• Background

    Education

    2012 Ph.D. Sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    2011 M.S. Statistics Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    2008 M.A. Sociology Fudan University, Shanghai

    2005 B.A. Sociology Fudan University, Shanghai

    Position

    2021- Present.

    Vice Dean, Graduate School of Fudan University

    2019- 2021

    Vice Dean, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

    2018- Present.

    University Professor, Fudan University

    2015- Present.

    Full Professor of Sociology, Fudan University

    2014- Present.

    Vice Director of the Center for Social Transition Studies, Fudan University

    2013- Present.

    Deputy Chair of the Department of Sociology, Fudan University

    2013- 2015.

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Fudan University

    2012- 2013.

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Fudan University

  • Research

    Education and Inequality; Culture, Religion, and Trust; Social Demography; Quantitative Methodology

  • Articles

    [On Peer Reviewed English Journals]

    1. Hu, Anning. Accepted. “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Analysis for Social Scientists: A Review.” Social Science Research.
    2. Hu, Anning, Xiaogang Wu, Tao Chen, and Dongyu Li. accepted. “Family Socioeconomic Status and Chinese College Students' Premarital Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.” Population Research and Policy Review.
    3. Hu, Anning, Xiaogang Wu, Dongyu Li, and Tao Chen. 2022. “Cultural Reproduction and Cultural Mobility from a Comparative Perspective: Mechanism-based Elaboration and Decomposition.” Comparative Education Review 66(2): 253-279.
    4. Hu, Anning and Chen Yin. 2022. “A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance.” Journal of Chinese Political Science 27:77–103.
    5. Hu, Anning and Xiaogang Wu. 2021. “Cultural Capital and Elite University Attendance in China.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 42(8): 1265-1293.
    6. Hu, Anning, Xiaogang Wu, and Tao Chen. 2021. “Changing Subjective Wellbeing across the College Life:  Survey Evidence from China.” Chinese Sociological Review 53(4): 409-429.
    7. Hu, Anning and Chen Yin. 2021. “Kinship Ties to Government Staff and Local Political Trust: Evidence from Rural China.” Sociological Perspectives 64(6) 1122–1144.
    8. Li, Angran and Anning Hu. 2021. “Community Contexts, Socioeconomic Status, and Meritocratic Beliefs and Perceptions in China.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 7(3): 470-493.
    9. Hu, Anning and Chen Yin. 2021. “The Distinction between the Absolute and Relative Advantages of Cultural Capital: Different Conceptualizations, Different Consequences.” Sociology: The Journal of the British Sociological Association. 55(4) 803–822.
    10. Hu, Anning. 2021. “Outward Specific Trust in the Balancing of Hierarchical Government Trust: Evidence from Mainland China.” British Journal of Sociology 72(3): 774-792.
    11. Hu, Anning. 2021. Modeling the Influences of Social Mobility Net of Origin and Destination Based on the Front-Door Criterion: A Simulation Study. Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 17(2): 111–126.
    12. Hu, Anning and Dongyu Li. 2021. “Are Elders from Ancestor-Worshipping Families Better Supported? An Exploratory Study of Post-Reform China.” Population Research and Policy Review 40:  475–498.
    13. Hu, Anning and Chen Yin. 2020. “Schematic Categorization of Governments Moderates the Association between the Orientation toward Authority and Government Trust in China.” Poetics 82: 101478.
