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  1. Professions and capitalism

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Sida Liu

  2. The City and the North: Canada in the Chicago School of Sociology

    Article • The American Sociologist, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sida Liu

  3. About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Asia, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sida Liu

  4. Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility

    Article • The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  5. Crisis as opportunity: legal career paths at two historical turning points in Hong Kong

    Article • Law & Society Review, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  6. Sida Liu, Review of Weidong Ji. Towards the Rule of Law in China: Social Diversification and the Power System

    Article • International Journal of Constitutional Law, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  7. On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships

    Article • Symbolic Interaction, June 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  8. Review of “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession”

    Article • Social Forces, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  9. Social spaces: from Georg Simmel to Erving Goffman

    Article • The Journal of Chinese Sociology, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sida Liu

  10. Performing artivism: Feminists, lawyers, and online legal mobilization in China

    Article • July 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Sida Liu

  11. Book Review: Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation, and their Interactions

    Article • Social & Legal Studies, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  12. The Decline of Two Forces in Chinese Law and Governance

    Article • The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  13. Professional flows: Lateral moves of law firm partners in Hong Kong, 1994–2018

    Article • Journal of Professions and Organization, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  14. Doing Ethnography on Social Media: A Methodological Reflection on the Study of Online Groups in China

    Article • Qualitative Inquiry, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  15. Institutional proximity and judicial corruption: A spatial approach

    Article • Governance, May 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  16. Cage for the Birds: On the Social Transformation of Chinese Law, 1999–2019

    Article • China Law and Society Review, April 2021, Brill

    Prof. Sida Liu

  17. Book Review: The Construction of Guilt: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice

    Article • Social & Legal Studies, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  18. Inside the ‘Red Circle’: the production of China’s corporate legal elite

    Article • Journal of Professions and Organization, March 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  19. Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, February 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  20. Between social spaces

    Article • European Journal of Social Theory, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  21. The Ecology of Activism: Professional Mobilization as a Spatial Process

    Article • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, November 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  22. Ordering Power under the Party: A Relational Approach to Law and Politics in China

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  23. Book Discussion - Nick Cheesman, Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) pp 338. Hardcover: $67.00.

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  24. Presentation: Professions in the Twenty-First Century

    Article • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, August 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  25. Property Law and Property Rights in China - Shitong Qiao, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) pp 230. Hardcover: $110.00.

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, August 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  26. Boundaries and professions: Toward a processual theory of action

    Article • Journal of Professions and Organization, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  27. Overlapping Ecologies

    Article • Sociology of Development, September 2017, University of California Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  28. The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts

    Article • Law & Society Review, February 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  29. Discussion Law & Society Review at Fifty: A Debate on the Future of Publishing by the Law & Society Association

    Article • Law & Society Review, November 2016, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  30. The Ecology of Organizational Growth: Chinese Law Firms in the Age of Globalization

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, November 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  31. Mapping the Ecology of China’s Corporate Legal Sector: Globalization and Its Impact on Lawyers and Society

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  32. Field and Ecology

    Article • Sociological Theory, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  33. Criminal Defense in China

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  34. The Fall and Rise of Law and Social Science in China

    Article • Annual Review of Law and Social Science, November 2015, Annual Reviews

    Mr Zhizhou Wang, Prof. Sida Liu

  35. Boundary Work and Exchange: The Formation of a Professional Service Market

    Article • Symbolic Interaction, January 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  36. Law's Social Forms: A Powerless Approach to the Sociology of Law

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  37. Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence. By Rachel E. Stern Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013. 300 pp. $99 cloth.

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  38. Chinese criminal trials: a comprehensive empirical inquiry

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sida Liu

  39. Advocates, experts, and suspects: three images of lawyers in Chinese media reports

    Article • International Journal of the Legal Profession, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sida Liu

  40. The Trial of Li Zhuang: Chinese Lawyers’ Collective Action against Populism

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  41. The Shape of Chinese Law

    Article • Peking University Law Journal, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sida Liu

  42. Migration and Social Structure: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers

    Article • Law & Policy, January 2014, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  43. The Legal Profession as a Social Process: A Theory on Lawyers and Globalization

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  44. Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness: Understanding Politics in the Work of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  45. Lawyers, State Officials and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market

    Article • The China Quarterly, June 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  46. Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  47. The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia

    Article • Annual Review of Law and Social Science, December 2010, Annual Reviews

    Prof. Sida Liu

  48. Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China's Criminal Procedure Law

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  49. Globalization as Boundary-Blurring: International and Local Law Firms in China's Corporate Law Market

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2008, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  50. Dancing Handcuffed in the Minefield: Survival Strategies of Defense Lawyers in China's Criminal Justice System

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Sida Liu

  51. Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism: The Work of Elite Corporate Lawyers in China

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2006, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  52. Beyond Global Convergence: Conflicts of Legitimacy in a Chinese Lower Court

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, February 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu