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Yongming Zhou
Department of Anthropology 1-608-262-2866 (office)
5458 Social Science Building 1-608-663-3906 (home)
University of Wisconsin-Madison Fax: 1-608-265-4216
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Email: [email protected]
I. FORMAL EDUCATION
1997 Ph.D Duke University (Cultural Anthropology)
1987 M.A. Nanjing University (Chinese)
1984 B.A. Nanjing University (Chinese)
II. TITLE OF DISSERTATION
Ph.D: Nationalism, History and State Building: Anti-Drug Crusades in Modern
China, 1924—1997.
III. POSITIONS HELD
A. Teaching Positions
2010-present Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
2005-2010 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
1999- 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
1998 Fall Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duke
University
1996 Fall Visiting Lecturer, Curriculum in Asian Studies, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill
B. Affiliations
Director, Center for Anthropological Research, Chongqing University
Center for East Asian Studies, UW-Madison
Center for Culture, History, and Environment, UW-Madison
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
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IV. SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS
2013-present Founder and Chair of Selection Committee, China Fieldwork Fellowships
for Graduate Students
2014-18 Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison
2012 President, The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Fellowship Award
2010 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research
Fellowship,
2008 spring Senior Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore
2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New Directions Fellowship
2004 Fellow, Institute for the Research in Humanities, UW-Madison
2003 summer Mellon Fellow, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England
2001-02 Fellow, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2001-02 Fellowship, National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China.
The Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and
American Council of Learned Societies
1999-04 Vilas Young Investigator, University of Wisconsin
1999 Visiting Research Fellow, The East Asian Institute, National University
of Singapore
1994-95 Fellowship, National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China.
The Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and
American Council of Learned Societies
V. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A. Scholarly Books
In progress Frontiers Incorporated: Road Construction and Spatial Reconfiguration in China East Himalayas.
2016 A History of China’s Anti-Drug Campaigns in Twentieth Century. Beijing:
The Commercial Press (in Chinese)
2013 Telegraphy, Newspapers, and Politics in Late Qing. Beijing: The
Commercial Press (in Chinese)
2006 Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet and Political
Participation in China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
1999 Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History
and State Building. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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B. Edited Volumes
2016 Roadology: Space, Culture and Roads. Chongqing: Chongqing
University Press.
2016 Chinese Anthropology. Beijing: The Commercial Press (although
the name sounds “commercial”, it is actually the oldest and most
prestigious academic press in China).
C. Journal articles and book chapters
2015 Shifting Landscapes of Sutra Streamer in Kham. Twenty First Century
Bimonthly, Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. 149 (June): 102-13.
2015 Sino-Tibetan Highways from the Perspective of Roadology. Twenty First
Century Bimonthly, Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. 148 (April):
11-23.
2013 “Branding Tengchong: Globalization, Road Building and Spatial
Reconfigurations in Yunnan, Southwest China” in Tami Blumenfield and
Helaine Silverman eds. Heritage Politics in China: Producing Identity,
Contesting Authority, De-marginalizing Borderlands. New York: Springer,
pp. 247-59.
2012 Rebuilding the Stilwell Road: Globalization and Spatial Boxing Out in
Southwest China.Twenty First Century Bimonthly, Chinese University of
Hong Kong, vol. 132 (August): 66-76.
2010 “How Our Village Becomes “Eco-cultural”? Change, Resilience,
and Social Capital in Southwest China Minority Communities” in William
Ascher and Jay Heffron eds. Cultural Change and Persistence: New
Perspectives on Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.133-46.
2010 Study of Roads and ‘Roadology’. Twenty First Century Bimonthly,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. 120 (August): 71-79.
2010 An Unhappy History of “Happiness” in China. Twenty First Century
Bimonthly, Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. 121 (October): 34-38.
2009 "Negotiating Power Online: The Party State, Intellectuals, and the
Internet" In Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger eds.
Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics (reprint), Vol. 3: 155 -
80.London and New York: Routledge.
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2009 The Internet and Democracy: Politicizing Chinese Internet Studies in the
West. Twenty First Century Bimonthly, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
vol. 112 (April): 4-12.
