Vanessa L. Fong
Vanessa FongFriday
E-mail: vfong[at]amherst.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University (2002).
M.A. in Anthropology, Harvard University (1998).
B.A. in Anthropology, Amherst College (1996).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Olin Professor in Asian Studies (Anthropology), Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College (2020-present).
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College (2018-present).
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College (2012-2018).
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2009-2012).
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University(2003-2009).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2002-2003).
SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS
Fong, Vanessa L. Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Fong, Vanessa L. Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy. 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).
CO-EDITED BOOKS
Murphy, Rachel and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. London: Routledge, 2008 (originally published as special issues of Critical Asian Studies 39, no.1 (2007), and no. 2 (2007), both of which were guest edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong).
JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)
Xuan Li, Cong Zhang, Rui Yang, Vanessa L. Fong, Niobe Way, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Xinyin Chen, Guangzhen Zhang & Zongbao Liang. Father knows best? Chinese parents’ perceptions of their influence on child development. Journal of Family Studies (forthcoming).
Zhang,
Cong, Sungwon Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Vanessa L. Fong, Xinyin Chen, Niobe Way,
and Zuhong Lu. Lineage Difference in Grandmothers’ Childcare Help and Mothers’
Parenting Stress in Urban China. Journal
of Family Studies vol. 29, no. 5
(2023): 2025-2045.
Kim, Sung won, Zhang, Cong Hirokazu Yoshikawa,
Vanessa L Fong, Xinyin Chen, Niobe Way, Xiaoyan Ke. Family Duties and Job
Flexibility: Tradeoffs for Chinese Urban, Educated Mothers with Toddlers. Journal of Comparative Family Studies vol.
53, no. 1, pages 25-47 (2022).
Zhang, Cong, Aaron Yang, Sung won Kim and
Vanessa L. Fong. How Urban Adults Decide Whether to Have a Second Child under
China’s Two-Child Policy.
China Quarterly, Volume 247, September 2021, pages. 835 - 854.
Zhang, Cong, Vanessa L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Huihua Deng, and Zuhong Lu. How Urban Chinese Parents with 14-Month-Old Children Talk about Nanny Care and Childrearing Ideals. Journal of Family Studies 26, no. 4 (2020): 611-627.
Zhang, Cong, Vanessa
L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Huihua Deng, and Zuhong
Lu. The Rise of Maternal Grandmother Child Care in Urban Chinese Families. Journal of Marriage and Family 81, no. 5
(2019): 1174-1191.
Kim, Sung won, Kari-Elle
Brown, Edward J. Kim, and Vanessa L. Fong. "Poorer
Children Study Better”: How Urban Chinese Youth Perceive Relationships between
Wealth and Academic Achievement. Comparative
Education Review 62, no. 1 (2018): 84-102.
Kim, Sung won, Kari-Elle
Brown, and Vanessa L. Fong. How
Flexible Gender Identities Give Young Women Advantages in China’s New Economy. Gender and Education 29, no 7 (2017):
1-19.
Kim, Sung won, Kari-Elle
Brown, and Vanessa L. Fong. Chinese
Individualisms: Childrearing Aspirations for the Next Generation of Middle
Class Chinese Citizens. Ethos 45, no
3 (2017): 342-366.
Kim, Sung won, Edward
J. Kim, Amy Wagaman, and Vanessa L. Fong. A Longitudinal
Mixed Methods Study of Parents’ Socioeconomic Status and Children’s Educational
Attainment in Dalian City, China. International
Journal of Educational Development 52 (2017): 111–121.
Kim, Sung won, Kari-Elle
Brown, and Vanessa L. Fong.
Credentialism and Career Aspirations: How Urban Chinese Youth Choose High
School and College Majors. Comparative
Education Review 60, no. 2 (2016):271-292.
Kim, Sung won, and Vanessa L. Fong. Homework help, Achievement in Middle School, and Later College Attainment in China. Asia Pacific Education Review 15, no. 4 (2014):617-631
Kim, Sung won, and Vanessa L. Fong. A Longitudinal Study of Son and Daughter Preference among Chinese Only-Children from Adolescence to Adulthood. The China Journal no. 71 (2014): 1-26.
