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Books
2019. Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
2016. Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Click here for more information.
2015. Asia Inside Out: Connected Places, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass. H Harvard University Press. Click here for flier.
2015. Asia Inside Out: Changing Times, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Click here for flier.
2010. Merchants’ Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2008. Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population (co-editor Agnes Ku). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2007. SARS: Reception and Interpretations in Three Chinese Cities (co-editor Deborah Davis). London: Routledge.
2006. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China (co-editors Pamela Crossley and Donald Sutton). California: University of California Press.
2005. Rethinking Hong Kong’s Human Resources and Competitiveness: A Pre-Policy Study (Interim Report, co-PI Richard Wong and David Faure). Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
1995. Down to Earth: the Territorial Bond in South China (co-editor David Faure). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
1990. Furrows, Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State: Stories and Histories from Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
1989. Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
1983. Mao’s Harvest: Voices from China’s New Generation. Edited and translated with Zelda Stern, New York: Oxford University Press.
Articles
2019. “Financing Chinese Engagement in Africa: New State Spaces along a Variegated Landscape,” Africa 89(4): 638-661. (November).
2019. “Hong Kong Protests in a Global Context,” blog for Fairbank Center, Harvard University (June 19). Similar one at ChinaFile (June).
2019. “Introduction: Seekers, Sojourners, and Meaningful Worlds in Motion,” Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People (with Eric Tagliacozzo and Peter C. Perdue), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-28.
2017. “China-Africa Encounters,” (co-author Mike McGovern), Annual Review of Anthropology 46: 337-355. (November).
2017. “Comments on the Special Issue (对专号的一点意见),” Journal of History and Anthropology 15(2): 221-224. (Oct, in Chinese).
2015. “Comment: Rethinking ‘East Asia’ in World Anthropology,” American Anthropologist 117(2) (June): 374-376.
2015. “Introduction: Spatial Assemblages,” in Asia Inside out: Connected Places, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-30.
2015. “The Original Translocal Society: Making Chaolian from Land and Sea,” in Asia Inside Out: Connected Places, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 64-97.
2015. “Introduction: Structuring Moments in Asian Connections,” in Asia Inside Out: Changing Times, eds. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-22.
2014. “Key Issues in Historical Anthropology: A View from ‘South China’,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, E-Journal No 13 (December 2014), pp. 174-188. https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-13/siu
2011. “Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Post-Modern: The Case of Hong Kong,” in Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (eds.), Blackwell Press, pp. 129-159.
2010. “Introduction,” in Siu (ed.), Merchants’ Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 1-22.
2010. “Unity and Diversity: Explaining Culture and History,” In memory of G. William Skinner, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 8(1) (March 2010): 65-76.
2010. “Women of Influence,” in Merchants’ Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China, Siu (ed.), Hong Kong University Press, pp. 169-196.
2009. “Dianpei bu liuli: hou gaige shiqi Huanan fei gongmin de chengshi kongjian” ,《顛沛不流離：后改革時期華南非公民的城市空間》 translation of “Grounding Displacement: Uncivil Urban Spaces in South China”, ) in Chinese, Journal of Legal and Economic Studies, Hong Fan Institute of Economics and Law, and SDX Joint Publishing Company, Beijing.
2009 《反思歷史人類學》(Reflections on Historical Anthropology)>>, Journal of History and Anthropology (歷史人類學學刊), 7(2) (October): 105-137.
2009. “Positioning at the Margins: The Infra-Power of Middle Class Hong Kong,” in Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism, eds. Deborah Madsen and Andrea Riemenschnitter, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 55-76.
2008. “Hong Kong Mobile, Redefining the Hong Konger,” in Hong Kong on the Move: 10 Years as the HKSAR, eds. Carola McGifert and James T.H. Tang, Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Washington DC., pp. 192-206.
2008. “Introduction,” “Conclusion: Wither Hong Kong and Hong Kongers” in Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population, Siu and Ku (eds.), Hong Kong University Press.
2008. “Positioning ‘Hong Kongers and ‘New Immigrants’” in Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population, Siu and Ku (eds.), Hong Kong University Press.
2007. “Grounding Displacement: Uncivil Urban Spaces in South China,” American Ethnologist, 34(2) (May): 329-350.
2007. Helen Siu and Jane Chan, “Eulogy and Practice: Public Professionals and Private Lives,” in SARS: Reception and Interpretations in Three Chinese Cities, Deborah Davis and Helen Siu (eds), London: Routledge.