2008 “Privatizing Control: Internet Cafés in China” In Li Zhang and Aihwa
Ong eds. Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar. Ithaca, NY: Connell
University Press, pp. 214-29.
2006 Privatizing Control and the Context of Information Reception. Twenty
First Century Bimonthly, Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. 95
(June): 28-35.
2005 Living on the Cyber Border: “Minjian” Political Writers in Chinese
Cyberspace. Current Anthropology, Vol. 46 (5): 779-803.
2005 Informed Nationalism: Military Websites in Chinese Cyberspace. The
Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 14 (44): 543-62.
2001 Anti-Drug Campaigns and State Building: China’s Experiences in the
1950s. CAHIERS D’ETUDES SUR LA MEDITERRANEE ORIENTALE ET
LE MONDE TURCO-IRANNIEN (CEMOTI), NO. 32: 233-56.
2000 Social Capital and Power: Entrepreneurial Elite and the State in
Contemporary China. Policy Sciences, Vol. 33, Nos. 3 & 4, 323-40.
Reprinted in the volume Social Capital as a Policy Resource. eds. John D.
Montgomery and Alex Inkeles (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2001): 97-114.
Reprinted in the volume Contemporary China Studies – Economy and
Societyed.Tak-Wing Ngo (London: SAGE Publications, 2011)
2000 China’s Anti-Drug Campaign in the Reform-Era. (East Asian Institute
Contemporary China Series, No. 26) Singapore: Singapore University
Press.
2000 Nationalism, Identity and State Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the
People’s Republic, 1949-1952. eds. Timothy Brook and Bob
Wakabayashi, Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.
(Berkeley: University of California Press), 380-403.
1989 Ethnocentrism and Comparative Literature Studies. ed. Qian Linsheng,
The Relationship between Chinese and Foreign Literatures (Nanjing:
Nanjing University Press), pp. 410-42.
1988 Jigong as a Cultural Symbol. Tribune of Folklore (2), pp. 45-50.
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1987 On Archetype. Literature & Art Studies (5), pp. 111-22.
1987 “The Northern Rivers” and Farther Archetype. Literature & Art Review,
(1), pp. 63-68.
1986 The Integrative Trend of Contemporary Western Literary Criticism.
Literature & Art Studies (6), pp. 116-24.
D. Organizer and Chair of Conferences and Workshops
2017 2nd International Conference on Road Studies and Roadology.
Shenzhen, Southern University of Science and Technology. Nov 9-11.
2015 5th Conference on the Study of Tibetan Borderlands, Chongqing,
Chongqing University, October 23-25.
2014 1st International Conference on Road Studies and Roadology, Chongqing,
Chongqing University, December 5-6.
2013 Forum on Southwest Anthropology, Chongqing, Chongqing
University, June 28-29.
2013 Advanced Workshop on Globalization and Chinese Anthropology,
Chongqing, Chongqing University, June 26-27.
2005 New Media and Citizenship in China, Madison, University of Wisconsin,
May 27.
D. Minor Publications and Invited Book Reviews
2016 Review of Guobin Yang’s China’s Contested Internet. Governance in
Asia, No. 4. (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2015). Pacific Affairs, June 90.
2016 Review of Dimitris Dalakoglou and Penelope Harvey’s Roads and
Anthropology: Ethnography, Infrastructures and (Im)mobility (London &
New York: Routledge, 2015). In Yongming Zhou ed. Roadology: Space,
Culture and Roads. Chongqing: Chongqing University Press.
2015 Review of Ren Hai’s The Middle Class in Neoliberal China (London &
New York: Routledge, 2012). The China Review, Vol. 14, spring issue.
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2012 Review of John Postill’s Localizing The Internet: An Anthropological
Account (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2011). Asian
Anthropology, vol. 11: pp. 201-204.
2011 Preface to Fiore di Loto in Italia, Associazione Buddista della Comunita’
Cinese in Iltalia, Prato, Italy.
2010 Review of Susan Greenhalgh’s Just One Child: Science and Policy in
Deng’s China (University of California Press, 2008). Political and Legal
Anthropology Review, Vol. 33(1): pp. 156-58.
