EDUCATION

	PhD, 2009 Anthropology, Rutgers University
	Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2000 Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
	MA, 2000 Anthropology, Rutgers University
	BS, 1993 Psychology, National Taiwan University

 

AREAS OF INTERESTS

	Anthropology of China/ Chinese Society and Culture
	Globalization and Transnationalism
	Gender Studies
	Urban Studies
	Labor Migration
	Consumption and Identity
	Ethnicity/ Multiculturalism
	Mass Media and Culture

　

SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 – 2004 Academia Sinica, Taiwan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2001 – 2002 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, USA

　

Predoctoral Research Grant, 2000 – 2001 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., USA Dissertation Research Award, 1999 – 2001 Cultural Anthropology ProgramNational Science Foundation, USA

 

　

EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience:

Instructor, August 2010 – present
Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
　

Courses taught/ will teach: Fall 2010: ANTH 5670: Gender and Culture (Anthropology and Gender Studies MA course) ANTH 5215: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations and Identities (Anthropology MA Course) Spring 2011: ANTH 2410/ UGA 2180: Chinese Culture and Society (Anthropology major and University General Education course) ANTH 5020: Anthropological Field Methods (Anthropology MA course)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, August 2009 – May 2010
Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
　

Courses taught: Fall 2009: ANT 5670: Gender and Culture (Anthropology and Gender Studies MA course) GES 2140: Media, Culture and Society (Shaw College General Education course) Spring 2010: ANT2410/ UGA 2180: Chinese Culture and Society (Anthropology major and University General Education course) GEN 2192: Women, Men and Culture (New Asia College General Education course)

　

Research Experience:

Field Researcher, October 2008
Focused on the impacts of the 2008 Olympics on Beijing & on changing life of domestic migrant laborers in Beijing

Field Researcher, March 2000 – June 2001
Ethnographic field research for dissertation project: “Transnational Media Technologies and the Making of Identities in Post-socialist China”

Focused on transnational cultural flows, mass media, consumption, the use of media technologies, labor migration from rural to urban places and cultural changes Focused on migrant laborers in cities, Chinese business professionals working in transnational companies, and working class native Beijinger families Short-term research in a rural village in north Shaanxi province, May 2000 Short-term research in Chang’an, a newly industrialized county of Guangdong province, June 2000 Short-term research in Xijiang, a Miao village of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, October 2000

Part-time Field Researcher, October 2000
Multi-sited research project of Context-based Research Group, USA
Project title: "Wireless Opportunities: A Global Ethnographic Study”

Field Researcher, June – July 1997
Pilot study to explore dissertation possibility conducted in four cities: Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, and Kunming, China

Research Assistant, August 1993 – July 1994
Department of Psychiatry
Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Participated in research projects on alcoholism, depression, suicide, and stress coping. Developed, revised, and conducted psychological tests and questionnaires Conducted semi-structured interviews

Research Assistant and Trainee, August 1993
Research Center of Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Trained for psychological and psychiatric research projects in Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan

  

Administrative Experience:

Administrative and Teaching Assistant, August 1994 – July 1995
Department of Psychology
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

　

WORKS AND PRESENTATIONS

Dissertation:

“Capital Dreams: Global Consumption, Urban Imagination and Labor Migration in Late Socialist Beijing,”
Department of Anthropology, Graduate School-New Brunswick
Rutgers University

 

Papers in Progress:

“Late Socialist Consumers of ‘Contact Zones’ in Beijing,” a working paper.
“Peasants in the City: Migrant laborers as cultural and social mediators in Chinese cities,” a working paper.

  

Invited Talks and Presentations:

“Gender and Chinese Society”
Presentation giving for Assembly Meeting of Sun Fong Chung College, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong, December 17, 2010

“Family Dreams and the Reproduction of Urban-Rural Division: Family House Building by Migrant Laborers in Beijing”
Presentation given for Friday Seminar Series of Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, October 23, 2009

“Migrant Laborers in Beijing: Social Divisions in Late Socialist China Past and Present”
Presentation given for the Hong Kong Anthropological Society at the Hong Kong Museum of History, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, October 14, 2009

Anthropology and Culture: “The Forbidden City and Sanlitun: Leisure Life and ‘the Ordinary Beijingers’”
Presentation given at the Summer Workshop on Culture, Cognition and Emotion, Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2002

“Watching MTV: Local Recontextualization of Global Culture,”
Invited lecture delivered to the class of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, November 1996

“Global Culture: Examining Three Music Television Channels in Taiwan,”
Invited lecture delivered to the class of Anthropology of Modern Problems: Cultural Politics, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, April 1996

 

Conference Presentations:

“An urban family “united” and a migrant family “divided:” rethinking family, property, and urban development in Beijing”
Paper delivering to the Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2010

“Family Dreams and National Aspirations: Family House Building by Migrant Laborers in Beijing and China’s Urbanization and Economic Restructuring”
Paper delivered to the Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2009

“The Beijing Central Business District: A ‘Contact Zone’ for Business Professionals and Migrant Laborers in late Socialist China”
Paper delivered to the Annual Conference of Society for East Asian Anthropology, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2009

“Ruoshi Qunti (Disadvantaged Groups): the Negotiation of the Subject Position of Migrant Laborers in Post-socialist China”
Paper delivered to the Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, Chicago, USA, November 2003

“The Forbidden City and Sanlitun: Leisure Life and ‘the Ordinary Beijingers’”
Paper delivered to the Third Taiwanese Anthropological Graduate Student Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2002

“Emerging from Beijing: Transnational Professionals and Local Communities”
Paper delivered to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., USA, April 2002

“Luo Dayou Is Our Youth: The Making of Yuppies (Young Urban Professional) in Beijing”
Paper delivered to the Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2000

“Watching MTV: Transnational Culture and Identity Formation in Taiwan,”
Paper delivered to the Second Year Graduate Student Conference, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, October 1996

“Is the Lack of Undesirable Stress a Valid Criterion for Melancholia,” Co-authored with Huei-chen Ko, Su-chen Li, and Ru-band Lu
Paper delivered to the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Psychiatry Association, Taiwan, 1994

 

Other Articles:

SEAA Conference Report. In Anthropology News. Pp. 62 (Section News), Vol. 50: American Anthropological Association. Co-authored with Matthew West. October, 2009.

　

　

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

	American Anthropological Association
	Association for Asian Studies
	Hong Kong Anthropological Society

 

LANGUAGE

	Chinese –
	Mandarin (Putonghua) – Fluent
	Taiwanese – Proficient
	Cantonese – Beginner
	English – Fluent