Rutgers, SAS Anthropology:

Title: "Popular Culture and the Production of Difference: The Miao and China"
Committee: Aihwa Ong, Chair; Jack Potter, Frederic Wakeman

Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space. Co-edited with Tim Oakes. 2006. London: Routledge.

Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In series "Body, Commodity, Text," edited by Arjun Appadurai, Jean Comaroff, and Judith Farquhar.

Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state.

Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, village rituals, journalistic encounters, and tourism events are not just moments of cultural production but also performances of modernity through which others are made primitive. Schein finds that these moments frequently highlight internal differences among the Miao and demonstrates how not only minorities but more generally peasants and women offer a valuable key to understanding China as it renegotiates its place in the global order.

"Minority Rules is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists." - Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments and Writing Women’s Worlds

"A highly readable exploration of the cultural politics of reform-era China that deserves a broad readership among anthropologists, historians, and those in cultural studies." -Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China

Read excerpts from Minority Rules.

Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space. Co-edited with Tim Oakes. 2006. London: Routledge.

Forthcoming:

Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Co-edited with Purnima Mankekar. Duke University Press.

In Prep:

“Pop, Publicity and the People’s Congress: A You Duo’s Mediated Lives.”

“The Body of the Hmong Transnational Suitor.”

JOURNAL ISSUES:

Media, Globalization and Sexuality. Special cluster for Journal of Asian Studies 63(2): 2004 (co-edited with Purnima Mankekar).

Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization. Special issue of Society and Space (co-edited with Jasbir Puar and Dereka Rushbrook) 21(4): 2003.

Re-Imagining Chinese Mobilities and Spaces. Special issue of Provincial China 8(1): April 2003 (co-edited with Tim Oakes).

East Asian Sexualities. Special issue of East Asia 18(4) 2000.

MEDIA:

Producer/Director (with Va-Megn Thoj), Video Documentary Project on Hmong medical worlds, Shamans, Herbs and MDs, in production, 2006-present.

Co-Producer (with Director Peter O'Neill), Hmong Immigrants: A Generation Later (Sequel to The Best Place to Live), in post-production, 2001-present.

Co-Producer (with Peter O’Neill and Ralph Rugoff), The Hmong in Providence Documentary Project, Rhode Island, 55-minute documentary for public television entitled: The Best Place to Live: A Personal Story of Hmong Refugees from Laos, 1981.

MAJOR ARTICLES:

Published Articles:

“Violence, Hmong American Visibility and the Precariousness of Asian Race.” 2008 (Oct.). Co-authored with Va-Megn Thoj. PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association). Correspondents at Large section on Comparative Racialization. Vol 123 (5): 1752-1756.

“Text and Transnational Subjectification: Media’s Challenge to Anthropology.” 2008. In Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, George Marcus and Neni Panourgiá, eds. New York: Fordham University.

“Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures” In Privatizing China. Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang, eds. Pp. 103-119. Cornell: Cornell University Press.

“Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident: A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker Va-Megn Thoj.” 2007. American Quarterly 59(4), December: Pp.1051-1095.

“Diasporic Media and Hmong/Miao Formulations of Nativeness and Displacement.” 2007. In Indigenous Experience Today, Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, eds. Pp. 225-245. Oxford: Berg.

“Negotiating Scale: Miao Women at a Distance.” 2006. In Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space, Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein, eds. Pp. 213-237. London: Routledge.

“Translocal China: An Introduction.” 2006. With Tim Oakes. In Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space, Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein, eds. Pp. 1-35. London: Routledge.

“Minorities, Homelands and Methods.” 2005. In China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism. Pal Nyiri and Joanna Breidenbach, eds. Pp. 99-140. Budapest: Central European University Press.

“Ethnoconsumerism as Cultural Production? Making Space for Miao Style.” 2005. In Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. Jing Wang ed. Pp. 150-170. London: Routledge.

“Marrying Out of Place: Hmong/Miao Women Across and Beyond China.” 2005. In Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. Nicole Constable, ed. Pp. 53-79. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

“Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics” with Purnima Mankekar. 2004. Journal of Asian Studies 63(2):357-365.

“Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video.” 2004. Journal of Asian Studies 63(2):433-463. Reprinted in: Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Co-edited with Purnima Mankekar (forthcoming).

“Hmong/Miao Transnationality: Identity Beyond Culture.” 2004. In Hmong/Miao in Asia. Nicholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas, and Gary Yia Lee, eds. Pp. 273-290. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.