2009 Review of Yongnian Zheng’s Technological Empowerment: The Internet,
State, and Society in China (Stanford University Press, 2008). The China
Journal, volume 1, pp. 229-231.
2008 Review of Carolyn L. Hsu’s Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary
People Are Shaping Class and Status in China? (Duke University Press,
2007). Asian Anthropology, vol. 7.pp. 149-51.
2008 Review of Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, & Zhou Xun’s Narcotic
Culture: A History of Drugs in China.(University of Chicago Press,
2004).Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 45(September): pp. 526-28.
2008 Review of Robert Weller’s Discovering Nature: Globalization and
Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. (Cambridge University
Press, 2006).Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, no. 2, pp. 128-135.(in
Chinese)
2006 Review of Michael Herzfeld’s Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the
Nation-State. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 37 no.2 (June 2006).
2006 Understanding Chinese Internet Politics. Asia Program Special Report,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, No. 131 (June 2006),
pp. 21-25.
2002 Expanded Space, Refined Control: The Intellectual Electronic Press
in China. Asia Program Special Report, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, No.102 (April 2002), pp. 17-21.
2002 Information and Interpretation: Understanding Chinese Nationalism
within a New Paradigm. Asia Program Special Report, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, No. 104 (August 2002), pp. 22-26.
2002 Review of Alan Baumler’s Modern China and Opium. The Journal of
Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 4 (November 2002), pp. 1332-1334.
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2001 Review of Edward R. Slack, Jr’s Opium, State, and Society. Pacific
Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 2001-2002), pp. 596-98.
2000 Invited Comments on “Putting Global Capitalism in Its Place”
by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. Current Anthropology, Vol. 41,
No. 4, pp. 504-505.
1999 Forming Social Capital and Negotiating Power: Suzhou SOE Managers
and the State in Reform-Era China. EAI Working Paper No. 32. East
Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
VI. RESEARCH SUPPORT
A. External Grants and Awards
2017 Conference Grant for organizing the 2nd International Workshop on
Roadology. SUSTech, Shenzhen, China
2013 Grants for organizing two conferences, Chongqing University
2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Fellowship Award
2011-13 American Council of Learner Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research
Fellowship
2009-10 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
2008-11 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship
(This three-year grant is awarded after nationwide competitions to help me
obtain new training in Environmental Studies in order to carry out my
interdisciplinary research project on the socio-ecological impacts of road
building in the China East Himalayas)
2007 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Asia Research
Institute, National University of Singapore
2006-11 IGERT Grant, National Science Foundation (Co-PI)
(This five-year 3.5 million grant is to support 20 doctoral
students conducting research in southwest China)
2005 Research Grant, National Geographic Research Committee
2003 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Needham Research Institute
2001-02 National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, ACLS and
CSCC (the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China)
2001-02 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1999 The East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
1998-99 The Lindesmith Center, New York
1998 Post-doc Fellowship, The Pacific Basin Research Center
1997 The Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taiwan
1994-95 National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China
The Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and
National Academy of Science
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1994 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
B. Internal Grants and Awards
2013-14 Vilas Associate Award
2010 Project assistantship, Graduate School Research Committee
2009 WUN (World University Network) Collaborative Grant
2008 WAGE Individual Research Grant
2008 Faculty Development Grant
2007 Graduate School Research Committee
2006 Seed Grant, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
2005 Conference Grant, The Global Studies Program
2004 Fellowship, Institute for the Research in Humanities
Spring semester, 2004
1999-04 Vilas Young Investigator Award, Salary plus $10,000 flexible research
support each year
2004-05 Summer salary support plus international travel, Graduate School
Research Committee
2003-04 Project assistantship, Graduate School Research Committee
2001-02 Research Award, Graduate School Research Committee
2000-01 Summer salary support, Graduate School Research Committee
VII. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
A. Conference Papers
2015 “Shifting Meanings of Tibetan Highways: 1950-2015. Paper presented at
the Conference on Social and Economic Changes in the Tibetan Border
Areas, Chongqing, Chongqing University, October 24.
2015 “How Chinese Anthropology Faces the Era of a Global China,” paper
presented at the Conference in Memory of Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao Tung),
Beijing, Peking University, June 28.
