Danning Wang

Education:

“Urban China: Real Estate Management.” Encyclopedia of Modern China. David Pong, ed. Farmington Hill, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Forthcoming 2009.

“Urban China: Development Zone.” Encyclopedia of Modern China. David Pong, ed. Farmington Hill, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Forthcoming 2009.

 “Urban Fertility Decline of the 1960s and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life” in The Handbook on Families in Chinese Societies,  Chan Kwok-bun and Odalia Wong, eds. Hong Kong Baptist University. Forthcoming.

Book review. Biao Xiang, Transcending Boundaries – Zhejiangcun: The Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing. Asian Anthropology. Vol. 7 (2008), pp. 138-142.

“天津, 还有一个天后宫…” 明报, “世纪 人文 关怀 视野版”, April 28, 2008.

Monica Das Gupta, Sunhwa Lee, Patricia Uberoi, Danning Wang, Lihong Wang, and Xiaodan Zhang (2004), “State Policies and Women’s Agency in China, the Republic of Korea and India 1950-2000 Lessons from Contrasting Experiences,” in Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (eds.) Cultural and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.

M.D. Gupta, S. Lee, P. Uberoi, D. Wang, J. Wang, and X. Zhang (1999), “State Policy and Women’s Autonomy in China, South Korea, and Northern India, 1950-1999: Lessons from Contrasting Experiences” research working paper for the Gender Policy Research Report, the World Bank, June, 1999.

2007-08 Direct Grant for Research , First Round, CUHK

1997 David Spitz Dissertation Year Fellowship, CUNY, GC

1996 Fellowship for Dissertation Research, the Population Council

1995 Graduate Assistant Scholarship, CUNY, GC 

1994 Tuition Fellowship, CUNY, GC

1991 Tuition Fellowship, CUNY GC

1991-94 Developing Country Fellowship, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

“The Politics of Family Property: Filial Piety, Individual Rights, and the Socialist Experience in Tianjin, China.” Panel: Globalizing China in Anthropological Perspective: Institutional Structures and Challenges. Globalization: Cultures, Institutions, and Socioeconomics. Dec. 12-14, 2008. CUHK and Washington University in St. Louis.

“Waiting: Collective Attachment in a Bubbled Real Estate Market.” Panel: Common Work and Collective Emotions. 107th AAA Annual Meeting. Nov. 19-23, 2008. San Francisco, USA.

“个案研究: 美东地区华夏中文学校文化建构与族群认同.” 第七届人类学高级论坛. 贵州民族学院. Oct. 20, 2008.

“Neo-Marxism, Neo-Liberalism, and the (De)Urbanization of Mainland China in the 1960s,” will be presented at the panel for Local Communities and State, CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies, CUHK, April 2008.

“The Gender Perspective of  the Urban Fertility Transition among the Working Class Population in the 1960s,” was presented at the Hong Kong Anthropological Society, The Hong Kong Museum of History, October 26, 2007.

“The Social Context of the Urban Fertility Transition among the Working Class Population in the 1960s,” was presented at the Friday Seminar, Department of Anthropology, CUHK, October 12, 2007.

“The Value of the Tangible Asset: Private Housing Property and the Domestic Relationship in a SOE Dormitory Neighborhood in Tianjin,” was presented at the panel: Tension in Urban China: Transformed Relations and Reconfigured Spaces among Families and Communities, at the AAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2005.

“Class, Gender, Life Cycle, and the Inheritance of Socialist Social Status,” was presented at the panel: Anthropological Approaches to Leisure, Hardship, and Migration in East Asia, at the New England Association of Asian Studies 2004 Annual Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 6, 2004.

“Collective Memories and Power Consolidation: Grassroot Management in China’s Less Developed Urban Centers,” was presented at the panel: Past, Present, and Future: Socialist and Late-Socialist (Re)Defined Social Relationship and Community in Urban China, at the New England Association of Asian Studies 2003 Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 24-25, 2003.

“Family Size, Son Preference, and the Utilization of Contraception in Urban China in the 1960s,” was presented at the workshop “Daughter’s Worth Re-evaluated: Changing Intergenerational Relations and Expectations in Contemporary China,” in the J.K. Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 5-6, 2003.

“Ethnographic Investigation of Fertility Transition and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life in Tianjin, China, 1963-1970,” presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of American Ethnological Society, Providence, Rhode Island, April 23-26, 2003.

“Impossible Mission: Neighborhood Committee’s New Role in Correcting Social Ills and Maintaining Social Stability in Urban China in the 1990s.” presented at the New England Association of Asian Studies 2002 Annual Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, October 26-27, 2002.

“Repressing Urban Consumption in China in the 1960s: Social Campaigns on Urban Domestic Life” was presented in the session: Negotiating Identity Through History, States, Bureaucracies and Cultural Icons, at the 99th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2000.

“Fertility Decline and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life in Tianjin, 1963-1970,” was presented in the Invited Session: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Population (AAA Executive Program Committee), at the 97th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998.

American Anthropological Association (AAA);

Association for Asian Studies (AAS);

Chinese Society for Women’s Studies (CSWS);

Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS).