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ID11557
NAMEJ Farrer
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEFarrer
SIGNATUREFARRER J
AFFILIATIONSSophia University
ORCID0000-0002-9847-0347
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS199
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1856
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Introduction to Migrant Foodways and Culinary Mobilities in Japan

    J Farrer, Alejandra Dorado-Vinay•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2026

  • Covid-19 and the restaurant business in Japan: The social and economic dimensions of public health self-governance

    Open Access•Paul J Kramer, Gabriele Vogt et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Japan•2026

    In this paper, we examine the diverging incentives for cooperation within Japan’s “self-restraint” (jishuku)-based infection control regime by focusing on restaurants’ economic burdens, their role as social infrastructure, and their interactions with the legally non-binding governance framework. We ask: What shaped local neighborhood restaurants’ patterns of cooperation with the infection control regime? To answer this question, we draw on a data…

  • At the Table’s Edge

    Daniel E Bender, Janita Van Dyk et al.•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2025

    On December 6, 2024, Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective met at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, for our annual members meeting. As part of the program, we organized a special roundtable on commensality, a topic often engaged by journal contributors. Proposed by H. Rosi Song, the theme of commensality is as much to do with whom we eat as with whom we don’t eat. Likewise, commensality’s inclusions and exclusions do not only implicate t…

  • Remembering Lemon Chicken

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2025

    My first taste of New York fine dining was in Shanghai. My Shanghainese sister-in-law told me about a new restaurant like no other. Unusually, it was located on the Bund, Shanghai’s waterfront promenade, a photo spot for tourists from the countryside but not a popular destination for fashionable Shanghainese in 2005. When we entered a gray 1920s office building off a noisy and dusty side street, the foyer unfolded into a glistening pyramid reachi…

  • Grounding a global career in local knowledge: An interview with James Farrer, professor in sociology at Sophia University, Japan

    Shanshan Lan, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2025

  • An Academic Diptych

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2023

    This year represents a peculiar personal anniversary. I have now been doing food studies for as long as I previously did sexuality studies, before my “culinary turn.” While I have gradually slid from the sex to the food side of the academic table, I still teach both subjects. I also remain active on the editorial board of Sexualities, a leading journal in the sociology of sexuality, even as I participate in the editorial collective for Gastronomi…

  • Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology

    Open Access•Rebecca Babirye, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    The most significant and lasting contributions of Ken Plummer to the sociology of sexuality have been his work on sexual storytelling. Best represented in Plummer’s 1995 book Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds, this approach to sexuality made two key points. One is that sexual storytelling is fundamental to the formation of individual sexual identities and a process of sexual self-discovery. The second is that sexual storytel…

  • Urban foodways and social sustainability: Neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Food Culture & Society•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The concept of social sustainability presents many questions for food studies, both about how communities sustain foodways, and how foodways sustain communities. Based on an ethnographic study of restaurants in a single Tokyo neighborhood, this research focuses on how commercial restaurant scenes in a busy area of Tokyo serve as social infrastructure, supporting community life. First, they are an economic resource for employers, workers, and cust…

  • Oishii: The History of Sushi by Eric C. Rath

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Journal of Japanese Studies•2023

    Reviewed by: Oishii: The History of Sushi by Eric C. Rath James Farrer (bio) Oishii: The History of Sushi. By Eric C. Rath. Reaktion Books, 2021. 223 pages. $25.00, cloth; $25.00, E-book. When asked about the most surprising development she covered in her decades as restaurant critic for The New York Times, Mimi Sheraton pointed to the astonishing popularity of Japanese cuisine in the United States. "Especially sushi. I would never have thought t…

  • Comparing the Lives of Gay Men in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…•2023•References: 2

    Travis S. K. Kong's new book is a bold, insightful contribution to the growing literature on gay sexualities in three Chinese-speaking societies. Kong shows how the experiences of men growing up in the People's Republic of China (mostly Shanghai), the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Republic of China in Taiwan are all impacted by the rise of China. In contrast to the cultural and media studies approach dominant in the field, Kong…

  • Seeing the Kanda River

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2022

    When we first moved to Tokyo in 1998, my wife and I rented a studio apartment next to the Kanda River. I knew nothing about the role of this river in Tokyo’s urbanization, its usefulness in military defense, its romanticized image in popular culture, or even where it started and ended. I certainly did not think of the river as a providential source of drinking water. It just made me sad. It was, in my eyes, an eyesore, along with the exposed elec…

  • Sustainable neighbourhood gastronomy: Tokyo independent restaurants facing crises

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 4

    Neighbourhood gastronomy, the agglomeration of restaurants and smaller eateries in residential urban areas, contributes to the lives of residents and visitors economically, culturally, and socially. Since winter 2020, neighbourhood gastronomy in Asian cities has been severely disrupted by COVID, compounded by many other long‐term stressors. In urban Japan these stresses include gentrification, the aging of proprietors, urban renewal, and corporat…

  • Asian food and culinary politics: Food governance, constructed heritage and contested boundaries

    Y W Chan, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2021

    This introduction outlines the conceptual framework of the special issue. Culinary politics involves a contest over the social organization and cultural meanings of food by a variety of actors: both civil and state, the powerful and the grassroots. In particular, we consider food governance as a form of culinary politics entailing a two-way traffic, in which policies and regulations are set by state actors, while the responses of civil actors oft…

  • Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: Migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

    Open Access•Wessendorf, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regarded as unusual or even out-of-place. In both types of contexts, migrant-run eateries are spaces in which people of various backgrounds interact. In some contexts, eateries may serve as ‘third places’ in which regular forms of intercultural co…

  • The space-time compression of Tokyo street drinking

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Food Culture & Society•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    In postwar Japan vast black market districts surrounded urban commuter train stations with warrens of small-scale retail, food and alcohol vendors. Most were bulldozed during the period of high economic growth and replaced with modern shopping centers. Only a few of these dense, lively pedestrian alleyways survived into the 21st century, including the one called “Willow Alley” described in this paper. Recently there has been a widespread revival …

  • Who owns a cuisine? The grassroots politics of Japanese food in Europe

    J Farrer, Chuanfei Wang•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Culinary borrowings are so common as to seem trivial, and yet they are consequential for many of the actors concerned. People’s livelihoods, professional status, and social identity may be tied to their stake in the defining boundaries of culinary cultures. When dominant groups or powerful actors such as multinational corporate chains adopt or reinvent the cuisine of weaker and marginal groups, it may be regarded as cultural appropriation. Howeve…

  • From cooks to chefs: Skilled Migrants in a Globalising Culinary Field

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•New Community•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Migrants do not simply move across physical spaces but within institutionalised social fields, including occupational fields. This ethnographic study takes a globalised culinary field – the social and economic space of fine restaurant dining – as an example of an emergent transnational social field. Focusing on culinary migrants to Shanghai, it shows how the institutionalisation, professionalisation and globalisation of the culinary field create …

  • On the Other Side of the Curve: China's Restaurateurs Face an Uphill Battle

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Gastronomica The Journal of Food…•2020

    Research Article| August 01 2020 On the Other Side of the Curve: China's Restaurateurs Face an Uphill Battle James Farrer James Farrer James Farrer is Professor of Sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo. His research focuses on the contact zones of global cities, including ethnographic studies of sexuality, nightlife, migration, and food. His recent publications include International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders (Rout…

  • How are Tokyo's Independent Restauranteurs Surviving the Pandemic

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Japan focus•2020

    Globally, independent restaurants have been dealt a double blow by COVID-19. Restaurant staff face the risk of infection, and restaurants have been among the businesses hardest hit by urban lockdowns. With fewer resources than corporate chains, small independent restaurants are particularly vulnerable to an extended economic downturn. This paper looks at how independent restaurant owners in Tokyo have coped with the pandemic both individually and…

  • Culinary Globalization from Above and Below: Culinary Migrants in Urban Place Making in Shanghai

    Open Access•J Farrer•CHAPTER•Destination China•2019

    Based on ethnographic research in Shanghai, this chapter shows how migrants from around the world have remade Shanghai’s cityscape over the past three decades. These entrepreneurs include chefs who have opened restaurants and bartenders who became bar owners. Some own multiple venues, and a few have created chains with strong brand identities. Foreign migrant food and beverage entrepreneurs, despite their relative small numbers, have been a major…

  • International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders

    J Farrer•BOOK•International Migrants in China's…•2019

    Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is China’s most globalized city and has attracted a full quarter of Mainland China’s foreign resident population. This book analyzes the development of Shanghai’s expatriate communities, from their role …

  • Grimy Heritage: Organic Bar Streets in Shanghai and Tokyo

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Built Heritage•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Every city has built environments that are largely regarded as eyesores, for aesthetic, social, or moral reasons. Urban nightlife streets are examples of such ‘grimy heritage’. Not only shabby and disorderly, they harbour forms of commercial sex, drinking cultures, and ephemeral nightlife cultures that many city residents and government officials consider undesirable. Sometimes their built forms are regarded as the enemy of genuine heritage archi…

