Tiantian Zheng

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Anthropology

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Anthropology,

Coordinator, Asian/Middle Eastern Studies

PhD, Yale University

Sociology/Anthropology

PO Box 2000

State University of New York, Cortland

Cortland, NY 13045

tiantian.zheng@cortland.edu,

tiantian.zheng@aya.yale.edu

Moffett Building, Room 117C

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

Education

Yale University Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology

Yale University M. Phil in Socio-cultural Anthropology

University of Northern Iowa Graduate Program in Women’s Studies

Dalian University of Foreign Language M.A. in English Linguistics

Bo Hai University B.A. in English Education

Research Interests

Recipient of four national book awards: 2010 Sara Whaley Book Award, 2011 Research Publication Book Award, 2022 Research Publication Book Award, and the Choice award of “Outstanding Academic Title” on research about cultural politics of gender, social class, social inequalities, migration, and their role in the transmission of disease and identity formation of the disenfranchised and underprivileged population. Two-decade intense, longitudinal fieldwork in China has resulted in ten academic books, five edited journal issues, and over a hundred articles. She has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC. Over 100 papers were delivered at national and international conferences, and over 100 invited talks by key national and international universities and organizations. Invited service on the reviewer panel for Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Australia Research Council, and invited service on the Editorial Board for seven academic journals.

Recent Publications

Books

Zheng, Tiantian (lead author) and Jack Wortman. 2023. HIV/AIDS Through an Anthropological Lens. Third Edition. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2022. Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-socialist China. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

(Winner of the 2022 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States)

Zheng, Tiantian (ed.) 2016. Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia. University of Hawaii Press.

Dewey, Zheng, and Orchard. 2016. Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes. Springer.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2015. Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

(Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2016, selected for its excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of its contribution to the field and value as important treatment of the subject.)

(Nominated for the Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Margaret Mead Award, Society of Humanistic Anthropology and American Sociological Association’s Book Award on Asia/Transnational) (Press: NBC News)

Dewey and Zheng. 2013. Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches. Springer.

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: NPR All Things Considered, Feminist Review, Elevate Difference, Intersections, Time Weekly, Global Times, Listed as one of the 30 Must-Read Books on China by Project Pengyou)

Nominated for American Sociological Association’s Sex and Gender Section Book Award and Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award

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)

Nominated for the Eileen Basker Prize with the Society for Medical Anthropology

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.

Zheng, Tiantian (Associate Editor). 2015. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. Vol. 10. No. 1.

Zheng, Tiantian (Associate Editor). 2015. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. Vol. 10. No. 2.

Zheng, Tiantian (Associate Editor). 2012. The International Journal of the Humanities. Vol. 9. No. 3.

Zheng, Tiantian (Associate Editor). 2010. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. Vol. 10. No. 1.

Refereed Journal Articles

Zheng, Tiantian. 2023. “Workplace Sexual Harassment and Me Too Movement in Post-socialist China.” Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal (6): 2: 000223.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2023. “Douglas A. Feldman (1947-2020).” American Anthropologist. June 25 (125): 736-739.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2023. “Workplace Sexual Harassment and Me Too Movement in Post-socialist China.” Critical Asian Studies Commentary Board criticalasianstudies.org. Nove. 27.

Chen, He, Liu, Zhang, and Zheng, Tiantian. 2022. “Fanzuixue he Faxue de Tianye Jianghu” (Fieldwork in Criminology and Legal Studies). Jingxue Yanjiu (Police Science Research). August (4): 57-70.

Dewey, S; Crowhurst, I; Zheng, Tiantian. 2020. “Control Creep and the Multiple Exclusions Faced by Women in Low-Autonomy Sex Industry Sectors.” Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. 17:1-25

