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Publications of Ralph A. Litzinger    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Rojas, C; Litzinger, RA, Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China, edited by Rojas, C; Litzinger, R (2016), pp. 268 pages, Duke Univesity Press, ISBN 0822361930  [abs]
  2. Litzinger, RA, Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging (2000), Duke University Press  [abs]

Published Articles

  1. Chu, N; Litzinger, R; Wang, M; Zhu, Q, Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Urban In-Between, Positions, vol. 30 no. 3 (August, 2022), pp. 411-427 [doi]
  2. Litzinger, R; Ni, Y, Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic, China Information, vol. 35 no. 3 (November, 2021), pp. 346-365 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Litzinger, R, Erratum: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, foxconn, and the lives of China's workers (The Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80:3 (707-708) DOI: 10.1017/S0021911821000760), Journal of Asian Studies (January, 2021), pp. 1 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Litzinger, R; Yang, F, Eco-media events in China from yellow eco-peril to media materialism, Environmental Humanities, vol. 12 no. 1 (May, 2020), pp. 1-22 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Litzinger, RA, Review: Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong, American Ethnologist (2015)
  6. Litzinger, R, The labor question in China: Apple and beyond, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112 no. 1 (December, 2013), pp. 172-178, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
  7. Various, , Labor in China: A New Politics of Struggle, edited by Litzinger, RA, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112 no. 1 (January, 2013)  [author's comments]
  8. Litzinger, RA, Face au désastre écologique en Chine, les différents visages de la mobilisation. Entretien." Propose receuillis par Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Charlotte Nordmann, La Revue de Livres no. 012 (2013), pp. 64-69
  9. Litzinger, RA, Commentary: Aihwa Ong's "What Marco Polo Forgot: Contemporary Chinese Art Reconfigures the Global", Current Anthropology, vol. 53 no. 4 (August, 2012), pp. 471-494
  10. Litzinger, RA, Tibet Talk: On Life, Death and the State, Cultural Anthropology (March, 2012) [540]  [author's comments]
  11. Litzinger, RA, Introduction to special issue: Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet, Cultural Anthropology (March, 2012) [526]  [author's comments]
  12. Litzinger, RA, “Introduction: Labor in China Today: Apple and Beyond,”, South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) (forthcoming in January 2013.)
  13. Litzinger, RA, Labor in China Today: Apple and Beyond, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112 no. 1 (2012), pp. 172-178, Duke University Press
  14. Litzinger, R, China’s Embedded Activism: Opportunities and Constraints of a Social Movement, edited by Peter Ho, The China Journal (2008)  [author's comments]
  15. Litzinger, R, Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, by Lisa Rofel, China Review International (2008)  [author's comments]
  16. Litzinger, R, Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan, by Robert Weller, American Anthropologist (Summer, 2008)
  17. Litzinger, R, Afterword: Beyond the Corporate Leninist Box (2008)
  18. Litzinger, R, Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China , by Beth Notar, The China Quarterly, vol. 191 (September, 2007), pp. 769-771
  19. Ralph Litzinger, , “Contested Sovereignties and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund”, Political And Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), vol. 29 no. 1 (2006), pp. 66-87, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  20. Litzinger, RA, The Mobilization of Nature: Perspectives from Northwest Yunnan, China Quarterly, vol. 178 no. 178 (Spring, 2004), pp. 488-504, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
  21. Litzinger, RA, “Damming the Angry River”, China Review, vol. 30 no. Autumn (2004), pp. 30-34, Great Britian China Center [htm]
  22. Litzinger, RA, "Theorizing Post-socialism: Reflections on the Politics of Marginality in Contemporary China", South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 101 no. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 33-55, Duke University Press (special issue on "The Vicissitudes of Theory".) [doi]
  23. Litzinger, RA, "Government from Below: The State, the Popular, and the Illusion of Autonomy", Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 9 no. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 251-264, Duke University Press [doi]
  24. Litzinger, RA, Beyond the Museum Complex: Minority Culture and History at the Mountain Patterns Exhibit, Asian Ethnicity, vol. 2 no. 1 (March, 2001), pp. 86-96 [pdf]
  25. Litzinger, RA, Contesting citizenship in urban China: Peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market., AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, vol. 28 no. 1 (February, 2001), pp. 247-248, WILEY, ISSN 0094-0496 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  26. Litzinger, RA, Government from Below: The State, the Popular, and the Illusion of Autonomy, positions: asia critique, vol. 9 no. 1 (February, 2001), pp. 253-266, Duke University Press [doi]
  27. Kipnis, AB, Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village, Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 38 no. 3 (2001), pp. 374-376
  28. Litzinger, RA, Screening the Political: Pedagogy and Dissent in The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 7 no. 3 (2001), pp. 827-850
  29. Litzinger, RA, "Race, Taxonomy, and Auto-Ethnographic Critique in Ethnographic Film Criticism", American Anthropologist, vol. 102 no. 3 (September, 2000), pp. 608-611
  30. Litzinger, RA, Questions of gender: Ethnic minority representation in post-Mao China, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 32 no. 4 (January, 2000), pp. 3-14, ISSN 0007-4810 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  31. Litzinger, RA, Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China, edited by Safran, W, Asian Ethnicity, vol. 1 no. 1 (2000), pp. 84-86
  32. Litzinger, RA, Screening the Political: Pedagogy and Dissent in The Gate of Heavenly Peace, positions: asia critique, vol. 7 no. 3 (August, 1999), pp. 827-850, Duke University Press [doi]
  33. Litzinger, RA, Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia, edited by TE Barlow, American Anthropologist, vol. 100 no. 3 (September, 1998), pp. 813-814, Wiley [doi]  [abs]
  34. Litzinger, RA, "The Work of Culture and Memory in Post-Mao China", Asia/Pacific Studies Institute Working Papers Series (1995), Duke University