2015 “Toward a “Roadology”: The Case of Kunming-Bangkok Highway
Corridor,” paper presented at the 9th Internatioanl Convention of Asia
Scholars, Adelaide, Australia, July 9.
2014 “Rethinking ‘Resources’: Chinese Religious Lives in Prato, Italy,” paper
presented at the Yunnan Social Science Forum, Kunming, China, Oct. 7.
2014 “Road Building and Non-Place Building in Himalayan Villages” at the
Second World Congress of Environmental History, Guimaraes, Portugal,
July 10.
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2013 “‘Second China’ in ‘Third Italy’: Chinese Religious Lives in Prato, Italy,”
paper presented at the Globalization and Chinese Anthropology Forum,
Chongqing, China, June 24. (I also served as the organizer)
2013 Discussant, Panel on “Spatial Transformation in China’s Western
Borderlands” at 2013 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies,
San Diego, March 22.
2012 “Resourceful Platform: Politics at a Chinese Buddhist Temple in Prato,
Italy.” The 3rdWenzhouese Diaspora Symposia sponsored by Wenzhou
University, Wenzhou, China, October 18.
2011 “Social Capital in Print: Chinese Newspaper Publishing in Italy,” paper
presented at the 4th Chinese in Prato & 2ndWenzhouese Diaspora
Symposia sponsored by the Monash University Prato Center, Prato, Italy,
September 20.
2011 “Agent of Change: Road Building and Global Positioning in Southwest
China,” paper presented at the Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan,
Tokyo, June 30.
2011 “Spatial Reconfigurations and Road Building in Yunnan, Southwest
China,” paper presented at the International Conference on Ethnic
Interaction in Southwest China and its Relationship with Southeast Asia
sponsored by Yunnan University, Kunming, June 19.
2011 “Branding Tengchong: The Reconstruction of the Stilwell Road,” paper
presented at the conference China, Borderlands & The Greater Mekong
Region sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
April 23.
2010 “Box Out: Road Building and Spatial Reconfiguration of Southwest
China,” paper presented at the conference sponsored by the Institute for
Advanced Studies of Social Sciences at the Fudan University, Shanghai,
June 6.
2009 “Global Positioning, Spatial Reconfiguration and Historical Reinventing in
China’s Efforts to Rebuild the Stilwell Road,” paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Philadelphia, December 4.
2009 “Infrastructure Development, Biocultural Diversity and Social-ecological
Resilience: Road Construction in Northwest Yunnan” 16th Congress of the
International Union of Ethological and Anthropological Science, Kunming,
July 29.
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2009 “Anti-opium movements in Southwest minority areas in the 1950s”
Annual Meeting, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American
Association of Anthropology, Taipei, Academia Sinica, July 2.
2008 “Reflections on ‘Privatizing China’” American Anthropological
Association 107th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 22.
2008 “Telegraph and Political Participation in late Qing China”
“Geopolitics of Writing and Technology” Workshop,
Columbia University, New York, October 31
2007 “Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet,
and Political Participation in China” Beijing Forum,
November 2
2007 “Egao: Visual Carnival and Iconoclasm in Chinese Cyberspace”
International Symposium on “Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) in China” Nottingham, England, June 14-15.
2007 “Internet Politics in China” symposium on “China in Transition,”
Soka University of America, May 12.
2006 “Politics of Internet Control in China,” presented at the
workshop “Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution,
Recognition, and Representation," sponsored by the Center
for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Oct. 27.
2005 “Contextualizing the Chinese Cyberspace: The Politics of Internet through
Triangular Prism” (panel organizer, the annual meeting of the Association
for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 31- April 3)
2005 “Ecomuseums and Minority Peoples in Southwest China” presented at the
2005 International Education Conference, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, March 12.
2004 “Proactive Experiments: The Internet as an Alternative Media Outlet”
(paper presented at the Conference “China’s New Media Milieu:
Commercialization, Continuity, and Reform” Washington, DC, June 28-
29, 2004)
2003 “Informed Nationalism: Military Websites in Chinese Cyberspace” (paper
presented at the Freeman Conference “From the Book to the Internet:
Communication Technologies, Human Motions, and Cultural Formations
in Eastern Asia” Eugene, OR, October 16-18, 2003).