Zheng, Tiantian. 2019. “The Politics of Fashion, Class Hierarchy and Transgression: Rural Migrant Women in Karaoke Bars and Japan-Korea Wave.” The Contemporary China Centre. 1: 1-5.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2019. “The Plight of Sex Workers in China: Criminalisation, Abuse, and Activism.” Made in China Journal. 1: 86-91.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2018. “Human Trafficking.” Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences. 3 (2): 187-194.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2015. “Spousal Violence, Women, and Resistance in Postsocialist China.” Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. 13: 155-182.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2015. “Masculinity in Crisis: Effeminate Men, Loss of Manhood, and the Nation-State in Post-socialist China.” Etnográfica. 19 (2): 359-377.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2015. “Transnational Migration, Global Links, and Social Inequality: Human Trafficking and North Korean Women in China.” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. 10 (1): 1-14.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2014. “Contesting Heteronormality: Recasting Same-sex Desire in China’s Past and Present.” Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. 12:15-40.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2013. "Trafficking Women: A Human Rights Framework." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC-CLIO.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2012. “Entrepreneurial Masculinity, Health, and the State in Post-Socialist China.” International Journal of Men’s Health. 11 (1): 3-21.

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. 2012. “Female Subjugation and Political Resistance.” Gender, Place and Culture. Vol. 19. No. 5. Pp. 652-669.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2012. “From Courtesans to Modern Hostesses.” The International Journal of the Humanities. Vol. 9. No. 7.

Zheng, Tiantian, Huso Yi , Joanne E. Mantell , Yanhai Wan, Minah Park , Joanne Csete. 2012. “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: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice 7(8): 840-855.

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.

Refereed Chapters in Edited Volumes

Zheng, Tiantian. 2024. “Prostitution and Human Trafficking” The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in China. Edited by Jamie J. Zhao and Hongwei Bao London: Routledge.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2022. “Sex Workers in China: From Criminalization and Abuse to Activism.” Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labor. Edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace. Verso. Pp. 225-451.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2020. “The Politics of Fashion, Class Hierarchy and Transgression: Rural Migrant Women in Karaoke Bars and Japan-Korea Wave.” Cultural China: The Contemporary China Centre Review. Edited by Seagh Kehoe and Gerda Wielander. University of Westminster Press.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2019. “Entrepreneurship, Network Building, and Clientelism in China’s Hostess Bars.” In Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research, edited by Susan Dewey, Isabel Crowhurst, and Chimaraoke Izugbara. Routledge. Pp. 379-386.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2020. “Prostitution and Masculinities.” In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society, edited by Kevin Latham. Oxon: Routledge.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2016. “Public Policies and Social Responses to HIV/AIDS in

Postsocialist China.” In AIDS Planet: Multicultural Expressions of the

Epidemic, Public Policies and Social Responses (Planeta Sida: Expressões

Multiculturais da Pandemia, Políticas Públicas e Respostas Sociais), edited by

Octávio Sacramento and Fernando B. Ribeiro. Ribeirão: Edições Húmus.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2014. “Prostitution and Human Trafficking in China.” In The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology, edited by Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, and Bill Hebenton. Oxon: Routledge. Pp. 197-208.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2014. “Migrant Sex Workers and Trafficking in China.” In Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor. Open Society.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2014. “Demystifying Heteronormality: Homosexuality from China’s Past and Beyond” in Centennial of New Modern Chinese Women & Gender Politics, edited by Ya-Chen Chen. Routledge.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2013. “Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses for First-Class Citizenship in Postsocialist China.” In Diversity, Social Justice and Inclusive Excellence, edited by Mecke Nagel and Seth Asumah.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2013. “Music and Construction of Gender in the Entertainment Industry in China.” In Dwarfs, Men, and Women who Act Like Monkeys: Gender in Chinese Music, ed. Rachel Harris. University of Rochester Press.

Zheng, Tiantian. 2013. “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. “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. 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. 2011. “Sex Work and the State in Contemporary China.” In Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective, 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.

Articles in Magazines

Zheng, Tiantian. 2013. “Sex Work and Human Trafficking.” Fair Observer. August 19.

Invited Book Reviews

Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China, by Lin Song, The China Journal

Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China, by Elsa L. Fan, Pacific Affairs, 2022. 95 (3).

Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China, by Jun Zhang, Asian Studies Review. 2021. 45 (1): 179-180.

China's Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice, by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. April 2020.

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion. By Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako, H-Diplo in the Humanities and Social Sciences. August 2019.

Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952, by Robert Kramm, Pacific Affairs.