  • Merry White, Coffee Life in Japan

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Japanese Studies•2016

    Merry White’s Coffee Life in Japan is a love letter to the small aromatic holes-in-the-wall into which we regularly escape in Japan, places for mindfully sipping hand-poured coffee, but just as oft

  • The Multiple Contexts of Protest: Reflections on the Reception of the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project and the Anti-Right Japanese Demonstration in Shanghai

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    The MIT Visualizing Cultures controversy is linked to a series of anti-Japanese street protests in China during the previous year. As a comparative analysis of these two very different types of protests, this article produces a reading of protest through a series of linked contexts of reception, or interconnected interpretive communities. To elaborate this idea, this article focuses on one of these events, the anti-Japanese protest of April 2005,…

  • Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

    J Farrer, Andrew David Field•BOOK•Shanghai Nightscapes•2015•Cited by: 14

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  • From "Passports" to "Joint Ventures: Intermarriage between Chinese Nationals and Western Expatriates Residing in Shanghai

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asian Studies Review•2008•Cited by: 38•References: 13

    Shanghai has become one of the new "contact zones" of global capitalism, a space in which large flows of people from different backgrounds bring very different cultural, social and economic resourc

  • New Shanghailanders' or 'New Shanghainese: Western Expatriates' Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•New Community•2010•Cited by: 31•References: 21

    As in the early twentieth century, Shanghai has again become a site for Western settlement. This paper focuses on case studies of long-term Western settlers—those in the city more than five years—and how they situate themselves in the city through their ‘narratives of emplacement’ or stories of a personalised relationship to the city. Settler stories reference both a postcolonial nostalgia for the lifestyles of the 1930s Shanghailanders, and a ne…

  • Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•New Community•2011•Cited by: 26•References: 17

    Beginning in the 1980s, bars and dance clubs re-emerged as important zones of intercultural interaction within Shanghai, particularly for expatriates with otherwise little casual social contact with Chinese citizens. Based on interviews with bar- and clubowners and customers, and on field-notes from participant observation over the last 15 years, this historical ethnography describes the changing organisation of the ethnosexual contact zone of th…

  • Extramarital Love in Shanghai

    J Farrer, Sun Zhongxin•ARTICLE•The China Journal•2003•Cited by: 22

  • Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

    J Farrer, Andrew David Field•BOOK•Shanghai Nightscapes•2015•Cited by: 14

  • Play and Power in Chinese Nightlife Spaces

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•China An International Journal•2008•Cited by: 14•References: 6

    Nightlife" has reemerged in China since the "opening and reform policies" of 1978. Genres of contemporary Chinese nightlife include bars, dance clubs, karaoke clubs and saunas, all of which have been influenced by transnational flows of investments, ideas and people. Nightlife is an important space for the study of Chinese social stratification and the study of sexual subcultures in Chinese cities. Nightlife is thus an area in which we can study …

  • China Wants You: The Social Construction of Skilled Labor in Three Employment Sectors

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asian and Pacific migration journal•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    This paper describes the policies of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for attracting skilled migrants and uses ethnographic fieldwork to discuss the actual employment situations of non-Chinese skilled migrants. Employing the concept of social fields, it describes skilled migrants in three employment sectors in the PRC: (1) Chinese academic and research institutions, (2) managerial work in multinational corporations, and (3) skilled culinary w…

  • Re-Embedding Sexual Meanings: A Qualitative Comparison of the Premarital Sexual Scripts of Chinese and Japanese Young Adults

    Open Access•J Farrer, Gefei Suo et al.•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 16

  • Sustainable neighbourhood gastronomy: Tokyo independent restaurants facing crises

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 4

    Neighbourhood gastronomy, the agglomeration of restaurants and smaller eateries in residential urban areas, contributes to the lives of residents and visitors economically, culturally, and socially. Since winter 2020, neighbourhood gastronomy in Asian cities has been severely disrupted by COVID, compounded by many other long‐term stressors. In urban Japan these stresses include gentrification, the aging of proprietors, urban renewal, and corporat…

  • From cooks to chefs: Skilled Migrants in a Globalising Culinary Field

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•New Community•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Migrants do not simply move across physical spaces but within institutionalised social fields, including occupational fields. This ethnographic study takes a globalised culinary field – the social and economic space of fine restaurant dining – as an example of an emergent transnational social field. Focusing on culinary migrants to Shanghai, it shows how the institutionalisation, professionalisation and globalisation of the culinary field create …

