Associate Professor of Anthropology

School of Philosophy and Sociology

Lanzhou University

222 Tianshui Road

Chengguan District, Lanzhou city 730000

Gansu Province, China

E-mail: htliu@lzu.edu.cn

 

Professional Employment:

2017-present          Associate Professor

2013-2017            Assistant Professor,

                        School of Philosophy and Sociology,

                        Lanzhou University

Oct 2007-April 2008    Journalist, Beijing Daily

 

Education:

Ph.D.   2013   Peking University

M.A.   2007   Peking University

B.A.    2004   Lanzhou University

Languages:

 Chinese, English, French(reading),

            Pangsai (basic level, One of the five Li dialects, a Sino-Tibetan language)

 

Publications:

Single-Authored Book

2009. The Vigorous Fire Pile: The Kinship Systems of Lolopa of Yi Ethnic Group.

Kunming: Yunnan People Press

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles:

2021. “Revision of Robbins' Theory of Value: The Kinship Structure and Moral Practice of Meifuli Ethnic Group.” Journal of Southwest Minzu University (Humanities and Social Science)

2019. “The Cultural Practice of Good Life: The Soul and its Relationship with Kinship, a Case from Meifuli Ethnic Group.” Journal of Southwest Minzu University (Humanities and Social Science)

2017. “The Cultural Construction and Its Cultural Logic of Residential Space in Hainan Meifuli.” Ethno-National Studies (which is the highest ranked academic journal of anthropology in China).

2017, “Gender and Identity: An Analysis of Patient-physician Conflict in OB&GYN in China.” Thinking.

2016, “What kinship is? The Disagreement between M. Sahlins and Caihua”, Journal of Southwest Minzu University(Humanities and Social Science)

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors:

2021. Excellent Supervisor of Master Thesis in Gansu Province

2015-2020. Chinese National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science Research grant, “Relationship between Couples, Intergenerational Relations and Family Strategy of Northwest Peasants in the Process of Urbanization in China”

2013. Outstanding Graduates Award of Peking University and Beijing City

Aug.2008-Dec.2008. Visiting Scholarship, LAIOS (EHESS), under the guidance

of professor Marc Abeles

 

Referees:

Cai Hua, who is the author of books A Society without Fathers or Husbands and L’Homme Pense par L’Homme and the Retired Professor at Department of Sociology, Peking University (caihua0207@126.com).

DANZENG Jinba, who is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (Tel: (65) 6516-6409; e-mail: socdj@nus.edu.sg).

Margaret R. Weeks, who is Executive Director & Senior Scientist at Institute for Community Research, Hartford, CT. (mweeks@icrweb.org).