Faculty

CHU Jianfang
Born in Gu’an county, Hebei Province in August 1970, CHU Jianfang graduated from Peking University and got his Ph.D in anthropology in August 2003. He has been working in Nanjing University since 2003, and is now associate professor of Anthropology. His interest in teaching and research involves Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of Consumption, Anthropology of Things, Anthropology of Food and Drinks, Anthropology of Education, Ethnicity and Identity, Gender, Aging, Anthropology of Ritual and Symbolism, Linguistic Anthropology, Cognitive Anthropology, Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Performing Arts.
 
Address: 
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Nanjing University Xianlin Campus
163 Xianlin Dadao
Nanjing, 210093
P. R. China
Phone（o）:    86-25-89680958-305
 
Education
Ph.D.  Peking University 2003
Field: Socio-cultural Anthropology
Dissertation: Between People and Gods: The Ritual Life and  Hierarchical Order of a Dai Village in Mangshi, Yunnan
M. A.  Hebei Teachers University, 1997 
Field: General Psychology
Thesis: Effects of Rotation RT Task on Hear rate, T-Wave Amplitude and Respiration Frequency of Introverts and Extroverts
B. A.  Hebei Teachers University, 1994
Field:  Psychology, 
Thesis: Mencius’ Psychological Thoughts on Personality
 
Languages:
Chinese:  (native) fluency in speaking, listening, reading and writing
English :  fluency in speaking, listening, reading and writing
Hanm Dai (the language of the Dai people in Dehong, Southwest China):  fluency in speaking and listening
 
  Field Work Experience
9 Counties in South Guangxi on the China-Vietnam Border, Aug. 2009, on the kinship system and livelihood of the border villagers.
Chunhua, Nanjing, Sep. 2008, on market and education systems in a suburb town of urban Nanjing.
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, Southwest China, and Nam Khan, Northern Burma, Jan. 2008-Feb.2008, on ritual, beliefs and economic ethics;
Yan’an of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China, Apr.2007-May 2008, on “the red memory” of the Chinese Communist Party;
Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, east China, June, 2005, on changes of market systems and traditional values in northern Jiangsu.
Luhe, Nanjing, 2003,11, on educational systems and their changes in rural Jiangsu. 
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, Southwest China, and Nam Khan, Northern Burma, Jan. 2008-Feb.2008, on Theravada Buddhist belief and economic lives of the Yunnan-Burma border peoples;
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, Southwest China, and Nam Khan, Northern Burma, Mar. 2002-Nov.2002, on ritual Life，economic ethics and hierarchical order of the Dais in Dehong.
Jinxiu Yao Automous County, Guangxi Province, Aug.2001, on economic lives and religious belief of the Yao Groups in the Yao Mountain Area.
 
Major Research and Teaching Interests:
Economic Anthropology; Historical Anthropology; Ritual and Symbolism; Social/Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology of Things; Consumption; Anthropology of Performing Arts; Ethnicity and Identity; Anthropology of Education; Infants, Children and the Family; Aging; Anthropology of Food; Linguistic Anthropology; Cognitive Anthropology; Ethnographic Writing; Theory and Method in Socio-cultural Anthropology.
 Teaching and Research Affiliations
2006-Associate Professor of Anthropology, Nanjing University
Teach graduate and undergraduate courses.
2003-06  Lecturer in Anthropology, Nanjing University
Taught undergraduate courses
1997-2000  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hebei Teachers University
2011-2012  Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Courses Taught
Graduate Level:
Ritual and Symbolism Economic Anthropology Ethnographic Writing
 
Undergraduate Level:
Cultural Anthropology Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Economic Anthropology
Anthropology of Symbolism
Everyday-life Anthropology
Qualitative Research
 
Courses under Development for Future Teaching
Graduate Level:
Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology of Ethnicity and Identity
Anthropology of Education
 
Undergraduate Level:
Anthropology of Everyday Life
Anthropology of Performing Arts 
Anthropology of Games and Arts
 

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2011-12  Freeman Fellow, Freeman Fellows Program, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Published Books (Original Hardcover, Paperback Reprints, and Translations)
  2005  Between People and Gods: The Ritual Life，Economic Ethics and Hierarchical Order of a Dai Village in Mangshi, Yunnan, Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe（Social Sciences Academic Press).
  2017 (2014) Nu’er Ren: Dui yi ge Ni luo te Renqun de Shenghuo Fangshi he Zhengzhi Zhidu de Miaoshu (The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People), Beijing: Shangwu Yinshu Guan (The Commercial Press).
2002  Nu’er Ren: Dui Niluohe Pan Yige Renqun de Shenghuo Fangshi he Zhengzhi Zhidu de Miaoshu (The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People), Beijing: Huaxia Chubanshe.
 
