Vanessa L. Fong
Vanessa FongFriday
Vanessa Fong
Vanessa L. Fong
E-mail: vfong[at]vfong.com
Vanessa Fong
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University (2002).
M.A. in Anthropology, Harvard University (1998).
B.A. in Anthropology, Amherst College (1996).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2009-present).
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University(2003-2009).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2002-2003).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy for Chinese individuals, families, and society; Chinese only-children who study in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and the United States; neoliberalism; local and global inequalities; citizenship, nationalism, transnationalism, migration, globalization, and the media; language ideologies; Chinese, English, and Japanese language learning among native speakers of Chinese; gender, pregnancy, reproductive technologies, childbearing, breastfeeding, child health, and childrearing; economic development and human development; early childhood language development; health, education, psychological development, and socioeconomic trajectories across the life course; demographic, economic, medical, educational, linguistic, and psychological anthropology.
BOOKS
Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World Stanford University Press, 2011.
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008. Originally published as two special issues of Critical Asian Studies (vol. 39, no.1 (2007), and no. 2 (2007), guest edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong.
Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins. Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel Murphy, eds. London: Routledge, 2006.
Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy. Vanessa L. Fong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004 (winner of the 2005 Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology for the English-language book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to East Asian Anthropology).
Women in Republican China. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (student co-authors' names in italics)
Income, Work Preferences, and Gender Roles among Parents of Infants in Urban China: A Mixed Method Study from Nanjing. Sung won Kim, Vanessa L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Huihua Deng, and Zuhong Lu. China Quarterly 204 (2010): 939–959. Republished in Gender in Flux: Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China, Harriet Evans and Julia C. Strauss, eds., Cambridge University Press , 2011: 123-143).
The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Students in Ireland and Britain who Return to China Due to Health Crises. Vanessa L. Fong Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (2008): 627-641.
SARS, a Shipwreck, a NATO Attack, and September 11: Global Information Flows and Chinese Responses to Tragic News Events. Vanessa L. Fong. American Ethnologist 34, no. 3 (2007): 521-539.
Parent-Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only-Children. Vanessa L. Fong. Ethos 35, no. 1 (2007): 85-127.
Morality, Cosmopolitanism, or Academic Achievement? Discourses on “Quality” and Urban Chinese Only-Children’s Claims to Ideal Personhood.Vanessa L. Fong. City and Society 19, no. 1 (2007): 86-113.
Filial Nationalism among Chinese Teenagers with Global Identities. Vanessa Fong. American Ethnologist 31, no. 4 (2004): 629-646. In January-September 2009, this article ranked as the 18th most frequently downloaded article in Anthrosource (the online repository of all the journal articles ever published by the American Anthropological Association).
China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 104, no. 4 (2002): 1098-1109. In January-September 2009, this article ranked as the 8th most frequently downloaded article in Anthrosource (the online repository of all the journal articles ever published by the American Anthropological Association).
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (student co-authors' names in italics)
Chinese Children, Youth, and Education. Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Education. Bradley A. U. Levinson and Mica Pollock, eds. Blackwell Publishing (2011):333-348.
Introduction: Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China.Vanessa L. Fong.Critical Asian Studies 39, no.1 (2007): 58-62 and no. 2 (2007): 255-258. Republished in Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008: 9-14.
Chinese Youth between the Margins of China and the First World. Vanessa L. Fong. In Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel Murphy, eds., Routledge, 2006: 151-173.
Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship at the Margins. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong. In Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins. Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel A. Murphy, eds., Routledge, 2006: 1-8.
Editors' Preface and Section Introductions. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong. In Women in Republican China. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999: xxvii-xxx, 1-4,75-78, 117-120, 147-150, 183-186.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“China, Japan, and Korea.” Vanessa L. Fong. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies. Heather Montgomery, ed. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming March 2012).
“School Achievement: Let's Not Worry Too Much About Shanghai.” Vanessa L. Fong and Philip Altbach. Education Week, January 12, 2011.
Commentary on “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming,” by João Biehl and Peter Locke. . Vanessa L. Fong. Current Anthroplogy 51, no. 3 (2010): 338-339.
Review of China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism, by Andrew Kipnis. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 112, no. 3 (2010): 483-484.
Review of Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths, by Susan Blum. Vanessa L. Fong. American Ethnologist 37, no. 2 (2010): 408.
Little Emperors and the 4:2:1 Generation: China's Single Child Policy. .Ying Wang and Vanessa L. Fong. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 48, no. 12 (2009): 1137-1139.
Review of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, by Susan Greenhalgh. Vanessa L. Fong. Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 442-444.
