Publication List (J. L. Watson, 15 June 2011)

(a) Books:

1975 Emigration and the Chinese Lineage: The Mans in Hong Kong and London. Berkeley: University of California Press. 242 pp. [Japanese translation, Tokyo: Aun Sha Publishers, 1995.]

1977 Between Two Cultures: Migrants and Minorities in Britain (editor and contributor). Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher. 338 pp. [Awarded the 1978 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize].

1980 Asian and African Systems of Slavery (editor and contributor). Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher and Berkeley: University of California Press. 348 pp.

1984 Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China (editor and contributor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 289 pp.

1986 Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 (coeditor with Patricia Ebrey and contributor). Berkeley: University of California Press. 319 pp.

1988 Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China (coeditor with Evelyn S. Rawski and contributor). Berkeley: University of California Press. 334 pp. [Japanese translation, Tokyo: Heibonsha Ltd. Publishers, 1994.]

1997 Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia (editor and contributor). Stanford: Stanford University Press. 256 pp. [Finalist for the 1998 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.]

(Chinese translations by Classic Communications Co., Taipei, 2000 and Good Morning Press, Taipei, 2007; Japanese translation, Shin-Yo-Sha Co., 2003.)

2004 Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories (with Rubie S. Watson). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. 490 pp.

Chinese translation, in production. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2012.]

2005 The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating (coeditor with Melissa Caldwell and contributor). Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 320 pp.

2006 Second edition, Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2006 SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? (coeditor with Arthur Kleinman and contributor). Stanford University Press. 244 pp.

(b) Articles and Chapters:

(* indicates items included in Village Life in Hong Kong, 2004: see Books above)

1974 "Restaurants and Remittances: Chinese Emigrant Workers in London." Chapter in Anthropologists in Cities, edited by George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 201-222.

*1975 "Agnates and Outsiders: Adoption in a Chinese Lineage." Man (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute) n.s. 10(2):293-306. [Japanese translation in Hakusan Review of Anthropology, no. 7 (2004): 48-69; Chinese translation in Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities, 26(1): 100-107 (2004).]

*1976a "Chattel Slavery in Chinese Peasant Society: A Comparative Analysis." Ethnology 15(4):361-375.

1976b "Anthropological Analyses of Chinese Religion: A Review Article." China Quarterly 66:355-364.

*1977a "Hereditary Tenancy and Corporate Landlordism in Traditional China." Modern Asian Studies 11(2):161-182.

1977b "Chinese Emigrant Ties to the Home Community." New Community (London) 5(4):343-352.

1977c "Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in Britain." Introduction to Between Two Cultures, edited by J. L. Watson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, pp.1-20.

1977d "The Chinese: Hong Kong Villagers in the British Catering Trade." Chapter in Ibid., pp. 181-213.

1980a "Arbeitsimmigranten In Grossbritannien: neure Entwicklung." Chapter in Dritte Welt in Europe: Probleme der Arbeitsimmigration, edited by Jochen Blaschke and Kurt Greussing for the Berliner Institut fur Vergleichende Sozialforschung. Frankfurt: Syndikat, pp. 38-52.

1980b "Slavery as an Institution: Open and Closed Systems." Introduction to Asian and African Systems of Slavery, ed. by J.L. Watson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher and Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-15.

1980c "Transactions in People: The Chinese Market in Slaves, Servants, and Heirs." Chapter in Ibid, pp. 223-250. (Reprinted in Slavery: Oxford College Reader, ed. by Stanley Engerman, et al. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.)

1982a "Cosmology," "Folk Religion," and "Ancestor Worship." Articles in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, edited by Brian Hook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 304, 307-311.

1982b "Chinese Kinship Reconsidered: Anthropological Perspectives on Historical Research." China Quarterly 92:589-622.

*1982c "Of Flesh and Bones: The Management of Death Pollution in Cantonese Society." Chapter in Death and the Regeneration of Life, edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 155-186. [Chinese translation, Journal of the Guangxi University for Nationalities, Vol. 30, No. 6, 2008, pp. 38-49.]

