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Zhenchao Qian is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. His research explores partner availabilities, assortative mating, patterns and trends of marital and cohabiting unions, with a focus on gender, race, social class, and nativity differences and health and well-being.

This seminar is based on his research on Interethnic and Interracial Marriage in Asian Americans. Who do they marry—within national origins, across Asian ethnic groups, or across racial lines? His research used the American Community Survey (2008-2023), to apply log-linear and conditional logit models to examine ethnic and racial assortative mating among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian, Filipino, and South Asian Americans, considering national origin, multiethnic/racial identification, education, nativity, and union history. Results show that interethnic marriage is more common than interracial marriage, revealing a hierarchy of social boundaries in which ethnic boundaries—often highly rigid in Asian societies—are more permeable than racial ones. These patterns highlight how intimate partnerships reproduce and negotiate social hierarchies in Asian America.

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