BOOKS

• Kong, P, Hannum, E, & Postiglione, G. (2020). Rural Education in China’s Social Transition. Abington, Routledge, Studies in Chinese Education and Society Series.
• Kong, P. (2016). Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in China: Cultivating Dragons and Phoenixes Abington, Routledge, Contemporary Asian Studies Series.

ARTICLES

• Zhang, X., Sachdev, A., Dzotsenidze, A., Yu, X. and Kong, P. (2023). Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19: Emotional Challenges, Coping, and Implications for Asian American History Teaching. Education Sciences. 13, 903. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13090903
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Yu, X.,& Sachdev, A. (2023). Learning the Rules: Chinese Immigrant Parent’s Involvement During Their Children’s Transition to Kindergarten. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-023-01452-4
• Zhang, X., & Kong, P. A. (2023). Immigrant Chinese Parents in New York Chinatowns: Acculturation gap and psychological adjustment. Asian American Journal of Psychology 14 (2), 145-154. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000280
• Sawyer, B.E., Dever, B.V., Kong, P. Sonnenschein, S., Simons, C., Yu, X., Zhang, X., & Cai, Y. (2022). Dominican, Salvadoran, and Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Reasoning About School Readiness Skills. Child & Youth Care Forum 51(1), p.137-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-021-09623-3
• Simons, C., Sonnenschein, S., Sawyer, B., Kong, P., & Brock, A. (2022). School Readiness Beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran Immigrant Parents. Early Education and Development 33(2), p. 268-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2021.1930747
• Zhang X, Kong PA. (2021). Rural Chinese Youth During the Transition into Adulthood: Family Dynamics and Psychological Adjustment. International Journal of Psychology 56(5):756-765. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12749
• Kong, P., Yu, X., Sachdev, A., Zhang, X., & Dzotsenidze, N. (2021). From “How are you doing?” to “Have you eaten?”: Understanding the Daily Lived Experiences of Asians in America During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Perspectives in Education, 39(1), 77-105. https://doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i1.6.
• Kong, P. and Yu, X. (2019). Bilingual Education for a Harmonious Multiculturalism: The Importance of Policy Discourse for Ethnic Minority Students in China. Multicultural Education Review 11:3, 189-215.
• Yu, X., Pendse, A., Slifko, S. E., Inman, A. G., Kong, P., & Knettel, B. A. (2019). Healthy People, Healthy Community: Evaluation of a Community-Based Train-the-Trainer Program on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) in southeast Haiti. Health Education Journal.
• Kong, P. and Zhang, Y. (2018). Examining Rural Family Educational Attitudes and Behaviors: Will She Belong to Another Family Anyway?. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 28:2.
• Sperandio, J. and Kong, P. (2016) Forging Professional Learning Communities of Learners: The Role of External Agency. International Journal of Leadership in Education 21:1, 80-94.
• Sargent, T., Kong, P., & Zhang, Y. (2014). Home environment and educational transitions on the path to college in rural Northwest China. International Journal of Educational Development 34, 98-109.
• Kong, P. (2010). “To walk out”: Rural Parents’ Views on Education. China: An International Journal 8:2, 360-373. Hannum, E., Kong, P., and Zhang, Y. (2009). Family Sources of Educational Gender Inequality in Rural China: A critical assessment. International Journal of Educational Development 29, 474-486.

