Selected Papers
This page is a miscellany of things that are scheduled for publication but not out yet; things that might get published someday; things that were once intended for publication but are probably too old an won't get revised sufficiently, and things that I don't know what will happen to. The are listed in approximate reverse chronological order, with the newest on top. They will be removed from this page if and when they get published, but I will try to provide links to electronic versions whenever possible. Please feel free to browse but
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Also, I'm creating a few links in the bibliographies to these papers. They are coming slowly, but you might want to look.
Currently available papers are
- Reading Threads: Clothing, Ethnicity, and Place in Southwest China. For the soon-to-be published catalogue of "Writing With Thread: Traditional Texiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities," edited by Tom Klobe. The figures accompanying the article can be found here.
- The Nuosu Yi of Liangshan, China Written with Bamo Qubumo as an encyclopedia article for The Berg International Encyclopedia of Dress and Fashion.
- From Labour to Capital: Intra-Village Inequality in Rural China, 1988-2006. Written with Zhou Yingying and Han Hua, showing how a shift in the basis of household income has led to greater household income inequalities in three villages in Panzhihua. To appear in China Quarterly 195, Fall 2008.
- School consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality vs. Equality Written with Christina Chan, about how improving quality of education creates problems with school access. To be published in Ann Maxwell Hill and Minglang Zhou, eds., Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.: A Dialogue on Inequality and Minority Education.
- Recent Chinese History in Ecosystem Perspective. Using ecology instead of politics to challenge the conventional narrative of recent Chinese history. Written for the Conference on New Paradigms in Chinese Studies, UC San Diego, April 2007. Hope to submit to a journal very soon.
- What Can the World Learn from Taiwan? Keynote address delivered to the annual conference of the North American Taiwan Scholars Association, Santa Cruz, 2006.
- Aesthetics and Politics in Taiwan's Aboriginal Contemporary Arts, written together with Lin Yu-shih, for the annual conference of the North American Taiwan Scholar Association, Santa Cruz, 2006. Includes pictures of some of the art discussed in the article.
- Fertility Decline in Rural China: Processes in Core an Periphery. Written with Wang Yuesheng, Han Hua, Zhou Yingying, and Gon¨alo Duro dos Santos. Compares rates and processes of fertility decline in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang; Cixian, Hebei, and Yingde, Guangdong. We hope submit it in July or August 2008.
- Orthodoxy, Resistance, and the Family in Chinese Art. To be published in Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds., The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture.
- A Family Tradition that Portrays Families in Paintings Without Painting any Family Pictures: The Nianhua of Mianzhu, Sichuan in Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds., The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture.
- Birthspacing and Early Stopping in Xiaoshan County, Zhejiang Province, China. Written with Han Hua and Darryl J. Holman, accepted pending revisions by Population and Development Review, but revisions never made. Someday?
- Legitimacy in the Eyes of the Few: The Contemporary Chinese State and its Minority Citizens
. A paper for a legitimation workship at Berkeley in May 2000.
- The Vocabulary of Anthropology in China: Programmatic and an example An analysis of the innovation in Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo.
- Yi Studies as a Social and Historical Field A First Step toward and "Autobiography" of a Little-Known Field..
- Patriliny, Patriarchy, Patrimony: Surface Features and Deep Structures in the Chinese Family System A review that tries to put the Chinese family system into comparative materialist perspective.
- The Yi and the Media A web-designed presentation.
- Nuosu Lacquerware: A Traditional Craft and its Recent TransformationsWhat happens to a folk art when the commodity economy happens.