Tiantian  Zheng

 

                                                                                                              

Professor, Anthropology

Managing Editor, Wagadu: A Journal of Women's and Gender Studies

Coordinator, Asian/Middle Eastern Studies

 

PhD, Yale University, 2003

Sociology/Anthropology

PO Box 2000

State University of New York, Cortland

Cortland, NY 13045

 

tiantian.zheng@cortland.edu,

tiantian.zheng@aya.yale.edu

State University of New York, Cortland

P.O. Box 2000, Moffett Building, Room 2112

Office: Moffet 2112

607-753-2478 (o), 607-753-5973 (fax)

 

Education

 

Yale University  Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology  (1998 - 2003)

Yale University  M. Phil in Socio-cultural Anthropology (2000)

University of Northern Iowa  Graduate Program in Women’s Studies (1997- 1998)

Dalian University of Foreign Language  M.A. in English Linguistics (1993-1996)

Bo Hai University  B.A. in English Education (1989- 1993)

 

Research Interests

 

My research focuses on the cultural politics of gender, sex, class, migration, and power during the political, social, and cultural transformations in postsocialist China.  My first ethnography traces the profound intersection between state power, the rise of entrepreneurial masculinity, rural migrant women, and the sex industry in the context of post-socialism and globalization. My second ethnography examines the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and state power that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control (STIs and HIV/AIDS), condom use, and control of women’s bodies in the context of postsocialist China’s economic and political liberalization.  My edited journal issue in Wagadu and my edited volume by Routledge explore the life experiences, agency, and human rights of women who are involved in a variety of activities that are characterized as “trafficked” terrains in a de-territorialized and re-territorialized world, to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected.   I am also the lead author of a book on HIV/AIDS through an anthropology lens, which explores the epidemiological, cultural, political and economic theoretical paradigms on HIV/AIDS and apply them to regional and topic case studies.  My current research explores the political, economic, and cultural factors that contextualize homosexual men’s sexual behaviors in the context of international lesbian and gay movement and postsocialist China’s economic and political liberalization.

 

Recent Publications

 

Books

 

Zheng, Tiantian (lead author) and Jack Wortman. 2011. HIV/AIDS Through an Anthropological Lens. Second Edition. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

 

Zheng, Tiantian (ed). 2010. Sex-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice. Routledge.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

(Winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for the book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to the topic of women and labor) (Press: Feminist Review, Elevate Difference, Intersections)

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism.New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

(Winner of the 2011 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States)

 

Zheng, Tiantian (lead author) and Jack Wortman. 2009. HIV/AIDS Through an Anthropological Lens. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

 

Guest-Edited Journal Issues

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice. Guest ed. Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (summer) Vol. 5.

 

 Refereed Journal Articles

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2012. “Entrepreneurial Masculinity, Health, and the State in Post-Socialist China.” International Journal of Men’s Health. 11 (1)

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2011. “Karaoke Bar Hostesses and the Japan-Korean Wave in China: Fashion, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalization.” City and Society. 23 (1): 42-65. June.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. Forthcoming. Female Subjugation and Political Resistance.” Gender, Place and Culture.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. Forthcoming. “From Courtesans to Modern Hostesses.” The International Journal of the Humanities.

 

Zheng, Tiantian, Huso Yi , Joanne E. Mantell , Yanhai Wan, Minah Park , Joanne Csete. 2013. “Occupational Safety and HIV Risk among Female Sex Workers in China: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Sex Work Harms and Protection Agency.” Global Public Health

 

 Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. Knowledge, Culture, and Change: State Management of the Entertainment Industry in 

 China’s Past and Present.” The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management. 10 (1): 495-512.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “Vilifying and Promoting Condoms: Condom Debate During the Time of AIDS in China.”