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2003 “Form Cultural Backwardness to Resourcefulness: Changing Views
toward Minority Peoples in Southern China” (paper presented at the
Workshop on China’s Ethnic Minorities, sponsored by US State
Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington DC,
October 6, 2003).
2003 “Party State, Intellectuals, and Cyberspace in Contemporary China” (paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New
York, NY, March 27-30, 2003).
2002 “Information and Interpretation: Understanding Chinese Nationalism
within a New Paradigm” (Paper presented at the Symposium on
“China’s ‘Credibility Gap’: Public Opinion and Instability in China”
sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington DC, March 6, 2002).
2001 “Making a Public E-Sphere: The Rise of an Intellectual Web-Culture in
Contemporary China” (paper presented at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Symposium
on Press and Scientific and Social Progress, Beijing, November 3-6,
2001).
2001 “Expanded Space, Refined Control: Intellectual E-press in China” (paper
presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington DC, October 26, 2001).
1999 “Inventing Social Capital and Negotiating Power: Entrepreneurs and the
Chinese State in the Reform-Era China” (paper presented in the East
Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, July 27, 1999).
1999 “Anti-Drug Campaigns and Minority Peoples in Southwest China: 1950s
and 1990s” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Asian Studies, Boston, MA, March 11-14, 1999).
1998 “Talking about Drugs: Anti-Drug Discourses in Contemporary China”
(paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian
Studies, Washington, D.C., March 26-29, 1998).
1997 “Nationalism, Identity and State Building: Anti-Drug Crusade of 1949-52”
(paper presented at the fourth annual conference of the University of
Toronto-York University Joint Center for Asia Pacific Studies, May 9-10,
1997).
1995 “China’s Anti-Drug Campaigns in the 1950s” (paper presented at Duke
Conference on Comparative Area Studies, Durham, NC, September 28-29,
1996).
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B. Invited Lectures
2016 Anthropology and Road Studies. Kunming, Yunnan University, June 26.
2015 Roads as Spaces of Consumption: The Making of Tibetan Highways.
Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, September 28.
2015 “‘Raodology’ and the Study of Roads”. Beijing University, Beijing,
China, June 30.
2014 “Toward a Roadology: Road Building in Tibet and Its Consequences”. Wu
Zelin Memorial Lecture, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Oct.
14.
2014 “‘Pronto Moda’ and the Making of Chinese Community in Tuscany”.
Shanxi College of Media and Communication, Taiyuan, China, Dec. 2.
2014 Eco-Museum and Ethnic Cultural Heritage Preservation, Shanxi College
of Media and Communication. Taiyuan, China, Dec. 1.
2014 Road-Building and Local Social Transformations: The Case of Southwest
China. Shanxi College of Media and Communication. Taiyuan, China,
Dec. 1.
2014 “Introduction to Roadology”. Chongqing University, Chongqing, Oct 9.
2013 “Toward a Roadology: Road Building in Tibet and Its Consequences”.
Shanghai University, Shanghai, June 17.
2013 “‘Pronto Moda’ and the Making of Chinese Community in Tuscany”.
Northeast University, Shenyang, June 15.
2013 “Understanding ‘Resource’: Politics at a Chinese Buddhist Temple in
Prato, Italy”. Renmin University, Beijing, June 13.
2012 “Road Politics: Road Networks and Village Conflicts in the Meili Snow
Mountain Area”. Nanjing University, Nanjing, October 26.
2012 “Road Politics: Road Networks and Village Conflicts in the Meili Snow
Mountain Area”. Lishui College, Lishui, October 19.
2012 “Roads and Spatial Reconfiguration in Tengchong, Yunnan”, Chongqing
University, June 25.
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2012 “Roadology and the Case of Rebuilding the Stilwell Road”, Department of
Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 10.
2011 “Social Capital Formation and Ecomuseums in Southwest China”,
University of Florence, Italy, November 5.
2011 “Toward a ‘Roadology’”, Southwest University of Nationalities, Chengdu,
China, June 3rd.
2011 “An Unhappy History of ‘Happiness’ in China”, Suzhou University, China,
January 5.
