Forthcoming

• Lichter, Daniel T. and Zhenchao Qian.  “Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course.” Journal of Marriage and Family
• Downey, Douglas T., James W. Ainsworth, and Zhenchao Qian. “Rethinking the Attitude/Achievement Paradox among Blacks.” Sociology of Education
• Qian, Zhenchao, Daniel T. Lichter, and Martha Crowley. “Chinese Children Among America’s Poor: Comparing Natives with Immigrants from Taiwan, Mainland China, and Hong Kong.” In The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies. Edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Wen Shan Yang. New York: Klewer/Plenum Publishers.

2007

• Qian, Zhenchao and Daniel T. Lichter. “Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation: Interpreting Trends in Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage.” American Sociological Review 72: 68-94.
• Jacobs, Dave, Zhenchao Qian, Jason Carmichael, and Stephanie Kent. “Who Survives on Death Row? An Individual and Contextual Analysis.” American Sociological Review 72: 610-32.
• Lichter, Daniel T., Brian J. Brown, Zhenchao Qian, and Julie H. Carmalt. “Marital Assimilation among Hispanics: Evidence of Declining Cultural and Economic Incorporation?” Social Science Quarterly 88: 745-65.
• Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Martha Crowley. “America’s Racial Minority and Immigrant Children: Changing Poverty and Inequality at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Pp. 119-143 in Handbook of Families and Poverty: Interdisciplinary Perspective. Edited by D. Russell Crane and Elaine S. Marshall. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Zhou, Min and Zhenchao Qian. “Social Support and Self-Reported Quality of Life: China’s Oldest Old.” Pp. 359-377 in Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic and Psychological Dimension. Edited by Zeng Yi, Dudley Posten, Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky, and Danan Gu. Dordrecht: Springer.

2006

• Batson, Christie D., Zhenchao Qian, and Daniel T. Lichter. “Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection Among America’s Diverse Black Populations.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 658-672.
• Crowley, Martha L., Daniel T. Lichter, and Zhenchao Qian. “Beyond Gateway Cities: Economic Restructuring and Changing Poverty among Mexican Immigrants.” Family Relations 55: 345-360.
• Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Leanna M. Mellott. 2006. “Marriage or Dissolution?  Union Transitions among Poor Cohabiting Women.” Demography 43: 223-240.

2005

• Qian, Zhenchao, Daniel T. Lichter, and Leanna Mellott. “Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects, and Mate Selection.” Social Forces 84: 473-491.
• Qian, Zhenchao. “Breaking the Racial Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America.” Contexts 4(4): 33-37.
• Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Martha L. Crowley. “Child Poverty among Racial Minorities and Immigrants:  Explaining Trends and Differentials.” Social Science Quarterly 86: 1037-1059.

2004

• Lichter, Daniel T. and Zhenchao Qian. Marriage and Family in a Multicultural Society. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau.
• Qian, Zhenchao. “Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 746-766.
• Qian, Zhenchao and Jose A. Cobas. “Latinos’ Mate Selection: National Origin, Racial, and Nativity Differences.” Social Science Research 33: 225-247.
• Merli, M. Giovanna, Zhenchao Qian, and Herbert L. Smith. “Adaptation of a Political Bureaucracy to Economic and Institutional Change under Socialism: The Chinese State Family Planning System.” Politics and Society 31: 231-256.
• Qian, Zhenchao. Book Review of Techniques of Event History Modeling: New Approaches to Causal Analysis, 2d edition, by Blossfeld, Hans-Peter and Gotz Rohwer (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002). Sociological Methods and Research 32: 419-422.
• Qian, Zhenchao. Book Review of Who Is White? Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide, by George Yancey (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003). Contemporary Sociology.

2003

• Sassler, Sharon and Zhenchao Qian. “Marital Timing and Marital Assimilation: Variation and Change among European Americans between 1910 and 1980.” Historical Methods 36: 131-148.

