JENNY CHIO
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Emory University
[email protected]
www.jennychio.com
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2012-present Emory University, Atlanta GA
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Associated faculty in Film and Media Studies
Associated faculty in East Asian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Assistant Researcher (July-December 2015)
2009-2012
China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Socio-Cultural Anthropology, 2009
Dissertation: Landscape of Travel: Tourism, Media and Identity in Southwest China
Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Affiliated Researcher in Anthropology, 2005-2007
M.A.
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Visual Anthropology with Distinction, 2003
Thesis: Film the People: National minorities in ethnographic films in the People’s
Republic of China, 1957-1966 (digital video and essay)
B.A.
Brown University
Anthropology magna cum laude, 2000
Honors Thesis: Now Exhibiting: Self-Representation and Community Identity in Native
American Museums
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2014 Jenny Chio, A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China. Seattle:
University of Washington Press.
--Reviewed in Anthropological Quarterly 88(3): 835-840; Journal of Cultural Heritage 16(1),
2015: 126; Pacific Affairs (2015, online)
2012
Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, eds. Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality.
London: Routledge.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2014 Jenny Chio, “Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness.”
Visual Anthropology Review 30(1): 62-72.
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2013
Luke Robinson and Jenny Chio, “Making Space for Chinese Independent Documentary: The
Case of Yunfest 2011.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 7(1): 21-40.
2011
Jenny Chio, “Leave the fields without leaving the countryside: Modernity and mobility in rural
China.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 18(6): 551-575.
2011
Jenny Chio, “The Appearance of the Rural in China’s Tourism.” Provincial China 3(1): 60-79.
BOOK CHAPTERS
In Press. Jenny Chio, “Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Media and Cultural Translation at
the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival.” Commissioned for Chinese Film Festivals, Chris
Berry and Luke Robinson, eds., Palgrave MacMillan.
2013
Jenny Chio, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Claiming Heritage in the Longji Terraced
Fields Scenic Area.” In Cultural Heritage Politics in China, Tami Blumenfield and Helaine
Silverman, eds. New York: Springer, 143-159.
2012
Jenny Chio, “‘Village Videos’ and the Visual Mainstream in Rural Guizhou.” In Mapping Media
in China: Region, Province, Locality, Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, eds. London: Routledge,
79-93.
2012
Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, “Introduction.” In Mapping Media in China: Region, Province,
Locality, Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio, eds. London: Routledge, 3-12.
2011
Jenny Chio, “Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research.” In Fieldwork in
Tourism: Methods, Issues, and Reflections. C. Michael Hall, ed. London: Routledge, 209-219.
-- 2013: Adapted as “Seeing and Showing Tourism” in Visual Research: A Concise Introduction
to Thinking Visually. Jonathan S. Marion and Jerome W. Crowder, eds. London: Bloomsbury,
133-135.
2009
Jenny Chio, “The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance.” In Asia
on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism. Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, and T.C. Chang, eds.
London: Routledge, 207-220.
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS
2013 Jenny Chio, dir., 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness. Digital video, color, 70 mins. Distributed
by Berkeley Media, LLC.
-- Winner of the 2013 David Plath Media Award from the Society for East Asian Anthropology
-- Reviews: 2014, by Laurie Hart. Visual Anthropology Review 30(1): 79-81.
2013, by Emily Chao. American Anthropologist 115(3): 507-509.
-- Festival Screenings: 2015 China Environmental Film Festival, Furman University, SC
2014 Guangxi Museum of Nationalities Film Festival, Nanning (China)
2013 Society for Ethnology and Folklore Congress, Tartu (Estonia)
2012 Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, San Francisco
2012 “Forbidden No More: The New China in Ethnographic Film,” Haverford College, PA
2003
Jenny Chio, dir. Film the People. Digital video, black and white, 22 mins.
-- Festival Screenings: 2005 9th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Oxford UK
2004 Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Göttingen, Germany
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COMMENTARIES
2015 Luke Robinson and Jenny Chio, “Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Archiving the Moment.”
Anthropology News, Society for Visual Anthropology Section News, January. Published online.
2014
Jenny Chio, “2013 David Plath Media Award: 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness.” Anthropology
News, Society for East Asian Anthropology Section News, May. Published online.
2010
Jenny Chio, “China’s Campaign for Civilized Tourism: What to do when Tourists Behave
Badly.” Anthropology News, November, 14-15.
-- 2013: Updated and reprinted in Tourism: Principles and Practice (5th Edition). John Fletcher,
Alan Fyall, David Gilbert, and Stephen Wanhill, eds. Harlow (UK): Pearson Education, 220-223.
