Xinyan Peng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinyan Peng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peng |
| SIGNATURE | PENG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shandong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7028-8551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing Ethnography
In the Gender, Culture, and Society undergraduate course at a mainland Chinese university, an instructor had her students perform Emily Martin’s The Woman in the Body (2001) to engage their own embodied experience in an anthropology class. To clarify the epistemological significance of this pedagogical innovation, the instructor engaged in a three-year dialogue with her Chinese collaborator regarding her teaching experience. This collaboratively …
You've got to have core muscles
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young white-collar women training bodies after work in Shanghai, I demonstrate that core muscles serve as visual indexes of discipline and hard-work, and that women create social spaces to collectively cultivate such dispositions. The socially sanctioned value of core muscles is connected to the discourse of 'having it all' increasingly popular among professional women in corporate, urban China. This paper ela…
Corporate Women in Contemporary China
Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jo…
You Cannot Make Friends at Work”? Relatedness in and beyond the Workplace and the Reconfiguration of Kinship and Gender in Urban China
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the form of immersive research in corporate Shanghai, this article demonstrates how white-collar women in urban China crafted relatedness in the interstitial times and spaces of and beyond the workplace. It brings to light how the precarious nature of work and the workplace environment shaped the precarious nature of relatedness established by those women who worked together. Though aware of the assume…
The 6pm struggle
Through ethnographic materials gathered from participant observation and interviewing in and beyond corporate contexts in Shanghai, this paper shows how a culture of overtime work was sustained and legitimated in urban China and how white-collar workers endured, rationalized, and accommodated it. In particular, I discuss forms of managerial control imposed on white-collar workers and social control prevalent in the workplace, to shed light on the…
Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Chinese Companies
You've got to have core muscles
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young white-collar women training bodies after work in Shanghai, I demonstrate that core muscles serve as visual indexes of discipline and hard-work, and that women create social spaces to collectively cultivate such dispositions. The socially sanctioned value of core muscles is connected to the discourse of 'having it all' increasingly popular among professional women in corporate, urban China. This paper ela…
Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Chinese Companies
The 6pm struggle
Through ethnographic materials gathered from participant observation and interviewing in and beyond corporate contexts in Shanghai, this paper shows how a culture of overtime work was sustained and legitimated in urban China and how white-collar workers endured, rationalized, and accommodated it. In particular, I discuss forms of managerial control imposed on white-collar workers and social control prevalent in the workplace, to shed light on the…
Corporate Women in Contemporary China
Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jo…
You Cannot Make Friends at Work”? Relatedness in and beyond the Workplace and the Reconfiguration of Kinship and Gender in Urban China
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the form of immersive research in corporate Shanghai, this article demonstrates how white-collar women in urban China crafted relatedness in the interstitial times and spaces of and beyond the workplace. It brings to light how the precarious nature of work and the workplace environment shaped the precarious nature of relatedness established by those women who worked together. Though aware of the assume…
You've got to have core muscles
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young white-collar women training bodies after work in Shanghai, I demonstrate that core muscles serve as visual indexes of discipline and hard-work, and that women create social spaces to collectively cultivate such dispositions. The socially sanctioned value of core muscles is connected to the discourse of 'having it all' increasingly popular among professional women in corporate, urban China. This paper ela…
Performing Ethnography
In the Gender, Culture, and Society undergraduate course at a mainland Chinese university, an instructor had her students perform Emily Martin’s The Woman in the Body (2001) to engage their own embodied experience in an anthropology class. To clarify the epistemological significance of this pedagogical innovation, the instructor engaged in a three-year dialogue with her Chinese collaborator regarding her teaching experience. This collaboratively …
Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)