  • Raising cosmopolitans: Localized educational strategies of international families in Shanghai

    Open Access•J Farrer, Anna Greenspan•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 16

    This qualitative research documents the educational strategies of international migrants to Shanghai who are attempting to raise their children as cosmopolitans through immersion in local Chinese schools. We distinguish this localizing educational strategy from the established network of international schools designed to serve the families of corporate expatriates. Instead, our research subjects consist of self-initiated expatriates, or 'middling…

  • Emotional expression in tsukiau dating relationships in Japan

    Open Access•J Farrer, Haruka Tsuchiya et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    This article uses qualitative interviews with 135 Japanese in their 20s to discover the meanings and purposes they associate with tsukiau ("going steady") relationships. Relating our findings to Sternberg's triangular theory of love, we find that all three components of intimacy, commitment, and passion are emphasized in tsukiau relationships, though in culturally specific ways. The findings suggest that in a society in which people marry later t…

  • The space-time compression of Tokyo street drinking

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Food Culture & Society•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    In postwar Japan vast black market districts surrounded urban commuter train stations with warrens of small-scale retail, food and alcohol vendors. Most were bulldozed during the period of high economic growth and replaced with modern shopping centers. Only a few of these dense, lively pedestrian alleyways survived into the 21st century, including the one called “Willow Alley” described in this paper. Recently there has been a widespread revival …

  • Note of Excavations in Sanday, one of the North Isles of Orkney

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1867•Cited by: 3

    This article a description of the dimensions and construction of a chambered cairn that was excavated in Orkney, as well as the items that were found on the site including some human remains. The author suggests that the site may have originally had another purpose before it was converted into a burial place

  • Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: Migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

    Open Access•Wessendorf, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regarded as unusual or even out-of-place. In both types of contexts, migrant-run eateries are spaces in which people of various backgrounds interact. In some contexts, eateries may serve as ‘third places’ in which regular forms of intercultural co…

  • Grimy Heritage: Organic Bar Streets in Shanghai and Tokyo

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Built Heritage•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Every city has built environments that are largely regarded as eyesores, for aesthetic, social, or moral reasons. Urban nightlife streets are examples of such ‘grimy heritage’. Not only shabby and disorderly, they harbour forms of commercial sex, drinking cultures, and ephemeral nightlife cultures that many city residents and government officials consider undesirable. Sometimes their built forms are regarded as the enemy of genuine heritage archi…

  • The Multiple Contexts of Protest: Reflections on the Reception of the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project and the Anti-Right Japanese Demonstration in Shanghai

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    The MIT Visualizing Cultures controversy is linked to a series of anti-Japanese street protests in China during the previous year. As a comparative analysis of these two very different types of protests, this article produces a reading of protest through a series of linked contexts of reception, or interconnected interpretive communities. To elaborate this idea, this article focuses on one of these events, the anti-Japanese protest of April 2005,…

  • Shanghai Bars: Patchwork Globalization and Flexible Cosmopolitanism in Reform-Era Urban-Leisure Spaces

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Chinese Sociology & Anthropology•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    During the thirty years of opening and reform the drinking bar (jiuba) has become part of the texture of urban Chinese life. The bar has been localized as a conventional setting for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings. The bar is also the site of a class stratification of leisure culture with local, national, and transnational dimensions. Shanghai bar cultures have developed into a patchwork o…

  • Urban foodways and social sustainability: Neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Food Culture & Society•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The concept of social sustainability presents many questions for food studies, both about how communities sustain foodways, and how foodways sustain communities. Based on an ethnographic study of restaurants in a single Tokyo neighborhood, this research focuses on how commercial restaurant scenes in a busy area of Tokyo serve as social infrastructure, supporting community life. First, they are an economic resource for employers, workers, and cust…

  • Who owns a cuisine? The grassroots politics of Japanese food in Europe

    J Farrer, Chuanfei Wang•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Culinary borrowings are so common as to seem trivial, and yet they are consequential for many of the actors concerned. People’s livelihoods, professional status, and social identity may be tied to their stake in the defining boundaries of culinary cultures. When dominant groups or powerful actors such as multinational corporate chains adopt or reinvent the cuisine of weaker and marginal groups, it may be regarded as cultural appropriation. Howeve…