    14. Hu, Anning and Yihong Wang. 2020. “Multi-Track Pension System and Life Satisfaction of Urban Elders in China.” Ageing & Society 40(9): 1887-1905.
    15. Hu, Anning. 2020. “Specific Trust Matters: The Association between the Trustworthiness of Specific Partners and Subjective Wellbeing.” The Sociological Quarterly 61(3): 500-522.
    16. Hu, Anning, Grace Kao, and Xiaogang Wu. 2020. “Can Greater Reliance on Test Scores Ameliorate the Association between Family Background and Access to Post-Collegiate Education? Survey Evidence from the Beijing College Students Panel Survey.” Social Science Research 88-89: 102425.
    17. Hu, Anning and Xiaozhao Yousef Yang. 2019. “Is College Education an Equalizer for Social Disparities in Health Literacy? A Case Study in Shanghai, China.” Global Health Promotion 26(3): 62-70.
    18. Yang, Yousef Xiaozhao, Anning Hu, and Scott Schieman. 2019. “Relative Deprivation in Context: How Contextual Status Homogeneity Shapes the Relationship between Disadvantaged Social Status and Health.” Social Science Research 81:157-169.
    19. Hu, Anning and Xiaogang Wu. 2019. “Parental Education and College Students’ Attitudes toward Love: Survey Evidence from China.” Journal of Marriage and Family 81(3): 584-600.
    20. Hu, Anning, Xiujin, Guo, and Yihong Wang. 2019. “Educational Gradient of Health in Rural China.” Social Science Journal 56: 127–134.
    21. Hu, Anning and Feinian Chen. 2019. “Which Child Is Parents’ Preferred Caregiver/Listener in China?” Research on Aging 41(4): 390-414.
    22. Hu, Anning and Feinian Chen. 2019. “Allocation of Eldercare Responsibilities between Children and the Government in China: Does the Sense of Injustice Matter?” Population Research and Policy Review 38(1): 1-25.
    23. Hu, Anning and Xiaogang Wu. 2019. “Science or Liberal Arts? Family Background, Cultural Capital, and College Major Choice in China.” British Journal of Sociology 71(1): 190-213.
    24. Hu, Anning. 2018. “Evaluating Survey Items of Buddhism Religiosity in China.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 30(4): 675–691.
    25. Guo, Xiujin, Anning Hu, Jian, Dai, Dexu Chen, Wenhua Zou, and Yihong Wang. 2018. “Urban-Rural Disparity in the Satisfaction with Public Sports Services: Survey-Based Evidence in China.” Social Science Journal 55(4): 455-462.
    26. Bryant, Gregory A., Daniel M. T. Fessler, Riccardo Fusaroli, Edward Clint, Dorsa Amir, Brenda Chavez, Kaleda K. Denton, Cinthya Diaz, Lealaiauloto Togiaso Duran, Jana Fančovičová, Michal Fux, Erni Farida Ginting, Youssef Hasan, Anning Hu, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Tatsuya Kameda, Kiri Kuroda, Norman P. Li, Francesca R. Luberti, Raha Peyravi, Pavol Prokop, Katinka J. P. Quintelier, Hyun Jung Shin,Stefan Stieger, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Ellis A. van den Hende, Hugo Viciana-Asensio, Saliha Elif Yildizhan, Jose C. Yong, Tessa Yuditha, and Yi Zhou. 2018. “The Perception of Spontaneous and Volitional Laughter across 21 Societies.” Psychological Science 29(9): 1515-1525.
    27. Yang, Fenggang and Anning Hu. 2018. “Folk Religion in Contemporary China.” Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press.
    28. Hu, Anning. 2018. “Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Median-based Test for the Severity of the Non-Substantive Problem.”  Quality & Quantity 52(3): 969-982.