The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age, edited by Derek Hird and Geng Song, International Journal of Asian Studies. 2019. 16(2): 163-165.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China, by Hongwei Bao,The China Journal. No. 81: 2019.

Transpacific attachments: Sex work, media networks, and affective histories of Chineseness, by Lily Wong, Asian Ethnology. 2018

Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China, by Johanna S. Ransmeier, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 2017

Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures, by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and William F. Schroeder. China

Perspectives. September 2017.

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City, by James Farrer and Andrew David Field. The China Journal.

The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China, by Everett Zhang, Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology.

Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work, by Kimberly Kay Hoang. American Journal of Sociology.

Sex in China, by Elaine Jeffreys. The China Journal.

Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, by Hui Faye Xiao. The China Journal. 2015. No. 74: 228-230.

Bodies, Beads and Trash: Public Sex, Global Labor and the Disposability of Mardi Gras, by David Redmon. Journal of World-Systems Research. 2015, Vol. 21. No. 1: 220-221.

Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding 1900-1937, by Elizabeth J. Remick. Journal of the History of Sexuality. 2015. Vol. 24. No. 2:339-341.

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City, by Christine B.N. Chin. Gender & Society. 2013.

Buying Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery in China, by Wen Hua. China Information. 2013

Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking, by Ko-Lin Chin and James Finckenauer. Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China. 2013

Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society, by Elaine Jeffreys. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2013

Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking, by Ko-Lin Chin and James Finckenauer. Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal. 2013

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. August 2012. Vol. 21. No. 3.

Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response, by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona, co-author with Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Wagadu. 2012. Vol. 10.

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.

Honors and Awards

SUNY Distinguished Professorship, SUNY Distinguished Academy (2019)

Outstanding Academic Title by Choice (2016), selected for its excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of its contribution to the field and value as important treatment of the subject

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

2022 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (2022)

2010 Sara 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 (2010)

Emerging Scholar Award Recognizing excellent scholarship by the Organization Studies Research Network (2022)

Honorable Mention of Sex-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice, in the Presidential Address at the Society of Medical Anthropology Meeting, Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco (2012)

Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities, State University of New York (2012)

Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, SUNY Cortland (2011)

Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, SUNY Cortland (2016)

Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, SUNY Cortland (2011)

Nominated for the Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing (2016)

Nominated for the Margaret Mead Award, Society of Humanistic Anthropology (2016)

Nominated for the American Sociological Association’s Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2016)

Nominated for the Eileen Basker Prize with the Society for Medical Anthropology (2010)

Nominated for the ASA Sex and Gender Section Book Award (2010)

Nominated for the 2008 Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award (December 2008)

Professional Service - Extramural

Referee for Journals

AIDS and Behavior

AIDS Care

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

American Anthropologist

American Ethnologist

Anthropological Quarterly

Anthropology & Medicine Journal

Antipode

Anti-Trafficking Review

AsiaNetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies

Asian Journal of Social Science

Asian Studies Review

Asian Women

Asian Social Science

BioMed Central Editorial

China Quarterly

The China Journal

China: An International Journal

China Information

The China Review

City and Society

Cogent Medicine

Cogent Social Sciences

Critical Asian Studies

Cultural Anthropology

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Culture, Health and Society

Current Anthropology

Dialectical Anthropology

East Asia: an International Quarterly

Ethnography

Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Feminist Media Studies

Gender, Place and Culture

Gender & Society

Gender and Women’s Studies

Global Public Health

Human Organization

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice

International Journal of Cultural Studies

International Studies Review

Journal of Asian Public Policy

Journal of Contemporary China

Journal of Human Trafficking

Journal of Homosexuality

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Men and Masculinities

Modern China

Peace Studies Journal

PLOS ONE

Qualitative Sociology

Sage

Sexualities

Sexuality Research and Social Policy

Signs

Social Currents

Social Inclusion

The Social Sciences Collection

Social Science & Medicine

Social Sciences

Sociology Compass

Sociological Forum

The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management

The International Journal of the Humanities

The Social Sciences Collection

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Women’s Studies in Communication