CHAPTERS

• Kong, P., Budhai, S., Zhang, X., Sachdev, A., Yu, X, & Dzotsendze, N. (2023). Illuminating the Immigrant Bargain: Multilingual Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families Cultivating Leadership Capabilities and Challenging Systematic Barriers in Lee, V. J., & Lewis-Grant, K. (Eds.). Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships. Lexington Publishers.
• Sonnenschein, S., Sawyer, B. & Kong, P. (2023). School Readiness of Latinx Children: Building on the Strengths of the Home Learning Environment in Sarach, O. (Ed.). Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education. Information Age Publishing Inc.
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Sachdev, A., Dzotsendze, N, & Yu, X. (2021). Parental Racial Socialization and Multicultural Education in the Context of Current Xenophobia and Migration in Gordon, R., Ahmed, K., & Hosoda, M. (Eds.). Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms. Hershey, Information Science Reference.
• Kong, P, Hannum, E, & Postiglione, G. (2020). Rural Education in the 21st Century in Rural Education in China’s Social Transition. Abington, Routledge, Studies in Chinese Education and Society Series.
• Kong, P. (2020). Educational Differences in Parental Support for Children’s Schooling in Rural Education in China’s Social Transition. Abington, Routledge, Studies in Chinese Education and Society Series.
• Zhang, Y. & Kong, P. (2020). Family and School Influence on Educational Engagement in Rural Gansu, China in Rural Education in China’s Social Transition. Abington, Routledge, Studies in Chinese Education and Society Series.
• Cherng, S., Hannum, E., Lu, C., Kong, P. and +Yu, X. (2019). China: Sociological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Education: Views from Chinese and English Literatures, Palgrave Handbook on Race and Ethnic Inequalities. Eds. Stevens, P. & Dworkin, A.G. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
• Kong, P., Yu, X., and Zhao, X. (2017). Private Tutoring in China, A Handbook of Chinese Education. Eds. Morgan, W.J. Gu, Q. and F. Li. Edward Elgar Books, Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA, USA.

PRESENTATIONS

• Zhang, X., Sachdev, A., Dzotsenidze, A., Yu, X. and Kong, P (2024). Combating Anti-Asian Racism: The Role of Teaching AAPI History. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the West Regional Comparative and International Education Conference Society, Monterey, California.
• Sachdev, A., Zhang, X., Kong, P. Chinese Immigrant Parents and Their Children's Transition to Kindergarten, Anu Sachdev (Read by Peggy Kong) Paper to be presented at the annual Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies.
• Zhang, X., Kong, P. (2023, September). Chinese immigrant parents in the United States: Acculturation, Emotional Well-Being, and Educational Involvement. Paper to be presented at the annual Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies.
• Yu, Y., Sawyer, B., & Kong, P. (2023, May). Parental Social Capital, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Educational Achievement of Elementary School Students. Poster presented at the virtual annual meeting of the American Education Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Yu, X., & Sachdev, A. (2023, April). Learning the rules: Immigrant Chinese Parental Involvement during their Child’s Transition to Kindergarten. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
• Zhang, X., Kong, P. & Chen C. (2023, April). Acculturation and Educational Involvement among Chinese Immigrant Parents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Well-being. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
• Nissing, A. & Kong, P. (2023, April). Community College English for Academic Purposes: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Student Experience. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Sachdev, A , Dzotsenidze, N., & Yu, X. (2023, March). Parental Racial Socialization in Asian and Asian American Families. Flash talk paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development. Salt Lake City, UT.
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Yu, X., & Wyman, D. (2023, February). Adolescent Romance in Rural China: Interactions Between Gender and Parenting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC.
• Kong, P., Zhang, X., Sachdev, A , Dzotsenidze, N., & Yu, X. (2023, February). Parental Racial Socialization in Asian and Asian American Families. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC.

• Comparative and International Education
• Equity in Education
• Family and Community
• Chinese Education and Society
• Sociology of Education

• Drexel University (2021-present)
  Associate Clinical Professor
• Drexel University (2020-2021)
  Visiting Scholar
• Lehigh University (2011-2020)
  Assistant Professor
• University of Hong Kong (2009-2011)
  Assistant Professor
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (2008-2009)
  Visiting Professor

Peggy A. Kong, EdD is a clinical associate professor of education at Drexel University. Her research interests focus on family and school relationships in rural China and with immigrant families in the United States. Her recent work is focused on immigrant families and early childhood and the lives of Asians/Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the author of Parenting, education, and social mobility in China: Cultivating dragons and phoenixes, co-editor of Rural education in China’s social transition (with Emily Hannum and Gerard Postiglione), and author of numerous journal articles and chapters. She serves on the editorial board of Cogent Education, Frontiers in Education, and Chinese Education and Society. Currently, she serves on the CIES Publications committee and as vice-chair of the East Asia SIG and is Webmaster for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies.