Andrew Kipnis

[About Andrew Kipnis]

Books

• China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism. Norwalk, CT: Eastbridge Books, 2008.
• Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Journal Articles

• "Audit Cultures: Neoliberal governmentality, socialist legacy or technologies of governing?", American Ethnologist, 35(2):275-89, 2008.
• "Neoliberalism Reified: Suzhi Discourse and Tropes of Neoliberalism in the PRC", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13:383-99, 2007.
• “Introduction” to special issue of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, 39(2):3-7, 2007.
• "Suzhi: a Keyword Approach", China Quarterly, 186: 295-313, 2006.
• "School Consolidation in Rural China", Development Bulletin, 70:123-25, April 2006.
• "Political Economy After Mao: Towards a Neo-Durkheimian Theory", Asian Anthropology, 4:59-90, 2005.
• "Anthropology and the Theorisation of Citizenship", The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(3):257-78, 2004.
• "The Anthropology of Power and Maoism", American Anthropologist, Vol. 105, no. 2 (June 2003), pp. 278-288. [PDF file (1.31MB)Copyright_2003_American Anthropological Association.]
• "Post-Marxism in a Post-Socialist Perspective", Anthropological Theory, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2003), pp.459-82.
• "Neo-Leftists versus Neo-Liberals: PRC Intellectual Debates in the 1990s", Journal of Intercultural Studies 24(3):239-51, 2003.
• "Zouping Christianity As Gendered Critique? The Place of the Political In Ethnography", Anthropology and Humanism 27(1):80-96, 2002
• "Articulating School Counter-Cultures", Anthropology and Education Quarterly 32(4): 472-92, 2001.
• "The Flourishing of Religion in Post-Mao China and the Anthropological Category of Religion", The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2001), pp. 32-46. [PDF file (78.5KB)]
• "The Disturbing Educational Discipline of 'Peasants'", The China Journal, Vol. 46 (July 2001), pp. 1-24.
• "Anti-Maoist Gender: Hibiscus Town's Naturalization of a Dengist Sex/Gender/Kinship System", Asian Cinema 8(2):66-75, 1997.
• "The Language of Gifts: Managing Guanxi in a North China Village", Modern China, Vol. 22, issue 3 (July 1996), pp. 285-314. [PDF file (2.6MB)]
• "Within and against Peasantness: Backwardness and Filiality in Rural China", Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 37, issue 1 (January 1995), pp. 110-35. [PDF file (2.8MB)]
• "'Face': An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces", Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1995), pp. 119-48.
• with Dorothy Holland, "Metaphors for Embarrassment and Stories of Exposure: The Not-So-Egocentric Self In American Culture", Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 22(3):316-42, 1994.
• "Yogic Meditation and Social Responsibility", Buddhist Christian Studies 14:111-26, 1994.

Review Essays

• "Anthropological Approaches to Self in Contemporary China", The China Journal, Vol. 50 (July 2003), pp. 127-132. [PDF file (33KB)]
• On Lisa Rofel's Other Modernities, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 32(3):61-4, 2000.

Book Chapters

• Forthcoming “Neoliberalism” in Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd ed. Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (eds).
• Forthcoming 2008 “Education in the People’s Republic of China”, The Encyclopedia of Child Labour Hugh Hindman (ed.). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
• "Education and the Governance of Child-centred Relatedness" In Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives Goncalo Duro dos Santos and Susanne Brandtstadter eds. London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 204-22.
• "Competition, Audit, Scientism and School Non-Choice in Rural China" In The Globalisation of School Choice? Martin Forsey, Scott Davies, and Geoffrey Walford (eds). Oxford: Symposium Books, 2008, pp. 165-83.
• Entries on Memorization, University Entrance Examinations and Village Schools, Encyclopedia of Chinese Culture, Edward L. Davis (ed.), pp. 386-87, 622, 627-28.
• "Practices of Guanxi Production and Practices of Ganqing Avoidance", in Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, Tom Gold, Doug Guthrie and David Wank (eds), pp. 21-34, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 2002.
• "Beijing", in The Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures around the World, Melvin and Carol R. Ember (eds), pp. 317-25, Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2002.
• With Dorothy Holland, "American Cultural Models of Embarrassment: The Not-So-Egocentric Self Laid Bare", in Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: An Introduction To The Psychology, Anthropology and Linguistics of Emotion, J.A. Russell, J. Fernandez-Dols, A.S.R. Manstead and J.C. Wellencamp (eds), pp. 181-202. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
• "Reinventing Li: Kowtow and Subjectification in Rural Shandong", in Body, Subject and Power in China, Angela Zito and Tani Barlow(eds), pp. 201-23. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Translations

• Translation of Zhao Shukai's "Criminality and the Policing of Migrant Workers", In The China Journal, 43:101-10, 2000.
• Translation of Zhang Jing's book review "Social Power and Legal Culture", in The China Journal, 43:219-20, 2000.