Sining Wang is a full-time PhD student at HKU Sociology. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Sociology from Peking University.
Her research interests include political and cultural sociology, work and profession, science and knowledge, family and gender. Her enduring concern with marriage and family runs from her earliest publication, on bridewealth in rural China, to her subsequent research on the work–family relationship of female scholars. She has also examined scholars’ professional careers from a cultural sociological perspective. Her PhD project sits at the intersection of political sociology and the sociology of science and professions. It investigates the dynamic interplay between the state and the scientific field in China, with a particular focus on how the reforms of the science system over the past two decades have shaped scientists’ careers.
Master in Sociology
Peking UniversityBachelor in Sociology
Peking University“Thought and Society” Interdisplinary Program
Peking University
Political Sociology
Cultural Sociology
Work and Profession
Science, Technology and Knowledge
Gender and Family
Reforms of the scientific system in China
2023 Graduation with Honor: College Graduate Excellence Award of Beijing, The Education Department of Beijing.
2023 Excellent Graduates of PKU, Peking University
2022 Merit Student, Peking University
2021 Merit Student, Peking University
2020 Graduation with Honor: College Graduate Excellence Award of Beijing, The Education Department of Beijing.
2020 Excellent Graduates of PKU, Peking University
2019 Award for Contribution in Student Organizations, Peking University
2018 Award for Scientific Research, Peking University
2018 The First Prize in the 26th Challenge Cup Competition for Academic Works of Peking University
2017 Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Peking University
2017 Award for Moral Character, Peking University
Tian, Xiaoli, Sining Wang, and Longwen Fu. 2026. “Exclusive versus Integrative Professional Norms: A Comparative Study of Biomedical Attitudes toward Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland.” Social Science & Medicine 400:119201. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119201.
王思凝. 2025. 恩義與家國：建國一代女學者的工作家庭交融與職業成長（ “En-yi”, Family and Nation: Female Scholars’ Work-Family Interpenetration and Career Development in the New China Generation）. 社會學研究（Sociological Studies）.41(05):87-110
Wang, Sining, Yujing Jia, and Geng Tian. 2022. “Pricing the Bridewealth: On Moral Embedding in the Mechanism of Rural Betrothal Gifts Negotiation--Case Analysis Based on L County, Gansu Province.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 8(1):104-28. doi: 10.1177/2057150X211070961
王思凝，贾宇婧，田耕. 2020. “議彩禮”：試論農村彩禮形成機制中的道德嵌入性——基於甘肅L縣的案例分析（Pricing the bridewealth: on moral embedding in the mechanism of rural betrothal gifts negotiation—case analysis based on L County, Gansu Province）. 社會（Chinese Journal of Sociology）”40(01):1-24.