“Minzu Fuzhuang, Wenhua ji Fazhan” [Ethnic Clothing, Culture and Development]. 2003. In Chinese. Shehui Xingbie, Minzu, Shequ Fazhan Yanjiu Wenji [Researches on Gender, Ethnicity and Community Development]. Zhang Xiao, Xu Wu, He Zhonghua, Ma Linying, and Han Jialing, eds. Pp. 370-379. Guiyang: Guizhou Nationalities Press.

“Introduction: Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization” with Jasbir Puar and Dereka Rushbrook. 2003. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21(4):383-387.

“Ethnicizing Production and Consumption: The Miao, The Media, and the Market.” 2002. In State, Market and Ethnic Groups Contextualized: Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology. Bien Chiang and Ho Ts’ui-p’ing, eds. Pp. 437-471. Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica.

“Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism.” 2002. Provincial China 7(1):57-72. Reprinted in: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds. Pp. 216-223. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

“Approaches to Transnationalism and Diaspora Research: Researching the Hmong Diaspora’s Longing for a Chinese Homeland.” 2002. In China Inside Out (On-line textbook). Pal Nyiri, ed. Budapest: Central European University Press.

"Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space." 2002. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, eds. Pp. 229-244. Berkeley: University of California Press.

"Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s?" 2001. In Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China. Xudong Zhang, ed. Pp. 285-314. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

"Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption.” 2001. In Ethnographies of the Urban: China in the 1990s. Nancy Chen, Connie Clark, Suzanne Gottschang, Lyn Jeffrey, eds. Pp. 225-241. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

"Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics and the Materializing of Memory.” 1999. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7(3): 697-729.

"Of Cargo and Satellites: Imagined Cosmopolitanism." 1999. Postcolonial Studies 2(3): 345-375.

"Performing Modernity." 1999. Cultural Anthropology 14(3):361-395. Translated as: “Biaoyan Xiandaixing.” 2001. In Translation Collection on Gender, Ethnicity and Development (Shehui Xingbie, Zuyi, Shequ Fazhan Yixuan). Ma Yuanxi, ed. Pp. 210-244. Beijing: China Books Press.

"Importing Miao Brethren to Hmong America: A Not So Stateless Transnationalism." 1998. In Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, eds. Pp. 163-191. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

"Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism." 1998. Comparative Urban and Community Research 6. Special Issue: "Transnationalism from Below": 291-313. Reprinted in: Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America. 2000. Martin Manalansan, ed. Pp. 199-215. Philadephia: Temple University Press.

"Gender and Internal Orientalism in China." 1997. Modern China 23(1): 69-98. Reprinted in: Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: An Introductory Reader, Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. Translated as: "Shehui Xingbie yu Zhongguo de Neibu Dongfangzhuyi." 1999. In Selected Translations on Gender and Development (Shehui Xingbie yu Fazhan Yiwenji). Pp. 86-106. Tianjin: Chinese Society for Women's Studies.

"The Other Goes to Market: The State, The Nation, and Unruliness in Contemporary China." 1996. Identities 2(3):197-222. Reprinted as: "The Other Goes to Market: Gender, Sexuality, and Unruliness in Post-Mao China." In Women and Revolution: Global Expressions. 1998. M.J. Diamond, ed. Pp. 363-383. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

"Multiple Alterities: The Contouring of Gender in Miao and Chinese Nationalisms." 1996. In Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality. Brackette Williams, ed. Pp. 79-102. New York: Routledge.

"The Consumption of Color and the Politics of White Skin in Post-Mao China." 1994. Social Text 41:141-164. Reprinted in: The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. 1997. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. Pp. 471-484. New York: Routledge. (Abridged).

"The Dynamics of Cultural Revival Among the Miao in Guizhou." 1989. In Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups in China. Chien Chiao and Nicholas Tapp, eds. Pp. 199-212. Hong Kong: Chinese University.

"Meiguo Mosaide Shi de Miaozu Jumin" (The Hmong in Merced, United States) (Li Song, trans.). 1988. Social Sciences in Southeast Guizhou. Nos. 1-2.

"The Control of Contrast: Lao-Hmong Refugees in American Contexts." 1987. In People in Upheaval. Elizabeth Colson and Scott Morgan, eds. Pp. 88-107. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies.

"The Miao in Contemporary China: A Preliminary Overview." 1985. In The Hmong in Transition. Glenn Hendricks et al, eds. Pp. 73-85. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies.

