ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, COMMENTARIES
2023 "A Conversation about Futurity, Critique, and Political Imagination." Co-Authored with Joshua Neves. Made in China Journal 8(1): 184-197, online. [PDF version here]
2022 "Can you hear me now? A Conversation on Equity, Empathy, and (Playful) Solidarity." Co-Authored with Joseph Harris Johnson. Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8(1): 102-106.
2021 “Race and Cultural Heritage.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.
2021 "Visual Anthropology." In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Open access: http://doi.org/10.29164/21visual.
2021 Review of Beijing From Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center by Harriet Evans. China Review International 26(3): 174-179.
2020 "Discussion: Tourism and Race." Co-authored with Tiffany Gill, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Stephen L. Harp, Kate McDonald, Adam T. Rosenbaum, Susan S. Rugh, and Lynnell L. Thomas. Journal of Tourism History 12(2): 173-197.
2020 "Theorizing in/of Ethnographic Film." In The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, Phillip Vannini, editor. London: Routledge. Download the chapter here.
2020 Edited by Shiqi Lin and Kaiyang Xu. In the Clouds: COVID-19, Dystopian Reality, and Online Carnival. MCLC Resource Center Publications (May). Online at: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/in-the-clouds/.
2020 "A Very American 'Solution' in a Chinese-Owned Factory." Commentary on American Factory (2019, dir. Julia Reichart and Steven Bognar). Online at Docalogue.com.
2019 "The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in 'Minority' China." With commentaries by Magnus Fiskejö, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Yu Luo, Louisa Schein, and Yinong Zhang. Current Anthropology 60(4): 536-558.
2019 Co-authored with Stephanie Takaragawa, Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Coleman Nye, and Shalini Shankar. "Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal." American Anthropologist 121(2): 517-524.
2018. "From the Stadium to the Screen: Bullfights and their Mediated Afterlife in Southwest China." Asian Anthropology 17(4): 254-275.
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.
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.
2022 "Can you hear me now? A Conversation on Equity, Empathy, and (Playful) Solidarity." Co-Authored with Joseph Harris Johnson. Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8(1): 102-106.
2021 “Race and Cultural Heritage.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.
2021 "Visual Anthropology." In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Open access: http://doi.org/10.29164/21visual.
2021 Review of Beijing From Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center by Harriet Evans. China Review International 26(3): 174-179.
2020 "Discussion: Tourism and Race." Co-authored with Tiffany Gill, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Stephen L. Harp, Kate McDonald, Adam T. Rosenbaum, Susan S. Rugh, and Lynnell L. Thomas. Journal of Tourism History 12(2): 173-197.
2020 "Theorizing in/of Ethnographic Film." In The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, Phillip Vannini, editor. London: Routledge. Download the chapter here.
2020 Edited by Shiqi Lin and Kaiyang Xu. In the Clouds: COVID-19, Dystopian Reality, and Online Carnival. MCLC Resource Center Publications (May). Online at: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/in-the-clouds/.
2020 "A Very American 'Solution' in a Chinese-Owned Factory." Commentary on American Factory (2019, dir. Julia Reichart and Steven Bognar). Online at Docalogue.com.
2019 "The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in 'Minority' China." With commentaries by Magnus Fiskejö, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Yu Luo, Louisa Schein, and Yinong Zhang. Current Anthropology 60(4): 536-558.
2019 Co-authored with Stephanie Takaragawa, Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Coleman Nye, and Shalini Shankar. "Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal." American Anthropologist 121(2): 517-524.
2018. "From the Stadium to the Screen: Bullfights and their Mediated Afterlife in Southwest China." Asian Anthropology 17(4): 254-275.
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.
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.