2010 “Road Building and Its Environmental Impacts” Workshop on Sustainable
Development and Cultural Diversity, Potsdam, Germany, Nov. 30-Dec. 1.
2010 “Internet Politics and Political Participation in Chinese Cyberspace”,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 5.
2010 “Road Studies and ‘Roadology’”, Central University of Nationalities,
Beijing, June 1st.
2010 “Road, Globalization and Spatial Reconfigurations in Yunnan” Institute of
Sociology and Anthropology, Beijing University, January 12.
2009 “Road Building and Global Positioning in Southwest China” World
University Network (WUN) telecast lecture series, Madison, November 5.
2009 “Politicizing the Internet Studies in the West” Yunnan University,
Kunming, China, July 26.
2009 “Current Status of the Chinese Internet Studies in the West” Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China, June 12.
2008 “Cultural Change and Resilience: The Case of Road Construction in Tibet”
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July 13.
2008 “Multiple Impacts of Road Construction in Chinese
East Himalayas” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 8.
2008 “History of Road Construction in Chinese East Himalayas, an Eco-
Cultural Perspective” Carleton College, May 15.
2008 “Tibet Connected: An Integrated Account of Impacts of Road
Construction in Sino-Tibetan Border Region” Department of Cultural
Anthropology, Duke University, April 8.
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2008 “Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political
Participation in China” East Asian Institute, National University of
Singapore. March 28.
2008 “Egao: Visual Carnival and Iconoclasm in Chinese Cyberspace” Asia
Research Institute, National University of Singapore, March 26.
2008 “Road Construction and Social-Ecological Impacts in Southwest China”
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, February 14.
2007 “Egao: Visual Carnival and Iconoclasm in Chinese Cyberspace” City
University of Hong Kong, November 19.
2007 “Circular Telegraph and Online Politics in Late Qing China”
Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, November 15.
2007 “Social Capital and Minority Peoples in Southwest China”
Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, November14.
2007 “Ethnographic Methods and the Study of Socio-Ecological Change and
Resilience” Yunnan University, Kunming, China, August 3.
2007 “Rethinking the Culture Concept” Yunnan University, Kunming, China,
August 2.
2007 “Circular Telegraph and Online Politics in Late Qing China” Nanjing
Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, June 4.
2007 “Road Construction and Social-Ecological Impacts in Southwest China”
Seminar on Climate, People, and the Environment, Center for Climatic
Research, UW-Madison, March 26.
2007 “Multiple Impacts of Road Construction in Chinese East Himalayas”
presented at the Forum on Biodiversity Conservation, Human Livelihoods
and Well-being: Exploring the Connections, Nelson Institute for
Environmental Studies, UW-Madison, February 6.
2006 “Information Technology and Politics: A historical Perspective”
presented at the Universities Service Center for China Studies,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 13.
2005 “Military Websites and Chinese Nationalism in Cyberspace”
presented at the Legacies of Violence, 2nd conference. University of
Wisconsin-Madison, March 11.
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2005 “Online Petitions, Public Politics and Global Citizenship
among Chinese” presented at the 2005 Meeting of the
American Ethnological Society, San Diego, April 9.
2005 “A New Conservation Approach to Environment and Culture in Southwest
China” Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
March 9.
2004 Negotiating Power Online: Party State, Intellectuals and the Internet in
Contemporary China” Center for East Asian Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, April 14.
2004 "Making Politics Public: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political
Participation in China" Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge
University, March 23.
2004 “Telegraphy, Newspapers and Political Culture in China, 1861-1911” The
Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England, March 19.
2004 “State, Intellectuals and the Internet in Contemporary China” Center for
Asian Studies, St Anthony’s College, Oxford University, March 18.
2004 “Circular Telegraph, Newspapers and Political Participation in Late Qing
China” Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, February 19.
2004 “Telegraphy and Political Mobilization in Late Qing China” Institute for
the Research in Humanities, UW-Madison, February 16.
2003 “Negotiating Power Online: State, Intellectuals and the Internet in
Contemporary China” Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, December 2.
2002 “The Role of Telegraphy and Newspaper in late Qing Politics” School of
Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, October 21.
2002 “Expanding Public Politics: From Telegraphy to the Internet”
Institute of Science Policy, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing,
November 5.