2006. (With Liu Zhiwei) “Lineage, Market, Pirate and Dan: Ethnicity in the Sands of South China,” in Empire at the Margins: Culture, Frontier and Ethnicity in Early Modern China. Co-editor Pamela Crossley and Donald Sutton, California: University of California Press.
2005. “The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China,” in Locating China: Space, Place and Popular Culture. Jing Wang, ed. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 72-93.
2004. (With Liu Zhiwei) “Zongzu, shichang, daokou yu danmin: Ming yihou zhujiang sanjiaozhou de zuqun yu shehui. 《宗族市場盜寇與蛋民：明以後珠江三角洲的族群與社會》(Lineage, Market, Pirate and Dan: Ethnicity in the Sands of South China).” Zhongguo Shehui Jingjishi Yanjiu 中國社會經濟史研究 (Studies in Chinese Social and Economic History) 3: 1-13.
2003. “Chuantong de xunhuan zaisheng: Xiaolan juhuahui de wenhua, lishi yu zhengzhi jingji” 《傳統的循環再生：小欖菊花會的文化歷史與政治經濟》 (Recycling Tradition: Culture, History, and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China)”. Lishi Renleixue Xuekan 歷史人類學學刊(Journal of History and Anthropology) 1 (1 April): 99-131.
2003. (With David Faure) “The Original Translocal Society and its Modern Fate: Historical and Post-Reform South China“. Provincial China 8 (1 April): 40-59.
2002. “Redefining the Market Town through Festivals in South China,” in Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception. David Faure and Tao Tao Liu, eds. New York: Palgrave in association with St. Antony’s College, Oxford, pp. 233-249.
2001. “Nianzai huanan yanjiu zhilu” A Twenty-Year Journey through South China)”. Qinghua Shehuixue Pinglun (Tsinghua Sociological Review) 1(3): 181-190.
2000. “The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in South China,” in Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. Wen-Hsin Yeh, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 191-227.
1999. “Hong Kong: Cultural Kaleidoscope on a World Landscape,” in Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century. Gary G. Hamilton, ed. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, pp. 100-117.
1999. “Wenhua, lishi yu minzu rentong: Xianggang yu Huanan,” 《文化歷史與民族認同：香港與華南> Chinese translation from chapter in Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century. Gary G. Hamilton, ed.
1997. “Afterword” of “Recycling Tradition: Culture, History and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China,” in Cultures of Scholarship. Sally C. Humphreys, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
1997. “Huigui hou, Xianggang rengshi Xianggang.” 《囘歸后，香港仍是香港》 明報月刊Ming Pao Monthly July: 52-55.
1996. “Xianggang zaizao: wenhua rentong yu zhengzhi chayi 《香港再造：文化認同與政治差異》(an edited version of “Remade in Hong Kong”).” 明報月刊Ming Pao Monthly August: 16-21. Reprinted in Xianggan shi yanjiu lunzhu xuanji, Ching Maybo and Zhao Yuyue, eds. Open University of Hong Kong Press, 1999.
1996. “Remade in Hong Kong: Weaving into the Chinese Cultural Tapestry” in Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China. Taotao Liu and David Faure, eds. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong University Press, pp. 177-197.
1996. “Funu hezai? 《婦女何在》(Where Were the Women? Rethinking Marriage Resistance and Regional Culture History).” Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Jikan 中國社會科學季刊 (Chinese Social Science Quarterly) 14 (Spring): 24-40.
1995. “Community Festivals in South China: Economic Transformations and Cultural Improvisations,” in China Review. Chi-kin Lo, Suzanne Pepper and Kai-yuen Tsui, eds. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, pp. 1-17.
1995. (With David Faure) “Introduction” and “Conclusion: History and Anthropology,” in Down to Earth: the Territorial Bond in South China. David Faure and Helen F. Siu, eds. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-43; 209-222.
1995. (With David Faure) “Subverting Lineage Power: Local Bosses in the 1940s,” in Down to Earth: the Territorial Bond in South China. David Faure and Helen F. Siu, eds. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, pp. 188-208.
1994. “The South China-Hong Kong Nexus: A Cultural Kaleidoscope,” in China in Transition: China Studies Lecture Series, 1993-1994. Wei-chin Lee, ed. Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and Wake Forest University, pp. 21-29.
1993. “The Reconstitution of Brideprice and Dowry in South China,” in Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 165-188.
1993. “Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China.” Daedalus 122 (2 Spring): 19-43.
1991. “Lishi yu renleixue — shazhou shang de minzu qufen (History and Anthropology: Ethnicity on the Sands)”. Guowai Shehuixue (Foreign Sociology) 5: 33-36.
1990. “Wenhua huodong yu quyu shehui jingji de fazhan (Culture and the Development of Regional Society and Economy).” Zhongguo Shehui Jingjishi Yanjiu (Studies in Chinese Social and Economic History) 4: 51-56.
1990. “Where were the Women? Rethinking Marriage Resistance and Regional Culture History.” Late Imperial China 11(2 December): 32-62.
1990. “Recycling Rituals: Politics and Popular Culture in China Today.” China Update (Yale-China Association) 10(2 Summer): 1-8.
1990. “Recycling Tradition: Culture, History and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 32(4 October): 765-794.
1990. “The Politics of Growth: Pearl River Delta Experience,” in Chinese Urban Reform: What Model Now? R. Yin-Wang Kwok … [et al.], ed. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 197-212.
1990. “The Politics of Migration in a Market Town,” in Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen: The Impact of Reform. Deborah Davis and Ezra F. Vogel, eds. Cambridge, Mass: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, pp. 61-82.
1989. “Recycling Rituals: Politics and Popular Culture in Contemporary Rural China,” in Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People’s Republic. E. Perry Link, Richard Madsen and Paul Pickowicz, eds. Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 121-137.
1989. “Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town.” American Ethnologist 16(2): 195-212.
1989. “Social Responsibility and Self Expression: Chinese Literature in the 1980’s.” Modern Chinese Literature 5: 7-31.
1988. “Nanxi’s Woe, Yongding’s Pride: Economic Reform in China’s Rural Towns and Districts.” China Update (Yale-China Association) 8(2 Summer): 1-8.
1986. “Immigrants and Social Ethos: Hong Kong in the Nineteen-eighties.” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 26: 1-16.
1986. “Collective Economy, Authority, and Political Power in Rural China,” in The Frailty of Authority. Myron J. Aronoff, ed. New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, pp. 9-50.
1983. “Ethnographic Fieldwork in Rural Guangdong: The Virtues of Flexibility,” in The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field. Anne F. Thurston and Burton Pasternak, eds. Boulder, Colorado: Westiview Press, pp. 143-161.
Reviews
2011. “History in China’s Urban Post-Modern,” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu). E-Journal No. 1 (December 2011).
2010. “Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong,” by Nicole Dejong Newendorp, Stanford University Press, 2008, in Journal of Anthropological Research 66: 125-127.
2009. “Power, Entitlement and Social Practice: Resource Distribution in North China Villages,” by Xiyi Huang, 2007, The Chinese University Press, in Pacific Affairs.
2007. “Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China,” by David Faure, Stanford University Press, 2007, in China Quarterly (December).
2006. “China’s Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage,” Review Essays, in American Anthropologist, 108(2) (June): 389-392.
2006. Commentary on “Catching-Up: The Politics of Restructuring the Late Socialist Cityscape,” by Li Zhang, in Current Anthropology, 47(3) (June): 478-479.
2006. “From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China,” by Merle Goldman, Harvard University Press, 2005, in American Historical Review.
2006. “Kinship, Contract, Community and State: Perspectives on the Anthropology of China,” by Myron Cohen, in The China Review, 6(2) (Fall).
2006. Zhongguo Jiyuan 《中国纪元: 背负历史行囊快速前行》(Chinese translation of “China’s Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage”). Chinese translation published in Shehuixue yangjiu 社會學研究, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, October 2006.
2001. “Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism,” by Lisa Rofel, University of California Press 1999, in American Ethnologist (May).
1999. “The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1945-95,” by Glen Peterson, University of British Columbia Press, 1997, in American Historical Review (Spring).
Interviews
2006. “An Interview with Helen Siu,” by Elana Chipman, Society for East Asian Anthropology, Anthropology Newsletter (May).
* Note: Some of these links are for abstracts only. Some links may only be valid through Yale University. Please e-mail helen.siu@yale.edu if you need any assistance locating any of these publications.