PRESENTATIONS

Invited Lectures and Symposia

“Lonely Planeteers on ‘Foreigner Street.’” Invited panel: The Impact of Globalization on Indigenous Cultures. In conjunction with the U.S. tour of Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance from China’s Land of Clouds. Dartmouth College, September 29, 2005.

“Culture Show.” Invited lecture and film discussion in conjunction with the U.S. premiere of Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance from China’s Land of Clouds. Connecticut College, September 23, 2005.

“National Nostalgia and Local Longing.” Invited workshop: Remembering to Be Chinese. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, May 14-16, 2004.

“Border Troubles: Martial Arts Novels and Tourism in Southwest China.” Invited lecture, Bard College, November 16, 2001.

“Heavenly Dragons and Earthly Demons; Marketing and Subverting Popular Culture in Dali, Yunnan.” Invited workshop: Unpopular Culture: The Perilous Project of Ethnography in Post-Mao China, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, June 18, 2000.

“Representations in Practice: the Impact of a Popular Chinese Film on a Minority Community in Southwest China.” Invited lecture, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, October 13, 1999.

“Ethnic Woman as Model Woman in Popular Chinese Film.” Invited presentation: Midwest China Seminar, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, April 3, 1999.

“Expanding the New Chinese Nation through Film.” Invited lecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1999.

“National Nostalgia: Film, Tourism and History in Southwest China.” Invited lecture, Whitman College, Walla Walla, April 24, 1998.

Papers at Professional Conferences

“From Model Minority to Poisonous Weed: The Tragic Tale of Yang Likun.” Panel: Gender and Ethnicity in China: Papers in Honor of Norma Diamond. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2005.

 “Imitating and Replacing Symbols of the Sovereign.” Panel: Subverting the Currency of the Sovereign. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Portland, April 29-30, 2004.

“Authenticity, Forgery, Counterfeit: Borderland Consumption in Postsocialist China.” Panel: Behind and Beyond Tourism: Consuming the Periphery on the Borders of China and Southeast Asia. Association for Asian Studies, New York, March 27-30, 2003.

“Competing Currencies: Money, Status and Politics in Early Twentieth Century China.” Invited Session, Society for Economic Anthropology. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002.

“Circulating the National Trust: Paper Money as Political Propaganda in Twentieth-Century China.” Society for Economic Anthropology, Toronto, Canada, April 19-20, 2002.

“Ethnographic Ambiguity in Southwest China.” American Anthropological Association, December 2, 2001.

“Heavenly Dragons and Earthly Demons: Marketing and Subverting Hong Kong Popular Culture in Dali, Yunnan.” Panel: Mediating Global Flows: Sexuality and Subversion in Small Town China. Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 9-12, 2000.

“Coming Out but Keeping Time: Women’s Liberation, Women’s Communities and National Modernity in China.” Panel: Time, Gender and Ethnicity in China and Thailand, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1999.

“Circulating the National Trust: Image and Ideology in Chinese Paper Money, 1911-1949.” Panel: Rhetorics of Guomindang Modernity. Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 11-14, 1999.

“Blood Money: Desire, Morality and Modernity in Ermo.” Conference: Reevaluation & Repositioning: Gender, Women’s Agency and Development in China at the Threshold of the New Century. Chinese Society for Women’s Studies, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, March 10-11, 1999.

“Evolutionary not Revolutionary Subjects: Socialist Historiography and Muslim Rebellion in Southwest China.” Panel: Dilemmas of Socialist Unity. American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 5, 1998.

“Commodifying Film Nostalgia: Ethnic Tourism in Southwest China.” Panel: Tourism in China and Nepal: Negotiating New Spaces of Identity and Meaning. Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 14, 1997.

“From Class Cash to Multicultural Money: Socialist Imperialism and Nationality Fetishism in the PRC.” Invited Session: Empire and the Politics of Difference Under State Socialisms: Thinking Colonial Studies Beyond the Liberal State. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 21, 1996.

“Contextual Contradictions: Race, Class and Gender in the 19th Century Travel Writings of Isabella Bird.” Panel: Doing and Undoing Japan from Within and Without. Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, March 27, 1993.

“A Synthetic Analysis of Racism: Anti-African Protests in China, 1988.” Conference: Beyond Black and White: Problematizing Race in a Global Society. University of Michigan, February 6, 1993.