural education
Publications
Monograph:
(2002) How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China, Cambridge University Press.
Edited books:
(forthcoming) Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China, Routledge.
with Vanessa L. Fong (2008) Media, Identity and Struggle in 21st Century China, Routledge.
with Vanessa L. Fong (2006) Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, Routledge.
Reports:
(2006) Domestic Migrant Remittances in China: Channels, Distribution and Livelihoods, IOM Migration Research Series, United Nations Press (November), 40 pages.
(2005) ‘Helping Migration to Improve Livelihoods in China’ in Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in Asia, ed. by Frank Laczko, Geneva: IOM, Research and Publications Department, pp. 223-242.
Journal Articles:
(2007) ‘The Paradox of China’s Official State Media Reinforcing Poor Governance: Case Studies of a Party Newspaper and an Anti-Corruption Film,’ Critical Asian Studies, (Mar) 39 (1): 63-88.
with Liu Liangqun (2006) ‘Lineage Identities, Land Conflicts and Rural Migration in Late Socialist China’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 33 (4) (October): 612-645.
(2004) ‘Turning Chinese Peasants into Modern Citizens: ‘Population Quality’, Demographic Transition, and Primary Schools’, China Quarterly, 177, (March):1-20. Winner of the Gordon White Prize
(2003) ‘Fertility and Distorted Sex Ratios in Rural China: Culture, State and Policy,’ Population and Development Review, 29 (4) (December): 595-626.
Book Chapters:
(submitted) ‘Overcoming the Digital Divide: Information Communication Technologies in Rural China’ in Rethinking China’s Rural-Urban Divide ed. by Martin King Whyte, Harvard University Press.
(2007) ‘Paying for Education in Rural China’ in Paying For Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality ed. by V. Shue and C. Wong, Routledge, pp.69-95.
(2006) Essays on ‘Media Communications and Development’ and ‘Internal Migration and Rural Livelihood Diversification’, in Companion to Development Studies ed. by David Clark, Edward Elgar, pp.238-245 and 289-295.
with Vanessa L. Fong (2006) ‘Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship’ in Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, ed. by V.L. Fong and R. Murphy (eds.), pp.1-8.
(2006) ‘Citizenship Education in Rural China: Dispositional and Technical Training for Cadres and Farmers’, in Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, pp.9-26.
with Ran Tao (2006) ‘No Wage and No Land: New Forms of Unemployment in Rural China’, in Unemployment in China, ed. by G. Lee and M. Warner, Routledge, pp.128-149.
(2004) ‘Chinese Ethnography of Rural State and Society: An Introduction’ in China Along the Yellow River, by J. Cao, Routledge, pp. 1-15.
(2004) ‘The Impact of Labour Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women’, in On the Move: Women and Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, ed. by A. Gaetano and T. Jacka, Columbia University Press, pp. 227-262.