Shu‐min Huang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 85508 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shu‐min Huang |
| PRENOMES | Shu‐min |
| SOBRENOME | Huang |
| ASSINATURA | HUANG S M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6936-3748 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Food Chains, Ecosystems and Myths
Before the rise of environmental conservation movements in the 1960s, anthropologists had already begun to advocate concepts of ecosystem analysis as the key to understand how humans maintain sustainable interactions with their surroundings. This lasting concern, which crisscrosses temporal, regional, and disciplinary boundaries, led to investigations on how multifaceted cultural mechanisms are developed in this human-environmental feedback loop.…
Ginkgo Village
Taiwan, Development of Anthropology and Ethnology in
The developmental trajectory of anthropology and ethnology in Taiwan is probably very similar to other colonial societies in Asia and Africa, such as India, the Philippines, and Egypt. It was an effort initiated by the colonizing powers who employed the discipline mainly for the purpose of studying and taming the Indigenous peoples in the newly conquered lands. The Japanese colonial legacy in Taiwan includes the initial studies of the Han Chinese…
Gender Differences in the Epidemiological Characteristics and Long-Term Trends of Injuries in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015
Objective: This study used a long-term trend analysis to investigate whether gender differences were related to the risk of injury and epidemiological characteristics in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015. Materials and methods: Data on 4,647,259 hospitalized patients that were injured from 1 January 1998, to 31 December 2015 were collected from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). Among the injured patients, 2,721,612 males and 1,925,4…
Social Welfare for Marginal Ethnic Groups
This paper discusses the origin and operations of a dozen indigenous Chinese NGOs working to promote social welfare of the marginalized ethnic groups in southwest China’s hilly regions bordering Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. Even though they have different specific goals—including poverty reduction, post-disaster reconstruction, community development, environmental conservation, cultural preservation, and so on—these NGOs exhibit several…
Factors influencing the attention to home storage of medicines in China
A major improvement in the awareness of correct storage conditions of medicines for home use can be realized by increased education, and highlighting the importance of correct medicine storage, disposal methods and usages, which has high potential to deliver public health benefits in China. Some suggestions were provided to health care providers
Searching for Cultural Alterity
Convergence and divergence between Taiwanese and US anthropologies
This article discusses three issues based on the author’s experience of teaching anthropology in the US for 30 years (1975–2005), and then in Taiwan over the past decade (2006–2015), when he was heavily involved in Taiwan’s anthropological education. The first issue is the positionality of anthropology in Taiwan, including the origin of anthropology as a body of transplanted knowledge or a disciplinary subject established in Taiwan’s university c…
Discrimination and incorporation of Taiwanese indigenous Austronesian peoples
This paper examines contemporary developments among Taiwan’s indigenous Austronesian peoples. We have reviewed major policy changes mainly since the 1980s and their impacts on later developments – both the positive improvements in general well-being and the persistence of ingrained problems among them. Major findings indicate two growing trends among Taiwanese Austronesians. One is the rise of interest in their cultures and efforts to preserve an…
Situating East Asian Anthropology in the World
Engendering social suffering
This paper examines how reproducing Chineseness has become a source of social suffering through the case study of a group of Yunnan Chinese who escaped Chinese communist rules in the Mainland in 1949 or shortly after and settled in northern Thailand in the 1960s. As self-proclaimed carriers of traditional Chinese culture, they worked arduously to replicate whatever they considered 'authentic' Chinese through a narrow interpretation of the Confuci…
Building China's Nascent Civil Society
Religion as a means of cultural reproduction
This article discusses how popular rituals are used to achieve cultural reproduction in Banmai, a Yunnan Chinese village in northern Thailand where I conducted empirical fieldwork between 2002 and 2007. Most Banmai villagers were local militias originally associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party in western Yunnan Province. They went into exile on the Burmese side of the Golden Triangle in or shortly after 1949 when the People's Liberation Ar…
Transcending boundaries
Southern Fujian
Marital Acts
The Articulation of Culture, Agriculture, and the Environment of Chinese in Northern Thailand
The Yunnan Chinese who settled in northern Thailand's Golden Triangle after 1964 used their traditional knowledge of hill farming and crop diversity, plus their extensive ethnic networks based on multi-layered Chinese identity, to establish viable communities in a mountainous region. By focusing on producing cash crops such as lychee nuts, tangerines, ginger roots, and bamboo shoots, they established a sustainable rural livelihood that is environ…