    29. Yang, Xiaozhao Yousef, Anning Hu, and Fenggang Yang. 2018. “Decomposing Immigrants' Religious Mobility: Structural Shifts and Inter-Religion Exchanges among Chinese Overseas Students.” Review of Religious Research 60(2): 183–198.
    30. Hu, Anning and Felicia, F. Tian. 2018. “Still Under the Ancestors' Shadow? Ancestor Worship and Family Formation in Contemporary China.” Demographic Research 38: 1-26.
    31. Hu, Anning, Xiaozhao Yousef Yang, and Weixiang, Luo. 2017. “Religious Identification, Marginalization, and Subjective Wellbeing: An Exploratory Case Study of Christianity in China.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(4):765-780.
    32. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Radius of Trust: Gradient-based Conceptualization and Measurement.” Social Science Research 68: 147-162.
    33. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Changing Perceived Importance of Religion in Mainland China, 1990 – 2012: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Social Science Research 66: 264-278.
    34. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Using a Discretized Measure of Academic Performance to Approximate Primary and Secondary Effects in Inequality of Educational Opportunity.” Quality & Quantity 51(4):1627-1643.
    35. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Providing More but Receiving Less: Daughters in Intergenerational Exchange in Mainland China.” Journal of Marriage and Family 79 (3): 739–757.
    36. Hu, Anning. 2017. “On the Relationship between Subjective Inequality and Generalized Trust.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 49: 11-19.
    37. Hu, Anning and Zhenchao Qian. 2016. “Does Higher Education Expansion Promote Educational Homogamy? Evidence from Married Couples of the Post-80s Generation in Shanghai, China.” Social Science Research 60: 148-162.
    38. Hu, Anning. 2016. “Two Approaches to Counterfactual Decomposition: Clarification and Illustration.” Social Currents 3(4): 403–419.
    39. Bryant, Gregory A., Daniel M. T. Fessler, Riccardo Fusaroli, Edward Clint, Lene Aarøe, Coren L. Apicella, Michael Bang Petersen, Shaneikiah T. Bickham, Alexander Bolyanatz, Brenda Chavez, Delphine De Smet, Cinthya Díaz, Jana Fančovičová, Michal Fux, Paulina Giraldo-Perez, Anning Hu, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Tatsuya Kameda, Norman P. Li, Francesca R. Luberti, Pavol Prokop, Katinka Quintelier, Brooke A. Scelza, Hyun Jung Shin, Montserrat Soler, Stefan Stieger, Wataru Toyokawa, Ellis A. van den Hende, Hugo Viciana-Asensio, Saliha Elif Yildizhan, Jose C. Yong, Tessa Yuditha, and Yi Zhou. 2016. “Detecting Affiliation in Co-Laughter across 24 Societies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(17): 4682–4687.
    40. Hu, Anning and Sarah Mustillo. 2016. “Recent Development of Propensity Score Methods in Observational Studies: Multi-Categorical Treatment, Causal Mediation, and Heterogeneity.” Current Sociology 64(1): 60 –82.
    41. Hu, Anning. 2016. “Ancestor Worship in Contemporary China: An Empirical Investigation.” China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China 16(1): 169-186.
    42. Hu, Anning. 2015. “Evaluating Educational Inequality within Educational Expansion: A Formal Comparison between Odds Ratio and the Educational Gini Coefficient.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology 39 (4): 280-303.
    43. Hu, Anning and Jacob Hibel. 2015. “Where Do STEM Majors Lose Their Advantage? Contextualizing Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education in Urban China.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 41: 66-78.