New York Sociologist: The Online Journal of the New York State Sociological Association. Vol. 4. March.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “Complexity of Female Sex Workers’ Collective Actions in Postsocialist    

China.” Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. Vol. 8. Pp. 34-70.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. “Cultural Politics of Condoms During the Time of AIDS in China.” China Perspectives. Special Issue on HIV/AIDS in China.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. “Recasting Gender and Prophylactic Use in China: A Historical and Anthropological Perspective.” Altérités. 6 (1): 17-45.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Commodifying Romance and Searching for Love: Rural Migrant Bar Hostesses’ Moral Vision in Post-Mao Dalian.” Modern China (October). 34 (4): 442-476.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Complexity of Life and Resistance: Informal Networks of Rural Migrant Karaoke Bar Hostesses in Urban Chinese Sex Industry.” China: An International Journal (March) 6 (1): 69-95.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Introduction: Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice.” Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (summer) Vol. 5: 1-5.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Anti-Trafficking Campaign and Karaoke Bar Hostesses in China.” Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (summer) Vol. 5: 73-92.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2007. “Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese City.” China Quarterly. 190: 432-450.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2007. “Performing Media Constructed Images For First-Class Citizenship: Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Dalian.” Critical Asian Studies (March) 39 (1): 89-120.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2006. “Cool Masculinity: Male Clients’ Sex Consumption and Business Alliance in Urban China’s Sex Industry.” Journal of Contemporary China. 15 (46): 161-182.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2003, “Consumption, Body Image, and Rural-Urban Apartheid in Contemporary China,” in City and Society. XV(2): 143-163.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2002, “The Politics of ‘Becoming’ of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Post-Mao Dalian,” Yale Journal of Student Anthropology (Fall): 36-55.

 

Book Chapters

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: An Ethnography of China's Karaoke Sex Industry.” In Migration and Class Composition in China, ed. Ralf Ruckus. Assoziation A: Berlin, Germany.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “Introduction.” In Sex-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice, ed. Tiantian Zheng. London: Routledge.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. Forthcoming. “A Journey of Self-Discovery – From China to the U.S.,” in Seeking the Common Dreams Between the Worlds: Stories of Chinese Immigrant Faculty in North America. Eds. Yan Wang. Information Age Publishing Inc.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “Anti-Trafficking Campaigns and the Sex Industry in Urban China.” In Sex-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice, ed. Tiantian Zheng. London: Routledge.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. Forthcoming. “Gender, Music, and Prostitution in China.” In Dwarfs, Men, and Women who Act Like Monkeys: Gender in Chinese Music, ed. Rachel Harris. University of Rochester Press. 

 

Zheng, Tiantian. Forthcoming. Sex Work and the State in Contemporary China.” In Laboring Desire: Global Reflections on Sex Work, Survival and the State, eds. Susan Dewey and Patty Kelly. New York University Press.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. “Cool Masculinity: Male Clients’ Sex Consumption and Business Alliance in Urban China’s Sex Industry.” In Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, vol. 3, eds. Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger. London and New York: Routledge.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2009. “Engage the World – Add a CGIS Minor,” COR 101 Reader: Purpose and Practice: Making the Most of Your First Year at SUNY Cortland. SUNY Cortland.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2010. “State Management of the Sex Industry in China’s Past and Present.” In Diversity Management in Asia: A Research Companion. Edward Elgar.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Performing Media Constructed Images For First-Class Citizenship: Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Dalian.” In Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First Century China, eds. Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong. London: Routledge.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Prostitution.” In Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. Vincent N. Parrillo. Sage Publications.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2008. “Sex Trafficking.” In Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. Vincent N. Parrillo. Sage Publications.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2007. “Claim for an Equal Social Status: An Ethnography of China’s Sex Industry,” In Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation, ed. Ching Kwan Lee. Routledge. 124-144.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2006. “The Tip of the Hostesses’ Iceberg?” Reel China: New Chinese Documentary Overseas. Shanghai: Shanghai Wenhui Press.

 

Zheng, Tiantian. 2004, “From Peasant Women to Bar Hostess: Gender and Modernity in Dalian,” in On

the Move: Women in Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, eds. Arianne Gaetano and

Tamara Jacka, Columbia University.

 

Invited Book Reviews

 

Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China, by Eileen Otis. China Quarterly. No. 210. June 2012.

 

Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person, by Kleinman et al. Journal of Asian Studies. Forthcoming.

 

Circuits of visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures, by Radha Hegde. Journal of Gender Studies. Forthcoming.

 

Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India, by Susan Dewey. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. Vol. 9. Spring 2011.