Economic Culture and Moral Assumptions in a Chinese Village in Fujian
In this paper I argue that traditional Chinese economic culture has been overshadowed by Confucian ideologies that uphold the moral high ground of benevolence and self-righteousness, and conversely undermine the practical and the utilitarian. The Confucian anti-commerce doctrine, and later, the doctrines of communism, consistently obscured Chinese economic culture. It was not until the post-Mao policy after 1980 that we find the revival of this h…
Gao Village
Being There
Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. C. W. Watson. ed. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999. 169 pp
Throwing the Emperor from His Horse
Fate and Fortune in Rural China
Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Beliavior in Liaoning, 1774-1873. James Lee and Cameron Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 280 pp
China's Motor
Nutritional Well-Being of Preschool Children in a North China Village
China's and openness has reached the midpoint of its second decade. And yet, for Westem sinologists, who now have increased opportunity to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in rural China, it seems that access has raised more questions than it has answered. These questions include the following: To what extent has the current reform really benefited the rural populace? Have their living conditions improved with increased disposable incomes and consu…
The quest for Chinese humanism
Dennerline, Jerry. Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 192 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 cloth. Hsu Cho‐yun and Katheryn M. Linduff. Western Chou Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xxiv + 421 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth. Schoppa, R. Keith. Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. …
Being There
Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. C. W. Watson. ed. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999. 169 pp
Discrimination and incorporation of Taiwanese indigenous Austronesian peoples
This paper examines contemporary developments among Taiwan’s indigenous Austronesian peoples. We have reviewed major policy changes mainly since the 1980s and their impacts on later developments – both the positive improvements in general well-being and the persistence of ingrained problems among them. Major findings indicate two growing trends among Taiwanese Austronesians. One is the rise of interest in their cultures and efforts to preserve an…
Marital Acts
Nutritional Well-Being of Preschool Children in a North China Village
China's and openness has reached the midpoint of its second decade. And yet, for Westem sinologists, who now have increased opportunity to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in rural China, it seems that access has raised more questions than it has answered. These questions include the following: To what extent has the current reform really benefited the rural populace? Have their living conditions improved with increased disposable incomes and consu…
Economic Culture and Moral Assumptions in a Chinese Village in Fujian
In this paper I argue that traditional Chinese economic culture has been overshadowed by Confucian ideologies that uphold the moral high ground of benevolence and self-righteousness, and conversely undermine the practical and the utilitarian. The Confucian anti-commerce doctrine, and later, the doctrines of communism, consistently obscured Chinese economic culture. It was not until the post-Mao policy after 1980 that we find the revival of this h…
Building China's Nascent Civil Society
Religion as a means of cultural reproduction
This article discusses how popular rituals are used to achieve cultural reproduction in Banmai, a Yunnan Chinese village in northern Thailand where I conducted empirical fieldwork between 2002 and 2007. Most Banmai villagers were local militias originally associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party in western Yunnan Province. They went into exile on the Burmese side of the Golden Triangle in or shortly after 1949 when the People's Liberation Ar…
The Development of Regionalism in Ta-Chia, Taiwan
Anthropologists studying rural Chinese social organization have traditionally focused on the nature of family and kinship organizations as the key to understanding its dynamics and changes. Ethnographical data gathered in Ta-chia, Central Taiwan, suggests, however, that kinship organizations have not been an important functional, social mechanism there and alternative models must be pursued. Reconstructing the historical process of Chinese settle…
The Development of Regionalism in Ta-Chia, Taiwan
Anthropologists studying rural Chinese social organization have traditionally focused on the nature of family and kinship organizations as the key to understanding its dynamics and changes. Ethnographical data gathered in Ta-chia, Central Taiwan, suggests, however, that kinship organizations have not been an important functional, social mechanism there and alternative models must be pursued. Reconstructing the historical process of Chinese settle…
Allegations in Withdrawn Motion Questioned
Cultural/Ethnology
Ascertaining the uncertain in ancient China
Chang Kwang-chi. Shang Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. xvii + 417 pp. including bibliography, appendix, and index. $35.00 cloth; $10.95 paper. Chang Kwang-chi. Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. x+ 142 pp. including appendix, illustrations, and index. $18.50 cloth