The Personal is Political: Review of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey by Esra Özyürek. Vanessa L. Fong. Current Anthropology 50, no. 2 (2009): 270-271.
Exploring the Lives and Attitudes of Only Children in China. Vanessa L. Fong. China Connection: A Journal for New England Families Who Have Adopted Children from China 13, no. 1 (2007): 31-33.
Globalization, the Chinese State, and Chinese Subjectivities: a Review Essay (Reviews of Popular China by Richard P. Madsen, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Perry Link; Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 by Yunxiang Yan; and Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population by Li Zhang). Vanessa L. Fong. Comparative Studies in Society and History 48, no. 4 (2006): 946-953.
Review of China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations, by Martin King Whyte. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 106, no. 4 (2004): 783-784.
Review of Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, by Weili Ye. Vanessa L. Fong. Comparative Studies in Society and History 45, no. 3 (2003): 644-645.
COURSES TAUGHT
Research Seminar on Early Childhood Language Development across Cultures, Languages, and Countries (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2011-present).
Chinese Education in Comparative Perspective (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-present).
Introduction to Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-present).
Doctoral Research Seminar on Citizenship, Identity, and Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2010-2011).
Education in the United States (Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China, 2011).
Writing Ethnography and Proposals for Ethnographic Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006-2008).
Research Seminar on Globalization, Transnational Migration, and International Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-2007).
Doing and Writing about Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2007).
Psychological Anthropology: Methods and Approaches (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006).
Psychological Anthropology (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-2005).
Food and Culture (Harvard Anthropology Department, Head Teaching Fellow, 2001).
Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change (Harvard Core Curriculum, Teaching Fellow, 2000).
English Conversation Classes (a junior high school, a vocational high school, and a college prep high school in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China, 1998-2000).
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—EXTRAMURAL
Editorial Board member, China Quarterly (2011-present), The China Journal (2012-present).
Panel reviewer, International Relations Committee and Special Interest Group--International Studies, for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (2009-present).
Speaker, “Urban Young Adult Singletons' Childbearing Preferences and Outcomes,” Tufts China Care, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. (April 22, 2010).
Speaker, "Students who Leave the PRC to Study in Developed Countries." Paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and published as a Wilson Center special report. Washington, DC, April 14, 2010.
Speaker, Professional Development Seminar for Educators: Children’s Life in China. Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA (April 10, 2010).
Speaker, Workshop on Education in China (seminar for Massachusetts K-12 teachers, administrators, and school district officials), Primary Source, Watertown, Massachusetts, March 4, 2010.
Member, Executive Program Committee for the 2009 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2008-2009).
Speaker, Workshop on Childrearing Strategies for Parents of Adolescents, May 30, 2007, Nanjing, China.
Condon Student Paper Prize Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology (member 2004, 2005; chair 2006).
Speaker, A Grants Workshop with Wenner-Gren, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 20-24, 2002.
“Education for Quality: A Comparison of Chinese and American Approaches.” Lecture presented before about 60 high school English teachers, invited by the Dalian Bureau of Education, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China, March 27, 2000.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—INTRAMURAL
Co-organizer, Gender Studies Workshop Speaker Series, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2006-present).
Council on Asian Studies, Harvard University (2009-present).
Executive Committee, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2011-present).
Adviser, Human Development and Psychology M.Ed. program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-present).
Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University (2008-present).
Convener, Culture, Communities, and Education Concentration, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2010-2011).
Ed.D Program Steering Committee, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2010-2011).
Qualitative Research Methods Discussion Group, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2006-2009).
Committee on International Projects and Sites, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2010).
Speaker, “How Chinese Universities Can Compete for Chinese and International Students and Faculty in the Global Market,” Executive Education Program for Shaanxi Province Higher Education Leaders, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (December 6-14, 2010).
Guest Speaker, Intensive Preparation for the Study of International Education (2008, 2009, 2010).
Speaker, “How to Arrange Your Work, Study, and Service Experience in China on Your Own: Tips for the Flexible and Adventurous.” Workshop on Opportunities in China, Harvard Graduate School of Education, March 11, 2010.
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships Committee, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2009-2010).
International Education Search Committee, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2009).
Participant, Harvard-Berkeley International Forum on Chinese Higher Education, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (October 10-12, 2008).
Asia Center Executive Committee, Harvard University (2003-2008).
Admissions Committee, Human Development and Psychology Master’s Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010).
Harvard-Yenching Institute Structured Conversations with University Leaders from Asia, Harvard University (May 9-10, 2008).
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Shum Fellowships Selection Committee, Harvard University (2008).
