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An Interview with Chin-Chun Yi

For this issue of ISRB, we asked Professor Chin-Chun Yi, whose chief research interest is the sociology of the family, to share some of her thoughts about research and writing. Professor Yi studied in Taiwan, but did her graduate studies in the US. After completing a master’s thesis at the University of Wisconsin on the Chinese family and how its principles contribute to the formation of concepts that govern thinking and planning in Chinese society, Professor Yi went on to a doctorate in urban sociology at the University of Michigan. Returning to Taiwan, she became a researcher in the Academia Sinica. As research fellow, Professor Yi has had opportunities to plan and oversee large-scale research projects on the family, on issues affecting youth and urban problems. Her publications in English as well as in Chinese include over 50 articles in refereed journals, many chapters in books and seven edited volumes. Moreover, Professor Yi has also been active in practical political affairs. How she has managed to interweave these threads in her professional and in her personal life were the issues we discussed in a long telephone conversation at the end of January 2007. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman