Dr. Lanyan Chen

Authored Books

Chen, Lanyan, Gender and Chinese Development: Towards an Equitable Society. Routledge and the IAFFE, 2008, 196 pp.

Chen, Lanyan, Chen, Shumei and Wang, Xiangmei, Gender Statistics and China’s Harmonious Development (in Chinese). Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 2011, 160 pp.

Edited and Translated Books

Tan, Lin and Chen, Lanyan. Eds. Women in China since 1995: A Reader of Collection of Women’s Studies. Beijing: China Book Press, 2015, 398 pp.

Chen, Lanyan, trans. Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders by Naila Kabeer, in Chinese. Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 2011, 231 pp.

Journal Articles

Chen, Lanyan. “Customary Care and the Anishinabek Institute of Self-Governed Child and Family Services,” Family Sciences. 2026. 2(1). 9. Available at https://doi.org/10.3390/famsci2010009.

Chen, Lanyan. “Long-Term Care as a Social Responsibility without Financialization,” City Development: Issues and Best Practices. 2025. 1. Available at https://doi.org/10.18192/cdibp.v1i1.7592

Chen, Lanyan, Jennifer McCarthy, and Miao Chen. “The Canadian Strategy against Gender-Based Violence and Gaps.” Special Issue, The Social Politics of Gender-Based Violence: A Critical Canadian Health Perspective of the Journal of Societies, 2024. Available at by the link https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/X4P8P0YH12

Chen, Lanyan; Ren Yanan and Hao Yang. (invited) “Advancing Chinese Strategy against Domestic Violence through a National Policy Approach.” Journal of Socialist Studies.

Chen, Lanyan, Hao Yang and Ren Yanan. (under review). “An Approach to Care Needed in Chinese Strategy against Domestic Violence.” Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Gina Snooks, Nagy, Rosemary, Kathleen Joudin, Brenda Quenneville, Lanyan Chen, Sydnee Wiggins, Donna Debassige, and Rebecca Timms (2021) “Blending Feminist, Indigenous and Participatory Action Research Methodologies: Critical Reflections from the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking.” Feminist Formations.

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Brenda Quenneville, Lanyan Chen, Sydnee Wiggins, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Joudin, and Rebecca Timms. “Human Trafficking in Northeast Ontario: Collaborative Responses.” First Peoples Child & Family Review. 15(1). 2020: 80-104.

Chen, Lanyan. “Gender Statistics and Local Governance in China: State Feminist vs. Feminist Political Economy Approaches.” China Quarterly. March. 225 (2016): 190-213.

Chen, Lanyan. “Rural China’s Invisible Women: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Food Security,” Journal of Socialist Studies, Summer (2014).

Chen, Shumei, Chen, Lanyan and Wang, Xiangmei, Gender statistics and its use in the promotion of government service functions, Funu Yanjiu Luncong (Forum of Women’s Studies), Issue 5 (2012).

Chen, Lanyan, Gendering China’s Strategy against AIDS: Findings from a Research Project in Guangdong, Feminist Economics, 14 No. 4 (2008): 183-211.

Chen, Lanyan and Standing, Hilary, Gender Equity in Transitional China’s Healthcare Policy Reforms, Feminist Economics, 13 Nos. 3-4 (2007): 189-212.

Wang, Ying, Chen, Lanyan and Zhang, Hongman, Gender Analysis in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Prevention, Chinese Journal of AIDS and STD. Issue 3, 2004.

Chen, Lanyan, Women and Informal Work in China: Reflections on Two Poverty Alleviation Projects, Canadian Journal of Development Studies 21, No. 2 (2000): 233-253.

Chen, Lanyan, Expanding Women’s Cooperatives in China through Institutional Linkages, Development and Change 30, No. 4 (1999): 715-738.

Chapters in Edited Books

Chen, Lanyan. “Revisiting Self-Determination and Equality in the Chinese Socialist Feminist Pursuit.” In ed. Gordana Malešević, Challenges to Chinese Women in the Early 21st Century. World Scientific. November 2025. Available at https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/14359#t=aboutBook.

Chen, Lanyan. 2019. “Equality and the Chinese Pursuit of Socialist Feminism.” In En-Gendering Social Transformation in China: Gender Dynamics, Women’s Rights, and Feminist Activism, edited by Guoguang Wu, Yuan Feng and Helen Lansdowne. Routledge.

Chen, Lanyan. “From Chinese State Capitalism to Women’s Activism: The Implications of Economic Reforms for Women and the Evolution of Feminist Organizing.” In Oxford Handbook on Transnational Feminist Movements, edited by Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943494.001….

Chen, Lanyan, “Gendering China’s Strategy against HIV/AIDS: Findings from a research project Guangdong Province.” In Conrad, C.A. and Doss, C.R. eds. AIDS, Gender, and Economic Development. Routledge, 2012, pp. 183-212.

Chen, Lanyan, “Equity in Post-Crisis China: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective.” In Jain, Devaki and Diane Elson, eds. Interrogating and Rebuilding Progress through Feminist Knowledge. Ottawa: IDRC/Sage, 2011, pp. 249-266.

Chen, Lanyan. “The Gendered Reality of Migrant Workers in Globalizing China.” In Errol P. Mendes and Sakunthala Srighanthan, eds. Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. University of Ottawa Press, 2009, pp. 186-207.

Chen, Lanyan and Hilary Standing, “Zhongguo Yiliao Zhengce Gaigezhong de Shehui Xingbie Gongzheng (Gender Equity in China’s Healthcare Reform Policy).” In Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong and Gale Summerfield, eds. Zhongguo Jingji Zhuanxing yu Nuxing Jingjixue (China’s Transition and Feminist Economics). Beijing: Jingji Kexue Chubanshe (Economics and Sciences Press), 2009.

