Thematic Interests and Regional Focus

Urban China 

Anthropologie of Morality, Anthropology of Affect and Emotion, Phenomenology 
Therapeutic Culture & Self-Improvement, Embodiment, Value and Virtue, Sport

Courses

Summer 2025:

MA SM3 Transnational Psychology and the Construction of the Emotional Self

BA AM3/4 Self-Development and Social Change

1. Selected Publications

2024. "Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion". American Ethnologist 52(1): 64-67. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13380

2024. "The Dao of Happiness in Contemporary China: On the Encompassing Meanings and Affects of 'Xingfu'". China Perspectives 139: 81-90. 
https://doi.org/10.4000/130gv

2024. "The psychological imagination of the social in contemporary China". Emotions and Society (early view). 
https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y2024D000000026

2024. Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach. Ed. by Gil Hizi. Amsterdam University Press 

2024. “Learning to xinshang (appreciate): Young adults' pursuit of non-standardized sensibilities", in Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach, edited by Gil Hizi, Amsterdam University Press