Vanessa L. Fong
Vanessa FongFriday
Vanessa Fong
Vanessa L. Fong
E-mail: vfong@vfong.com
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
The long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy; gender, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbearing, and childrearing; birth control and reproductive technologies; public health and health education; adolescent smoking and diet; education, psychological development, and socioeconomic trajectories across the life course; mass media and globalization; citizenship, nationalism, transnationalism, and migration; Chinese youth who study in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Singapore; demographic, medical, and psychological anthropology.
BOOKS
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008.
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.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners 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.
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.
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.
China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 104, no. 4 (2002): 1098-1109.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
Introduction. In Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008: 9-13.
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.
GUEST-EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China, Parts 1-2. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, guest eds. Critical Asian Studies 39, no. 1 and no. 2 (2007).
The 'Woman Question': Selected Essays from the May Fourth Era Women's Emancipation Movement. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa Fong, guest eds. Chinese Studies in History 31, no. 2 (1998).
BOOK REVIEWS
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).
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
Chinese Education in Comparative Perspective (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-).
Introduction to Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-).
Research Seminar on Globalization, Transnational Migration, and International Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-).
Writing Ethnography and Proposals for Ethnographic Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006-).
Doing and Writing about Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Course Head, 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).
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—EXTRAMURAL
Manuscript Reviewer for:
American Ethnologist;
Body & Society;
The China Journal;
China Quarterly;
City and Society;
Comparative Studies in Society and History;
Comparative Education Review;
Critical Asian Studies;
Ethos;
Gender and Society;
Human Organization;
Journal of Family Issues;
Modern China;
Population and Development Review;
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society;
Routledge;
Stanford University Press
Grant Proposal Reviewer for:
Council for Development Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark;
Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom;
National Science Foundation, USA;
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Member, Academic Advisory Committee, China in Comparative Perspective Network (2008-present).
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.
Fong, Vanessa L. Exploring the Lives and Attitudes of Only Children in China. China Connection: A Journal for New England Families Who Have Adopted Children from China 13, no. 1 (2007): 31-33.
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 SERVICE—INTRAMURAL
Co-organizer, Gender Studies Workshop Series, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (2006-present).
Member, Committee on International Projects and Sites, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2009).
Advisor, Human Development and Psychology Master’s Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008. 2008-2009).
Asia Center Executive Committee, Harvard University (2003-2008).
Participant, Harvard-Berkeley International Forum on Chinese Higher Education, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (October 10-12, 2008).
Harvard-Yenching Institute Structured Conversations with University Leaders from Asia, Harvard University (May 9-10, 2008).
Student of Color Orientation panelist and International Students Orientation panelist, Sept. 5, 2008, Sept. 8 and 13, 2007; Sept. 15, 2005; Sept. 17, 2004; Sept. 12, 2003.
Qualitative Research Methods Discussion Group, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2006).
Committee on Degrees, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2005, 2006).
Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004).
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Francis Hsu Book Prize (2005), awarded by 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 (for Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy, Stanford University Press 2004).
Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, Harvard University (2000, 2001). For teaching rated over 4.5 out of 5 by student evaluators in “Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change” and “Food and Culture.”
American Ethnological Society Elsie Clews Parsons Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2001) and Association for Feminist Anthropology Sylvia Forman Graduate Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2001). For paper entitled “Daring as a Boy, Studious as a Girl: Gender Norms in the Lives of Chinese Singletons.”
Woods-Travis Prize for Scholarly Excellence, Amherst College (1996).
Donald S. Pitkin Prize in Anthropology, Amherst College (1996).
Doshisha Asian Studies Prize, Amherst College (1996).
Summa Cum Laude, Amherst College (1996)
Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College (1995)
New England Anthropology Association Undergraduate Student Paper Prize (1995).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--EXTRAMURAL
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009-2014).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005).
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2003).
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 (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/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.” 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.
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.
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, "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.” Panel 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
“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.” Paper presented 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.
Discussant Remarks, “Anthropologies of Population.” Panel 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." Paper 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.
"Critiques Of Injustice, Immorality, And Inequality In Chinese Responses To National And International Tragedies." Paper 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.” Paper 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." Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
“Global Information Flows and Public Secrets in Chinese Understandings of National Tragedies.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.
“Bringing the First World to China: Youth Who Promote Rising Expectations in a Chinese City.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Paper presented at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, USA September 1, 2008.
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Paper presented at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA April 18, 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 Public Secrets.” Keynote address at the Five-College Anthropology Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, April 26, 2003.
“Daughters are the Same as Sons: Changing Gender Roles Among Only-Children in Dalian, China.” Lecture presented at the City University of Hong Kong, in Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, March 13, 2000.