Undergraduate Research Grant Proposal Selection Committee, Asia Center and Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (2008).
Advisory Group for Harvard University President Drew Faust’s Visit to Tsinghua University and Beijing University in China (2008).
Student of Color Orientation panelist and International Students Orientation panelist, 2003-2009.
International Students Orientation panelist, 2003-present.
Committee on Degrees, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2005, 2006).
Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--EXTRAMURAL
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009-2014).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2006).
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2003
British Academy Grant for International Networks Conference Grant. Co-PI with Rachel Murphy.
British Council China Studies Conference Grant. Co-PI with Rachel Murphy.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant (2002).
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1996).
Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship (1996).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--INTRAMURAL
Harvard China Fund, Harvard University (PI, with co-PI Hirokazu Yoshikawa) (2008-2010).
Asia Center Research Grant, Harvard University (2004, 2005, 2006).
William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University (2005).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Demography Fund Research Grant (2003). Awarded through the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Weatherhead Center for International Studies Research Grant, Harvard University (2002).
Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2001).
Andrew W. Mellon Grant for Predissertation Research (1997). Awarded through the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Addison Brown Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Amherst College (1996).
Charles W. Cole Memorial Scholarship, Amherst College (1994).
WORKSHOPS AND PANELS ORGANIZED OR CHAIRED
Organizer, “Transformations in Chinese Views of the World and the World’s Views of China.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Investigating Gender and Educational Progress in China with Comparisons across Time and Place.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1-5, 2011.
Organizer/Chair, “Globalization, Transnationalism, and Migration in Asia.” Roundtable at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Organizer, “Chinese Migration around the World.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
Organizer/Chair, “Education as Pathway to Personal and National Development in China.” Symposium at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the International Studies Special Interest Group, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 30-May 4, 2010.
Organizer/Chair, “Purposes, Challenges, and Futures of Ethnographic Research and Writing.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the Executive Program Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2-6, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Childbearing, Fertility, and Infertility.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Workshop on Mixed Methods.”Panel at the biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Asilomar, California, March 27-29, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Wanted and Unwanted Bodies: Age, Health, and Family Roles as Determinants of Inclusion and Exclusion in Processes of Transnational Migration.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, San Francisco, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Family Life, Work, and Child Development in China.” Conference at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, “Justice, Morality, and Equality in China.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 28-December 2, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, Missing Wives and Daughters: Gender, Migration, and Family Separation among Border-Crossing Asians. Panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-25, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, “Transnational Yearnings Flow Both Ways: Chinese Families in China and American Families with Adopted Chinese Children.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for East Asian Anthropology, San Jose, California, USA, November 15-19, 2006.
Organizer/Co-Chair, “How Youth and Children Understand and Respond to Inequality.” Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the Social Context of Education Division, San Francisco, California, USA, April 7-11, 2006.
Organizer/Chair, “Political Action, Multiple Allegiances, and Troubled States: Challenges of Activism among Asians with Transnational Imaginations.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, California, USA, April 6-9, 2006.
Organizer/Chair, “Who is a Good Person?” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 30-December 4, 2005.
Organizer/Chair, “Transnational Identities.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Media, Identity, and Struggle in Late-Socialist China.” Workshop at the Institute for Chinese Studies and Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1-2 September 2004.
Chair, “Education, Family and the Media: Socialization among Chinese Families.” Panel at the Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, October 24-25, 2003.
Organizer/Chair, “The Political Economy of Childhood and Adolescence.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 19-23, 2003.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Knowledge, Citizenship, and State Pedagogy in China.” Workshop at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 11-13, 2003.
Organizer/Chair, “Chasing the Pied Piper: Youth as Agents of Globalization.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 20-24, 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
“How Chinese Youth See the World.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
Discussant Remarks, “Tracing School Effects: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Education.” To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
“Gender, Education, and Childrearing among Single-Child Families in Dalian City, China: Findings from a Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study (1997-2010).” To be presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1-5, 2011.
Discussant Remarks, “Globalization, Transnationalism, and Migration in Asia." Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
“How Chinese Students Experience Dilemmas of Education, Work, and Citizenship Abroad.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
“Why Chinese Youth Want to Study Abroad.” Presented at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the International Studies Special Interest Group, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 30-May 4, 2010.
“How Do Young Wives and Husbands Make Childbearing Decisions in the People’s Republic of China?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27, 2009.
