My scholarly interests are focused on issues of global citizenship, elite education, international migration and contemporary Chinese societies.
My book project, “Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle Class Families ‘Outsource’ Secondary Education to the United States,” investigates why and how Chinese upper-middle-class families made educational decisions to send their children as young as fourteen to the United States for private high schools. It also documents and analyzes the actual lived experiences of the students who come alone to the United States.
Books:
Tu, Siqi. (Under Contract, Columbia University Press). Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle–Class Families “Outsource” Secondary Education to the United States.
Atterberry, Adrienne Lee, Derrace Garfield McCallum, Siqi Tu, and Amy Lutz. 2022. (Guest editors; Emerald Group Publishing). Children and Youths’ Transnational Mobility in an Ever- Changing Global Landscape. (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Vol: 29.)
Recent publication:
Tu, Siqi. 2024. “‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States.” Global Networks, e12492. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12492.
Tu, Siqi. 2023.“Emotional Dimensions of Transnational Education: Parent-Child Relationships of Chinese ‘Parachute Generation’ in the United States.” In The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies: Generations between Local and Global Dynamics, edited by Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiaorong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, and Elena Kim,43–60. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Tu, Siqi and Amy Lutz. 2022. “Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape: Lessons Learned and Future Directions.” In Children and Youths’ Transnational Mobility in an Ever-Changing Global Landscape (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Vol: 29), edited by Adrienne Lee Atterberry, Derrace Garfield McCallum, Siqi Tu, and Amy Lutz, 185-191. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Tu,Siqi. 2021. “In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers.” Current Sociology.
Elliott-Negri, Luke, Siqi Tu, Wenjuan Zheng, and Mary Clare Lennon. 2021. “Hope, Emotional Charges, and Online Action: An Experimental Study of the DREAM Act.”, Social Problems.
Tu, Siqi. 2018. “Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor Exemplifies the Opportunities and Risks of State-Driven Cultural Development”, Metropolitics, 8 May.