    44. Hu, Anning and Zhenchao Qian. 2015. “Educational Homogamy and Earnings Inequality of Married Couples: Urban China, 1988-2007.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 1-15.
    45. Hu, Anning. 2015. “Investigating the Connection between Science and This-Worldly Oriented Superstition:  A Research Note on the Case of School Adolescents in Urban China.” Review of Religious Research 57(4): 575-586.
    46. Hu, Anning and Nicholas Vargas.2015. “Economic Consequences of Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Evidence from Urban China.” Higher Education 70: 337-358.
    47. Hu, Anning and Jacob Hibel. 2015. “Increasing Heterogeneity in the Economic Returns to Higher Education in Urban China.” Social Science Journal 52: 322-330.
    48. Hu, Anning. 2015. “A Loosening Tray of Sand? Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Generalized Trust in Reform-Era China, 1990-2007.” Social Science Research 51: 233–246.
    49. Hu, Anning and Reid Leamaster. 2015. “Intergenerational Religious Mobility in Contemporary China.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(1):79–99.
    50. Hu, Anning. 2015. “The Changing Happiness-Enhancing Effect of a College Degree under Higher Education Expansion: Evidence from China.” Journal of Happiness Studies 16(3): 669-685.
    51. Hu, Anning. 2014. “Commentary: Reassessing Disparity in Access to Higher Education in Contemporary China.” The China Quarterly 220: 1123-1130.
    52. Hu, Anning and Fenggang Yang. 2014. “Trajectories of Folk Religion in Deregulated Taiwan: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Chinese Sociological Review 46(3): 80-100.
    53. Hu, Anning. 2014. “Gifts of Money and Gifts of Time: Folk Religion and Civic Involvement in a Chinese Society.” Review of Religious Research 56(2): 313-335.
    54. Leamaster, Reid and Anning Hu. 2014. “Popular Buddhists: Predicting Popular Religious Belief and Practice in Contemporary China.” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 75(2): 234-259.
    55. Hu, Anning and Jacob Hibel. 2014. “Changes in College Attainment and the Economic Returns to a College Degree in Urban China, 2003- 2010: Implications for Social Equality.” Social Science Research 44: 173–186.
    56. Hu, Anning. 2014. “The Health Benefits of College Education in Urban China: Selection Bias and Heterogeneity.” Social Indicators Research 115(3): 1101-1121.
    57. Zhou, Yi and Anning Hu. 2013. “The Radius of Generalized Trust in Contemporary China.” Chinese Sociological Review 46(2): 63-90.
    58. Hu, Anning and Jacob Hibel. 2013. “Educational Attainment and Self-Rated Health in Contemporary China: A Survey-based Study in 2010.” Social Science Journal 50 (4): 674–680.
    59. Hu, Anning. 2013. “Generalized Trust among Christians in Urban China: Analysis based on Propensity Score Matching.” Current Sociology 61(7): 1021-1039.
    60. Hu, Anning. 2013. “Public Sector Employment, Relative Deprivation and Happiness in Adult Urban Chinese Employees.” Health Promotion International 28 (3): 477-486.
    61. Hu, Anning. 2013. “Proliferation of Educational Credentials, Changing Economic Returns, and the Rising Occupational Education Requirement: Evidence in Urban China from 2003 to 2008.” International Sociology 28(4): 448- 466.
    62. Hu, Anning and Reid Leamaster. 2013. “Longitudinal Trends of Religious Groups in Deregulated Taiwan: 1990-2009.” The Sociological Quarterly 54 (2): 167–190.
    63. Yang, Fenggang and Anning Hu. 2012. “Mapping Folk Religion in China.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51 (3): 505–521.