“The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners in Britain and Ireland Who Returned to China Due to Personal and Familial Health Crises.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, San Francisco, California, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
Discussant Remarks, “Anthropologies of Population.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society, San Francisco, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
"Views of the Moral Merits of Individualism among Chinese Youth before and during Study Abroad." Presented at "The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice, An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Change in China." University of California-Los Angeles, California, USA, May 2-3, 2008.
“Freedoms Won and Lost through Study Abroad.” Presented at the Conference on “Rethinking Development in China: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 24-26, 2008.
"Critiques Of Injustice, Immorality, And Inequality In Chinese Responses To National And International Tragedies." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 28-December 2, 2007.
“Parent-Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only-Children.” Presented at “Family Life, Work, and Child Development in China” Conference at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2007.
"The Dilemmas of Filial Chinese Daughters Studying in Europe.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-25, 2007.
“Chinese Singletons as Embodiments of China’s Transnational Yearnings.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for East Asian Anthropology, San Jose, California, USA, November 15-19, 2006.
“How Chinese Youth who Want to Study Abroad Understand and Respond to Global Inequalities.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the Social Context of Education Division, San Francisco, California, USA, April 7-11, 2006.
“Caught between Global Hierarchies, Chinese Nationalism, and the Chinese State: The Dilemmas of Chinese Students who Protested against NATO’s Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, California, USA, April 6-9, 2006.
“High Quality For All: Chinese Only-Children's Claims To Prestigious Personhood.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 30-December 4, 2005.
“Conflicted Identities among Chinese Youth between the Margins of Chinese and Western Societies.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
“Global Information Flows and Cultural Intimacy in Chinese Understandings of National Tragedies.” Presented at the workshop on “Media, Citizenship and Struggle in China,” Institute for Chinese Studies and Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, August 31-September 2, 2004.
“Social and Cultural Prohibitions against Sexual Activity among Teenagers in a Chinese City.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 1-3, 2004.
“Only-Children and the Chinese Quest for an Obedient Yet Self-Reliant National Character.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 19-23, 2003.
“Young Chinese Citizens’ Quest for First World Cultural Citizenship.” Presented at the conference on “Knowledge, Citizenship, and State Pedagogy in China,” at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 11-13, 2003.
“Gender Roles and Intergenerational Contracts among Urban Chinese Single-Child Families.” Presented at the Fairbank Center workshop on “Daughters' Worth Re-evaluated: Changing Intergenerational Relations and Expectations in Contemporary China,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 5-6, 2003.
“Bringing the First World to China: Youth Who Promote Rising Expectations in a Chinese City.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 20-24, 2002.
“The American Dream in China: Modernity, Patriotism, and Dreams of Emigration.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society, Washington, DC, USA, November 28 to December 2, 2001.
“Daring as a Boy, Studious as a Girl: Gender Norms in the Lives of Chinese Singletons.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 3-6, 2001.
“Age, Gender, Value, and the Division of Food and Food Preparation Labor in the Families of Only-Children in Dalian, China.” Presented at a workshop entitled “United We Eat Together? The Family Meal in Chinese Societies,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, June 27-July 1, 1999.
INVITED LECTURES
“Chinese youth who study abroad.” Presented at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 29, 2011.
"Roads Less Traveled: Chinese Students and Transnational Migration.” Lecture presented at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 5, 2010.
“Transformations of Cultural Models as They Pass from Parents to Children: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies of Chinese Families.” Lecture at the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, May 18, 2010.
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Lecture at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA April 18, 2008 and at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, USA, September 1, 2008.
"Views of the Moral Merits of Individualism among Chinese Youth before and during Study Abroad." Lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, May 1-2, 2008.
"Global Information Flows and Chinese Responses to Tragic News Events." Lecture presented at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, September 18, 2007.
"A Longitudinal Study of the Education and Family Lives of Chinese Only-Children, from Adolescence to Young Adulthood." Lecture presented at The Third International Forum on Children's Emotion Development and Competence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May 29, 2007.
“The Long-Term Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy.” Lecture presented at the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education, New York University, New York, New York, USA, March 31, 2006.
“The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners who Return to China Due to Health Crises.” Lecture presented at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, March 25, 2006.
“Health, Happiness, and Chinese Young Adults' Decisions about Study Abroad.” Lecture presented at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, November 8, 2005.
“Chinese Only-Children’s Attitudes Toward Marriage and Childbearing.” Lecture presented at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, March 16, 2005.
“Globalization and the Development of New Concepts of Citizenship among Chinese Adolescents." Colloquium presented at the Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, October 9, 2003.
“Anthropology and Cultural Intimacy.” Keynote address at the Five-College Anthropology Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, April 26, 2003.
E-mail: vfong[at]vfong.com
Vanessa Fong
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University (2002).
