Organizer: Maris B. Gillette, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA Discussant: Yunxiang Yan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Social inequality in Chinese societies: Roundtable in honor
of Rubie S. Watson
Abstract:
Rubie Watson's pioneering research examines a range of social forces
that produce, maintain, and contest social inequality in China. She
has illuminated the economic and ideological forces that structure
social inequality through her studies of kinship and class, women and
work, histories and nation-building. Her innovative combination of
ethnographic participant-observation fieldwork and intensive
historical and archival research has made Chinese anthropology more
central to historical and area studies scholarship. Her efforts to
disseminate the results of her scholarship in multiple media, publish
in a wide range of venues, and actively promote repatriation and
community work have inspired many scholars to ensure their scholarship
serves the public interest. In this roundtable panel, scholars from
Hong Kong, mainland China, and the United States initiate a broad
conversation about social inequality in China and avenues for future
research about these issues.
Panelists will address how Rubie Watson's work has inspired them to
address gender and inequality in Chinese migrant family life (Nicole
Newendorp), maternity and motherhood in China (Suzanne
Zhang-Gottschang), changing lineage ideologies in mainland China (Jing
Jun) and Hong Kong (Liu Tik-Sang), alternative histories among Chinese
Muslims (Maris Gillette), gender, disabilities, and smoking in China
(Matthew Kohrman), and transformations of family life in rural China
(Yan Yunxiang).
We hope that this panel will be a true roundtable, a conversation
rather than a set of formal paper presentations. Each two-hour panel
will begin with five to ten minute remarks from each participant,
followed by moderated discussions among the panelists and between the
panelists and the audience. We hope that this panel will inspire new
research agendas building on the legacies of Rubie Watson’s work.
Panelists:
Maris Gillette, Professor of Anthropology, Haverfod College
mgillett@haverford.edu, co-chair and co-organizer
Yan Yunxiang, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA, yan@anthro.ucla.edu,
co-chair and co-organizer
Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University,
newendor@fas.harvard.edu, discussant
Jing Jun, Professor of Sociology, Tsinghua University,
jingjun@tsinghua.edu.cn discussant
Liu Tik-Sang, Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of South
China Research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
discussant
Suzanne Zhang-Gottschang, Associate Professor of Anthropology and East
Asian Studies, Smith College, szhang@smith.edu, discussant
Matthew Kohrman (kohrman@stanford.edu), Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Stanford University, discussant
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