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 an open access essay on Visual Anthropology in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Also, check out my conversation 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. Upcoming Screening and Director Q&A (in-person): Thursday 7 July 2022, 19:00 - 20:30, Ethnographic Museum, University of Zürich.  More details here.


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