1983 "Rural Society: The Hong Kong New Territories." China Quarterly (special issue, Hong Kong future) 95:480-490.

1984 "Class and Class Formation in Chinese Society." Chapter in Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China, edited by J.L. Watson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-16.

*1985 "Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T'ien Hou (Empress of Heaven) along the South China Coast, 960-1960." Chapter in Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, edited by David Johnson, Andrew Nathan, and Evelyn Rawski. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 292-324. [Chinese translations in Si yu Yan (Thought and Word), Taipei, 26(4): 369-397 (1988); and in A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002, 164-198.]

1986a "Introduction: Kinship in Chinese History" (with Patricia B. Ebrey). In Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, edited by Patricia Ebrey and J.L. Watson. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-15.

1986b "Anthropological Overview: The Development of Chinese Descent Groups." Chapter in Ibid., pp. 274-292.

1986c “The Social Consequences of Land Reclamation in Chinese Coastal Ecosystems.” China Exchange News 14(4): 10-13 (Dec. 1986: Comm. for Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China, Washington D.C.)

*1987a "From the Common Pot: Feasting with Equals in Chinese Society." Anthropos 82: 389-401.

1987b "Zhongguo zongzu zai yenzhou: lishi yenzhou zhongde renlaixue guandian" (The Chinese Lineage Reexamined: The Uses of Anthropology for Historical Research). Guangdong shehui kexue (Guangdong Social Science) 2:70-72, 79 (in Chinese).

1988a "The Structure of Chinese Funerary Rites: Elementary Forms, Ritual Sequence, and the Primacy of Performance." Chapter in Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, edited by J. L. Watson and E. S. Rawski. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 3-19. [Japanese translation, see Books section above, 1988, Death Ritual; Chinese translation in Lishi Renleixue Xuekan 1(2): 98-114 (October, 2003).]

*1988b "Funeral Specialists in Cantonese Society: Pollution, Performance, and Social Hierarchy." Ch. in Ibid, pp. 109-134. [Japanese translation, see Books section above, 1988, Death Ritual.]

*1989 "Self Defense Corps, Violence, and the Bachelor Sub-Culture in South China: Two Case Studies." Chapter in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sinology, Section on Folklore and Culture. Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 209-221.

*1990 "Sosengoroshi- Kantonjinno sosensaishini mirareru chikarato keii" (Japanese article: "Killing the Ancestors: Power and Piety in the Cantonese Ancestor Cult.") Bunkajinruigaku (Cultural Anthropology) 6(2):63-73.

1991a "The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era: An Anthropological Perspective." In Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries, edited by Kenneth Lieberthal, et al. M. E. Sharpe, pp. 364-386.

Reprinted in: Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992, pp. 67-84. Also reprinted by University of Hong Kong, Social Sciences Research Centre, Occasional Paper 4 (1991).

*1991b "Waking the Dragon: Visions of the Chinese Imperial State in Local Myth." In An Old State in New Settings: Studies in the Social Anthropology of China in Memory of Maurice Freedman, edited by Hugh Baker and Stephan Feuchtwang. Oxford: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Occasional Papers, no. 8, pp. 162-177.

1993 "Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial and Modern China." In China's National Identity, edited by Samuel Kim and Lowell Ditmar. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 80-103.

1994a "China: Past, Present and Future." In Cradle of Civilization: China, edited by Robert E. Murowchick. Sidney: Weldon Russell Publishing, pp. 177-185.

1994b "Confucian Models at the Local Level: Ideology and Practice in South China, with Korean Comparisons." In The Universal and Particular Natures of Confucianism (Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Korean Studies.) Kyonggi-do, South Korea: Academy of Korean Studies, pp. 597-625.

*1996 "Fighting with Operas: Processionals, Politics, and the Specter of Violence in Rural Hong Kong." In The Politics of Cultural Performance, edited by David Parkin, Lionel Caplan, and Humphrey Fisher. London: Berghahn Books, pp. 145-159.