 

Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprises in the People's Republic of China, by Minglu Chen. China Information.

 

New Masters, New Servants, by Hairong Yan. American Anthropologist.

 

Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China, by Loretta Wing Wah Ho. China Quarterly.

 

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, by Jin Jiang. China Quarterly. Forthcoming.

 

Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India, by Susan Dewey. Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. Forthcoming.

 

Maid in China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries, by Wanning Sun. China Information. Vol. 23. No. 3. November 2009.

 

Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China, by Amy Hansers. The Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 67: 4. November 2008.

 

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture, by Sheldon H.

Lu. China Quarterly. Forthcoming.

 

Desiring China, by Lisa Rofel. China Quarterly. No. 192. December 2007.

 

Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China, by Sandra Teresa Hyde. China

Information. Vol. 22.1. March 2008 

 

Sex and Sexuality in China, edited by Elaine Jeffreys. China Quarterly. March. No. 189. 2007.

 

Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration, edited by Brad Epps, et al. American Anthropologist. 109 (2). June 2007.

 

China, Sex and Prostitution, by Elaine Jeffreys. East Asia: An International Quarterly. Vol. 22, No. 4. December 2005.

 

Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China, by Huang, Martin W. China Quarterly. Vol. 187. September 2006.

 

Research Interests

 

gender, body, and sexuality; migration and prostitution; social inequality and urban anthropology; Chinese anthropology; language and ideology; STI and HIV/AIDS; modernity; transnationalism; and diaspora.

 

Professional Service - Extramural

  

     Referee for Journals

American Anthropologist

Anthropology & Medicine Journal

Asian Studies Review

Asian Women

China Quarterly

The China Journal

China: An International Journal

City and Society

Critical Asian Studies

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Culture, Health and Society

East Asia: an International Quarterly

Ethnography

Gender, Place and Culture

Global Public Health

Human Organization

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Sexualities

Signs

Social Science & Medicine

Sociology Compass

The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management

The International Journal of the Humanities

Women’s Studies International Forum

Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies

Reviewer for Grant Proposal

Research Grants Council

National Science Foundation

Dissertation Examiner, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2010)

Executive Board Member New York Association of Asian Studies (2010 – 2013)
Executive Board Member Chinese Society for Women’s Studies, Inc. (March 2006 – present)
Executive Board Member International Association of Asian Studies (February 2005 - 2007)
Consultant Chinese NGO HIV Projects on LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered) (Jan 2009-present)
Research Associate East Asia Program, Cornell University

Research Associate Asian and Asian American Studies Program, Binghamton University

Member Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (2006 – present)

Member American Anthropological Association (2000-present)

 

Professional Service - Intramural

 

Managing Editor Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (Wagadu has been recognized as one of the initial list of 15 top journals by the European Science Foundation)

Editor Special issue “Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice” for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies.

Coordinator, Asian/Middle Eastern Studies Program

Advisory Board MGS, Center for Intercultural and Gender Studies (CICGS)

Member Affirmative Action Committee (2008-2011)

Advisory Council  Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice
Editorial Board (Assistant Editor) The New York Sociologist

 

Panels Organized

 

Ethnicities, Sexualities, and the Shifting Grounds of Selfhood: Global Responses to Identity-Based Persecution (2011)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Montreal

 

Gendered Migration and the Global Circulation of Trafficking Discourse (2010)

Invited Session, American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans

 

Reconfiguring Masculinities in Post-Colonial Cities: Linking the Past to the Present (2005)

                   American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Washington D.C.

 

Women at the Margins in East Asia (2002)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans

 

Panels Chaired

 

Ethnicities, Sexualities, and the Shifting Grounds of Selfhood: Global Responses to Identity-Based Persecution (2011)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Montreal

 

Gendered Migration and the Global Circulation of Trafficking Discourse (2010)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans

    

    Masculinities in Motion: Violence, Non-Violence, and Beyond

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Philadelphia (2009)

 

Scholar’s Day, SUNY Cortland (April 2008)

 

International Association of Asian Studies, Louisiana (February 2006)

 

Panel Discussant

 

Transformations of Socialist Economies (2009)

                    Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms, International Conference, Anthropology, Yale University

 

