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Yunxiang Yan

Co-Director, Center for Chinese Studies; Professor, Anthropology

Department: Anthropology

381 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus mailcode: 155303
Tel: 310-267-4336
Fax: 310-206-7833
yan@anthro.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: China, Cultural anthropology


SUBFIELD

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Harvard 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Economic anthropology, social change and development, family and kinship, exchange theory, peasant study, and cultural globalization.

For more on Yunxiang Yan:
Levenson Prize-winning Research
Inaugural Shanghai Global Institute
2003 Malinowski Memorial Lecture

PUBLICATIONS

  • 1996 The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • 1997 The Triumph of Conjugality: Structural Transformation of Family Relations in a Chinese Village. Ethnology 36(3):191-212.
  • 1997 McDonald’s in Beijing: the Localization of Americana. In Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia. J. L. Watson (ed.) Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 39-76.
  • 1999 Rural Youth and Youth Culture in North China. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry No. 23:75-97.
  • 2000 The Politics of Consumerism in Chinese Society. In China Briefing, 2000: The Continuing Transformation. Tyrene White (ed.). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Pp. 159-193.