*1997a “From Hall of Worship to Tourist Center: An Ancestral Hall in Hong Kong’s New Territories” (with Rubie S. Watson). Cultural Survival 21(1):33-35.

1997b “Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia.” In Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, edited by J. L. Watson. Stanford University Press, pp. 1-38.

Reprinted in McDonaldization: The Reader, ed. by George Ritzer. Pine Forge Press, 2002.

1997c “McDonald’s in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children’s Culture.” In Ibid, pp. 77-109.

Reprinted in The Globalization Reader, ed. by Frank Lechner and John Boli, Blackwell, 2003 & 2008; and in Readings for Sociology, ed. by Garth Massey, W. W. Norton, 2006 and 2008.

*1998a “Living Ghosts: Long-Haired Destitutes in Colonial Hong Kong.” In Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures, edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara Miller. State University of New York Press, pp. 177-193.

1998b “Slavery in China.” In A Historical Guide to World Slavery, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Seymour Drescher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 149-152.

1998c “Yangbanization in Comparative Perspective.” In Korea: Ethnography of a Changing Society, edited by Roger Janelli and Mutsuhiko Shima. Senri Ethnological Studies 49.

Osaka: National Ethnographic Museum of Japan, pp. 213-227.

2000a "Food as the Lens: The Past, Present, and Future of Family Life in China," in Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change, ed. by Jun Jing.

Stanford University Press (pp. 199-212).

2000b "China's Big Mac Attack" [Cultural Imperialism and Globalization in the Post-Cold War World]. Foreign Affairs 79(3): 120-134 (May-June 2000).

Reprinted in Food in the U.S.A.: A Reader, ed. By Carole Counihan. Routledge, 2002, pp. 347-357; and in The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating,

ed. J. Watson & M. Caldwell. Blackwell, 2005.

2002/04 “Globalization and Culture.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Full version in 16th print ed. 2002.

Abbreviated version: Web ed. 2004 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1357503/cultural-globalization>

2004 “Globalization in Asia: Anthropological Perspectives,” in Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium, ed. Marcelo M. Suarez and Desiree B. Qin-Hillard. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press (pp. 141-172).

*2004 “Fieldwork in the Hong Kong New Territories, 1969-1997,” in Village Life in Hong Kong, by J. L. Watson and Rubie S. Watson. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.

2004 “Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estate, and Diaspora Formation – The Man Lineage Revisited.” Journal of Asian Studies 63(4): 893-910. [Japanese translation, Hakusan Review of Anthropology, Vol. 10, pp. 129-151, March 2007; Chinese translation, Zhongguo Yanjiu, Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 98-119.]

2005 “The Politics of Food and Eating” (with Melissa Caldwell), in The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating, edited by James L. Watson and Melissa Caldwell. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1-10.

2006 “SARS and the Consequences for Globalization,” in SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? Edited by Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson.

Stanford University Press, pp. 196-202.

2006 “McDonald’s as Political Target: Globalization and Anti-Globalization in the Twenty-First Century,” in Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia (second edition). Stanford Univ. Press, pp. 183-197.

2007 “Orthopraxy Revisited.” Modern China 33(1): 1-5.

2008 (With Rubie S. Watson) “Geomancy, Politics, and Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong”. In On the Margins of Religion, ed. by Frances Pine and Joao de Pina-Cabral.

Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 205-232.

2010 “Forty Years on the Border: Hong Kong/China.” ASIANet Exchange, Vol 18, no. 1, 2010, pp. 10-23.

2011 “Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China,” in Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life, ed. by Arthur Kleinman and Everett Zhang. London: Routledge, pp. 33-46.

Work in Progress:

The Last Colony: Everyday Life Under British Colonialism, 1898-1997 (with Rubie Watson), book in progress, based on four decades of field research in Yuen Long District, Hong Kong New Territories.

Chinese Diaspora Formation: The Man Lineage Revisited. A book in progress, based on field research in Hong Kong, Britain, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and Jiangxi Province (south-central China).