     

    [On Peer-Reviewed Chinese Journals]

    1. Hu, Anning. Accepted. “Substantive Approval and Schematic Association: The Sociological Analysis of the Working Mechanism of Culture.” Academic Monthly (in Chinese).
    2. Hu, Anning. 2022. “On the "Self-Evidence" of Traditional Culture.”  Social Sciences (in Chinese)
    3. Hu, Anning. 2022. “The Transition of Traditional Culture in Contemporary China: A Sociological Investigation.” Fudan Academic Journal (Social Sciences) (in Chinese).
    4. Hu, Anning. 2022. “Text-based Social Science Research: From Content Analysis to Algorithm-based Modeling.” Academic Forum 1: 1-8 (in Chinese).
    5. Hu, Anning. 2022. “What Can "Thin" Political Culture Do? Analysis based on Cognitive Sociology.” Evaluation of Chinese Social Sciences 1: 87-96 (in Chinese).
    6. Hu, Anning, Tao Chen, and Dongyu Li. 2022. “From Quantitative Sociology to Computational Sociology: Traditional Approaches and Emerging Themes.” Xi’An Jiaotong University Journal (Social Sciences) 42(1): 17-24 (in Chinese).
    7. Hu, Anning. 2022. “Cultural Capital, How Culture and How Capital? Theoretical Clarification and Unsolved Questions.” Tsinghua Sociological Review 16: 103-117 (in Chinese).
    8. Li, Dongyu and Anning Hu. 2021. “How Education Promotes Generalized Trust: An Analysis Based on China Family Panel Studies.” Sociological Review of China 6: 137-155 (in Chinese).
    9. Hu, Anning, Xiaogang Wu, and Yunsong Chen. 2021. “Analysis of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect: New Opportunities and Challenges with Machine Learning Techniques.” Sociological Studies 1: 91-114 (in Chinese).
    10. Hu, Anning. 2021. “How Can the Cultural Turn in Sociology Avoid the Trap of Decorative Sociology?” Social Sciences 8: 3-10 (in Chinese).
    11. Hu, Anning, Dongyu Li, and Tao Chen. 2021. “Risk of Erroneous Judgement in the External Blind Review of Graduation Thesis.”  Fudan Education Forum 19(2): 70-77 (in Chinese).
    12. Chen Yunsong, Xiaogang Wu, Anning Hu, Guangye He, and Guodong Ju. 2020. “Social Prediction: A New Research Paradigm Based on Machine Learning.” Sociological Studies 3: 94-117 (in Chinese).
    13. Hu, Anning. 2020. “Cultural Heritage from the Sociological Perspective: The Practice-Cognition-Oriented Framework.” Social Science in China 5: 135-155 (in Chinese).
    14. Chen, Tao and Anning Hu. 2020. “Individualism or Familyism? Analysis of the Effect of Different Fertility Motivations on Fertility Behavior.” Jiangsu Social Sciences 2: 28-38 (in Chinese).
    15. Hu, Anning. 2019. “Using Subjective Variables to Explain Subjective Variables: A Methodological Note.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 39(3): 183-209 (in Chinese).
    16. Hu, Anning and Junqing Xing. 2019. Aging in Place, Community Aging, and Social Capital: An Analysis based on Shanghai Community Survey. Journal of Sociological Studies 2: 99-116 (in Chinese).
    17. Hu, Anning. 2018. “How Differential is the Differential Mode of Association? An Empirical Measure.” Social Sciences 1: 64-74 (in Chinese).
    18. Xing, Junqing and Anning Hu. 2018. “Familism, Legal Environment and Professional Manager.” Chinese Journal of Social Development 3: 121-140 (in Chinese).
    19. Li, Dongyu and Anning Hu. 2018. “Characteristics of Traditional Supernatural Culture: Analysis based on the Chinese General Social Survey.” The World Religious Cultures 4: 69-76 (in Chinese).
    20. Hu, Anning. 2017. “From Filial Idea to Filial Action: The Multiple Forms of Eldercare in an Era of Population Aging.” Social Sciences in China 3: 77-95 (in Chinese).
    21. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Cultural Capital in the Context of Chinese Society.” Social Sciences 1: 64-71(in Chinese).
    22. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Is Human Nature Computable? On the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Social Science Research.” South China Quarterly 7(4): 588-593 (in Chinese).
    23. Hu, Anning. 2017. “Model Uncertainties and the Propensity Score Method.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 1: 186-210 (in Chinese).
    24. Liu, Xin and Anning Hu. 2016. “The Sense of Income Fairness: A New-Institutionalism Sociological Explanation.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 36(3): 1-24 (in Chinese).
    25. Zhou, Yi and Anning Hu. 2014. “Capital with Belief: Charitable Donation of Wenzhou Private Business Owners.” Sociological Studies 1: 57-81 (in Chinese).
    26. Hu, Anning. 2014. “Can Education Make Us Healthier? An Urban-Rural Comparative Study based on CGSS 2010.” Social Sciences in China 5: 116-130 (in Chinese).
    27. Hu, Anning. 2014. “Social Participation, Types of Trust, and Subjective Wellbeing: Investigation based on CGSS 2005.” Social Sciences 404(4): 64-72 (in Chinese).
    28. Hu, Anning and Yi Zhou. 2013. “Cross-sectional Variations in the Mode of Generalized Trust and the Mediating Mechanism: A Research based on CGSS 2010.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 33 (4): 60-82 (in Chinese).
    29. Hu, Anning and Yi Zhou. 2013. “Revisiting the Negative Effects of Confucian Culture on Generalized Trust: A Study based on the 2007 Chinese Spiritual Life Survey.” Sociological Studies 2: 28-54 (in Chinese).
    30. Hu, Anning. 2012. “Propensity Score Matching and Causal Inference: A Methodological Review.” Sociological Studies 1: 221-242 (in Chinese).
    31. Hu, Anning. 2012. “The Sociological-Anthropological Studies of Folk Religion: Retrospect and Prospect.” China Agricultural University Journal of Social Sciences 29(1): 61-72 (in Chinese).
    32. Hu, Anning and Yihong Wang. 2007. “The Alienation of Social Work: Two Cases of Communal Social Work Stations in Shanghai.” Social Work 3: 21-24 (in Chinese).

