Articles, Chapters, Commentaries
In press. "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).
Accepted. "The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in 'Minority' China." To be published in Current Anthropology.
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.
Accepted. "The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in 'Minority' China." To be published in Current Anthropology.
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.