REVIEWS
2015 Jenny Chio, “Managing the Masses in Mass Media.” Review of Censorium: Cinema and the Open
Edge of Mass Publicity by William Mazzarella. Current Anthropology 56(3): 477-478.
2013
Jenny Chio, Review of Tourism and Travel Culture in Modern China, by Yajun Mo (Ph.D. East
Asian History, UC Santa Cruz, 2011). Dissertation Reviews. Published online.
2011
Jenny Chio, Review of Tourism and Glocalization: Perspectives on East Asian Societies, by
Nelson Graburn and Han Min, eds. (National Museum of Ethnology Osaka, 2010). Journal of
Anthropological Research 67(4): 600-602.
2011
Jenny Chio, Review of New masters, new servants. Migration, development, and women workers
in China, by Yan Hairong (Duke University Press, 2008). Social Anthropology 19(2): 234-236.
2008
Jenny Chio, Review of Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition: A Place Called Shangrila, by
Ashild Kolas (Routledge, 2008). H-Travel, H-Net Reviews. Published online.
2008
Jenny Chio, Review of Going First Class? New Approaches to Privileged Movement and Travel,
by Vered Amit, ed. (Routledge 2006). Social Anthropology 16(1): 99-100.
2006
Jenny Chio, Review of Contemporary Art and Anthropology, by Arnd Schneider and Christopher
Wright, eds (Berg, 2006). Visual Anthropology Review 22(2): 94-95.
2006
Jenny Chio, Review of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, by Pun
Ngai (Duke University Press, 2005). Social Anthropology 14(2): 289-290.
2006
Nelson Graburn and Jenny Chio, Review of Working Images: Visual Research and Representation
in Ethnography, Ana Isabel Alfonso, Lazlo Kurti, and Sarah Pink, eds. (Routledge, 2004). Social
Anthropology 14(1): 148-149.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Village Global: Emergent Anthropologies of Rural Sociality.
-- Special journal issue guest edited by Jenny Chio and Chris Vasantkumar.
-- Under review for publication in Critique of Anthropology.
“Video Documentary, Development, and Public Culture in Rural Ethnic China.” Chapter
commissioned for Asian Video Cultures, Bhaskar Sarkar and Joshua Neves, eds.
-- Volume is under contract with Duke University Press.
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
AWARDS
2013 David Plath Media Award for 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness, Society for East Asian
Anthropology
-- Annual award to the “best work on any aspect of East Asian anthropology and/or East Asian
anthropology’s contribution to the broader field.”
2008 American Anthropological Association Photo Contest Finalist
--Two photographs published in Anthropology News, March 2009
2000 Class of 1873 Prize in Anthropology, Brown University
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 First Book Subvention, Association for Asian Studies
2011 Special Projects Grant, Australian Centre on China in the World
2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2006 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention
2000 IIE-Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, Cologne, Germany
INTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Course Development Grant for East Asian Studies 250 “Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in
East Asia,” Emory University
2014 University Research Committee Grant, Emory University
2014 Fund for Innovative Teaching Grant, Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
2013 Faculty Subvention, Emory College and Laney Graduate School
2011 Research Development Grant, University of Technology, Sydney
2010 Research Development Grant, University of Technology, Sydney
2008 Liu Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies
2005 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate Division
2005 Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley Institute for East Asian Studies
2004 Summer Research Grant, UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies
2002 Graduate Opportunity Program Multi-Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate Division
TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
INVITED LECTURES & TALKS
2014 Diversity without Difference: Rendering the Modern Rural in China’s Ethnic Tourism
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
2014
The Labor of Leisure: Reconsidering the Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
Hamilton College, Department of Anthropology Public Lecture
2014
Finding Phrases in Rural Ethnic China: Anthropological Lessons Learned from A Landscape of
Travel (2014)
Emory College Language Center Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
2013
Invited speaker in the series: “Screening Scholarship”
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
2013
“Doing Tourism” as Development in Rural, Ethnic China
Emory University, Development Studies Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
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2013
Local Media in Rural China
Emory University, Critical Media Literacy Group
2011
Peasant Family Happiness: “Doing Tourism” in Rural, Ethnic China
Macquarie University, Department of Anthropology
2011
Village Videos: The Cultural Politics of Media in Rural, Ethnic China
University of Western Sydney, Centre for Cultural Research
2011
Amateur Media and Social Transformation in Rural, Ethnic China
University of Technology, Sydney, China Research Centre
2010
A Landscape of Travel: Mobility and Visuality in Rural Southwest China
University of Sydney, Department of Anthropology
2010