"Miao/Hmong Textile Arts: Costume and Commerce." 1985. Focus on Asian Studies IV (3): 4-13. Translated as: "Miaozu he Tamen de Gongyipin" (The Miao and Their Handicrafts) (Feng Xianyi, trans.). 1986. Journal of the Guizhou Nationalities Institute. Fall.

Forthcoming:

“Trans/Mediations: Erotics, Sociality, and ‘Asia’.” With Purnima Mankekar. In Media, Globalization and Asian Erotics. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds. Duke University Press.

“Flexible Celebrity: A Half Century of Miao Pop.” In Celebrity China. Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys, eds.

Under Review:

“Perpetual Warriors, Ill-Fitting Immigrants and Other Hmong American Masculinities.” For Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique.

In Prep:

“Pop, Publicity and the People’s Congress: A You Duo’s Mediated Lives.”

“The Body of the Hmong Transnational Suitor.”

Other Articles and Media Publications:

“Making Gran Torino: The Hmong Story on Blu-Ray.” Hmong Today, June 1, 2009. Pp. 16-17.

“Gran Torino Opens at Number One! Doua Moua’s Big Night at New York Premier.” Hmong Today, January 16, 2009, Pp. 10-11.

“Eastwood’s Next Film Features Hmong American Cast: Exclusive Interviews from the set of ‘Gran Torino’.” AsianWeek Vol 29, No. 7, October 3, 2008, pp. 12, 29. Web version: http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/03/eastwoods-next-film-features-hmong-american-cast-exclusive-interviews-from-
the-set-of-gran-torino/

“Persistent Invisibility: Hmong Americans are Silenced.” (With the Critical Hmong Studies Collective). AsianWeek, September 12, 2008, p. 5. Web version: http://www.asianweek.com/2008/09/13/persistent-invisibility-hmong-americans-are-silenced/

“Hmong Actors Making History Part 2: Meet the Gran Torino Family.” Hmong Today Sept 1, 2008, pp.10-11. Web version: http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2590

“Hmong Actors Making History Part 1: The Bad Guys of Gran Torino.” Hmong Today August 16, 2008, pp. 12-13. Web version: http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2542. Reprinted in:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9c74f65fbd40944ddeba5271a1013bd0

Letter to the Editor, New York Times Magazine, May 31, 2008, p. 10.

“Knowledge, Authority and Hmong Invisibility.” Co-authored with Dia Cha, Leena Her, Pao Lee, Ly Chong Thong Jalao, Chia Youyee Vang, Ma Vang, Yang S. Xiong, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, web version http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10828.shtml, March 14, 2008. Reprinted in: Asian American Press, XXVII (14) April 4: 5, 9.

“A General’s Changing Presence: Why Did Vang Pao’s Arrest Become a Unifying Event for So Many?” Op ed. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Tuesday, July 3, 2007: 7B.

“Cha Mee Xiong is on the Move Again.” Hmong Today, Friday, December 22, 2006: 17.

“Famous Sculptor Reaching Back to Miao Roots.” Hmong Today, Friday, November 17, 2006:18-19.

“A You Duo: Chinese Pop Star Showcases Her Miao Heritage.” Hmong Today, Fri., October 13:12-13. http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2355.

“Introduction: Re-Imagining Chinese Mobilities and Spaces” with Tim Oakes. 2004. Provincial China 8(1): 1-4.

“Notes on Postsocialism, Translocality, Space and Sex.” 2004. New Reflections on the Anthropological Studies of (Greater) China, Xin Liu, ed. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California: 186-192.

“Hmong Woman Scholar from Social Science Academy in Guizhou, China.” 2003. MZ Hmong Magazine 13:49-54.

"Chinese Hmong Scholar Visits America." 1999. The Hmong Tribune. June: 1, 12.

"Sex, Gender and Transnational Commodity Desire." 1999. In Power, Practice, Agency: Working Papers from the "Women in the Public Sphere" Seminar 1997-1998. Marianne Dekoven, ed. Pp. 79-82. New Brunswick, NJ: Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University.

"Orientalism." 1999. In Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. Serinity Young, ed. Pp. 748-750. New York: Macmillan Reference U.S.A.

"Miao of China." 1993. In State of the Peoples. Marc S. Miller, ed. P. 120. Boston: Beacon Press.

“Social Problems and the Local Welfare Mix in China: Public Policies and Private Initiatives.” China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research, University of Glasgow, Department of Social Work & Social Policy, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, October 27-30, 2008.