Book Contributions
2005  “The Buai and Exchange of the Dai people in Mangshi”, in PAN Naigu and WANG Mingming (eds.), Chonggui “Kuige” (Return to “Kuige”), Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe（Social Sciences Academic Press).
2006  “Hualan Yao Shehui Zuzhi: Shequ Yanjiu de Fanli” (“The Social Organization of the ‘Hualan’ Yao: A Classic Work of Community Studies”), in ZHAO Tingyang (ed.) Niandu Xueshhu2006 (THEORIA 2006), Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe.
 2008  “Jingji Renleixue yu Guanyu Jingji de Renleixue: Dangdai Jingji Renleixue de Xueke Dingwei Jiqi yu Zhongguo Yanjiu de Huwei Zhutixing” (“Economic Anthropology and the Anthropology of Economy: The Disciplinary Positioning of Contemporary Economic Anthropology and Its Intersubjectivity”) in WANG Jianmin and TANG Yun (eds.) Xueke Chongjian Yilai de Zhongguo Renleixue (China’s Anthropology since Its Reconstruction), Beijing: Zhongyang Minzu Daxue Chubanshe.
2017  “Religion, Ethics and Social Ethos: with a discussion of  Interpretive Anthropology.” in FAN Ke and YANG Derui, 2017, Cultural Practices of “Sacredness” and “Secularity”, China Social Sciences Publishing House.
 
Journal Articles
2016, “Karma Beliefs, Moral Views on Wealth and Social Order in Dai Villages of Mangshi City”, Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), Vol.38 No.2 No.2, 73-79.
2014(a), “Dόng lài Hānm gūn：the Life Ethics，Traditional Indoctrination and Social Control in the Tai Villages inMangshi”, Open Times, 6th Issue, 194-204.
2014(b), “Religion, Moral and Social Integration: Social Forms and Changes of the Dai Nationality in Mangshi in the Perspective of Weber’s Proposition”, Thinking, No.6, 2014, 44-49.
2014(c), “Individual and Society: Life Ethics, Ritual Practices and Social Structure of Dai Villages in Mangshi, Yunnan Province, Journal of South-Central University for Nationalityes (Humanities & Social Sciences), No.1, Vol.34, 53-59.
2014(d), “Social Integration Rituals that Cross Sacredness and Secularity”, Chinese Social Science Digest, No.2, 141-142. 
2013, “On the ‘Zaga’ Rituals, Age-groups and Social Life of the Dai People in Mangshi”, Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), Vol.38 No.5, 96-104.
2010, “The Making of a Tradition: How the Dai’s Water-Splashing Festival Came to be Reinterpreted as a New-Year Festival”, Open Times , 2010(2), 101-115.
2010, “Bianmin, Kuajie Zuqun, yu Hanyu Renleixue: Weirao Yunnan Daizu Yanjiu de Sikao” (“Border People, Transnational Ethnic Group and Chinese Anthropology: Rethinking Studies on the Yunnan Dai People”), Chinese Review of Anthropology, Volume 16, 92-102.
2009, “Minzu Rentong: Difang, Zuqun yu Qita” (“National Identity: Ethnic Group, Local Territories and Other Factors”), Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 4, 88-120.
2006,  “The Social Organization of Hualanyao: A Classic Example of the Community Research”, Rural-urban Relations 2006, 3-20.
2001,  “Review on The Eternity in the Roving Life: Notes in the Field”, in Cultural Worlds: Chinese of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Beijing: Huaxia Chubanshe, 270-275.
Translated Articles
2007  Zanqi DU (Prasenjit Duara) “Difang Shijie: Xiandai Zhongguo de Xiangtu Shixue yu Zhengzhi”(“Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China”), Chinese Review of Anthropology, Volume 2, 21-50.
 

2007     Third Prize of the 10th Jiangsu Provincial Award in Philosophical and Social Sciences).