Core monographs:
Yan, Yunxiang: The flow of gifts: reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village, 1996. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Yan Yunxiang’s monograph The Flow of Gifts (1996) is no longer in print. It is however available from online secondhand booksellers. Make sure that you order your copy in time!
Fei Xiaotong: From the soil: the foundations of Chinese society: a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, 1992 [1948]. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng.
Sun Wanning: Maid in China: Media, Mobility, and a New Semiotic of Power, 2007/2009. London: Routledge.
Articles:
Arkush, R. David. “Review: From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng..” The China Journal 35 (1996): 219-21.
Brandtstädter, Susanne, and Gonçalo D. Santos. “Introduction: Chinese kinship metamorphoses.” In Chinese kinship: contemporary anthropological perspectives, 1-26. London: Routledge, 2009.
Chongyang County office for poverty alleviation (崇阳县扶贫办). Successful implementation of plans for poverty alleviation and development, areas with scattered poverty have suffered under heavy burdens. An evaluation report on Chongyang County’s implementation of the national plan for poverty alleviation and development, 2001-2010 (‘纲要’实施成绩斐然 插花贫困任重道远 -- 崇阳县 ”我国扶贫开发纲要”实施评估报告), 2009.
Fei Xiaotong. From the soil: the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of FeiXiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue. Translated by Gary G. Hamilton and Zheng Wang. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1992.
Guldin, Gregory E. “Review: From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng..” The China Quarterly 137 (1996): 262-63.
Han Hua. “The plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala.” In Chinese kinship: contemporary anthropological perspectives, edited by Susanne Brandtstädter and Gonçalo D. Santos, 48-66. London: Routledge, 2009.
Hansen, Mette Halskov. “Organising time, space, and students: An anthropological approach to the Chinese rural high school.” Social Anthropology (Forthcoming): 21.
Harrell, Stevan. “The Anthropology of Reform and the Reform of Anthropology: Anthropological Narratives of Recovery and Progress in China.” Annual Review of Anthropology 30 (2001): 139-161.
He Xuefeng (贺雪峰 ). “The effect of population mobility on village level governance (人口流动对村级治理的影响).” In The social foundations of rural governance (乡村治理的社会基础), 278-88. Beijing: 中国社会科学出版社, 2003.
Huang Lingdong (黄陵东). “How is it possible to send dispatch village cadre? A practice based analysis. A study of sent-down village cadre in Nanping Municipality (下派’村官’何以可能: 一种’合实践’的解释 -- 基于南平市下派’村官’制度的一项研究 ).” Scientific Socialism (科学社会主义), no. 5 (2003): 59-65.
Hui Kang (惠康). “Reflections on the transfer of cadre to villages (关于抽调机关干部驻村工作的思考).” Lingdao kexue 领导科学 (Leadership Science), no. 24 (2002): 16-17.
Jankowiak, William. “Practicing connectiveness as kinship in urban China.” In Chinese kinship: contemporary anthropological perspectives, edited by Susanne Brandtstädter and Gonçalo D. Santos, 67-99. London: Routledge, 2009.
Lei Guang. “Rural Taste, Urban Fashions: The Cultural Politics of Rural/Urban Difference in Contemporary China.” Positions: East Asia cultures critique 11, no. 3 (2003): 613-46.
Liu Shiding (刘世定). “Beyond Rural China: Exploring the General Relevance of Some of the Key Concepts that Professor Fei HsiaoTung Coined in His Milestone Work , From the Soil (《乡土中国》与“乡土”世界).” Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Science) 北京大学学报(哲学社会科学版) 44, no. 5 (2007): 121-30.
Ma Huidi (马惠娣). “Leisure consumption which elevates the value of mankind (提升人的价值的休闲消费).” In Towards a Leisure Economy with Humanistic Concerns (走向人文关怀的休闲经济), 125-58. Beijing: Zhongguo jingji chubanshe (中国经济出版社).
People's Government of Chongyang County ( 崇阳县人民政府). An outline of plans for poverty alleviation and development in Chongyang county 2011-2020 (崇阳县扶贫开发纲要), 2009.
Pieke, Frank N. The good communist: elite training and state building in today's China. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Sun, Wanning. Maid in China: media, morality, and the cultural politics of boundaries. London: Routledge, 2009.
Thøgersen, Stig. “Revisiting a Dramatic Triangle: The State, Villagers, and Social Activists in Chinese Rural Reconstruction Projects.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 38, no. 4 (2009): 9-33.
Tomba, Luigi. “The forest city: Homeownership and new wealth in Shenyang.” In The New rich in China: future rulers, present lives, 171-86. London: Routledge, 2008.
Wang Mingming 王铭铭. “美法村与塘东--历史,人情与民间福利模式.” In Culture and rights as seen from a village perspective: Five discussions of three villages in Taiwan and Minnan (村落视野中的文化与权利: 闽台三村五论), 161-222. Beijing: SDXjoint publishing company (生活读书新知三联书店), 1997.
Wang Mingming 王铭铭, and Stephan Feuchtwang. “关于中国人类学及其发展的对话.” In 社会人类学与中国研究, 205-08. Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2005.
Wang Zhongwu (王忠武). “Consumer culture and the modernization of China (消费文化与中国现代化).” Xuexi tansuo 学习与探索 161, no. 6 (2005): 123-26.
Wang, Di. Street culture in Chengdu: public space, urban commoners, and local politics, 1870-1930. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Yan, Yunxiang. The flow of gifts: reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Gifts, favors, and banquets: the art of social relationships in China. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Zhang Huazhi (张华志). “Anthropological research on clan based businesses: Angles and methods (家族企业的人类学研究:视角和方法).” Xinan nimzu daxue xuebao 西南民族大学学报 (人文社科版) 175, no. 3 (2006): 9-14.
Some useful books on academic writing
Allen, George R. The graduate students' guide to theses and dissertations: a practical manual for writing and research. London: Jossey-Bass, 1976.
Furseth, Inger, and E.L. Everett. Hovedoppgaven: hvordan begynne - og fullføre. [Oslo]: Tano Aschehoug, 1997. http://www.nb.no/utlevering/contentview.jsf?urn=URN:NBN:no-nbdigibok2009010704071 (last accessed Aug 12, 2010).
Nygaard, Lynn P. Writing for scholars: a practical guide to making sense and being heard. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2008.
Rudestam, Kjell Erik, and Rae R. Newton. Surviving your dissertation: a comprehensive guide to content and process. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2001.