Publication List

James L. Watson

(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.]

Second edition, Golden Arches East. Stanford: Stanford University Press (2006).

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, 2009.]

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

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 Giuangxi 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.)

1981 "Comments on The Water Margin and Banditry Myths." In China: Development and Challenge, edited by Lee Ngok and C.K. Leung. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Centre for Asian Studies, pp. 166-168.

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.

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.

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; and in Readings for Sociology, ed. by Garth Massey, W. W. Norton, 2006.

*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.]

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.

2009 “Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China,” in What is an Adequate Life? Governance and Moral Experience in China, ed. by Arthur Kleinman and Everett Zhang, in production.

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

Work in Progress:

Colonialism in Action: British System, Cantonese Culture (with Rubie Watson), book in progress, based on four decades of field experience 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).