The Spiral Road
The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore rational, pragmatic policies in China's countryside.Th…
Tales of A Korean Shaman
Laurel Kendall. The Life and Hard Times of. Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. 157 pages. $9.95 (paper); $23.00 (cloth
The quest for Chinese humanism
Dennerline, Jerry. Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 192 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 cloth. Hsu Cho‐yun and Katheryn M. Linduff. Western Chou Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xxiv + 421 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth. Schoppa, R. Keith. Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. …
Nutritional Well-Being of Preschool Children in a North China Village
China's and openness has reached the midpoint of its second decade. And yet, for Westem sinologists, who now have increased opportunity to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in rural China, it seems that access has raised more questions than it has answered. These questions include the following: To what extent has the current reform really benefited the rural populace? Have their living conditions improved with increased disposable incomes and consu…
China's Motor
Throwing the Emperor from His Horse
Fate and Fortune in Rural China
Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Beliavior in Liaoning, 1774-1873. James Lee and Cameron Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 280 pp
Gao Village
Being There
Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. C. W. Watson. ed. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999. 169 pp
Economic Culture and Moral Assumptions in a Chinese Village in Fujian
In this paper I argue that traditional Chinese economic culture has been overshadowed by Confucian ideologies that uphold the moral high ground of benevolence and self-righteousness, and conversely undermine the practical and the utilitarian. The Confucian anti-commerce doctrine, and later, the doctrines of communism, consistently obscured Chinese economic culture. It was not until the post-Mao policy after 1980 that we find the revival of this h…
Marital Acts
The Articulation of Culture, Agriculture, and the Environment of Chinese in Northern Thailand
The Yunnan Chinese who settled in northern Thailand's Golden Triangle after 1964 used their traditional knowledge of hill farming and crop diversity, plus their extensive ethnic networks based on multi-layered Chinese identity, to establish viable communities in a mountainous region. By focusing on producing cash crops such as lychee nuts, tangerines, ginger roots, and bamboo shoots, they established a sustainable rural livelihood that is environ…
Transcending boundaries
Southern Fujian
Religion as a means of cultural reproduction
This article discusses how popular rituals are used to achieve cultural reproduction in Banmai, a Yunnan Chinese village in northern Thailand where I conducted empirical fieldwork between 2002 and 2007. Most Banmai villagers were local militias originally associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party in western Yunnan Province. They went into exile on the Burmese side of the Golden Triangle in or shortly after 1949 when the People's Liberation Ar…
Building China's Nascent Civil Society
Engendering social suffering
This paper examines how reproducing Chineseness has become a source of social suffering through the case study of a group of Yunnan Chinese who escaped Chinese communist rules in the Mainland in 1949 or shortly after and settled in northern Thailand in the 1960s. As self-proclaimed carriers of traditional Chinese culture, they worked arduously to replicate whatever they considered 'authentic' Chinese through a narrow interpretation of the Confuci…
Situating East Asian Anthropology in the World
Discrimination and incorporation of Taiwanese indigenous Austronesian peoples
This paper examines contemporary developments among Taiwan’s indigenous Austronesian peoples. We have reviewed major policy changes mainly since the 1980s and their impacts on later developments – both the positive improvements in general well-being and the persistence of ingrained problems among them. Major findings indicate two growing trends among Taiwanese Austronesians. One is the rise of interest in their cultures and efforts to preserve an…
Convergence and divergence between Taiwanese and US anthropologies
This article discusses three issues based on the author’s experience of teaching anthropology in the US for 30 years (1975–2005), and then in Taiwan over the past decade (2006–2015), when he was heavily involved in Taiwan’s anthropological education. The first issue is the positionality of anthropology in Taiwan, including the origin of anthropology as a body of transplanted knowledge or a disciplinary subject established in Taiwan’s university c…
Social Welfare for Marginal Ethnic Groups
This paper discusses the origin and operations of a dozen indigenous Chinese NGOs working to promote social welfare of the marginalized ethnic groups in southwest China’s hilly regions bordering Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. Even though they have different specific goals—including poverty reduction, post-disaster reconstruction, community development, environmental conservation, cultural preservation, and so on—these NGOs exhibit several…
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