Chinese Nightlife: The Globalization of Chinese Clubcultures (June 2004)

Asian Studies Conference, Sophia University, Japan

 

Papers Accepted and Presented

 

     “Ethnographies of the Sex Industry and Health

54 International Congress of Americanists: Building Dialogues in the Americas, Vienna, Austria (JULY 2012)

 

Cultural Politics of Condoms During the Time of AIDS in Postsocialist China

                  Association for Asian Studies 2012 Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada (March 2012)   

 

“Shifting Identities of Self-Identified Gay Men In Postsocialist China”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Montreal (Nov. 2011)

 

“Subculture of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China”

                17th ACPSS International Conference, Columbia University (October 2011)

 

     “Homosexual Men and Health Activism in Postsocialist China”

                        New York Conference on Asian Studies, University of Buffalo (September 2011)

 

“Ethnographic Research on Health Issues in China’s Urban Sex Industry

                  Naming and Framing: The Making of Sexual (In)Equality, Madrid, Spain (July 2011)

 

 “From Courtesans to Modern Hostesses: Music and Construction of Gender in the Entertainment Industry in
  China”

                  9th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Spain (June 2011)

 

      “Ethnography of Health Issues and HIV/AIDs Prevention Programs in China’s Urban Sex Industry”

                        International Conference of Global Health and Innovation, Yale University (April 2011)

 

      “Activism and Self-Identified Gay Men”

                        International Conference of Association for Asian Studies (March 2011)     

 

      “Homosexual Men and Health Activism”

                        Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities (Jan. 2011)

     

      “Anti-Trafficking Campaign and Karaoke Bar Hostesses in China”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans (2010)

 

      “Gay Men in Postsocialist China”

                        16th ACPSS International Conference, Harvard University (Nov. 2010)

 

     “Consumption of Girls and Japan-Korean Wave in China”

Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals Conference, Cortland (Oct. 2010)

 

     “Homosexual Men and Health Activism”

                        NY Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY Brockport (Oct. 2010)

 

     “Informal Alliance and Collective Actions in Urban Chinese Sex Industry”

New York State Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Tompkins Cortland College (Oct. 2010)

 

     “The Confucian Model of Leadership in Contemporary China”

                  10th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change, Montréal, Canada (2010)

 

     “Cultural Heritage and Society”

                       2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Portugal (June 2010)
 

“Masculinities in Motion: From Literati to Entrepreneurial Masculinity in the Globalizing Era of China”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Philadelphia (2009)

 

     “Confucian Thoughts on Leadership”

                        Succeeding as Women in Higher Education Conference, SUNY Cortland (2009)

 

“Cultural Politics of Condoms During the Time of AIDS in China”

New York State Sociological Association Annual Meeting, St. John Fisher College, NY (Oct. 09)

 

“Dressing Cosmopolitan: Ethnographic Research on Karaoke Bar Hostesses and Japan-Korea Wave in China

                        New York Conference on Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Oct. 09)

 

     “An Ethnographic Study of Condom Use and HIV/AIDS in Chinese Sex Industry

                        Medical Anthropology at the Intersections, Yale University (September 2009)

 

“State Management of the Sex Industry in China’s Past and Present”

2009 Equal Opportunities International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (July 2009)

 

“Domesticated Modernity and Enduring Filiality: Homecoming of Rural Migrant Hostesses”

                        2009 First International Conference on Gender Studies, Shanghai, China (June 2009)

 

“Consumption and Body Refashioning of Rural Migrant Sex Workers in Urban China”

7th European Feminist Research Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (June 2009)

 

“Ethnography of Entrepreneurial Masculinity and Condom Use in Contemporary China”

Anthropology of Men, Masculinities and Health Symposium (May 15-16 2009), Berlin, Germany.