M.A. in Anthropology, Harvard University (1998).
B.A. in Anthropology, Amherst College (1996).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2009-present).
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University(2003-2009).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2002-2003).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy for Chinese individuals, families, and society; Chinese only-children who study in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and the United States; neoliberalism; local and global inequalities; citizenship, nationalism, transnationalism, migration, globalization, and the media; language ideologies; Chinese, English, and Japanese language learning among native speakers of Chinese; gender, pregnancy, reproductive technologies, childbearing, breastfeeding, child health, and childrearing; economic development and human development; early childhood language development; health, education, psychological development, and socioeconomic trajectories across the life course; demographic, economic, medical, educational, linguistic, and psychological anthropology.
BOOKS
Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World Stanford University Press, 2011.
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008. Originally published as two special issues of Critical Asian Studies (vol. 39, no.1 (2007), and no. 2 (2007), guest edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong.
Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins. Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel Murphy, eds. London: Routledge, 2006.
Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy. Vanessa L. Fong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004 (winner of the 2005 Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology for the English-language book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to East Asian Anthropology).
Women in Republican China. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (student co-authors' names in italics)
Income, Work Preferences, and Gender Roles among Parents of Infants in Urban China: A Mixed Method Study from Nanjing. Sung won Kim, Vanessa L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Huihua Deng, and Zuhong Lu. China Quarterly 204 (2010): 939–959. Republished in Gender in Flux: Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China, Harriet Evans and Julia C. Strauss, eds., Cambridge University Press , 2011: 123-143).
The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Students in Ireland and Britain who Return to China Due to Health Crises. Vanessa L. Fong Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (2008): 627-641.
SARS, a Shipwreck, a NATO Attack, and September 11: Global Information Flows and Chinese Responses to Tragic News Events. Vanessa L. Fong. American Ethnologist 34, no. 3 (2007): 521-539.
Parent-Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only-Children. Vanessa L. Fong. Ethos 35, no. 1 (2007): 85-127.
Morality, Cosmopolitanism, or Academic Achievement? Discourses on “Quality” and Urban Chinese Only-Children’s Claims to Ideal Personhood.Vanessa L. Fong. City and Society 19, no. 1 (2007): 86-113.
Filial Nationalism among Chinese Teenagers with Global Identities. Vanessa Fong. American Ethnologist 31, no. 4 (2004): 629-646. In January-September 2009, this article ranked as the 18th most frequently downloaded article in Anthrosource (the online repository of all the journal articles ever published by the American Anthropological Association).
China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 104, no. 4 (2002): 1098-1109. In January-September 2009, this article ranked as the 8th most frequently downloaded article in Anthrosource (the online repository of all the journal articles ever published by the American Anthropological Association).
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (student co-authors' names in italics)
Chinese Children, Youth, and Education. Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Education. Bradley A. U. Levinson and Mica Pollock, eds. Blackwell Publishing (2011):333-348.
Introduction: Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China.Vanessa L. Fong.Critical Asian Studies 39, no.1 (2007): 58-62 and no. 2 (2007): 255-258. Republished in Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008: 9-14.
Chinese Youth between the Margins of China and the First World. Vanessa L. Fong. In Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel Murphy, eds., Routledge, 2006: 151-173.
Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship at the Margins. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong. In Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins. Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel A. Murphy, eds., Routledge, 2006: 1-8.
Editors' Preface and Section Introductions. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong. In Women in Republican China. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999: xxvii-xxx, 1-4,75-78, 117-120, 147-150, 183-186.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“China, Japan, and Korea.” Vanessa L. Fong. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies. Heather Montgomery, ed. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming March 2012).
“School Achievement: Let's Not Worry Too Much About Shanghai.” Vanessa L. Fong and Philip Altbach. Education Week, January 12, 2011.
Commentary on “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming,” by João Biehl and Peter Locke. . Vanessa L. Fong. Current Anthroplogy 51, no. 3 (2010): 338-339.
Review of China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism, by Andrew Kipnis. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 112, no. 3 (2010): 483-484.
Review of Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths, by Susan Blum. Vanessa L. Fong. American Ethnologist 37, no. 2 (2010): 408.
Little Emperors and the 4:2:1 Generation: China's Single Child Policy. .Ying Wang and Vanessa L. Fong. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 48, no. 12 (2009): 1137-1139.
Review of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, by Susan Greenhalgh. Vanessa L. Fong. Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 442-444.
The Personal is Political: Review of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey by Esra Özyürek. Vanessa L. Fong. Current Anthropology 50, no. 2 (2009): 270-271.