E-mail: vfong@vfong.com
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
The long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy; gender, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbearing, and childrearing; birth control and reproductive technologies; public health and health education; adolescent smoking and diet; education, psychological development, and socioeconomic trajectories across the life course; mass media and globalization; citizenship, nationalism, transnationalism, and migration; Chinese youth who study in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Singapore; demographic, medical, and psychological anthropology.
BOOKS
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008.
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.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners 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.
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.
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.
China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters. Vanessa L. Fong. American Anthropologist 104, no. 4 (2002): 1098-1109.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
Introduction. In Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. London: Routledge, 2008: 9-13.
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.
GUEST-EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China, Parts 1-2. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, guest eds. Critical Asian Studies 39, no. 1 and no. 2 (2007).
The 'Woman Question': Selected Essays from the May Fourth Era Women's Emancipation Movement. Hua R. Lan and Vanessa Fong, guest eds. Chinese Studies in History 31, no. 2 (1998).
BOOK REVIEWS
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).
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
Chinese Education in Comparative Perspective (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-).
Introduction to Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008-).
Research Seminar on Globalization, Transnational Migration, and International Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003-).
Writing Ethnography and Proposals for Ethnographic Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006-).
Doing and Writing about Qualitative Research (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Course Head, 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).
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE—EXTRAMURAL
Manuscript Reviewer for:
American Ethnologist;
Body & Society;
The China Journal;
China Quarterly;
City and Society;
Comparative Studies in Society and History;
Comparative Education Review;
Critical Asian Studies;
Ethos;
Gender and Society;
Human Organization;
Journal of Family Issues;
Modern China;
Population and Development Review;
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society;
Routledge;
Stanford University Press
Grant Proposal Reviewer for:
Council for Development Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark;
Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom;
National Science Foundation, USA;
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Member, Academic Advisory Committee, China in Comparative Perspective Network (2008-present).
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.
Fong, Vanessa L. Exploring the Lives and Attitudes of Only Children in China. China Connection: A Journal for New England Families Who Have Adopted Children from China 13, no. 1 (2007): 31-33.
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 SERVICE—INTRAMURAL
Co-organizer, Gender Studies Workshop Series, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (2006-present).
Member, Committee on International Projects and Sites, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2008-2009).
Advisor, Human Development and Psychology Master’s Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008. 2008-2009).
Asia Center Executive Committee, Harvard University (2003-2008).
Participant, Harvard-Berkeley International Forum on Chinese Higher Education, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (October 10-12, 2008).
Harvard-Yenching Institute Structured Conversations with University Leaders from Asia, Harvard University (May 9-10, 2008).
Student of Color Orientation panelist and International Students Orientation panelist, Sept. 5, 2008, Sept. 8 and 13, 2007; Sept. 15, 2005; Sept. 17, 2004; Sept. 12, 2003.
Qualitative Research Methods Discussion Group, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2006).
Committee on Degrees, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2005, 2006).
Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2003-2004).
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Francis Hsu Book Prize (2005), awarded by 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 (for Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy, Stanford University Press 2004).
Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, Harvard University (2000, 2001). For teaching rated over 4.5 out of 5 by student evaluators in “Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change” and “Food and Culture.”
American Ethnological Society Elsie Clews Parsons Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2001) and Association for Feminist Anthropology Sylvia Forman Graduate Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2001). For paper entitled “Daring as a Boy, Studious as a Girl: Gender Norms in the Lives of Chinese Singletons.”
Woods-Travis Prize for Scholarly Excellence, Amherst College (1996).
Donald S. Pitkin Prize in Anthropology, Amherst College (1996).
Doshisha Asian Studies Prize, Amherst College (1996).
Summa Cum Laude, Amherst College (1996)
Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College (1995)
New England Anthropology Association Undergraduate Student Paper Prize (1995).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS--EXTRAMURAL
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009-2014).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005).
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2003).
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 (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/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.” 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.
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.
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, "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.” Panel 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
“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.” Paper presented 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.
Discussant Remarks, “Anthropologies of Population.” Panel 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." Paper 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.
"Critiques Of Injustice, Immorality, And Inequality In Chinese Responses To National And International Tragedies." Paper 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.” Paper 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." Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, USA, April 7-10, 2005.
“Global Information Flows and Public Secrets in Chinese Understandings of National Tragedies.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.
“Bringing the First World to China: Youth Who Promote Rising Expectations in a Chinese City.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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.” Paper 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
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Paper presented at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, USA September 1, 2008.
"Dilemmas of Transnational Migration among Chinese Only-Children." Paper presented at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA April 18, 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 Public Secrets.” Keynote address at the Five-College Anthropology Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, April 26, 2003.
“Daughters are the Same as Sons: Changing Gender Roles Among Only-Children in Dalian, China.” Lecture presented at the City University of Hong Kong, in Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, March 13, 2000.
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