Women’s Studies International Forum

World Medical & Health Policy

Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies

Referee of Book Manuscript for Academic Presses

Ashgate Publishing, UK

Cambridge University Press

Columbia University Press

Cornell University Press

National Social Science Press

Palgrave Macmillan Press

Routledge

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Springer

Stanford University Press

University of California Press

University of Michigan Press

Wadsworth

Wenner-Gren Review Panel, reviewer of Wenner Gren grant proposals (2014-2016)

Education Resource Officer, Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group, American Anthropological Association (2013)

Reviewer for Grant Proposals, Research Grants Council & National Science Foundation

Research Grant Assessor, Australia Research Council (2013-Present)

Editorial Board, Asian Social Science Journal (2013-Present)

Editorial Board, International Journal of Culture and History (2013-2015)

Editorial Board, Wagadu (2006-present)

Editorial Board, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies (2015)

Editorial Board, The International Journal of the Humanities (2012, 9: 3)

Editorial Board, The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management (2010, 10: 1)

Editorial Board, The New York Sociologist (2006 - present)

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

Dissertation Examiner, Department of Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2017)

Sarah Whaley Prize Committee Member, National Women’s Studies Association (2011 - 2012)

Education Resource Officer, Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group, American Anthropological Association (2013)

Chair, New York Association of Asian Studies Marleigh Grayer Ryan Prize Committee (2012-2015)

Executive Board Member New York Association of Asian Studies (2010 – 2016)

Executive Board Member Chinese Society for Women’s Studies, Inc. (March 2006 – present)

Executive Board Member International Association of Asian Studies (February 2005 - 2007)

Chair, New York Association of Asian Studies Marleigh Grayer Ryan Prize Committee (2012)

Consultant Chinese NGO HIV Projects on LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered) (Jan 2009-present)

Managing Editor, Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (2006-2016)

Assistant Editor, Wagadu (2017-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)

Keynote Address

Invited Keynote Address “Public Policies and Social Responses to HIV/AIDS in Postsocialist China” (2019)

International SCON Summit on HIV/AIDS 2019, Las Vegas, USA

Panels Organized

How Should We Understand and Address Gender Based Violence Around the World (4/11/23)

SUNY Graduate Research Conference, Virtual

Asian Queer Studies: A Critique of Euro-America Centric Queer Studies (3/16-3/19/2023)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Boston

Dynamic Culture Issues in Global China (10/7-8, 2022)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Syracuse University

Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality and Sex Work (11/16-17, 2021)

Executive Session, American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD

Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary China (10/1-10/2/2021)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY Brockport

Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines (March 25-28, 2021)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Seattle

Change and Continuity in Contemporary East Asia (10/4/19)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY New Paltz

Transformations in Cultural Realms in Contemporary East Asia (9/22/18)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology

Popular Culture, Health, and Gender in Contemporary East Asia (9/22/17)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Culture, Health, and Gender in Contemporary East Asia (9/24/16)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Utica College

Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Vassar College (Oct. 2015)

Old Values and New Meanings: Social and Political Transformations in Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hofstra University (September 2014)

Activism, Collaboration, and Engagement with Social Issues with Anthropological Knowledge

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Chicago (November 2013)

Culture and Political Economy of Gender and Sexuality in East Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY Binghamton (September 2013)

Violence and Trafficking Discourse in Global North and Migrants’ Lived Experiences in Global South

International Studies: Gender, Violence, and Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology (April 2013)

Gender, Sexuality, and Morality in Motion (March 2013)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, San Diego

Contesting Tradition in East Asia: Gender, Sexuality, and Morality in Motion (2012)

New York Association of Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz

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

How Should We Understand and Address Gender Based Violence Around the World (4/11/23)

SUNY Graduate Research Conference, Virtual

Asian Queer Studies: A Critique of Euro-America Centric Queer Studies (3/16-3/19/2023)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Boston

Dynamic Culture Issues in Global China (10/7-8, 2022)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Syracuse University

Queer Asias: Exploring the Intersections of Queer and Asian Studies (3/23-29, 2022)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Honolulu

Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality and Sex Work (11/16-17, 2021)

Executive Session, American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD

Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines (March 25-28, 2021)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Seattle

Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines (3/25-3/28/21)

International Annual Conference, Association of Asian Studies, Seattle

Global Women (11/16/19)

New York State Sociological Association, Annual Conference, Nazareth College

Scientific Session of HIV (11/12/19)

SCON Summit HIV/AIDS and Vaccines Research 2019, Las Vegas

Transformations in Cultural Realms in Contemporary East Asia (9/22/18)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology

Popular Culture, Health, and Gender in Contemporary East Asia (9/22/17)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Culture, Health, and Gender in Contemporary East Asia (9/24/16)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Utica College

Re-Building Asian Societies: Activism, Gender, and Identity (9/24/16)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Utica College

Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Vassar College (Oct. 2015)

Old Values and New Meanings: Social and Political Transformations in Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hofstra University (September 2014)

Activism, Collaboration, and Engagement with Social Issues with Anthropological Knowledge

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Chicago (November 2013)

Culture and Political Economy of Gender and Sexuality in East Asia

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY Binghamton (September 2013)

Violence and Trafficking Discourse in Global North and Migrants’ Lived Experiences in Global South

International Studies: Gender, Violence, and Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology (April 2013)

Gender, Sexuality, and Morality in Motion (March 2013)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, San Diego

Contesting Tradition in East Asia: Gender, Sexuality, and Morality in Motion (2012)

New York Association of Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz

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

Race, Place, & Identity (4/16/21)

New York State Sociological Association, Annual Conference, Hilbert College

Gender and Economic Activities in Marketized China and Vietnam (November 2015)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Denver

Discussant for Women and Society Seminar, Columbia University (November 2013)

Women and Society Seminar, Columbia University

Ethics Institute (May 2012)

Summer Ethics Institute, State University of New York, Cortland

Sex Trafficking and Slavery (June 2011)

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

Trafficking and Slavery (2011)

Women’s Coalition in Cortland

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

Unworthy Victims, Sexual Violence, and the Criminal Justice System in Post-socialist China (10/20/23)

ACPSS International Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA

“Unworthy and Worthy Victims in Postsocialist China”

Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Paris, France (7/23)

“Cross Cultural Perspectives on Violence Against Women in China and the United States”

European Society of Criminology 2023, Florence, Italy (9/6/23)

“Criminal Justice System and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China” (4/1/23)

Sociological Symposium, Hartwick College, NY

“Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China” (3/16-3/19/2023)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Boston

“Knowledge, Organization, And Cultural Change: State Organization And Treatment Of Spousal Violence In China” (1/19-1/20, 2023)

International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations, University of Auckland

“Male Rationale of Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China”

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Syracuse University (10/7-8, 2022)

“The Criminal Justice System and Anti-Domestic Violence Law in Postsocialist China” (10/28-30, 22)

International Conference, Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the U.S., Troy University

“Crisis and Media: Masculinity in Crisis, Loss of Manhood, and the Nation-State in Postsocialist China”

International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, University of Galway (August 25-26, 2022)

“Money, Class, and Money Boys in Postsocialist China” (March 24-27, 2022)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hawaii

“Ethical Research on Sex Workers” (11/16-17, 2021)

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference

“Worth vs Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Post-Socialist China”

Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the US, Annual Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (10/29-10/31/2021)

“The Criminal Justice System and Anti-Domestic Violence Law in Postsocialist China”

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY Brockport 10/1-10/2/2021

“The Legal System and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China” (4/16/21)

New York State Sociological Association, Annual Conference, Hilbert College

“Intimate Partner Violence, Women, and Resistance Strategies in Postsocialist China” (3/17/20)

Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Worthy and Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Postsocialist China” (11/16/19)

New York State Sociological Association, Annual Conference, Nazareth College

“Cultural Perceptions of Spousal Violence in Postsocalist China” (9/22/18)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology

“Intimate Partner Violence and Resistant Strategies in China” (4/3/2018)

Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Conference, Philadelphia

“Political Economy and Cultural History of Spousal Violence in China” (10/22/17)

International Conference, Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States

“Political Economy and Cultural History of Spousal Violence in China” (9/22/17)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