Book Chapters

  1. Litzinger, RA, Schooling the Migrant Margins of Beijing, in Development and Displacement: China and its Global Footprint (2015), Duke University Press
  2. Litzinger, RA, China’s Global Futures, in Development and Displacement: China and its Global Footprint (2015), Duke University Press
  3. Litzinger, RA, The Afterlives of Shangri-la, in Mapping Shangrila: Nature, Personhood, and Polity in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (2015), University of Washington Press
  4. Litzinger, RA, Development and Displacement: China and its Global Footprint (2015), Duke University Press
  5. Litzinger, RA, China’s Global Futures (2015), Duke University Press
  6. Litzinger, RA, The Afterlives of Shangri-la (2015), University of Washington Press
  7. Litzinger, RA, Schooling the Migrant Margins of Beijing (2015), Duke University Press
  8. Litzinger, R, Afterword: The afterlives of shangrila, in Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (January, 2014), pp. 279-286, ISBN 9780295993577
  9. Litzinger, RA, Preface: Nagtsang Nulo’s Joys and Sorrows, in My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone (2014), Duke University Press
  10. Litzinger, RA, The Mobilization of Nature, in Selected Studies on Western China, Translation from English to Chinese (hereto Translated Essays on Western China) 《国外学者对中国西部研究部分论文翻译集》。 (2012)  [author's comments]
  11. Litzinger, RA, The Mobilization of Nature (2012)
  12. Litzinger, R, Afterword: Beyond the Corporate Leninist Box, in Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar, edited by Ong, A; Zhang, L (2008)
  13. Litzinger, RA, In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Schemes in Northwest Yunnan, in Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China, edited by Perry, E; Goodman, M (April, 2007)
  14. Litzinger, RA, In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Schemes in Northwest Yunnan (April, 2007)
  15. Litzinger, RA, Reprint of "The Mobilization of Nature: Perspectives from Northwest Yunnan", in The Go West Campaign, edited by Goodman, D (2005), Cambridge University Press
  16. Litzinger, RA, Reprint of "The Mobilization of Nature: Perspectives from Northwest Yunnan" (2005), Cambridge University Press
  17. Litzinger, RA, Ethnology, Place, and Locality in the Study of the Jinxiu Yao, in Ethnic Relations: The Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sinology, Taiwan, edited by Sinica, A (2003)
  18. Litzinger, RA, Ethnology, Place, and Locality in the Study of the Jinxiu Yao (2003)
  19. Litzinger, RA, Tradition and the Gender of Civility, in Chinese Feminities/Chinese Masculinities: An Introductory Reader, edited by Brownell, S; Wasserstrom, J (Spring, 2001), University of California Press
  20. Litzinger, RA, Globalization from Below: Reflections on the Anthropology of Global Environmentalism, in Links Between Cultures and Biodiversity: Proceedings of the Cultures and Biodiversity Congress 2000, edited by Jianchu, X (2000), pp. 590-597, Kunming: Yunnan Science and Technology Press
  21. Litzinger, RA, "Globalization from Below: Reflections on the Anthropology of Global Environmentalism" (2000), pp. 590-597, Kunming: Yunnan Science and Technology Press
  22. Litzinger, RA, Re-imagining the State in Post-Mao China, in Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and Production of Danger, edited by Weldes, J; Laffey, M; Gusterson, H; Duvall, R (1999), pp. 293-318, University of Minnesota Press
  23. Litzinger, RA, "Re-imagining the State in Post-Mao China" (1999), pp. 293-318, University of Minnesota Press
  24. Litzinger, RA, Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past, in Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers, edited by Harrell, S (1995), pp. 117-139, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press
  25. Litzinger, RA, "Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past" (1995), pp. 117-139, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press