Chun-Yi Sum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 645987 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chun-Yi Sum |
| PRENOMES | Chun-Yi |
| SOBRENOME | Sum |
| ASSINATURA | SUM C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6507-9184 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Greater China
Greater China” generally includes the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC), former European colonies Hong Kong and Macau, and Taiwan (the Republic of China, ROC). It occasionally encompasses Singapore, as well as diasporic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. In the 1990s, “Greater China” was often used among Euro‐American corporations and English speakers to identify the nominally Chinese‐speaking regio…
Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis. Using demographic data collected from 505 households among the matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo in 2017, we test whether market integration is associated with increased material wealth, whether increased material wealth is associated with wealt…
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride
How do non-Han populations in China navigate the paradoxical expectations to become “proper” Chinese citizens, like the majority Han, while retaining pride in cultural practices and traditions that mark their differences? This article examines how Mosuo (otherwise known as Na) people in Southwest China have constructed the moral legitimacy of their ethnic traditions and identity through redirecting the Orientalizing gaze toward their Yi neighbors…
Context Specificity of "Market Integration" among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China
Market integration (MI) is a complex process through which individuals integrate market-oriented activities into previously subsistence-dominated lifeways. Changes associated with MI alter the landscapes of individual health and reproductive decision-making. While the consequences of MI are often easily detected in aggregate, the specific aspects of MI that affect health and demography are context dependent and underinvestigated. We argue that an…
Politics of indifference
This article examines the changing sociological meaning of indifference in urban China after the tragic death of a two-year-old girl in a road accident in 2011. My analysis suggests that, in China where the political state had tried to claim credit for all altruistic behaviors, anxiety about indifference allowed citizens to sidestep socialist ethics in conversations about civic mobilization. University students used the language of feeling and mo…
Gender Differences in Social Networks Based on Prevailing Kinship Norms in the Mosuo of China
Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men's cooperative networks. What do women's networks look like? Do they differ from men's networks and what does this suggest about evolutionarily inherited gender differences in reproductive and social strategies? In this paper, we test the 'universal gender differences' hypothesis positing gender-specific network stru…
High‐altitude adaptations mitigate risk for hypertension and diabetes‐associated anemia
BACKGROUND: Human populations native to high altitude exhibit numerous genetic adaptations to hypobaric hypoxia. Among Tibetan plateau peoples, these include increased vasodilation and uncoupling of erythropoiesis from hypoxia. OBJECTIVE/METHODS: We tested the hypothesis that these high-altitude adaptations reduce risk for hypertension and diabetes-associated anemia among the Mosuo, a Tibetan-descended population in the mountains of Southwest Chi…
Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response
A great leap of faith
This paper examines the emergence of China’s ‘university cities’ ( daxuecheng) as a governmental strategy to modernise higher education and to promote its socio-economic integration. To the disappointment of policy makers, the model of university cities has largely failed to yield satisfactory educational outcomes and economic productivity. Drawing from ethnographic research at the Higher Education Mega Center (HEMC) in the suburb of Guangzhou Ci…
From water to tears
Why do university students participate in extra-curricular activities in China? What do they seek in a meaningful education? This paper explains the rising interest in extra-curricular activities by looking into students’ frustration about classroom-bounded education in China’s universities. A transforming socio-economic landscape and increasing imagination about global modernity have inspired new neoliberal demands for practical knowledge and pe…
Suffering and Tears
This article examines a conundrum in my ethnographic fieldwork with Chinese university students who volunteered in service trips to rural communities: why did participants volunteer to suffer and to cry? This article explains students' quest for hardship and tears in relation to emerging desires for authenticity in China. It discusses how the political state and student volunteers co-constructed the peculiar expressions of these desires. As authe…
Context Specificity of "Market Integration" among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China
Market integration (MI) is a complex process through which individuals integrate market-oriented activities into previously subsistence-dominated lifeways. Changes associated with MI alter the landscapes of individual health and reproductive decision-making. While the consequences of MI are often easily detected in aggregate, the specific aspects of MI that affect health and demography are context dependent and underinvestigated. We argue that an…
Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response
Suffering and Tears
This article examines a conundrum in my ethnographic fieldwork with Chinese university students who volunteered in service trips to rural communities: why did participants volunteer to suffer and to cry? This article explains students' quest for hardship and tears in relation to emerging desires for authenticity in China. It discusses how the political state and student volunteers co-constructed the peculiar expressions of these desires. As authe…
Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis. Using demographic data collected from 505 households among the matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo in 2017, we test whether market integration is associated with increased material wealth, whether increased material wealth is associated with wealt…
Gender Differences in Social Networks Based on Prevailing Kinship Norms in the Mosuo of China
Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men's cooperative networks. What do women's networks look like? Do they differ from men's networks and what does this suggest about evolutionarily inherited gender differences in reproductive and social strategies? In this paper, we test the 'universal gender differences' hypothesis positing gender-specific network stru…
