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Yunxiang Yan
Department of Anthropology, co-director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
341 Haines Hall
Phone: (310) 267-4336
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http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty.php?lid=126&display_one=1
http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/people/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID=245

Research:
I am interested in how people relate to one another in both private and public contexts and I have conducted research on marriage, kinship, friendship, and social networks in rural China.

Selected Publications:

2003 Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Winner of the 2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.

1996 The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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