     

    Book Chapters

    1. Li, Dongyu and Anning Hu. Accepted. “Folk Religion and Social Trust: Evidence based on the Representative Sample.” Sociology of Religion (Issue 7), edited by Jin Ze and Huawei Li.  Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).
    2. Hu, Anning. 2020. “Walking toward A Dynamic Model of Chinese Religions: Insights from Peter Berger’s The Many Alters of Modernity.” Sociology of Religion (Issue 6), edited by Jin Ze and Huawei Li.  Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).
    3. Hu, Anning. 2018. “Constructing a Learning-Oriented College: Problems and Solutions.” Pp. 95-104 in Studies and Practices of Learning-Oriented Organizations in Shanghai, edited by Jian Zhuang. Beijing: Science Press.
    4. Du, Man and Anning Hu. 2017. “Religious Belief, Class Structure, and the Perception of the Relationship with the Mainland in Taiwanese Society.” Sociology of Religion (Issue 4), edited by Jin Ze and Huawei Li.  Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).
    5. Hu, Anning. 2015. “The Typological Ideal Type of Religious Organizations and Its Sociological Implications.” Sociology of Religion (Issue 3), edited by Jin Ze and Huawei Li.  Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).

     

    Book Review

    1. Hu, Anning. 2019. “Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City” (By Benoit Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018). China Review International 24 (1): 53-56.
    2. Hu, Anning. 2012. “The Religious Question in Modern China” (By Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 73(2): 230-231.

     

  • Books

    1. Hu, Anning. 2020. Applied Statistical Causal Inference. Shanghai: Fudan University Press (in Chinese).

    2. Hu, Anning. 2015. The Theoretical Foundation of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).

    3. Hu, Anning. 2013. The Sociology of Religion: Paradigm Transition and the China Case. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).

     

  • Teaching

    Undergraduate Level

    • Introductory Sociology
    • Classic Sociological Theory
    • Social Research Method
    • Introductory Social Statistics
    • Statistical Software Application
    • Social Indicators & Program Evaluation
    • Field Research
    • Practicum of Development Studies
    • Seminar on Advanced Sociological Research
    • Introductory Chinese Religion
    • Chinese Society and Culture

    Graduate Level

    • Machine Learning for the Social Sciences
    • Statistical Causal Inference
    • Advanced Social Statistics
    • Intermediate Social Statistics
    • Event History Analysis
    • Seminar for Sociological Research
    • Academic English in Sociology
    • Sociology of Religion

  • Contact

    Mailing Address

    Fudan University,

    Department of Sociology,

    1118, Liberal Arts Building,

    220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China, 200433

    Email: huanning@fudan.edu.cn