A great leap of faith
This paper examines the emergence of China’s ‘university cities’ ( daxuecheng) as a governmental strategy to modernise higher education and to promote its socio-economic integration. To the disappointment of policy makers, the model of university cities has largely failed to yield satisfactory educational outcomes and economic productivity. Drawing from ethnographic research at the Higher Education Mega Center (HEMC) in the suburb of Guangzhou Ci…
From water to tears
Why do university students participate in extra-curricular activities in China? What do they seek in a meaningful education? This paper explains the rising interest in extra-curricular activities by looking into students’ frustration about classroom-bounded education in China’s universities. A transforming socio-economic landscape and increasing imagination about global modernity have inspired new neoliberal demands for practical knowledge and pe…
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride
How do non-Han populations in China navigate the paradoxical expectations to become “proper” Chinese citizens, like the majority Han, while retaining pride in cultural practices and traditions that mark their differences? This article examines how Mosuo (otherwise known as Na) people in Southwest China have constructed the moral legitimacy of their ethnic traditions and identity through redirecting the Orientalizing gaze toward their Yi neighbors…
High‐altitude adaptations mitigate risk for hypertension and diabetes‐associated anemia
BACKGROUND: Human populations native to high altitude exhibit numerous genetic adaptations to hypobaric hypoxia. Among Tibetan plateau peoples, these include increased vasodilation and uncoupling of erythropoiesis from hypoxia. OBJECTIVE/METHODS: We tested the hypothesis that these high-altitude adaptations reduce risk for hypertension and diabetes-associated anemia among the Mosuo, a Tibetan-descended population in the mountains of Southwest Chi…
From water to tears
Why do university students participate in extra-curricular activities in China? What do they seek in a meaningful education? This paper explains the rising interest in extra-curricular activities by looking into students’ frustration about classroom-bounded education in China’s universities. A transforming socio-economic landscape and increasing imagination about global modernity have inspired new neoliberal demands for practical knowledge and pe…
Suffering and Tears
This article examines a conundrum in my ethnographic fieldwork with Chinese university students who volunteered in service trips to rural communities: why did participants volunteer to suffer and to cry? This article explains students' quest for hardship and tears in relation to emerging desires for authenticity in China. It discusses how the political state and student volunteers co-constructed the peculiar expressions of these desires. As authe…
A great leap of faith
This paper examines the emergence of China’s ‘university cities’ ( daxuecheng) as a governmental strategy to modernise higher education and to promote its socio-economic integration. To the disappointment of policy makers, the model of university cities has largely failed to yield satisfactory educational outcomes and economic productivity. Drawing from ethnographic research at the Higher Education Mega Center (HEMC) in the suburb of Guangzhou Ci…
Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response
High‐altitude adaptations mitigate risk for hypertension and diabetes‐associated anemia
BACKGROUND: Human populations native to high altitude exhibit numerous genetic adaptations to hypobaric hypoxia. Among Tibetan plateau peoples, these include increased vasodilation and uncoupling of erythropoiesis from hypoxia. OBJECTIVE/METHODS: We tested the hypothesis that these high-altitude adaptations reduce risk for hypertension and diabetes-associated anemia among the Mosuo, a Tibetan-descended population in the mountains of Southwest Chi…
Politics of indifference
This article examines the changing sociological meaning of indifference in urban China after the tragic death of a two-year-old girl in a road accident in 2011. My analysis suggests that, in China where the political state had tried to claim credit for all altruistic behaviors, anxiety about indifference allowed citizens to sidestep socialist ethics in conversations about civic mobilization. University students used the language of feeling and mo…
Gender Differences in Social Networks Based on Prevailing Kinship Norms in the Mosuo of China
Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men's cooperative networks. What do women's networks look like? Do they differ from men's networks and what does this suggest about evolutionarily inherited gender differences in reproductive and social strategies? In this paper, we test the 'universal gender differences' hypothesis positing gender-specific network stru…
Greater China
Greater China” generally includes the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC), former European colonies Hong Kong and Macau, and Taiwan (the Republic of China, ROC). It occasionally encompasses Singapore, as well as diasporic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. In the 1990s, “Greater China” was often used among Euro‐American corporations and English speakers to identify the nominally Chinese‐speaking regio…
Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis. Using demographic data collected from 505 households among the matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo in 2017, we test whether market integration is associated with increased material wealth, whether increased material wealth is associated with wealt…
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride
How do non-Han populations in China navigate the paradoxical expectations to become “proper” Chinese citizens, like the majority Han, while retaining pride in cultural practices and traditions that mark their differences? This article examines how Mosuo (otherwise known as Na) people in Southwest China have constructed the moral legitimacy of their ethnic traditions and identity through redirecting the Orientalizing gaze toward their Yi neighbors…
Context Specificity of "Market Integration" among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China
Market integration (MI) is a complex process through which individuals integrate market-oriented activities into previously subsistence-dominated lifeways. Changes associated with MI alter the landscapes of individual health and reproductive decision-making. While the consequences of MI are often easily detected in aggregate, the specific aspects of MI that affect health and demography are context dependent and underinvestigated. We argue that an…
Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · China (6 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 obras)