Village Videos and the Cultural Politics of Media in Rural, Ethnic China
University of Southern California, Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies Center
INVITED SCREENINGS OF 农 家 乐 PEASANT FAMILY HAPPINESS
2015 Stanford University
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and History
2014
Tourism Studies Working Group, University of California, Berkeley
Screening and discussion co-sponsored by Anthropology and the Center for Chinese Studies
2013
The London School of Economics
Sponsored by the departments of International Development and Anthropology
2013
Opening Event for “Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World: ICS at 40”
Duke University, International Comparative Studies
INVITED WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
2015 Organized Chaos: Bullfighting as Cultural Heritage Production and Ethnic Practice in Guizhou
Cultural Heritage in China: Contested Understandings, Images, and Practices, Lund University
2014
Media Acts: Community Media and Participatory Visual Education at Yunfest
Chinese Film Festival Research Network Meeting, Hong Kong University
2013
Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China
Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, Brown University
2013
The Politics of Appearance: Power, Labor, and Leisure in China’s Ethnic Tourism
17th Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality, Irmgard Coninx Foundation, Berlin
2012
Independent Enough: Governing Cultural Production in China
New Mentalities of Government in China: Emerging Professions, Vocations and Associations,
University of Technology, Sydney
2012
Fieldwork, Ethnography and the Tourist Gaze
Forbidden No More: The New China in Ethnographic Film, Haverford College
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2011
Who watches this anyway? Defining a Local Market for Amateur Media in Rural China
Markets, Materiality and Consumer Practices, University of Queensland, Australia
2010
The Appearance of the Rural in China’s Tourism
The New Chinese Empire: Regionality and the Development of the State, Macau.
2010
Can you see the difference? Producing Ethnic Tourism in Chinese Media
Ethnic Tourism and the State in East Asia, Kanazawa University, Japan
2009
Village Videos and the Visual Mainstreaming of Rural, Ethnic Identity
Provincial China: Local and Provincial Media, Hefei, China.
ANNUAL ASSOCIATION MEETING PRESENTATIONS
2015 “All Together Now: Ethnic Crowds and Minority Delegates in China.” Accepted for presentation
at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver.
2015
“These Days, These Homes: Returns and Reconsiderations of Fieldwork, Footage, and
Filmmaking.” Accepted for presentation at the Visual Research Conference, Society for Visual
Anthropology, Denver.
2014
“Organized Chaos: Bullfights as Cultural Production and Ethnic Practice in Guizhou”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
2014
Screening and discussion of 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque
2013
“Precarity Alleviation: Tourism as Development in Rural, Ethnic China”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago
2013
“Video Documentary and Public Culture in Rural, Ethnic China”
European Network of Media Studies Annual Conference, Prague
2013
“Politics and the Political in Rural, Ethnic Guizhou: Tourism, the World Bank, and Upper Jidao
Village”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego
2012
“Buffalo, Wrangler, Videographer: On Bullfighting in China and its Productive Pleasures”
Part of a roundtable titled, Production: Material and Immaterial Divisions of Labor
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
2011
“The Centrality of the Periphery: Idealizing the Rural for China’s Tourism”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal
2011
“Learning by Being: Ethnic Tourism as Development in Guizhou and Guangxi”
Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference, Canberra
2011
“The People in the Picture: Video as Analysis in Ethnographic Fieldwork”
Association for Asian Studies/International Convention of Asian Scholars Conference, Honolulu
2010
“Can you see the difference? Producing and Promoting Travel Media in China”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans
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2009
“Leave the fields without leaving the farm: Modernity and Mobility in Rural China”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2009
“A Landscape of Travel: Ethnic Tourism and the Production of Distance in Rural China”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago
2008
“Picturing ‘Model Minorities:’ Power, Photography and Economy in Chinese Ethnic Tourism”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
2008
“‘You can go anywhere as a migrant, but as a tourist you need money:’ Stories of Travel by
Residents of Tourism Villages in China”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta
2007
“Looking Good in Rural China: An Ethnography of the Visual in Chinese Tourism Villages”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015 “The Ethnographer’s Video Archive: Returns to and Reconsiderations of Research Footage”
Poetics & Politics: A Documentary Research Symposium, University of California Santa Cruz
2015
“Digital Digging, Or How To Tell a Story That Ended Long Ago”
Screening Scholarship Media Festival, University of Pennsylvania
2014
“Using Tourism to Help Peasants (以游助农) in the New Socialist Countryside: The Case of