Exploring the Lives and Attitudes of Only Children in China. Vanessa L. Fong. China Connection: A Journal for New England Families Who Have Adopted Children from China 13, no. 1 (2007): 31-33.
Globalization, the Chinese State, and Chinese Subjectivities: a Review Essay (Reviews of Popular China by Richard P. Madsen, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Perry Link; Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 by Yunxiang Yan; and Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population by Li Zhang). Vanessa L. Fong. Comparative Studies in Society and History 48, no. 4 (2006): 946-953.
Review of China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations, by Martin King Whyte. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 106, no. 4 (2004): 783-784.
Review of Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, by Weili Ye. Vanessa L. Fong. Comparative Studies in Society and History 45, no. 3 (2003): 644-645.
COURSES TAUGHT
Research Seminar on Early Childhood Language Development across Cultures, Languages, and Countries (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2011-present).
Chinese Education in Comparative Perspective (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-present).
Introduction to Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-present).
Doctoral Research Seminar on Citizenship, Identity, and Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2010-2011).
Education in the United States (Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China, 2011).
Writing Ethnography and Proposals for Ethnographic Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006-2008).
Research Seminar on Globalization, Transnational Migration, and International Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-2007).
Doing and Writing about Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2007).
Psychological Anthropology: Methods and Approaches (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006).
Psychological Anthropology (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-2005).
Food and Culture (Harvard Anthropology Department, Head Teaching Fellow, 2001).
Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change (Harvard Core Curriculum, Teaching Fellow, 2000).
English Conversation Classes (a junior high school, a vocational high school, and a college prep high school in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China, 1998-2000).
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—EXTRAMURAL
Editorial Board member, China Quarterly (2011-present), The China Journal (2012-present).
Panel reviewer, International Relations Committee and Special Interest Group--International Studies, for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (2009-present).
Speaker, “Urban Young Adult Singletons' Childbearing Preferences and Outcomes,” Tufts China Care, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. (April 22, 2010).
Speaker, "Students who Leave the PRC to Study in Developed Countries." Paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and published as a Wilson Center special report. Washington, DC, April 14, 2010.
Speaker, Professional Development Seminar for Educators: Children’s Life in China. Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA (April 10, 2010).
Speaker, Workshop on Education in China (seminar for Massachusetts K-12 teachers, administrators, and school district officials), Primary Source, Watertown, Massachusetts, March 4, 2010.
Member, Executive Program Committee for the 2009 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2008-2009).
Speaker, Workshop on Childrearing Strategies for Parents of Adolescents, May 30, 2007, Nanjing, China.
Condon Student Paper Prize Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology (member 2004, 2005; chair 2006).
Speaker, A Grants Workshop with Wenner-Gren, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 20-24, 2002.
“Education for Quality: A Comparison of Chinese and American Approaches.” Lecture presented before about 60 high school English teachers, invited by the Dalian Bureau of Education, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China, March 27, 2000.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—INTRAMURAL
Co-organizer, Gender Studies Workshop Speaker Series, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2006-present).
Council on Asian Studies, Harvard University (2009-present).
Executive Committee, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2011-present).
Adviser, Human Development and Psychology M.Ed. program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-present).
Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University (2008-present).
Convener, Culture, Communities, and Education Concentration, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2010-2011).
Ed.D Program Steering Committee, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2010-2011).
Qualitative Research Methods Discussion Group, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2006-2009).
Committee on International Projects and Sites, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2010).
Speaker, “How Chinese Universities Can Compete for Chinese and International Students and Faculty in the Global Market,” Executive Education Program for Shaanxi Province Higher Education Leaders, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (December 6-14, 2010).
Guest Speaker, Intensive Preparation for the Study of International Education (2008, 2009, 2010).
Speaker, “How to Arrange Your Work, Study, and Service Experience in China on Your Own: Tips for the Flexible and Adventurous.” Workshop on Opportunities in China, Harvard Graduate School of Education, March 11, 2010.
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships Committee, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2009-2010).
International Education Search Committee, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2009).
Participant, Harvard-Berkeley International Forum on Chinese Higher Education, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (October 10-12, 2008).
Asia Center Executive Committee, Harvard University (2003-2008).
Admissions Committee, Human Development and Psychology Master’s Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010).
Harvard-Yenching Institute Structured Conversations with University Leaders from Asia, Harvard University (May 9-10, 2008).
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Shum Fellowships Selection Committee, Harvard University (2008).
Undergraduate Research Grant Proposal Selection Committee, Asia Center and Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (2008).
Advisory Group for Harvard University President Drew Faust’s Visit to Tsinghua University and Beijing University in China (2008).