Kim, Sung won, and Vanessa L. Fong. How Parents Help Children with Schoolwork in China: Narratives Across the Life-span. Asia Pacific Education Review 14, no. 4 (2013): 581-592.
Kim, Sung won, Vanessa L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Huihua Deng, and Zuhong Lu. Income, Work Preferences, and Gender Roles among Parents of Infants in Urban China: A Mixed Method Study from Nanjing. 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.
Wang, Ying and Vanessa L. Fong. Little Emperors and the 4:2:1 Generation: China's Single Child Policy. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 48, no. 12 (2009): 1137-1139.
Fong, Vanessa L. The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Students in Ireland and Britain who Return to China Due to Health Crises. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (2008): 627-641.
Fong, Vanessa L. Parent-Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only-Children. Ethos 35, no. 1 (2007): 85-127. Republished in Robert A. LeVine (Ed.), 2010, Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture (pp. 220-238). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Morality, Cosmopolitanism, or Academic Achievement? Discourses on “Quality” and
Urban Chinese Only-Children’s Claims to Ideal Personhood. City and Society 19, no. 1 (2007): 86-113.
Fong, Vanessa.
Filial Nationalism among Chinese Teenagers with Global Identities. American Ethnologist 31, no. 4 (2004):
629-646. In 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).
Fong, Vanessa L. China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters. American Anthropologist 104, no. 4 (2002): 1098-1109. In 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). This article was republished in Xiaowei Zang (Ed.), Gender and Chinese Society: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, New York: Routledge (2014). This article was also translated into Chinese, and the Chinese version was published in Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities (Guangxi Minzu Daxue Xuebao, 广西民族大学学报), March 15, 2009. A revised version of this article was also published in Prescott, Anne (Ed.), East Asia in the World, New York: Routledge (2015).
CO-EDITED
BOOKS (PEER-REVIEWED)
Murphy, Rachel and
Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Media, Identity,
and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. London: Routledge, 2008
(originally published as special issues of Critical
Asian Studies 39, no.1 (2007), and no. 2 (2007), both of which were guest
edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong).
Fong, Vanessa L. and
Rachel Murphy, eds. Chinese Citizenship:
Views from the Margins London: Routledge, 2006.
Lan, Hua R.
and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook. Armonk,
New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999 (Parts
of this were originally published as a special issue of Chinese Studies in History 31, no. 2 (1998), guest edited by Hua R.
Lan and Vanessa L. Fong)
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS, INVITED AND THEN
PEER-REVIEWED
Fong, Vanessa L.,
Greene Ko, Cong Zhang. and Sung won
Kim. The Leftover Majority: Why Urban
Men and Women Born under China's One-Child Policy Remained Unmarried Through
Age 27. Pages 55-75, in Yunxiang Yan, ed., Chinese
Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early
21st Century. Boston, MA: Brill Publishers (2021).
Fong, Vanessa L.,
Dian Yu, and Yun Zhu. One Child and
More. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese
Culture and Society, ed. Kevin Latham. Routledge (2020): 248-259.
Fong, Vanessa L.,
Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong
Lu, and Huihua Deng. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers’ Aspirations
for their Toddler Daughters’ Future Independence and Excellence. In
Andrew Kipnis, ed., Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012): 106-136.
Fong, Vanessa L. and
Sung won Kim, Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and
Education. In A Companion to the
Anthropology of Education, Bradley A. U. Levinson and Mica Pollock, eds.
Hoboken, New Jersey: Blackwell Publishing (2011):333-348.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Introduction: Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China. 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.
Fong, Vanessa L. Chinese Youth between the Margins of China and the
First World. In Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, Vanessa L. Fong
and Rachel Murphy, eds., Routledge (2006): 151-173.