  • L'identité des hommes aux pratiques homosexuelles à Shanghai

    Sun Zhongxin, J Farrer et al.•ARTICLE•Perspectives chinoises•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    En Chine, les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec d’autres hommes (HSH) sont de plus en plus avertis des discours sur l’homosexualité et ont créé de nombreux espaces publics où ils peuvent se rencontrer. En même temps, la population chinoise est désormais plus familière des identités « gay », homosexuelle ou « tongzhi », aujourd’hui largement tolérées et popularisées par les médias, et surtout l’Internet. Dans les grandes villes chinoises, à l…

  • Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces, and Corporate Power

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2004•Cited by: 1

  • Notice of a Barrow at Huntiscarth in the Parish of Harray, Orkney, recently opened

    George Petrie, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1862•Cited by: 1

    An account of the excavation of a barrow on Orkney containing some - possibly burnt - human remains, as well as four gold disks and several beads made of amber

  • Notice of a 'Burgh,' Recently Opened in the Island of Burray, Orkney

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1856

    Details of the author's excavations of 'The Pict's Castle' on Burray reveal the dimensions and materials used in the site's construction. Mr Farrer also remarks on the finds made during the excavation, but does not speculate on the site's purpose

  • Notes on the Bronze and Iron remains dug up in a 'Pict's House,' in the Holm of Eday, Orkney (presented at last meeting to the Museum of the Society)

    John Stuart, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1858

    John Stuart read a communication from James Farrer answering questions about the finds made at the Pict's House on Orkney during the excavation described in 'Notice of Antiquities on the Isle of Eday, Orkney, recently examined by James Farrer, of Ingleborough' (pp. 154-158)

  • Notice of a Barrow at Huntiscarth in the Parish of Harray, Orkney, recently opened

    George Petrie, J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1862•Cited by: 1

    An account of the excavation of a barrow on Orkney containing some - possibly burnt - human remains, as well as four gold disks and several beads made of amber

  • Anniversary Meeting: 29 November 1861

    J Farrer, David Laing et al.•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1863

    At the Anniversary meeting the usual Society business was concluded including a report on the visitors to the Society's museum and how the collections expanded over the year. Mr James Farrer was elected as an Honorary Member in recognition of his work on preserving and recording the archaeology of Orkney. Notice of a Conversazione held 9 December, 1861 is appended. The Vice-President David Laing gave the Inaugural Address on the History of the So…

  • Account of the Discoveries at the Knowe of Saverough

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1864

    Following James Farrer’s donation of artefacts from the 1862 excavation of the Know of Saverough (see 'Anniversary Meeting', p9), this paper provides extracts from his account of the excavation. Several human skeletons were unearthed during this excavation and craniologist Dr Thurnam suggested that these remains may have belonged to pre-Scandinavian inhabitants of the Orkney islands. The author argues that there may have been two pre-Christian se…

  • Notice of Recent Excavations in Chedworth Wood, on the Estate of the Earl of Eldon, in the County of Gloucester

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1865

    The discovery of Eoman villas in these woods originated with an under gamekeeper, engaged in ferreting rabbits, and was first brought under my notice in June 1864, when a small chamber was cleared of rubbish, but the tesselated pavement was found to be almost entirely destroyed. It had been laid on flags, placed over buttresses of stone, forming narrow passages, in which many of the loose tesseraa were found. This chamber was 17 feet long, and 13…

  • Note of Excavations in Sanday, one of the North Isles of Orkney

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1867•Cited by: 3

    This article a description of the dimensions and construction of a chambered cairn that was excavated in Orkney, as well as the items that were found on the site including some human remains. The author suggests that the site may have originally had another purpose before it was converted into a burial place

  • Note respecting various Articles, in Bronze and Stone, found in Orkney, and now presented to the Museum

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Society of…•1867

  • Savage and Civilized Warfare

    Open Access•J Farrer, J A Farrer•ARTICLE•The Journal of the Anthropological…•1880

  • China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry.Richard Madsen

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1995

  • Disco ‘Super-Culture’: Consuming Foreign Sex in the Chinese Disco

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Sexualities•1999

    Based on ethnographic observations in Chinese discos, this article describes how urban Chinese youth participate in the cosmopolitan sexual culture of the discotheque, using the hybrid cultural space of the discotheque for their own forms of sexual display and interaction. The discotheque is perceived by youth as a cosmopolitan space allowing for appropriation and consumption of ‘foreign’ sexual styles. Especially for young women, the disco provi…

  • TEN Dancing through the Market Transition: Disco and Dance Hall Sociability in Shanghai

    J Farrer•CHAPTER•Consumer Revolution in Urban China•2000

  • Japan: Der andere Kulturfuhrer

    J Farrer, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit•ARTICLE•Monumenta Nipponica•2001