Student of Color Orientation panelist and International Students Orientation panelist, 2003-2009.
International Students Orientation panelist, 2003-present.
Committee on Degrees, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2005, 2006).
Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--EXTRAMURAL
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009-2014).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2006).
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2003
British Academy Grant for International Networks Conference Grant. Co-PI with Rachel Murphy.
British Council China Studies Conference Grant. Co-PI with Rachel Murphy.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant (2002).
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1996).
Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship (1996).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--INTRAMURAL
Harvard China Fund, Harvard University (PI, with co-PI Hirokazu Yoshikawa) (2008-2010).
Asia Center Research Grant, Harvard University (2004, 2005, 2006).
William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University (2005).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Demography Fund Research Grant (2003). Awarded through the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Weatherhead Center for International Studies Research Grant, Harvard University (2002).
Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2001).
Andrew W. Mellon Grant for Predissertation Research (1997). Awarded through the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Addison Brown Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Amherst College (1996).
Charles W. Cole Memorial Scholarship, Amherst College (1994).
WORKSHOPS AND PANELS ORGANIZED OR CHAIRED
Organizer, “Transformations in Chinese Views of the World and the World’s Views of China.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Investigating Gender and Educational Progress in China with Comparisons across Time and Place.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1-5, 2011.
Organizer/Chair, “Globalization, Transnationalism, and Migration in Asia.” Roundtable at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Organizer, “Chinese Migration around the World.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
Organizer/Chair, “Education as Pathway to Personal and National Development in China.” Symposium at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the International Studies Special Interest Group, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 30-May 4, 2010.
Organizer/Chair, “Purposes, Challenges, and Futures of Ethnographic Research and Writing.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the Executive Program Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2-6, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Childbearing, Fertility, and Infertility.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Workshop on Mixed Methods.”Panel at the biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Asilomar, California, March 27-29, 2009.
Organizer/Chair, “Wanted and Unwanted Bodies: Age, Health, and Family Roles as Determinants of Inclusion and Exclusion in Processes of Transnational Migration.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, San Francisco, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Family Life, Work, and Child Development in China.” Conference at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, “Justice, Morality, and Equality in China.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 28-December 2, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, Missing Wives and Daughters: Gender, Migration, and Family Separation among Border-Crossing Asians. Panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-25, 2007.
Organizer/Chair, “Transnational Yearnings Flow Both Ways: Chinese Families in China and American Families with Adopted Chinese Children.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, invited by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for East Asian Anthropology, San Jose, California, USA, November 15-19, 2006.
Organizer/Co-Chair, “How Youth and Children Understand and Respond to Inequality.” Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the Social Context of Education Division, San Francisco, California, USA, April 7-11, 2006.
Organizer/Chair, “Political Action, Multiple Allegiances, and Troubled States: Challenges of Activism among Asians with Transnational Imaginations.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, California, USA, April 6-9, 2006.
Organizer/Chair, “Who is a Good Person?” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 30-December 4, 2005.
Organizer/Chair, “Transnational Identities.” Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Media, Identity, and Struggle in Late-Socialist China.” Workshop at the Institute for Chinese Studies and Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1-2 September 2004.
Chair, “Education, Family and the Media: Socialization among Chinese Families.” Panel at the Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, October 24-25, 2003.
Organizer/Chair, “The Political Economy of Childhood and Adolescence.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 19-23, 2003.
Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, “Knowledge, Citizenship, and State Pedagogy in China.” Workshop at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 11-13, 2003.
Organizer/Chair, “Chasing the Pied Piper: Youth as Agents of Globalization.” Panel at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 20-24, 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
“How Chinese Youth See the World.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
Discussant Remarks, “Tracing School Effects: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Education.” To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 16-20, 2011.
“Gender, Education, and Childrearing among Single-Child Families in Dalian City, China: Findings from a Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study (1997-2010).” To be presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1-5, 2011.
Discussant Remarks, “Globalization, Transnationalism, and Migration in Asia." Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
“How Chinese Students Experience Dilemmas of Education, Work, and Citizenship Abroad.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
“Why Chinese Youth Want to Study Abroad.” Presented at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the International Studies Special Interest Group, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 30-May 4, 2010.
“How Do Young Wives and Husbands Make Childbearing Decisions in the People’s Republic of China?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27, 2009.
“The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners in Britain and Ireland Who Returned to China Due to Personal and Familial Health Crises.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, San Francisco, California, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
Discussant Remarks, “Anthropologies of Population.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society, San Francisco, USA, November 17-December 23, 2008.
