Jenny Chio
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Associate Professor
East Asian Languages & Cultures

Anthropology
University of Southern California




RESEARCH
Media Ethnography
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Anthropology of Modernity
Collective Memory and Cultural Heritage
Critical Mobility Studies
Documentary Practice
China and the Asia-Pacific

PUBLICATIONS
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Book:
A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
(2014, University of Washington Press) is now open access, along with the
entire book series,
Studies of Ethnic Groups in China.

News:
I have a new open access essay on Visual Anthropology in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Also, check out a conversation I held with Uyghur filmmaker Mukaddas Mijit, and my  essay on theorizing ethnographic film.

Ethnographic Film:
农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness is distributed by Berkeley Media. The film screened at HERITALES: International Heritage Film Festival, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.


University of Southern California   |  Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures   |    jchio@usc.edu