 

Anti-Trafficking Law and Lives of Female Sex Workers in Urban China”

                  Law and Women Symposium, Stanford University (March 2009)

 

“Postcolonial Popular Culture: Sex and Sport in a Post-Colonial Chinese City”

International Symposium of Postcolonial Popular Cultures, New Zealand (December, 2008)

 

“Movement and Home-Belonging of Rural Migrant Sex Workers in Urban China”

International Interdisciplinary conference on ethnicity, integration and family ties, Finland (October, 2008)

 

“Applying Anthropology to the Cause of Solving Social Issues”

                  American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco (November, 2008)

 

“Nationalism and HIV/AIDS in China”

                  AIDS in Culture: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS, Mexico City, Mexico (October 08)

 

“Cultural Connections and Collisions in Asia”

                        New York Conference on Asian Studies, Hamilton College (September, 2008) 

 

“Anti-Trafficking Campaign and Female Sex Workers in Urban China”

                        International Conference, Globalization and Media, Athens, Greece (September 2008)

 

     “Prostitution, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking in Urban China”

5th Annual Conference, Prostitution, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking (September 2008)

 

“Condom Debate in Post-Mao China”

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (January 2008)

 

Biopolitics in Representation of HIV/AIDS in China”

                        American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (Dec.

2007)

 

“Condom Debate and HIV/AIDS in China”

The ACPSS 13th International Conference, Ohio University (October 26-28, 2007)

 

“Decentering Asia: Ethnographic Research on Japan-Korea Wave in China”

                        New York Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton University (October 26-27, 2007) 

 

 “Today’s Migration of Peoples: The Insularity of Nations”

Oxford Round Table, Oxford University (March 18-23, 2007)

 

“Nationalism and Gender in the Construction of HIV/AIDS in China”

2007 International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii (January 12-15, 2007)

 

Media Constructions of HIV/AIDS in China”

ACPSS 12th International Conference, Buffalo, NY (October 13-15, 2006)

 

Challenges and Difficulties in Building a Humanistic China”

International Conference on Humanistic China: Visions for Harmony and Innovation Beijing, China (June 29-30, 2006)

 

“History of Prophylactics in China”

                        Scholar’s Day, SUNY Cortland (April 2006)

 

“Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights and Social Justice”

                        POWER conference, SUNY Cortland (April 2006)

 

“Reconfigured Identities of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Urban China”

                   Asian Migration Conference, SUNY Binghamton, (March 2006)

 

“Intra-Relationships of Rural Migrant Karaoke Bar Hostesses in Urban China”

                   International Association of Asian Studies, Louisiana (February 2006)

 

“Cool Masculinity: Male Clients’ Sex Consumption and Business Alliance in Urban China’s Sex Industry”

                   American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (Dec. 2005)

 

“Sex Value Changes of Rural Migrant Karaoke Bar Hostesses”

                   New York Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz (October 2005)

 

Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese City”

                   International Association of Asian Studies, Houston (February 2005)

 

“Performing Media Constructed Images – Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Dalian”

Media and Citizenship in China, Oxford University, U.K. (August, 2004)

 

“Ethnography of Women Workers' Survival Strategies and Marginalization in the Sex Industry”

Labor Workshop, University of Michigan (June 2004) 

 

“Globalization and Chinese Women”

Globalization and Women in Asia: Blessing or Blight?, SUNY Cortland (February, 2004)

 

“Masculinity and Clients in Sex Industry”

                        Scholar’s Day, SUNY Cortland (April, 2004)

 

“Fashioned Modernities vs. State Authority”

                   Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego (March, 2004)

 

“Japan-Korea Wave and Karaoke Bar Hostesses’ Body Culture”

                   American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Chicago (November, 2003)

 

“Research Methods on Workers in Sex Industry in Urban China”

            Methodology and Biostatistics Seminar Series, Yale University (2003)

 

“From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Ethnography of Migrant Women Workers' Survival Strategies and   

 Marginalization in the Sex Industry”

The Labor of Reform: Employment, Workers' Rights, and Labor Law in China, University of Michigan (2003)

 

“Representations of Escorts and Modern Women in Post-Mao Dalian”

Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, New York (2003)

 

“Escorts of Dalian: Their Bids for Social Status Through Consumption”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans (2002)

 

“Gender and Politics of Rural/Migrant Hostesses in Dalian, China,”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Washing D.C. (2001)

 

“The Politics of Becoming of Rural Migrant Bar Hostesses in Post-Mao Dalian,”

Association of Asian Studies, Regional Conference, Brown University (2000)          

 

Invited Lectures

 

“Subculture of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China”

                    Public Lecture, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (Nov. 2011)

 

“Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China”

                    Public Lecture, Hofstra University (October 2011)

 

“Male Clients in China's Sex Industry”

                    Public Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College (September 2011)

 

“Sex Work and Emotional Labor”

                    Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College (September 2011)

 

Sex Trafficking and Slavery (June 2011)

                    Exit Art:  Symposium on Contemporary Slavery, City University of New York, New York   

 

“Life of a Woman in China” (June 2011)

                    Ladies’ Literary Club, Skaneateles, NY

 

“Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China”

                    Department of Anthropology, Yale University (April 18, 2011)

 

“Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China”

                    Book talk, Center of Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley (February 22, 2011)

 

 “Fieldwork Research Methods”
                    Graduate Seminar,
University of California, Berkeley (February 24, 2011)

    

     “Anti-Trafficking Discourses”

                        Invited to speak at Stop Traffick International Conference, Depauw University (Sep. 2010)

 

     “Sex Trafficking and Anti-Trafficking Campaign in China”

Invited to speak at “China and Human Trafficking: Updates and Analysis,” Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. (August 2010)

 

“Women at the Margins in East Asia”

                    North Park University, Chicago (March, 2010)

 

“Undertaking Sensitive Research: Ethnographies in the Illegal Sex Industry in Postsocialist China”

                    Extra-Legal Governance and Organised Crime Discussion Group, Oxford University, U.K. (Jan. 10)

 

“The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China”

                    Lecture in class, Professor Sidney Greenblatt, Syracuse University (November 23, 2009)

 

“Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice”

                    Philosophy 390, Professor Kathy Russell, SUNY Cortland (November 3, 2009)

 

“Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China”

                    Book talk, Cornell Store Book Department, Cornell University (October 7, 2009)

 

“Research on Gay Men and Bathhouses”

                        Beijing Aizhixing Institute (AIDS Institute), Beijing, China (September 4, 2009)

 

“The Changing Role of Women in China”

                  NCTA Seminar, Central New York Teachers’ Center, East Syracuse (January, 2009)

 

“Cultural Tradition of China”

                  Lecture Series, Ithaca High School, NY (March 2009)

 

“What Happens to the Dissertation After It Is Done?”

                        Department of Anthropology, Yale University (September 2008)

 

“HIV/AIDS and Sex Industry in China”

                        Beijing Aizhixing Institute (AIDS Institute), Beijing, China (June 7, 2007)

 

“HIV/AIDS and Karaoke Bar Hostesses in China”

                        Chinese Women’s University (Zhonghua Nuzi Xueyuan), Beijing, China (June 6, 2007)

 

“HIV/AIDS and Sex Work in China”

                        Central Ethnic University (Zhongyang Minzu Daxue), Beijing, China (June 5, 2007)

 

“HIV/AIDS and Gender Inequality”

                        Gender and Development Forum, Beijing, China (GAD) (June 5, 2007)

 

“HIV/AIDS and Male Clients in Sex Industry”

                   International Seminar on HIV and Sex Work, United Nations, Beijing, China (June 4, 2007)

 

“Diet and Nutrition;” “Cultural Aspects of Stress” 

Beijing University (June 2005)

 

“Cultural Definition of Anatomy and Physiology;” “Sex and Gender”

                        Capital University of Medical Science (May 2005)

 

“Karaoke Bar Hostesses’ Consumption and Performance”

                   China Review, University of California, Berkeley (March, 2004)

 

“Male Clients in China’s Sex Industry”

                   Center of Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley (March, 2004)

 

“Body Refashioning: Karaoke Bar Hostesses in Urban China”

                   Brooks Museum Lecture Series, SUNY Cortland (February, 2004)

 

“Contemporary East Asian Societies”

                   East Asianists in a Global Setting: Retrospects and Prospects, Yale University (2003)

 

"City Men Consuming Rural/Migrant Women in Dalian, China"

Ethnography & Social Theory Colloquium, Yale University (2002)

 

“Rural Bar Workers and Hostesses in Dalian”

Hardship in Rural China at Yale University (2002)

 

     Larissa Titarenko’s class on Women at SUNY Cortland (September 10, 2007)