Danning Wang

Education:

	Ph.D. in Anthropology, Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York. Dissertation: Fertility Decline and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life in Tianjin, China, 1963-1970.
	M.S. in Policy and Business Management, SUNY, Stony Brook
	M.A. in Anthropology, Hunter College, the City University of New York
	B.A. in Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, China

“Intergenerational Transmission of Family Property and Family Management in Urban China” in Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China. Harriet Evans and Julia C. Strauss, eds. Forthcoming 2011. NY: Cambridge University Press.

“Intergenerational Transmission of Family Property and Family Management in Urban China.” The China Quarterly. Forthcoming December 2010.

 “Urban Fertility Decline of the 1960s and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life” in Advances in Research in Chinese Families: A Global Perspective. Chan Kwok-bun and Odalia Wong, eds. NY: Springer. 2009.

 “Urban China: Development Zone.” Encyclopedia of Modern China. David Pong, ed. Farmington Hill, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Pp. 23-25. 2009.

“Urban China: Real Estate Management.” Encyclopedia of Modern China. David Pong, ed. Farmington Hill, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Pp. 25-26. 2009.

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.

Miliann Kang. The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service. Asian Anthropology. Vol. 9(2010), pp. 154-157.

Xin Liu. The Mirage of China – Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World. Asian Anthropology. Vol. 8 (2009), pp.156-158.

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.

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.

Gender and Family in East Asia. Co-editing with Angela Wai Ching Wong and Maria Tam, Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Urban anthropology, gender and family studies, demographic anthropology, political economy, applied anthropology, China studies.

Introduction of Cultural Anthropology;

Culture and Business;

Chinese Culture and Societies;

Cultures of Cities;

Debate in Human Values.

Anthropological Field Methods;

Seminar in Anthropology of China;

Seminar in Research Methods.

David Spitz Dissertation Year Fellowship, CUNY, GC

Population Council Dissertation Fund      

Graduate Assistant Scholarship, CUNY, GC 

Tuition Fellowship, CUNY, GC

Tuition Fellowship, CUNY GC

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

Bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin) and English.

“Trust and Shame While Living among Strangers: Female Migrant Workers’ Attitudes toward Premarital Pregnancy.” Panel: “Migration, Gender and the Changing Family in China.” The Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), “70 Years of Asian Studies”. March 31^st, 2011. Hawaii, USA.

“Liminal Politics and the Play of Tropes – Intensified Postpartum Dietary Practices among the Urban Chinese in the 1960s. ”人类学新视野里的文化与艺术学术研讨会。 南京大学社会文化人类学研究所与浙江省文化厅文化艺术研究所合办。 December 2010. 浙江省杭州市。

“Parental Authority, Intergenerational Transmission of Family Property, and Family Management in Urban China.” Panel: “Transformations of Family, Property and Place in China.” 109^th AAA Annual Meeting. Nov. 19, 2010. New Orleans, USA.

“工人阶级地位与族群认同： 上世纪六十年代天津女工的择偶标准与婚姻状况。” 都市与族群/民族研讨会。 上海大学族群研究中心与香港中文大学人类学系合办. May 17-19, 2010.

“Let the Imaginations Surpass the Barriers. Is this Real?” Panel: “Technologies of Self and Society in Globalizing East Asia.” 108^th AAA Annual Meeting. December 2, 2009. Philadelphia, USA.

“A Train of Cosmopolitan - Accessing to the Global Network: Train, Scale of Hierarchy, and State-Owned Enterprises.” Panel: Technology, Urbanism and Social Life in East Asia. SEAA & TSAE Conference. Taipei, July 2-5, 2009.

“Affordable Housing Right, Parental Authority, and Petty Capitalist Mode of Production.” Panel: From Endangerment to Empowerment: Girls, Daughters and Gendered Subjectivities in Contemporary China.” International Conference on Gender Studies. Organized by University of Michigan-Fudan University Joint Institute for Gender Studies. Shanghai. June 26-29, 2009.

人类学关键词研讨会。 中山大学人类学系与香港中文大学人类学系合办。 Spring 2009

“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. 107^th 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 Space 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 99^th 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 97^th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998.

The China Journal;

The China Quarterly;

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Organizer. Panel: “Migration, Gender and the Changing Family in China.” The Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), “70 Years of Asian Studies”. March 31^st, 2011. Hawaii, USA.

Chair. Panel: “Transformations of Family, Property and Place in China.” 109^th AAA Annual Meeting. Nov. 19, 2010. New Orleans, USA.

Chair. Panel: Technologies of Self and Society in Globalizing East Asia. 108^th AAA Annual Meeting. December 2, 2009. Philadelphia, USA.

Chair. Panel: Culture and Business: Reconfiguring Boundaries and Reproducing Relations. SEAA & TSAE Conference. Taipei, July 2-5, 2009.

Members: American Anthropological Association (AAA);

Association for Asian Studies (AAS);

Chinese Society for Women’s Studies (CSWS);

Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS).