Yunxiang Yan

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., Harvard 1993

Curriculum Vitae

Class Websites

Office: 381 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-267-4336
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: yan@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

Social change and development, family and kinship, cultural globalization, morality, the individual and individualization

Selected Publications

The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996)

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

The Individualization of Chinese Society (Oxford: Berg, 2009)

“The Good Samaritan’s New Trouble: A Study of the Changing Moral Landscape in Contemporary China.” Social Anthropology 17 (1): 9-24 (2009).

“Introduction: Conflicting Images of the Individual and Contested Process of Individualization.” In Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud (eds.) i China: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society, pp. 1-38. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (2010).

"The Chinese Path to Individualization," The British Journal of Sociology 61(3): 489-512 (2010).

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