The Hub's Dr. Xiaorong Gu's project Parenting Special Needs Children in China, based on 110 family stories shared on social media, has generated two papers exploring mothering and fathering practices respectively in 
families with children with ASD. 

These papers jointly reveal how the family institution stretches itself to support children with special needs in the context of fragmented and limited public provision of care. 

Below is the detailed information of the papers, both Open Access.

Gu, X. (2026). “A mother has to be strong!”: Narrating “strong motherhood” in China’s online autism community. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/2057150X261496980

Xue, K., & Gu, X. (2026). Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China. Current Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921261426573