2002 “Approaches in Studying Cultural History of Modern China”
School of Journalism, Tsinghua University, Beijing, November 1.
2001 “Internet Politics and State Control in China” the 21st Washington Asia
Forum, American University, Washington DC, November 26.
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2001 “Anti-Drug Campaigns in Contemporary China” invited guest speaker at
the Albion College, Michigan, April 16.
VIII: TEACHING
List of Courses Taught:
Anthropology 100: Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology 104: Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity
Anthropology 300: Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography
Anthropology 330: Topics in Anthropology
Inventing China
Anthropology 330: Topics in Anthropology
Culture in Cybersociety
Anthropology 330: Topics in Anthropology
Anthropology of China
Anthropology 350: Political Anthropology
Anthropology 358: Anthropology of China
Anthropology 490: Undergraduate Seminar
Cultural Changes in Contemporary China
Anthropology 690: Problems in Anthropology
Anthropology 528: Anthropology of Drugs
Anthropology 690: Problems in Anthropology
Globalization and Transnational Cultures
Anthropology 900: Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory
Anthropology 917: Globalization and Transnational Cultures
IX. INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, UNIVERSITY AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
A. National and International Professional Organizations
Vice-president (2011) and President (2012), Executive Committee,
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Member of
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Association for Asian Studies
Society for Cultural Anthropology
B. National and International Service
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Invited speaker at a congressional briefing at the United States Congress on Chinese
Internet politics, Washington, DC, March 23, 2006
Consultant, The United Nations International Drug Control Programme, 2001
Nominator, The Kluge Prize, 2004 & 2010 (Asked by the Librarian of Congress James H.
Billington to nominate a potential recipient of the Kluge Prize, which is at the financial
level of the Nobel Prizes, and is designed deliberately to cover work in the wide range of
disciplines between economics and literature, which are not considered by the Nobel
committees. These disciplines include history, philosophy, politics, anthropology,
sociology, religion, criticism in the arts and humanities, and linguistics).
Guest Speaker, “How to Conduct Research in Social Sciences and Humanities in
China?” (talk given to US Fulbright Fellowship recipients, sponsored by
Fulbright Fellowship Program in the US State Department, Washington
DC, June 19, 2002)
Interviewed by Voice of America on China’s media reform, May 2002
Consulted by the Associated Press on China’s Anti-Drug Campaign, November 2001
Interviewed by Radio Free Asia on the Internet and State Control in China, Oct. 2001
Invited commentator on the Internet and Freedom of Media in China by the Freedom
Forum, the Newseum, November 2001
Interviewed by Singapore Television on Drugs in China, October 1999
C. University-wide Service
UW International Academic Programs Advisory Committee, 2013-
UW China Initiative Leadership Committee, 2013-
Chair, Cultural Section of Dept of Anthropology 2013-14, 2005-06
UW Information and Technology Committee, 2009 – 2011
L&S Faculty Appeal Committee, 2005 – 2010
East Asian Library Committee, 2006-present
East Asian Strategic Planning Committee 2006-07
East Asian Studies Steering Committee 2008-2014
Institute for the Research in Humanities Selection Committee 2009-10
FLAS Selection Committee, 2006
Fulbright Fellowship Selection Committee, 2006
East Asian Librarian Search Committee, 2005
Faculty Senator alternate, 2003-04
NSF IGERT Executive Committee 2006-11
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D. Community Service
2004 Guest Speaker, “Ecomuseums in Contemporary China,” talk presented at a K-12
Teacher Workshop: Collaborative Curriculum Development on China, Madison,
December 4.
2005 Panelist, “China and the Environment: An Innovative, Cross-Disciplinary Teaching
Model” talk presented at the International Education Conference for K-16 Teachers at
UW-Madison, March 12.
2005 Popular lecture, “Ecomuseums in Southwest China” presented at the
Memorial High School, Madison, May 6.
2007 Invited Speaker, “Social Capital and Minority Peoples in Southwest China”
UW Business School, March 22.
2008 Invited Speaker, “Ecomuseum and Minority Peoples in Southwest China”
UW-Madison Business School, April 26.