佟新

Tong Xin is a scholar-author about whom limited public information is available, and whose writing is mainly directed toward sociology and gender studies. Four of her works are included in the collection: Population Sociology (Fourth Edition), Introduction to Gender Studies (Second Edition), The Collected Works of Yuan Fang, and the popular Peking University general-education course Gender Order in Intimate Relationships. These titles indicate a focus on population structure, gender theory, and the ordering of everyday intimate relationships, with an effort to bring academic issues into general-education classrooms. The revised editions of her textbook-style works suggest that the material has been used continuously in teaching, while The Collected Works of Yuan Fang shows her involvement in organizing scholarly literature. Overall, her writing combines the systematic quality of a textbook with the readability of a general-interest work, and is suitable for readers interested in sociology, gender studies, and population issues.