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Mayfair Yang

Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara

Affiliations

College of Letters & Science

Anthropology

East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

Feminist Studies, Department of

Middle East Studies

Religious Studies

Mayfair Yang is currently serving as an Anthropology Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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chinese culture religious studies contemporary china political science sociology social sciences cultural studies cultural anthropology chinese politics international relations social anthropology political economy modernity economy of china democracy cultural change socialism religiosity societal influence comparative politics governance democratization sociology of religion islamic thought anthropological theory urban geography geopolitics political geography applied geography historical geography chinese political science interdisciplinary history international history comparative economics regime analysis political power power relations political systems mass culture orientalism islamic studies comparative religion ethnohistory social isolation spatial planning spatial theory spatial politics historical evidence historical sociology transnational history rural culture gendered context rural sociology spirituality state power gift economy chinese socialist order gendered religiosity spirit possession preliminary reflections chinese modernity modern china re-enchanting modernity ritual economy social relationships state discourse film discussion groups overseas capital state censorship autobiographical reflections sociocultural anthropology contemporary asia east asian languages southeast asia east asian studies

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Chinese Popular Religion and Economy. Oxford University Press eBooks (2024)

Mayfair Yang

chinese popular religionreligious studieseconomy of chinaeast asian studieseconomicschinese culturereligioncultural economy

Huaiyu Chen, in the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living With Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions. Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (2024)

Mayfair Yang

medieval chinese religionscultural historyculturecultural studiesreligious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligion

China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization. by Jennifer Ann Hubbert. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘I Press, 2019. VIII, 234 Pp. Isbn: 9780824878207 (Cloth).. The Journal of Asian Studies (2021)

Mayfair Yang

confucius institutesanthropologysociocultural anthropologysoft powercultural anthropologysocial anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiesglobalization

Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. Review of Religion and Chinese Society (2021)

Mayfair Yang

grassroots religioncommunist revolutionreligious lifexiaoxuan wangreligious studieschinese culturereligion

Chinese Popular Religions. Springer eBooks (2020)

Mayfair Yang

religious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligionchinese popular religions

From Sovereignty to Governmentality and Back: China and the USA. Social Anthropology (2020)

Mayfair M. Yang

anthropologycolonialismdemocracysociocultural anthropologychinese politicschinese political sciencepolitical sciencepolitical sociologysocial anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiescontemporary china

Portrait. Religion and Society (2020)

Talal AsadJonathan BoyarinHussein Ali AgramaDonovan O. SchaeferAnanda Abeysekara

orientalismanthropologyautobiographical reflectionscultural historyreligious studiesananda abeysekaraislamic studiescultural anthropologycomparative religionislamic thoughttalal asadanthropological theoryethnohistory

Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China. China Journal (2020)

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang

mass cultureculturereligious studiesre-enchanting modernityritual economysociologycontemporary chinamodernity

Women in Chinese Religions. Springer eBooks (2020)

Mayfair Yang

chinese religionswomen's studiesgender studiesreligious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligion

Gendered Words: Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China by Fei-Wen Liu New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 Pp.. American Anthropologist (2017)

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

ethnographyanthropologyrural culturecontemporary chinagender studiesgendered contextrural chinacultural changerural sociologygender identitysocial changecultural anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiessocietal influencegender inequalitysocial identity

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Mayfair Yang

Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara

Affiliations

College of Letters & Science

Anthropology

East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

Feminist Studies, Department of

Middle East Studies

Religious Studies

Mayfair Yang is currently serving as an Anthropology Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Honors

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University of California, Santa Barbara

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Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Chinese Popular Religion and Economy. Oxford University Press eBooks (2024)

Mayfair Yang

chinese popular religionreligious studieseconomy of chinaeast asian studieseconomicschinese culturereligioncultural economy

Huaiyu Chen, in the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living With Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions. Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (2024)

Mayfair Yang

medieval chinese religionscultural historyculturecultural studiesreligious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligion

Mayfair Yang

confucius institutesanthropologysociocultural anthropologysoft powercultural anthropologysocial anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiesglobalization

Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. Review of Religion and Chinese Society (2021)

Mayfair Yang

grassroots religioncommunist revolutionreligious lifexiaoxuan wangreligious studieschinese culturereligion

Chinese Popular Religions. Springer eBooks (2020)

Mayfair Yang

religious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligionchinese popular religions

From Sovereignty to Governmentality and Back: China and the USA. Social Anthropology (2020)

Mayfair M. Yang

Portrait. Religion and Society (2020)

Talal AsadJonathan BoyarinHussein Ali AgramaDonovan O. SchaeferAnanda Abeysekara

Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China. China Journal (2020)

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang

mass cultureculturereligious studiesre-enchanting modernityritual economysociologycontemporary chinamodernity

Women in Chinese Religions. Springer eBooks (2020)

Mayfair Yang

chinese religionswomen's studiesgender studiesreligious studieseast asian studieschinese culturereligion

Gendered Words: Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China by Fei-Wen Liu New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 Pp.. American Anthropologist (2017)

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

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