PhD, Anthropology, University of Virginia

MA, Anthropology, University of Virginia

MA, History, Xiamen University

BA, History, Shandong Normal University

Specialties

Anthropology of Religion, Medical Anthropology, Hope, Health and Well-being, Aging, Care, Daoism, Popular Religion, Affective State, Temporality, Uncertainty and Precarity, Personhood, and China.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

2022. “The Quest for a Good Life: Incense Seeing and the Porous and Dividual Hoping Person in North China.” American Anthropologist 124 (2): 252-262.(PDF)  https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aman.13719

2021. “Popular Religion Temples in Fujian, Southeast China: The Politics of State Intervention, 1990s-2010s.” Modern China 47 (4): 441-71.  (PDF)  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0097700419899038

2017. “Identity Politics in State-Sponsored Youth Camps for Chinese Overseas.” China Information 31(2):233-251.  (PDF) 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0920203X17708285

Book Reviews

2021. Nicholas Bartlett’s Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China (Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2020). Ethos 49 (3): n/a - n/a.

2021. Dilger, Hansjörg, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (eds.), Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2020). Social Anthropology 29 (1): 270-271.

2014. Andrea S. Goldman’s Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012). Journal of East Asian Studies 14 (1): 135-137.