  • “Idle Talk”: Neighborhood Gossip as a Medium of Social Communication in Reform Era Shanghai

    Open Access•J Farrer•CHAPTER•Social Connections in China•2002

    Early one afternoon (Aug. 27, 2000), I walked into our apartment complex through a narrow gate off a busy thoroughfare in largely working class Northeast Shanghai. The gate is only narrow enough for one person to pass, and at night it is locked. Inside the gate, four retired old men, all over seventy, occupied the two old sofas and several chairs permanently arrayed around the doorway. One white-haired fellow, in a barber chair directly by the do…

  • Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi

    Open Access•A B Kipnis, David L Wank et al.•BOOK•Social Connections in China•2002

    Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This 2002 volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work o…

  • Extramarital Love in Shanghai

    J Farrer, Sun Zhongxin•ARTICLE•The China Journal•2003•Cited by: 22

  • Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces, and Corporate Power

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2004•Cited by: 1

  • L'identité des hommes aux pratiques homosexuelles à Shanghai

    Sun Zhongxin, J Farrer et al.•ARTICLE•Perspectives chinoises•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    En Chine, les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec d’autres hommes (HSH) sont de plus en plus avertis des discours sur l’homosexualité et ont créé de nombreux espaces publics où ils peuvent se rencontrer. En même temps, la population chinoise est désormais plus familière des identités « gay », homosexuelle ou « tongzhi », aujourd’hui largement tolérées et popularisées par les médias, et surtout l’Internet. Dans les grandes villes chinoises, à l…

  • Sexual citizenship and the politics of sexual storytelling among Chinese youth

    J Farrer•CHAPTER•Sex and Sexuality in China•2007

    Shanghai Baby, a sexually explicit narrative of a young Shanghai woman’s multiple love affairs, was the most widely discussed Chinese novel of the late 1990s, providing a momentary focus for people talking about changing sexual standards among Chinese youth (see Wei Hui 1999). Though banned as pornographic by the Chinese authorities and laden with literary clichés and ethnic stereotypes, Shanghai Baby also has its defenders. One of them is Newt G…

  • Play and Power in Chinese Nightlife Spaces

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•China An International Journal•2008•Cited by: 14•References: 6

    Nightlife" has reemerged in China since the "opening and reform policies" of 1978. Genres of contemporary Chinese nightlife include bars, dance clubs, karaoke clubs and saunas, all of which have been influenced by transnational flows of investments, ideas and people. Nightlife is an important space for the study of Chinese social stratification and the study of sexual subcultures in Chinese cities. Nightlife is thus an area in which we can study …

  • From "Passports" to "Joint Ventures: Intermarriage between Chinese Nationals and Western Expatriates Residing in Shanghai

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Asian Studies Review•2008•Cited by: 38•References: 13

    Shanghai has become one of the new "contact zones" of global capitalism, a space in which large flows of people from different backgrounds bring very different cultural, social and economic resourc

  • Emotional expression in tsukiau dating relationships in Japan

    Open Access•J Farrer, Haruka Tsuchiya et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    This article uses qualitative interviews with 135 Japanese in their 20s to discover the meanings and purposes they associate with tsukiau ("going steady") relationships. Relating our findings to Sternberg's triangular theory of love, we find that all three components of intimacy, commitment, and passion are emphasized in tsukiau relationships, though in culturally specific ways. The findings suggest that in a society in which people marry later t…

  • Shanghai Bars: Patchwork Globalization and Flexible Cosmopolitanism in Reform-Era Urban-Leisure Spaces

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•Chinese Sociology & Anthropology•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    During the thirty years of opening and reform the drinking bar (jiuba) has become part of the texture of urban Chinese life. The bar has been localized as a conventional setting for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings. The bar is also the site of a class stratification of leisure culture with local, national, and transnational dimensions. Shanghai bar cultures have developed into a patchwork o…

  • A Foreign Adventurer’s Paradise? Interracial Sexuality and Alien Sexual Capital in Reform Era Shanghai

    Open Access•J Farrer•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2010

    Since the early 1980s western men have been coming to China to work and live in coastal cities such as Shanghai, and many have become involved in sexual relationships with Chinese women. Using the framework of sexual capital and sexual fields, this article examines the changes in the sexual status of white western men in their relationships with Chinese women over the past 30 years. A historical perspective shows how the political economy of the …

  • Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China . Tiantian Zheng

    J Farrer•ARTICLE•The China Journal•2010

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