About
Bio
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. I obtained my degrees from Duke University (Sociology, 2015), Peking University (Demography, 2008) and Jinan University (Computer Science, 2005), respectively. I was a PARISS fellow, a recipient of the 2016 Junior Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and Hampton New Faculty Award, and am currently a recipient of the China Program International Fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. As the co-PI, I coordinate the Big Data and Computational Social Science Research Cluster at UBC. You can find my CV here: Qiang Fu CV_Jan 2019 My publication list below is up-to-date.
PS, if you would like to know how to pronounce my given name, it is pronounced as ts-i-ang.
Research
Research Topics
Urban Studies, Health, Demography, Social Capital, Chinese Communities, Machine Learning, Statistics
Research Interests
My current research involves:
- a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective on institutional changes, social capital and urban (mental) health;
- temporal analysis in social science research;
- child and youth well-being;
- developing machine-learning algorithms/tools in survey methodology, demography, and text & data mining.
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Forthcoming
Fu, Qiang, Xin Guo, and Kenneth C. Land. In press. “Optimizing Count Responses in Surveys: A Machine-Learning Approach.” Sociological Methods & Research.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.625 | Rank: 5/146 in Sociology)
Guo, Xin, Qiang Fu (corresponding author), Yue Wang, and Kenneth C. Land. Accepted. "A Numerical Method to Compute Fisher Information for a Special Case of Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Regression." Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis.
(Impact Factor in 2018: 0.925 | Rank: 107/314 in Mathematics)
Fu, Qiang, Yanlong Zhang, Yushu Zhu, and Ting Li. Accepted. "Network Centralities, Demographic Disparities, and Voluntary Participation." Mathematical Foundation of Computing.
2019
Fu, Qiang, Yufan Zhuang, Jiaxin Gu, Yushu Zhu, Huihui Qin, and Xin Guo. 2019. "Search for K: Assessing Five Topic-Modeling Approaches to 120,000 Canadian Articles." Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data: 3640-3647.
Fu, Qiang. 2019. "How Does the Neighborhood Inform Activism? Civic Engagement in Urban Transformation." Journal of Environmental Psychology 63: 1-8.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.553 | Rank: 19/109 in Environmental Studies)
2018
Fu, Qiang. 2018. “Communal Space and Depression: A Structural-Equation Analysis of Relational and Psycho-Spatial Pathways.” Health & Place 53: 1-9.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.000 | Rank: 16/156 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health)
Ye, Changdong, Yushu Zhu, Jiangxue Yang, and Qiang Fu. 2018. “Spatial Equity in Accessing Secondary Education: Evidence from a Gravity-based Model.” The Canadian Geographer 62(4): 452-469.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.477 | Rank: 46/84 in Geography)
Fu, Qiang. 2018. “Bringing Urban Governance Back In: Neighborhood Conflicts and Depression.” Social Science & Medicine 196: 1-9.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.007 | Rank: 5/42 in Social Sciences, Biomedical)
Fu, Qiang, Cary Wu, Heqing Liu, Zhilei Shi and Jiaxin Gu, 2018. “Live Like Mosquitoes: Hukou, Rural-urban Disparity, and Depression.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 4(1): 56-78.
Wu, Cary, Qiang Fu (corresponding author), Jiaxin Gu, and Zhilei Shi. 2018. “Does Migration Pay Off? Returnees, Family Background, and Self-Employment in Rural China.” The China Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China 18(1): 59-77.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 0.694 | Rank: 32/68 in Area Studies)
Fu, Qiang, Xin Guo, and Kenneth C. Land. 2018. “A Poisson-Multinomial Mixture Approach to Grouped and Right-Censored Counts.” Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods 47(2): 427-447.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 0.353 | Rank: 119/123 in Statistics)
2017
Guo, Xin and Qiang Fu. 2017. “GRCdata: Parameter Inference and Optimal Designs for Grouped and/or Right-Censored Count Data.” The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), R package version 1.0, URL: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GRCdata/index.html .
Yanwu Liu and Qiang Fu. 2017. “Changing demographic characteristics and motives for suicide in rural China, 1980-2009.” Chinese Sociological Dialogue 2(3-4):136-148.
Zhu, Yushu and Qiang Fu. 2017. “Deciphering the Civic Virtue of Communal Space: Neighborhood Attachment, Social Capital and Neighborhood Participation in Urban China.” Environment and Behavior 49(2): 161-191.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.549 | Rank: 20/109 in Environmental Studies)
Fu, Qiang, and Kenneth C. Land. 2017. “Does Urbanization Matter? A Temporal Analysis of the Socio-demographic Gradient in the Rising Adulthood Overweight Epidemic in China, 1989-2009.″ Population, Space and Place 23(1): 1-17.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.439 | Rank: 4/28 in Demography)
2016
Fu, Qiang, Kenneth C. Land, and Vicki L. Lamb. 2016. “Violent Physical Bullying Victimization at School: Has There Been a Recent Increase in Exposure or Intensity? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis in the United States, 1991 to 2012.” Child Indicators Research 9(2): 485-513.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.858 | Rank: 21/98 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary)
Land, Kenneth C., Qiang Fu, Xin Guo, Sun Y. Jeon, Eric N. Reither, and Emma Zang. 2016. “Playing With the Rules and Making Misleading Statements: A Response to Luo, Hodges, Winship, and Powers.” American Journal of Sociology 122(3): 962-973.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.764 | Rank: 4/146 in Sociology)
Fu, Qiang. 2016. “The Persistence of Power despite the Changing Meaning of Homeownership: An Age-period-cohort Analysis of Urban Housing Tenure in China, 1989-2011.” Urban Studies 53(6): 1225-1243.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.604 | Rank: 7/40 in Urban Studies)
2015
Fu, Qiang. 2015. “Neighborhood Conflicts in Urban China: From Consciousness of Property Rights to Contentious Actions” Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(3):285-307
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.104 | Rank: 14/68 in Area Studies)
Fu, Qiang, Shenjing He, Yushu Zhu, Si-ming Li, Yanling He, Huoning Zhou, and Nan Lin. 2015. "Towards a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance: Neighborhood-based Network and Residential Outcomes in Urban China." American Behavioral Scientist 59(8): 992-1006.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.858 | Rank: 21/98 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary)
Fu, Qiang. 2015. "When Fiscal Recentralization Meets Housing Reforms: Land Finance and Its Influence on China's Urban Housing Market." Urban Studies 52(10): 1791-1809
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.604 | Rank: 7/40 in Urban Studies)
Fu, Qiang, Yushu Zhu, and Qiang Ren. 2015. "The Downside of Market Transformation: Housing Tenure and Types in Reform-era Urban China." Social Science Research 49: 126-140
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.766 | Rank: 38/146 in Sociology)
Fu, Qiang, and Kenneth C. Land. 2015. “The Increasing Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity of Children and Youth in China, 1989-2009: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis” Population Research and Policy Review 34 (6): 901-921
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.027 | Rank: 24/28 in Demography)
Fu, Qiang, and Linda K. George. 2015. "Socioeconomic Determinants of Childhood Overweight in China: The Long Arm of Institutional Power." Sociology of Health & Illness 37(6): 805-822
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.122 | Rank: 29/146 in Sociology)
Fu, Qiang, and Linda K. George. 2015. "Sex, Socioeconomic and Regional Disparities in Age Trajectories of BMI across Childhood and Their Implications on Underweight and Overweight in China." Asian Population Studies 11(2): 134-148.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.057 | Rank: 21/28 in Demography)
Reither, Eric N., Kenneth C. Land, Sun Y. Jeon, Daniel A. Powers, Ryan K. Masters, Hui Zheng, Melissa A. Hardy, Katherine M. Keyes, Qiang Fu, Heidi A. Hanson, Ken R. Smith, Rebecca L. Utz, and Y. Claire Yang. 2015 “Response: Clarifying hierarchical age–period–cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones” Social Sciences & Medicine 128: 331-333.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 3.007 | Rank: 5/42 in Social Sciences, Biomedical)
2014
Fu, Qiang, and Nan Lin. 2014. "The Weaknesses of Civic Territorial Organizations: Civic Engagement and Homeowners Associations in Urban China." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(6): 2309-2327
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.239 | Rank: 13/40 in Urban Studies)
Note: This paper is selected for IJURR’s virtual issue on Chinese cities:
http://www.ijurr.org/virtual-issues/chinese-cities/
Zhu, Yushu, Qiang Fu, and Qiang Ren. 2014. "Cross-City Variations in Housing Outcomes in Post-Reform China: An Analysis of 2005 Micro Census Data." Chinese Sociological Review 46(3): 26-54
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.300 | Rank: 21/146 in Sociology)
2013
Fu, Qiang, and Nan Lin. (the lead article) 2013 "Local State Marketism: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Housing and Land Market." Chinese Sociological Review 46(1): 3-24
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.300 | Rank: 21/146 in Sociology)
O'Hare, William P., Mark Mather, Genevieve Dupuis, Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, and Qiang Fu. 2013. "Analyzing Differences in Child Well-Being among U.S. States." Child Indicators Research 6(2):401-431.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.858 | Rank: 21/98 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary)
2012
Fu, Qiang, Kenneth C. Land, and Vicki L. Lamb. (lead article) 2012. "Bullying Victimization, Socioeconomic Status and Behavioral Characteristics of 12th Graders in the United States, 1989 to 2009: Repetitive Trends and Persistent Risk Differentials." Child Indicators Research 6(1): 1-21.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 1.858 | Rank: 21/98 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary)
2010
Fu, Qiang, and Qiang Ren. 2010. "Educational Inequality under China’s Rural–Urban Divide: The Hukou System and Return to Education." Environment and Planning A 42(3): 592-610.
