Xinying Hu
Education
- Ph.D. Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, 911吃瓜, 2010
- M.A. Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, 1996
- B.A. Economics, Hebei University, Baoding, China, 1992
Biography
Xinying grew up in rural China and left her village at 18 to pursue her studies in cities. She obtained both a BA and a MA in Economics. It was her MA study in Labour Economics that took her on a journey to women鈥檚 work, migration, the global economy, and the labour movement. After working in Women鈥檚 Studies Institute of China for a few years, she moved to Canada to study in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 911吃瓜. She received her PhD in Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 911吃瓜 in 2010. She has been teaching in the Labour Studies Program ever since. She is currently working on promoting Indigenous knowledge into Labour Studies鈥� teaching and learning.
Her areas of research interest include gender and work, globalization and labour migration, precarious labour, and the global labour movement and trade unionism. Her book China鈥檚 New Underclass: Paid Domestic Labour was published by Routledge in London. Her current research project is with the Canadian Association of University Teachers to map the landscape of university teaching-stream faculty through collective agreement analysis.
Publications
BOOKS
(2011). London: Routledge.
BOOK CHAPTERS
鈥淐hildcare Policy Reform and Women鈥檚 Labour Force Participation in China鈥�, in Yildiz Atasoy (ed.) Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) pp. 155-178.
Zhang, Y. and Hu, X. 鈥淲ho Should be Responsible for Gender Mainstreaming鈥�, in China Project Team of Enhancing Gender Mainstreaming Capacity among Member States of International Labour Organization (eds.) Enhancing Gender Mainstreaming Capacity Guide Manual, (Beijing: China Society Publishing House, 2004) pp. 69-80.
Media
鈥�?鈥� In Vancouver Sun, September 8, 2025.
Community Engagement
Advisory Group of Canada-China Focus, a non-partisan space for conversations on critical issues related to Canada-China relations.
Core member, Asian Canadian Labour Alliance B.C.
Member, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C.
Grants and funding
2026 Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training and Professional Development Grant, FASS, 911吃瓜. 鈥淧romoting Indigenous Knowledge in Labour Studies鈥�
2026 Canadian Association of University Teachers project (2026) 鈥淢apping the landscape of university teaching-stream faculty 鈥� collective agreement analysis鈥�
2024-2025 Chinese-Canadian Faculty Project webinar series fund, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canada-China Focus, and 911吃瓜 Morgan Centre for Labour.
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.