“Cosmopolitan Asia: Diversity and Disparity.” Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 4-5, 2008.

“Religion, Ethnicity and Nation-States in a Globalizing World” Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, June 7-8, 2007.

“Muslims and the Politics of Conscience in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century.” Oxford Contemporary China Studies Programme, Oxford University, UK, February 23, 2007.

“The County Party-State: Local Governance in Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives.” Swedish School for Advanced Asia Pacific Studies and the University of Technology Sydney China Research Group, Taiyuan, China, September 19-21, 2006.

“Indigenous Experience Today.” Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research International Symposium, Pordenone, Italy, March 18-25, 2005.

“The Social, Cultural, and Political Implications of Privatization in China." Shanghai, June 27-29, 2004.

“Place Imaginaries, Mobilities and the Limits of Representation.” University of New South Wales/University of Technology, Sydney, Centre for Research on Provincial China, Hunter Valley, June 7-9, 2004.

“Open Up the West: China’s Regional Development Policy.” Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg. May 8-10, 2003.

“Translocal China: Place-Identity and Mobile Subjectivity.” Haikou, Hainan, China, June 3-5, 2002.

"Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism" Seminar. Central European University, Budapest. (One day instructional lecture), August 2, 2001.

"Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture," Hangzhou, China, June 18-21, 2001.

"Provincial China Workshop: Social Change and Enterprise in China's Provinces," Taiyuan, China, October 23-27, 2000.

"Third International Conference on Sinology," Taipei, Taiwan, June 29-July 1, 2000.

"Anthropology Now! Interpretive and Textual Approaches," Ermopoulis, Greece, July 13-15, 1999.

"First International Symposium on the Hmong/Miao in Asia," Aix-en-Provence, France, September 11-13, 1998.

Gran Torino, Perpetual Warriors and the Performance of Hmong Masculinity. Asian American Studies, University of California at Davis, March 11, 2009.

Gran Torino, Perpetual Warriors and the Performance of Hmong Masculinity. Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 9, 2009

Gran Torino Panel Discussion with Hmong Actors. Organizer/Moderator. University of Minnesota, February 20, 2009.

Gran Torino, Perpetual Warriors and the Performance of Hmong Masculinity.
Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, February 18, 2009.

Media and Hmong Masculinity: From Immigrant Misfits to Perpetual Warriors to Gran Torino Gangbangers. University of Wisconsin, Madison. February 13, 2009.

Race, Violence and Hmong Hunting Incidents. Discussion of “Occult Racism” with Va-Megn Thoj. University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 13, 2009.

Hmong Video as Social Critique: Race, Gender and the Politics of Grassroots Media. Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 25, 2008.

Mediating Social Critique: Gender and Race in Hmong Diasporic Video. Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles, January 18, 2008.

Roundtable on State of the Field. Southeast Asians in Diaspora. University of Illinois, Champaign. April 16, 2008.

Transnational Melodrama: Gender and Affect in Hmong Diasporic Video. Center for Race and Ethnicity and Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, November 19, 2007.

Arranged Desire and Other Untold Eroticisms. Keynote for Conference on Sexualities in World History, University of California, Davis, April 21, 2007.

From Betrayed Brides to Haunted Hunters: Crafting Race and Gender Critique
in Hmong Diasporic Video. Department of Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis. April 19, 2007.

Gender, Affect, Melodrama: Reading Hmong Diasporic Video. Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, March 19, 2007.

Workshop on Media, Diaspora and Method. Institute of Advanced Study and Asian American Studies, March 20, 2007.

Structural Tears: Affect, Audience and Hmong Diasporic Media. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, May 22, 2006.

The Social Life of Hmong Video. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, March 9, 2006.

Discussions of Rewind to Home and other articles, Franklin Institute Seminars, Duke University, February 8 and 9, 2006.

Ill-Gotten Brides and Conspicuous Domiciles: Marriage, Market and Consumption in Chinese Postsocialism. Conference on “Classifying ‘Asian Values’: Culture, Morality, and the Politics of Being Middle Class in Asia.” College of the Holy Cross, November 5, 2005.

Hmong Immigrants and Alternative Medical Strategies. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, March 8, 2005.

Research Briefing: Media, Gender and Transnationality. Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, February 3, 2005.

Media Production and Neoliberal Subjecthood: Hmong Ethnic Entrepreneurs Go Global. Center for Global Ethnic Literatures and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, October 14, 2004.

