2011,Yan, Shengming & Songguo Yi, "Death and suicidal ideation among community-dwelling older adults in a Chinese city". Paper presented at the 26th World Congress on suicide prevention of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP), Beijing, China, September 13-17;

2011, Yan, Shengming, Jie Zhang & Lin Zhao, "Suicide in A Dream of Red Mansions: A perspective of the strain theory of suicide". Paper presented at the 26th World Congress on suicide prevention of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP), Beijing, China, September 13-17;

2004, Yan, Shengming, Paul Yip, Yeates Conwell, & C Iirs Chi, "Suicidal ideation among older adults in Hong Kong". Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS)—Working Together to Save Lives, Miami, Florida, the United States, April 14-17;

2001, Yan, Shengming, "Living arrangement and Parent-Child Interactions in urban China". Paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology—Global Aging: Working Together in a Changing World, Vancouver, Canada, July 1-6;

2001, Yan, Shengming. "The influence of urban growth on community care in newly urbanized areas in Mainland China". Paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology—Global Aging: Working Together in a Changing World, Vancouver, Canada, July 1-6;

1999, Yan, Shengming, "Family network and family support in a new urban area of Beijing Municipality". Paper presented at the 6th Asia/Oceania Regional Congress of Gerontology, Seoul, South Korea;

1996, Yan, Shengming, "A preliminary exploration on the difference between children who exchange assistance with parents under coresidential and non-coresidential living arrangements in Baoding City". Paper presented at the Conference on Continuity and Change in the Urban Chinese Family, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States.