2002

• Qian, Zhenchao. “Race and Social Distance: Intermarriage with Non-Latino Whites.” Race and Society 5: 33-47.

2001

• Qian, Zhenchao and Daniel T. Lichter. “Measuring Marital Assimilation: Intermarriage Among Natives and Immigrants.” Social Science Research 30: 289-312.
• Qian, Zhenchao, Sampson Lee Blair, and Stacey Ruf. “Asian American Interracial and Interethnic Marriages: Differences by Education and Nativity.” International Migration Review 32: 557-586.
• Nagasawa, Richard, Zhenchao Qian, and Pual Wong. “Theory of Segmented Assimilation and the Adoption of Adolescent Normative Behavior by Asian Pacific Youth.” The Sociological Quarterly 42: 351-372.

2000

• Nagasawa, Nagasawa, Zhenchao Qian, and Paul Wong. "Social Control Theory as a Theory of Conformity:  The Case of Asian/Pacific Drug and Alcohol Nonuse." Sociological Perspectives 43: 581-603.
• Balcazar, Hector and Zhenchao Qian. 2000. “Immigrant Families and Sources of Stress.” Pp. 359-377 in Families and Change: Coping with Stressful Life Events and Transitions (Second Edition). Edited by Patrick C. McKenry and Sharon J. Price. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

1999

• Qian, Zhenchao. 1999.  “Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990.”  Journal of Comparative Family Studies 30(4): 579-597.
• Qian, Zhenchao and Sampson Lee Blair. 1999. “Racial Differences in Educational Aspirations of High School Seniors.” Sociological Perspectives 42(4): 605-625.
• Blair, Sampson Lee and Zhenchao Qian. 1999. “Parents, Peers, and Adolescents’ Marital Aspirations: Ethnicity-Based Distinctions.” Pp 237-252 in Till Death Do Us Part: A Multi-Cultural Anthology on Marriage. Edited by R. Robin Miller. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

1998

• Qian, Zhenchao. 1998. “Changes in Assortative Mating: the Impact of Age and Education, 1970-1990.” Demography 35: 279-292. 
• Blair, Sampson Lee and Zhenchao Qian. 1998.  “Family and Asian Students’ Educational Performance: A Consideration of Diversity.” Journal of Family Issues 19: 355-374.

1997

• Qian, Zhenchao.  1997.  “Breaking the Racial Barriers: Variations in Interracial Marriage between 1980 and 1990.” Demography 34: 263-276.
• Qian, Zhenchao.  1997.  “Progression to Second Birth in China: A Study of Four Rural Counties.” Population  Studies 51: 221-228.
• Victor Agajhanian and Zhenchao Qian. 1997. “Ethnocultural Identity and Induced Abortion in Kazakstan.” Studies in Family Planning 28: 317-329.
• Jacobs, Jerry A. and Zhenchao Qian.  1997.  “The Mobility Patterns of Part-Time Workers.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 15: 9-56.

• Dendrinos, Dimitrios S., Jian Zhang and Zhenchao Qian.  1994.  “Topography and Spatial Population Dualism in the People’s Republic of China (1933-1990).” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 6: 78-99.
• Qian, Zhenchao and Samuel Preston. 1993. "Changes in American Marriage, 1972 to 1987: Availability and Forces of Attraction by Age and Education." American Sociological Review 58:482-495.
• Dankert, Garbriele, Zhenchao Qian and Xu Gang. 1991. "Residential and Demographic Aspects of Changing Household Structures in Rural and Urban China." in Perspectives on Population and Development in Third World Countries Selected Studies by Scholars in the Netherlands.
• Dankert, Garbriele, Hilary Page, Zhenchao Qian and Yang Rizhang. 1990. "Infant-Feeding Practices in Hebei, Shaanxi and Shanghai: Is Breastfeeding Declining or Is It Increasing?" pp. 365-403 in Proceedings of the International Seminar on China's In-Depth Fertility Survey (February 1990, Beijing).