(Impact Factor in 2017: 2.152 | Rank: 29/84 in Geography)
2008
Ren, Qiang, Qiang Fu, and Yushu Zhu. 2008. “Returns to Education Based on the Household Registration System: An Examination of Wage Disparity.” Population and Development 14(3): 37-46. (in Chinese)
Fu, Qiang, Xin Yu, Ye Tian, Lan Li, Xiaoxue Tang, and Guozhen Chang. 2008. “College English Test Scores and Majors: A Multilevel Analysis of Undergraduates from Seven Universities in Beijing.” Market and Demographical Analysis 13(06): 72-81. (in Chinese)
2007
Ren, Qiang, and Qiang Fu. 2007. “Marginal Birth Decisions under Economic Development: A Test of Leibenstein’s Theory.” Chinese Journal of Population Science (1): 60-70. (in Chinese)
2004
Xue, Fei, Qiang Fu, Jian Xie, and Daiqiang Hu. 2004. “A Profit-Oriented Microeconomic Integer Programming Model for Olympics’ Mini Supermarket Allocation.” Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics (21): 57-63. (in Chinese)
Book Chapters
Land, Kenneth. C., Lamb, V. Lamb, and Qiang Fu. 2016. “Measuring Trends in Child Well-being and Child Suffering In the United States, 1975-2013.” A Life Devoted to Quality of Life: Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos, edited by Maggino, Filomena. New York: Springer.
Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L Lamb, and Qiang Fu. 2015. "Child Well-Being and Child Suffering." Pp. 173-186 In World Suffering and Quality of Life, edited by R. E. Anderson. New York: Springer.
Fu, Qiang. 2014. "The Contentious Democracy: Homeowners Associations in China through the Lens of Civil Society." Pp. 201-216 in Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities, edited by Y. Huang and S.-m. Li. New York: Routledge.
Fu, Qiang, Vicki L Lamb, and Kenneth C. Land. 2012. "Scalability of the CWI: Substate Regional Indicators and Composite Indices." Pp. 189-224 in The Well-Being of America's Children: Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index, edited by K. C. Land. New York: Springer.
Land, Kenneth C., Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah Meadows, Hui Zheng, and Qiang Fu. 2012. "The CWI and Its Components: Empirical Studies and Findings." Pp. 29-76 in The Well-Being of America's Children: Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index, edited by K. C. Land. New York: Springer.
Xie, Yu, and Qiang Fu. 2010. "Chapter 12 Dummy Variables." In Chinese. Pp. 217-233 in Regression Analysis, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Xie, Yu, and Qiang Fu. 2010. "Chapter 13 Interactions." In Chinese. Pp. 234-249 in Regression Analysis, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Xie, Yu, and Qiang Fu. 2010. "Chapter 14 Heteroskedasticity and Generalized Least-squares Estimation." In Chinese. Pp. 250-263 in Regression Analysis, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Ren, Qiang, Zhihao Lv, and Qiang Fu. 2008. "China's population, family and household." In Chinese. Pp. 216-264 in 2005 China Micro-census Research Paper Series, edited by State Statistical Bureau. Beijing: China Statistics Press.
Newspaper Articles and Research Reports
Land, Kenneth C., Vicki L. Lamb, and Qiang Fu. 2012. “Violent Bullying Victimization in Middle and High School Contexts in the United States: A Social Report.” SINET: A Quarterly Review of Social Reports and Research on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life (110 & 111): pp. 1-11.
Lin, Nan, and Qiang Fu. 2010. “Market Transformation and the Disadvantaged: Housing Stratification in Urban China.” Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Working Paper Series, Cambridge, MA.
Fu, Qiang, and Huoning Zhou. 2010. “Homeowners Association: Voluntary Organizations Based on Partitioned Ownership.” In Chinese. In Chinese Social Sciences Today, Beijing: Social Sciences in China Press.
Fu, Qiang, Vicki Lamb, and Kenneth C. Land. 2009. California Child and Youth Well-Being Index, 1995-2007: Trends, Changes and Projections to 2012. Palo Alto, CA: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.
Awards
Honors, Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2019 China Program Fellowship (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
2019 The Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (The University of British Columbia)
2016 Junior Scholar Grant (Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange)
2016 Hampton New Faculty Award (The University of British Columbia)
2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (China Scholarship Council)
2013 PARISS Fellowship (Duke University)
2007 Samchang Scholarship (Peking University)
2006 Nannong Rural Research Award (Southern Rural Daily & Central China Normal University)
2005 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis (Jinan University)
2004 Outstanding Winners of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (with invited publication at Chinese Journal of Mathematical Engineering, among top 20 out of 6,881 participants in 2004)
Graduate Supervision
Patrick John Burnett (Ph.D. committee)
Alex Chow (Honours thesis advisor)
Mark Ding (Honours thesis advisor)
Jiaxin Gu (Honours thesis advisor)
Jiaxin Gu (M.A. supervisor)
Jiaxin Gu (Ph.D. supervisor)
Xingshu Liu (Ph.D. committee)
Joyce Shen (Honours thesis advisor)
Zhonghao Wang (M.A. supervisor)
Cary Wu (Ph.D. committee)
Xueqing Zhang (M.A. committee)