Chengshu Xu

Chengshu Xu is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions. She received her Ph.D. in Rural Education from Northeast Normal University in 2021 and is now a lecturer at China Institute of Rural Education Development and Faculty of Education at Northeast Normal University. Her research interests are in the fields of educational development of the rural children and rural education policy. Her recent work studies the life course of rural left-behind children, focusing on how positive factors support their personal growth and educational development.