Anthropology of Ascendant China

This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China's ascendancy both within China itself and beyond.

Mayfair Yang is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at University of California Berkeley, and specializes in the Anthropology of Religion, Modernity, and the State, as well as Gender and Media Studies.

Introduction to the Volume - Mayfair Yang; I. Historical Genealogies of China's Ascendant Present; 1. China's Ascendancies and the China-India Experience - Tansen Sen; 2. The Belt and Road Initiative in Global Historical Perspective - Prasenjit Duara; 3. An Emerging Outlook of Multiethnic China - Liang Yongjia; II. Socioeconomic Features of China's Ascendancy; 4. Chinese Consumer Culture: Luxury, Nationalism, and Class Formation - John Osburg; 5. Governing the (Un)Healthy Body: Big Food, Small Government - Susan Greenhalgh; 6. The Olympic Ritual Economy and China's Rise - Susan Brownelll 7. Under the Seal's Whip: Ecological Excess and Making Vital Commodities between China and Namibia - Jay Ke-Schutte and Xiao Schutte-Ke; 8. Wanghong Spaces: The Spatial Effects of China's Ascendant Digital Culture - Carwyn Morris and Yan Cong; III. State, Civil Society, and Nationalism in China's Rise; 9. Health, Medicine, and Well-being in 21st-Century China - Nancy N. Chen; 10. Education, Nationalism, and Identity Construction among China's Youth - Orna Naftali; IV. Gender, Sexuality, and Kinship in China's Modernity and Globalization; 11. Diversifying Chinese Families and Family Desire in the 21st Century - Sara L. Friedman; 12. Gender and Migration: Chinese Women in Latin America - Luciana E. Denardi and Ximena Alba Villalever; 13. The Nation-State, Crisis of Chinese Masculinity, and Contestations of Same-Sex Attracted Men - Tiantian Zheng; V. Distress: Unforeseen Consequences of Rapid Development; 14. An Ascending Society in Distress - Li Zhang and Zhiying Ma; 15. Transforming Ethnic Minority Ecologies in China's Rise - Brendan A. Galipeau