"Knowledge, Culture, and Change: State Management of Spousal Violence in China's Past and Present" (April 2017)

17th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations and the Organization Research Network, Charles Darwin University, Australia

“Violence, Deviance and Punishment” (November 2016)

The International Conference of Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the US

“Intimate Partner Violence, Women, and Resistant Strategies in Postsocialist China” (September 2016)

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Utica College

“Sexuality, Class, and Money Boys”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Denver (November 2015)

“Migration and Borders”

Human Migrations and the Borders Symposium, Binghamton University (November 2015)

“Sexuality, Class, and Neoliberal Ideology”

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Vassar College (Oct. 2015)

“Intimacy, Sex Work, and Labor in Post-Socialist China”

International Conference on Sex, Intimacy, and Labor, Vienna, Austria (April 2015)

“Money, Class, and Money Boys in Postsocialist China”

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Chicago (March 2015)

“Conspiracy Theory in Postsocialist China: Women and Foreigners in the Discourse of HIV/AIDS”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (December 2014)

“Cosmopolitanism, Fashion, and Globalization: Identity Transformation of Bar Hostesses in Postsocialist China”

International Conference of the New Zealand and the Australian Anthropological Societies (Nov 2014)

“History of Spousal Violence in China”

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hofstra University (September 2014)

“Consumption in Defiance: An Ethnography of Female Sex Workers in Postsocialist China”

European Society of Anthropology Conference, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 2014)

“Gendered Structural Violence against Homosexuality in Postsocialist China”

Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2014)

“Condom Use and HIV/AIDS in China’s Sex Industry: Engagement with Public Health Issues with Anthropological Knowledge”

American Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Chicago (November 2013)

Money, Class, and Money Boys in Postsocialist China”

New York Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, SUNY Binghamton (September 2013)

“Re-conceptualizing Gender and Sexuality in a Postcolonial City of Dalian, China” (May 2013)

Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

“The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Campaigns on Female Sex Workers in Postsocialist China”

International Studies: Gender, Violence, and Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology (April 2013)

“Masculinity in Crisis: Construction of Homosexuality in Chinese Media” (March 2013)

Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, San Diego

“Body at the Margins: Medical Science, Homosexuality, and the Nation in Contemporary China”

Beyond Boundaries: Interstices in Medical Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria (November 2012)

“Masculinity in Motion in Self-Identified Gay Men”

New York Association of Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz (2012)

“Reworking Masculinities in Globalizing Era of Postsocialist China”

Masculinities in Times of Uncertainty and Change, EASA Biennial Conference: Nanterre, France (2012)

“Ethnographies of the Sex Industry and Health”

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

“Micro-Level Processes of Emotional Labor: Hostesses and Labor Regime in Post-Socialist China”

30th International Labour Process Conference, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (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”

10^th 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”

7^th 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”

5^th 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 13^th 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 12^th 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

Invited Talk “Criminal Justice System and Anti-Domestic Violence Law in Postsocialist China”

State University of New York, Brockport (November 2023)

Invited Talk “Undertaking Sensitive Fieldwork” (May 2023)

Syracuse University, NY

Invited Talk Tongzhi Living (March 2023)

Syracuse University, NY

Invited Talk Tongzhi Living (2022)

Public Lecture, University of London

Invited Talk Tongzhi Living (2022)

Public Lecture, Case Western Reserve University

Invited Talk on Gender, Law, and Women Trafficking in Chinese History

International Roundtable, University of Toronto (2022)

Invited talk “Doing Fieldwork in Criminology” (2021)

University of Macau, Macau

Invited Talk Tongzhi Living (April 2021)

Syracuse University, NY

Invited Talk “Popular Perception of Intimate Partner Violence” (March 2019)

University of Wyoming, WY

Invited Talk Tongzhi Living (April 2019)

Syracuse University, NY

Invited Keynote Speech “Public Policies and Societal Responses to HIV”

International SCON HIV/AIDS, Las Vegas (Nov. 2019)

Invited Lecture on Ethical Research and Contribution of Ethnography to Public

Health

Sun Yat-Sen University, China (2019)

Invited Speech on International Research

AAUW American Association of University Women, Cortland (2019)