Rubie S. Watson

Publications

(a) Books

l985 Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China, Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiii & 193 pp.

[2008] Xiongdi bing bupingdong. (Chinese translation , Inequality Among Brothers, Shanghai:Yiwen Publishers .)

1991 Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (Coeditor with Patricia Ebrey), Berkeley: University of California Press, xvii & 385 pp.

1994 Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism. (Editor). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, x & 210 pp.

1996 Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context. (Coeditor with Bell Yung and Evelyn Rawski). Stanford: Stanford University Press, xii & 323 pp.

2004 Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories (with James L. Watson). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press [distr. by Columbia University Press], 300 pp.

(b) Articles

l981 “Class Differences and Affinal Relations in South China,” Man 16: 593-615.

l982 “The Creation of a Chinese Lineage: The Teng of Ha Tsuen, 1669-l751,” Modern Asian Studies 16(1): 69-100.

l983 “The Individual and Society” and “Kinship and Family.” In The Atlas of Mankind. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, pp. 30-33.

l984 “Women’s Work and Inheritance in Chinese Society: An Anthropologist’s View.” In Women in Asia and Asian Studies ed. by Barbara Miller. Committee on Women in Asian Studies Monograph no. 1, Syracuse University, pp. 7-23.

l984 “Women’s Property in Republican China: Rights and Practice,” Republican China 10(1a): 61-64.

l985 “Women, Family, and Revolutionary Change,” (review article) Peasant Studies 13(1): 61-64.

l986 “The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society,” American Ethnologist 13(4): 619-631.

Abbreviated version reprinted in Chinese translation, Fu-nu yen-chiu t’ung-hsun [Bulletin of the Women’s Research Program, National Taiwan University] 9(1): 52-54 (l988).

reprinted in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective ed. by Caroline Brettell and Carolyn Sargent. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1993, 2000, 2004).

1988 “Remembering the Dead: Graves and Politics in Southeastern China.” In Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. by J. L. Watson and E. S. Rawski. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1990 “Corporate Property and Local Elites in the Canton Delta.” In Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Social Dominance, ed. by Joseph Esherick and Mary Rankin. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1990 “Dutiful Daughters and Loyal Wives: Korean and Chinese Women.” In Korean Studies, Its Cross-Cultural Perspective II. Papers of the 6th International Conference. Seoul: The Academy of Korean Studies.

1991 “Wives, Concubines, and Maids: Servitude and Kinship in the Hong Kong Region, 1900-1940.” In Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed. by Rubie Watson and Patricia Ebrey. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1991 “Afterword: Marriage and Gender Inequality.” In Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed. by Rubie Watson and Patricia Ebrey. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1994 “Girls’ Houses and Working Women: Expressive Culture in the Pearl River Delta l900-l941.” In Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape, ed. by Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers. London: Zed Press.

1994 “Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism: An Introduction.” In Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism, ed. by Rubie S. Watson. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

1994 “Making Secret Histories: Memory and Mourning in Post-Mao China.” In Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism, ed. by Rubie S. Watson. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

1995 “Palaces, Museums, and Squares: Chinese National Spaces.” Museum Anthropology 19 (2): 3-15.

Chinese Translation: Huanggong, bowuyan yu guangchang: Zai zhongguo chuangzao guojiakongjian. translated by Liao Desheng. Second Workshop in Social History and Cultural Anthropology, Occasional Paper no. 2. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996.

1996 “Chinese Bridal Laments: The Claims of a Dutiful Daughter.” In Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context, ed. by Bell Yung, Evelyn Rawski, Rubie Watson. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1996 (with Nynke Dorhout and Juliette Rogers). “Pacific Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University: The Early Years.” Pacific Arts 13-14: 57-68.

1997 Guest editor of an issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly devoted to “Museums and Representations” 21(1).

1997 “Museums and Indigenous Cultures: the Power of Local Knowledge.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 21(1): 24-25.

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

1998 “Tales of Two Chinese History Museums: Taipei and Hong Kong.” Curator: The Museum Journal 41(3):167-177.

2001 “Opening the Museum: The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.” Symbols (Newsletter of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University), Fall 2001.

2003 “Camera Sinica: China Photographs in the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology” (with Raymond Lum). In Treasures of the Yenching Library: East Asia Collections at Harvard University, ed. by Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Library Studies, No. 1.

2003 “Preface.” In Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis & Clark’s Indian Collection, by Castle McLaughlin. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press.

2003 “Preface.” In Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, 1921-1925, by Mabel H. Cabot. New York: Aperture.

2004 “Repatriation of Native American Collections: A Museum Perspective.” In Protecting Cultural and Natural in the Western Hemisphere,, ed. by Francois Vigier. UNESCO /Harvard School of Design Conference Proceedings, Web Publication: (www.gsd.harvard.edu/heritageintheamericas).

2005 “Culturally Sensitive Collections: A Museum Perspective.” In Stewards of the Sacred, ed. by Alison Edwards and Lawrence Sullivan, Washington D.C.: American Association of Museums.

2007 “Fengshui, Landscape, and History in Rural Hong Kong.” Symbols, Spring , Pp. 3-7.

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.