Articles, Chapters, Commentaries
Forthcoming. "The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in 'Minority' China." Accepted for publication in Current Anthropology.
In press. "From the Stadium to the Screen: Bullfights and their Mediated Afterlife in Southwest China." Forthcoming in Asian Anthropology 17(4).
2018. "Afterword: Filmmaking as Critical Participant Observation." International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, special issue, "Film and Contemporary Representations of the Exotic Other: Gazing through Filmic Eyes" (guest editors: Joseph Cheer and Irina Herrschner) 6(3): 297-300.
2017 "Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China." In Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, Joshua Neves and Bhaskar Sarkar, eds., 35-53. Durham: Duke University Press.
2017 "Rendering Rural Modernity: Spectacle and Power in a Chinese Ethnic Tourism Village." Critique of Anthropology, special issue "The Village Global: Emergent Anthropologies of Rural Sociality" (guest editors: Jenny Chio and Chris Vasantkumar) 37(4): 418-439.
2017 "Introduction: Rural as Space and Sociality." Critique of Anthropology, special issue "The Village Global: Emergent Anthropologies of Rural Sociality" (guest editors: Jenny Chio and Chris Vasantkumar) 37(4): 361-363.
2017 "Guiding Lines." Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website, May 2. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1118-guiding-lines
2017 "Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Films and Cultural Translation at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival." In Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation, Chris Berry and Luke Robinson, eds., 279-299. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2016 Co-authored with Rupert Cox. "Editors' Introduction." Visual Anthropology Review 32(2): 101-102.
2016 Interview, conducted by Patricia Alvarez. "Screening Room: Peasant Family Happiness." Visual and New Media Review, Cultural Anthropology website, March 18. http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/826-screening-room-peasant-family-happiness
2015 "Managing the Masses in Mass Media." Book review of Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity by William Mazzarella. Current Anthropology 56(3): 478-488.
2015 Co-authored with Luke Robinson. "Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Archiving the Moment." Anthropology News Online, Society for Visual Anthropology Section News, January.
2014 "Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness." Visual Anthropology Review 30(1): 62-72.
2014 "2013 David Plath Media Award: 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness." Section News of the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Anthropology News. Published online by the AAA here and by the SEAA here.
2013 Co-authored with Luke Robinson. "Making Space for Chinese Independent Documentary: The Case of Yunfest 2011." Journal of Chinese Cinemas 7(1): 21-40.
2013 "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Claiming Heritage in the Longji Terraced Fields Scenic Area." In Cultural Heritage Politics in China, Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman, eds., 143-159. New York: Springer.
2012 "Village videos and the visual mainstream in rural, ethnic Guizhou." In Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality, Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, eds., 79-93. London: Routledge.
2011 "Leave the fields without leaving the countryside: Modernity and mobility in rural, ethnic China." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 18(6): 551-575.
2011 "Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research." In Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections, C. Michael Hall, ed., 209-219. London: Routledge.
2011 "'Can You See the Difference?': Producing Ethnic Tourism in Chinese Media." Conference paper published in the Report of the International Workshop "Exploring Ethnicity and the State through Tourism in East Asia," Kanazawa University, Japan: 75-82.
2011 "The Appearance of the Rural in China's Tourism." Provincial China 3(1): 60-79.
2010 "China's Campaign for Civilized Tourism: What to Do When Tourists Behave Badly." Anthropology News, November, 14-15. PDF
2009 "The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance." In Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism, Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, and T.C. Chang. eds., 207-220. London: Routledge.
In press. "From the Stadium to the Screen: Bullfights and their Mediated Afterlife in Southwest China." Forthcoming in Asian Anthropology 17(4).
2018. "Afterword: Filmmaking as Critical Participant Observation." International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, special issue, "Film and Contemporary Representations of the Exotic Other: Gazing through Filmic Eyes" (guest editors: Joseph Cheer and Irina Herrschner) 6(3): 297-300.
2017 "Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China." In Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, Joshua Neves and Bhaskar Sarkar, eds., 35-53. Durham: Duke University Press.
2017 "Rendering Rural Modernity: Spectacle and Power in a Chinese Ethnic Tourism Village." Critique of Anthropology, special issue "The Village Global: Emergent Anthropologies of Rural Sociality" (guest editors: Jenny Chio and Chris Vasantkumar) 37(4): 418-439.
2017 "Introduction: Rural as Space and Sociality." Critique of Anthropology, special issue "The Village Global: Emergent Anthropologies of Rural Sociality" (guest editors: Jenny Chio and Chris Vasantkumar) 37(4): 361-363.
2017 "Guiding Lines." Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website, May 2. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1118-guiding-lines
2017 "Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Films and Cultural Translation at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival." In Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation, Chris Berry and Luke Robinson, eds., 279-299. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2016 Co-authored with Rupert Cox. "Editors' Introduction." Visual Anthropology Review 32(2): 101-102.
2016 Interview, conducted by Patricia Alvarez. "Screening Room: Peasant Family Happiness." Visual and New Media Review, Cultural Anthropology website, March 18. http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/826-screening-room-peasant-family-happiness
2015 "Managing the Masses in Mass Media." Book review of Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity by William Mazzarella. Current Anthropology 56(3): 478-488.
2015 Co-authored with Luke Robinson. "Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Archiving the Moment." Anthropology News Online, Society for Visual Anthropology Section News, January.
2014 "Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness." Visual Anthropology Review 30(1): 62-72.
2014 "2013 David Plath Media Award: 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness." Section News of the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Anthropology News. Published online by the AAA here and by the SEAA here.
2013 Co-authored with Luke Robinson. "Making Space for Chinese Independent Documentary: The Case of Yunfest 2011." Journal of Chinese Cinemas 7(1): 21-40.
2013 "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Claiming Heritage in the Longji Terraced Fields Scenic Area." In Cultural Heritage Politics in China, Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman, eds., 143-159. New York: Springer.
2012 "Village videos and the visual mainstream in rural, ethnic Guizhou." In Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality, Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, eds., 79-93. London: Routledge.
2011 "Leave the fields without leaving the countryside: Modernity and mobility in rural, ethnic China." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 18(6): 551-575.
2011 "Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research." In Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections, C. Michael Hall, ed., 209-219. London: Routledge.
2011 "'Can You See the Difference?': Producing Ethnic Tourism in Chinese Media." Conference paper published in the Report of the International Workshop "Exploring Ethnicity and the State through Tourism in East Asia," Kanazawa University, Japan: 75-82.
2011 "The Appearance of the Rural in China's Tourism." Provincial China 3(1): 60-79.
2010 "China's Campaign for Civilized Tourism: What to Do When Tourists Behave Badly." Anthropology News, November, 14-15. PDF
2009 "The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance." In Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism, Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, and T.C. Chang. eds., 207-220. London: Routledge.