Murphy, Rachel and
Vanessa L. Fong. Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship at the
Margins. In Chinese Citizenship: Views
from the Margins, Vanessa L. Fong and Rachel A. Murphy, eds., Routledge
(2006): 1-8.
Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong. Editors’ Preface and Section Introductions. In Women in Republican China. In 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.
BOOK REVIEWS,
INVITED BUT NOT PEER-REVIEWED
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Chinese Village Life Today.
Building Families in an Age of Transition by Gonçalo Santos. In Anthropos 118:273-274
(2023).
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China by Fengshu Liu. In China Quarterly 246 (2021): 623-625.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of "Changing Fate": Education, Poverty and Family Support in Contemporary Chinese Society by Helena Obendiek. In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25: 3 (2019): 617-618.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth by T.E. Woronov. In American Ethnologist 43: 4 (2016): 779-780.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times, edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren. In Critique of Anthropology 36: 1 (2016): 99-100.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Ordinary Ethics in China, edited by Charles Stafford. China Journal 65, no. 1 (2016): 194-196.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China, by Teresa Kuan, Ethos 43, no. 4 (2015): e23-e24.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China by Andrew B. Kipnis. The China Journal 68 (2012): 256-258.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China by Susan Greenhalgh. Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 4 (2011):1121-1123.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of China and Postsocialist
Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism, by Andrew
Kipnis. American Anthropologist 112,
no. 3 (2010): 483-484.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth,
Other Truths, by Susan Blum. American Ethnologist 37, no. 2 (2010):
408.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Just One Child: Science and
Policy in Deng's China, by Susan Greenhalgh, Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 442-444.
Fong, Vanessa L. The Personal is Political: Review of Nostalgia for
the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, by
Esra Özyürek, Current Anthropology 50, no. 2 (2009): 270-271.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of China’s Revolutions and
Intergenerational Relations, by Martin
King Whyte. American Anthropologist 106,
no. 4 (2004): 783-784.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Seeking Modernity in
China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, by Weili Ye. Comparative Studies
in Society and History 45, no. 3
(2003): 644-645.
REVIEW ESSAYS, INVITED BUT NOT PEER-REVIEWED
Zhang, Cong and Vanessa L. Fong. Review Essay: Change and Continuity in China: Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China by Lily Chumley (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016); From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat, by Andrew B. Kipnis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016); Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China, by Elanah Uretsky (Stanford University Press 2016). In Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2021.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Chinese Village Life Today. Building Families in an Age of Transition by Gonçalo Santos. In Anthropos 118 (2023):273-274.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Modernization as Lived
Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China by Fengshu
Liu. In China Quarterly 246 (June 2021):
623-625.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times, edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren. In Critique of Anthropology 36: 1 (2016): 99-100.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Ordinary Ethics in China, edited by Charles Stafford. The China Journal 65, no. 1 (2016): 194-196.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China by Teresa Kuan, Ethos 43, no. 4 (2015): e23-e24.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China by Andrew B. Kipnis. The China Journal 68 (2012): 256-258.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China by Susan Greenhalgh. Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 4 (2011):1121-1123.
Fong, Vanessa L.
Review of Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth,
Other Truths, by Susan Blum. American Ethnologist 37, no. 2 (2010):
408.
Fong, Vanessa L. The Personal is Political: Review of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, by Esra Özyürek, Current Anthropology 50, no. 2 (2009): 270-271.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations, by Martin King Whyte. American Anthropologist 106, no. 4 (2004): 783-784.
Fong, Vanessa L. Review of Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, by Weili Ye. Comparative Studies in Society and History 45, no. 3 (2003): 644-645。
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Fong, Vanessa L. “China, Japan, and Korea.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies. Heather Montgomery, ed. New York: Oxford University Press (2012).
Fong, Vanessa L. and Philip G. Altbach. “School Achievement: Let's Not Worry Too Much About Shanghai.” Education Week 30, no. 15 (2011): 28-30.
Fong, Vanessa L. Commentary on “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming,” by João Biehl and Peter Locke. Current Anthropology 51, no. 3 (2010): 338-339.
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.
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