Upper Jidao, Guizhou”
China: Tradition and Transformation, a joint conference of Agnes Scott College and Emory
University, Atlanta
2014
“当代中国乡村纪录媒体与文化翻译” [Contemporary Chinese Rural Media and Cultural
Translation]
视觉人类学与当代中国文化论坛 [Visual Anthropology and Contemporary Chinese Culture],
Minzu University of China, Beijing
2014
“Looking like the Real Thing: Surface and Stereotypes in Ethnic Tourism”
In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, American Ethnological Society and Society for Visual
Anthropology Spring Meeting, Boston
2012
“Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness”
4th Emory-Nanjing Conference: Cultural Politics in the Visual, Atlanta
2012
Screening and discussion of 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness
Travel Ideals: Engaging with Spaces of Mobility, University of Melbourne
2010
“Minority Models: Power, Photography, and Economy in Chinese Ethnic Tourism”
Imaging Identity: Media, Memory, and Images of Humanity in the Digital Present, Australian
National University
2010
“Village Videos and the Visual Mainstreaming of Rural, Ethnic Identity”
In the Image of Asia: Moving Across and Between Locations, Australian National University
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TEACHING
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Undergraduate Teaching
Anthropological Perspectives: China
Concepts and Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Visual Anthropology
Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Asia
Introduction to Media Studies (Contributing Lecturer)
Graduate Seminars
Global/Local Media
Anthropology of Tourism
Ethics of Ethnography (Annual Lecture)
UC BERKELEY
Instructor, Anthropology, 2009
History and Theory of Ethnographic Film
Reading and Composition Seminar on Visual Anthropology
SERVICE
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP
Co-Editor, Visual Anthropology Review (journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology)
Apppointed for three year term (volumes 32-34) beginning Spring 2016
Manage and develop journal profile, submissions, and review process
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
2016 Executive Program Committee, American Anthropological Association
Invited member of the EPC
Assist in concept development and programming for 2016 AAA Annual Meeting
Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
SVA Film and Media Festival Co-Director, 2013 & 2014
SVA Film and Media Festival Jury Member, 2014 & 2015
Elected Board Member, 2009-2012 and 2012-2015
Chair of the SVA Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, 2014
Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-chair, 2011 & 2010
Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
Chair of the 2014 David Plath Media Award Committee
National Association of Student Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association
Elected Board Member, 2007-2009
Served as News Editor: Coordinated and solicited submissions for “Section News” column,
published monthly in Anthropology News
Tourism Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley
Co-Chair, 2007-2009
Coordinated twice-monthly colloquia and occasional symposia
Visual Anthropology Working Group, UC Berkeley
Co-Coordinator, 2003-2004
CONFERENCE & EVENT ORGANIZATION
Co-Organizer, In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2014
American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting
Assisted with coordination of plenary speakers and panel organization
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Curator and Organizer, Seeing China: The Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival, 2012
Supported by a Special Projects Grant from the Australian Centre on China in the World and the
China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney
Ten day long series of film screenings and workshops with twenty invited scholars
Co-Organizer, Symposium on Indigenous Tourism, 2008
Secured in excess of $8000 from various sources at UC Berkeley
Coordinated speakers, panel themes, and conference logistics
Planning Committee, On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory, 2005
Secured conference funding ($16,000+) from the UC Humanities Research Institute
Coordinated keynote speakers, panel themes, and conference logistics
EXTERNAL REVIEWER
Current Anthropology
American Anthropologist
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
Visual Studies
Visual Anthropology Review
American Ethnologist
Annals of Tourism Research
The China Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Social Science Research Council
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association:
American Ethnological Society, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Society for East Asian
Anthropology, Society for Visual Anthropology, Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group, and
SOYUZ-Post Socialist Research Network
Association for Asian Studies: China and Inner Asia Council
LANGUAGES
Mandarin Chinese: Excellent speaking; advanced reading; intermediate writing
German: Advanced speaking and reading; intermediate writing
MEDIA ENGAGEMENT
“Ethnic Festival Boost Tourism in Rural China”
AFP, April 2014
"A Close Look at Tourism's Impact in Rural China"
Emory eScienceCommons, February 2014
Chinese Rural Tourism
Interview on BBC World News “Impact,” aired June 5, 2013
"No Early Harvest In China's Rural Tourism Push"
Reuters, February 2007
Jenny Chio CV (September 2015)