Thinking Transnational Sex: Hmong Diasporics’ Heterosexual Returns. Conference on “Heterosexuality and Its Discontents.” Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, October 2, 2004.

Homeland Marketing: Gender, Diaspora, and Media Entrepreneurship. Symposium on “Cultures of Capitalism.” Hurford Humanities Center. Haverford College, April 24, 2004.

Gender, Mobility, Spatial Subjectivity: Emerging Miao Translocalities. Conference on “Theoretical Issues in the Study of Rural and Small-Town China.” Center for Chinese Studies. University of California, Berkeley, November 15, 2003.

Rethinking Health, Healing, and History among the Miao/Hmong. Medical Anthropology Course, Department of Anthropology, New York University, February 4, 2003.

Notes for Discussion. Anthropology In and Of China: A Cross-Generation Discussion. Center for Chinese Studies. University of California, Berkeley. March 9, 2002.

Women Linking China: Cultural Flows and Female Migration. Asian Studies Program. Lehigh University. September 24, 2001.

Cultural Mobilities: Gender, Translocality, and Rural-Urban Renegotiations in China. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, April 9, 2001.

Made in Diaspora: A Study of Hmong Migrant Media Practices. Department of Anthropology. Rutgers University. October 24, 2001.

Women Linking China: Cultural Flows and Female Migration. Asian Studies Program. Lehigh University. September 24, 2001.

Cultural Mobilities: Gender, Translocality, and Rural-Urban Renegotiations in China. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, April 9, 2001.

Nostalgia Between the Texts: Memory and Desire in Hmong American Refugee Video. East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, March 1, 2001.

Cultural Studies and the Disciplines. Brown Bag Discussion, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, February 13, 2001.

Textualism, Method, and Hmong Video. Sexual Geographies Workshop, Women's Studies Program, Rutgers University, February 1, 2001.

Media, Migrants, Community: Hmong Videos in Transnational Space. Department of Anthropology, New York University, November 30, 2000.

Discussion of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Gender, Sexuality and Nationalism Workshop, New York University, December 1, 2000.

Popular for Whom? Miao Cultural Production Strategies and Consumption Identities. Unpopular Culture: The Perilous Project of Ethnography in Post-Maoist China, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, June 17, 2000.

Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Modes of Contesting Cultural Developmentalism. Renegotiating the Scope of Chinese Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 13-15, 2000.

Discussion of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Department of Religion, Princeton University, January 14, 2000.

Transpacific Video: Media Production and Consumption in the Hmong Diaspora. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, October 4, 1999.

Mediating Moralities: Women Watch Hmong Movies. The Transnational Politics of Gender and Consumption, University of California, Berkeley, October 8-9, 1999.

Forum on Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Department of Anthropology, New York University, April 12, 1999.

Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption. University of California at Santa Cruz, Ethnographies of the Urban: China in the 1990s Conference, Santa Cruz, CA, September 28, 1997.

Power and Spectacle: Indigenous Production of the Miao in China. New York Academy of Sciences, New York, April 23, 1997.

Video, Voice and Viewerships: An Ethnography of Transnational Cultural Practices. Temple University, Department of Anthropology, Phila., March, 1996.

Virile Homeboys/Beguiling White Girls: Consuming Race and Contesting Gender in East Asia. Joint presentation with Nina Cornyetz. Rutgers University, Institute for Research on Women. January, 1995.

Itinerant Ethnography of the Postnational: China, the US and a Globalizing Minority.City University of New York Graduate Center, Department of Anthropology, New York, October 6, 1994.

China's Miraculous 1990s? Dilemmas from the Omitted Interior. Columbia University Cultural Pluralism Seminar, New York, February 22, 1994.

Hmong and Miao: The Problem of Roots. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, University of Colorado, Boulder, February 27, 1993.

Of Miao Maidens and Post-Mao Modernity: Gender, Status and the Mobile Other in China. Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology, November 10, 1992.

China's Approach to Diversity: Nationalities and Cultural Politics in the Post-Mao Era. Fulbright-Hays International Curriculum Project Briefing, Berkeley, June 25, 1990.

Nationalities and Cultural Revival: Notes from a Recent Visit to Miao Villages in Guizhou and Yunnan. Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, May 7, 1986.

The Hmong/Miao as a Nationality in China. Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, November, 1984.

Costume and Commerce: Forms of Hmong/Miao Textile Craft. Slater Mill Historic Site, Providence, RI, August, 1984.

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