Chen, Lanyan, “Quanqiuhua Jinchengxia Zhongguo Nongmingong de Shehui Xingbie Xianzhuang (Gender and Chinese Migrant Workers in Globalization).” In the Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Research at the School of Law of Beijing

University, ed., Zhongguo Funu Quanli Zhuangkuang Kaocha (Appraising Chinese Women’s Rights), published by Beijing Daxue Faxueyuan Renquan yu Rendaofa Yanjiu Zhongxin (Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Research at the School of Law of Beijing University), 2009, pp. 19-50

Chen, Lanyan and Hilary Standing, “Gender Equity in Transitional China’s Healthcare Policy Reforms,” in Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong and Gale Summerfield (eds.) Gender, China and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics. Routledge, 2009.

Chen, Lanyan, “Human Dimensions in Asian Economies: Engendering the Philippine Budget,” in D. Colome, Y. Meguro and T. Yamamoto, eds., A Gender Agenda: Asia-Europe Dialogue. Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation and Japan Centre for International Exchange, 2001, pp. 53-74

Chen, Lanyan, “Women’s Cooperative Movement in China,” in Jin Yihong and Liu Bohong eds., Sociological Studies Series: Chinese Women and Development at the Turn Of the Millennium (in Chinese). Nanjing University Press. 2000.

Invited Conference Proceedings

“Gender Sensitization of Trade Policies: Research in China,” in UNCTAD, Selected Proceedings of the International Seminar on Moving Forward with Gender Sensitization of Trade Policy. New Delhi, 2009.

“Gender Equity in Trade and Globalizing China,” in Institute of Gender and Social Development, Selected Proceedings on International Feminist Exchange between Korean and Chinese Scholars (in Chinese). Tianjin. 2007.

“Women’s Entrepreneurship in 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities,” in Editorial Committee, Selected Proceedings of Shanghai Women’s Development Consultative Conference (in Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Committee on Women and Children, 2002.

Online Publications

Brunet-Bélanger, A., Litalien, M., Brown, N., Brouard, F., Chen, L., Atari, O. (2024). Establishing Diaspora in Diasporic Philanthropy, Research Note, Nipissing University and Philab, May 3, 21p. PDF https://carleton.ca/profbrouard/wp-content/uploads/ReportRNPhilab1Diasp…

Brunet-Bélanger, A. Litalien, M., Brouard, F., Brown, N., Chen, L., Atari, O. (2024). Cause and Emergence of Ethnic Philanthropy, Research Note, Nipissing University and Philab, May 3, 26p. PDF https://carleton.ca/profbrouard/wp-content/uploads/ReportRNPhilab2Diasp…

Brunet-Bélanger, A., Brown, N., Atari, O., Litalien, M., Brouard, F., Chen, L., Stol, J. (2024). Political Implications of Diasporic Philanthropy, Research Note, Nipissing University and Philab, May 3, 24p. PDF https://carleton.ca/profbrouard/wp-content/uploads/ReportRNPhilab3Diasp…

Lanyan Chen, “Self-Determination and Philanthropy’s Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Special Edition of Philanthropy, SDGs and COVID-19 of the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network. July 2020. Available at https://philab.uqam.ca/en/home-blog/self-determination-and-philanthropy….

Lanyan Chen, “Feminist Philanthropy in Support of Combating Human Trafficking.” PhiLab Blog: Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network. January 2020. Available at https://philab.uqam.ca/home-blog/feminist-philanthropy-in-support-of-co…

Lanyan Chen, Team Leader, “Final Evaluation Report of the UNFPA Country Programme Evaluation: China.” January 2015. Available at http://web2.unfpa.org/public/about/oversight/evaluations/documentList.u…

Lanyan Chen, “A gender equality strategy in promoting women’s voice in politics,” prepared as a discussion paper for the UNDP Asia-Pacific Human Development Report Network. 2009. Available at http://www.snap-undp.org/eLibrary/Publications/EdiscussionGender.pdf

Lanyan Chen, “Gender impacts of China’s Trade Intensification,” Prepared for the International Gender and Trade Network’s educational packet on Gender Dynamics in China Trade Intensification. 2007. Available at http://web.igtn.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1…

Invited Research Reports

Chen, Lanyan and Hao Yang, 2023. “Strengthening Multi-Sectoral Mechanisms for Coordinating Survivor-Centered Prevention and Responses to Gender-Based Violence and Domestic Violence in China,” submitted to United Nations Population Fund.

Chen, Lanyan, “Decolonizing/Indigenizing Child Welfare in Canada: The Anishinabek Nation Child Well-Being Law,” submitted to the Department of Social Development of the Union of Ontario Indians/Anishinabek Nation. 2019.

Chen, Lanyan, “A Communication strategy for the promotion of gender equality in HIV/AIDS prevention,” report submitted to the Centre for Disease Control in China under the support of the 5th round of the Global Fund on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. 2008.

Alexandra, Patricia and Chen, Lanyan, “Gender Statistics in MDGs Implementation in China,” Report Prepared for UNDP China, March 2007.

Chen, Lanyan, “Engendering the Chinese family planning policy is key to ‘population security’ free from sex selection,” Report prepared for UNFPA China, August 2004.

Chen, Lanyan, “Reforms of state-owned enterprises: Engendering policies on shareholding cooperatives in Shanghai” Report prepared for the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, 1997.

Chen, Lanyan, “Elements of Canadian cooperatives and their relevance to Chinese cooperative movements,” Gung Ho Newsletter (in Chinese), January 1997