"Views of the Moral Merits of Individualism among Chinese Youth before and during Study Abroad." Presented at "The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice, An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Change in China." University of California-Los Angeles, California, USA, May 2-3, 2008.
“Freedoms Won and Lost through Study Abroad.” Presented at the Conference on “Rethinking Development in China: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 24-26, 2008.
"Critiques Of Injustice, Immorality, And Inequality In Chinese Responses To National And International Tragedies." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 28-December 2, 2007.
“Parent-Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only-Children.” Presented at “Family Life, Work, and Child Development in China” Conference at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2007.
"The Dilemmas of Filial Chinese Daughters Studying in Europe.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-25, 2007.
“Chinese Singletons as Embodiments of China’s Transnational Yearnings.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for East Asian Anthropology, San Jose, California, USA, November 15-19, 2006.
“How Chinese Youth who Want to Study Abroad Understand and Respond to Global Inequalities.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, reviewed by the Social Context of Education Division, San Francisco, California, USA, April 7-11, 2006.
“Caught between Global Hierarchies, Chinese Nationalism, and the Chinese State: The Dilemmas of Chinese Students who Protested against NATO’s Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, California, USA, April 6-9, 2006.
“High Quality For All: Chinese Only-Children's Claims To Prestigious Personhood.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, DC, USA, November 30-December 4, 2005.
“Conflicted Identities among Chinese Youth between the Margins of Chinese and Western Societies.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
“Global Information Flows and Cultural Intimacy in Chinese Understandings of National Tragedies.” Presented at the workshop on “Media, Citizenship and Struggle in China,” Institute for Chinese Studies and Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, August 31-September 2, 2004.
“Social and Cultural Prohibitions against Sexual Activity among Teenagers in a Chinese City.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 1-3, 2004.
“Only-Children and the Chinese Quest for an Obedient Yet Self-Reliant National Character.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 19-23, 2003.
“Young Chinese Citizens’ Quest for First World Cultural Citizenship.” Presented at the conference on “Knowledge, Citizenship, and State Pedagogy in China,” at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 11-13, 2003.
“Gender Roles and Intergenerational Contracts among Urban Chinese Single-Child Families.” Presented at the Fairbank Center workshop on “Daughters' Worth Re-evaluated: Changing Intergenerational Relations and Expectations in Contemporary China,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 5-6, 2003.
“Bringing the First World to China: Youth Who Promote Rising Expectations in a Chinese City.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 20-24, 2002.
“The American Dream in China: Modernity, Patriotism, and Dreams of Emigration.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, reviewed by the American Ethnological Society, Washington, DC, USA, November 28 to December 2, 2001.
“Daring as a Boy, Studious as a Girl: Gender Norms in the Lives of Chinese Singletons.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 3-6, 2001.
“Age, Gender, Value, and the Division of Food and Food Preparation Labor in the Families of Only-Children in Dalian, China.” Presented at a workshop entitled “United We Eat Together? The Family Meal in Chinese Societies,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, June 27-July 1, 1999.
INVITED LECTURES
“Chinese youth who study abroad.” Presented at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 29, 2011.
"Roads Less Traveled: Chinese Students and Transnational Migration.” Lecture presented at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 5, 2010.
“Transformations of Cultural Models as They Pass from Parents to Children: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies of Chinese Families.” Lecture at the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, May 18, 2010.
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Lecture at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA April 18, 2008 and at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, USA, September 1, 2008.
"Views of the Moral Merits of Individualism among Chinese Youth before and during Study Abroad." Lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, May 1-2, 2008.
"Global Information Flows and Chinese Responses to Tragic News Events." Lecture presented at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, September 18, 2007.
"A Longitudinal Study of the Education and Family Lives of Chinese Only-Children, from Adolescence to Young Adulthood." Lecture presented at The Third International Forum on Children's Emotion Development and Competence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May 29, 2007.
“The Long-Term Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy.” Lecture presented at the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education, New York University, New York, New York, USA, March 31, 2006.
“The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners who Return to China Due to Health Crises.” Lecture presented at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, March 25, 2006.
“Health, Happiness, and Chinese Young Adults' Decisions about Study Abroad.” Lecture presented at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, November 8, 2005.
“Chinese Only-Children’s Attitudes Toward Marriage and Childbearing.” Lecture presented at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, March 16, 2005.
“Globalization and the Development of New Concepts of Citizenship among Chinese Adolescents." Colloquium presented at the Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, October 9, 2003.
“Anthropology and Cultural Intimacy.” Keynote address at the Five-College Anthropology Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, April 26, 2003.
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