Deborah Davis is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University, where she served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for Study of Globalization, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies, and Co-Chair of the Women Faculty Forum. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and an honorary professor at Fudan. She previously served six terms as a Trustee of the Yale-China Association and chaired the Advisory Board of the Universities’ Service Center Library at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, she is on the editorial boards of China Review and the Chinese Sociological Review. Her most recent book, co-edited with Sara Friedman, is entitled Wives, Husbands and Lovers; a recent article related to tonight’s talk is “We Do: Parental Involvement in the Marriages of Urban Sons and Daughters,” in Chinese Families Upside Down, edited by Yunxiang Yan.