Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Sui, Z., Wang, Q. & Xu, J. Modeling children’s moral development in postwar Taiwan through naturalistic observations preserved in historical texts. Scientific Reports 14, 9140 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59985-6 Publications, Articles Children, Computational Methods, Demography, East Asian, Ethnography, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Statistics
Xu, Jing. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Publications, Books Children, Computational Methods, Cultural Anthropology, Culture, East Asian, Epistemology, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Publications, Books Children, Cultural Anthropology, Demography, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2023. Re-discovering "the Child": A Re-interpretation of Arthur & Margery Wolf's Classic Fieldnotes. Sociological Review of China, no.9: 65-88. In Chinese. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Computational Methods, East Asian, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, History, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods
Xu, Jing. 2022. "The Moral Child": Anthropological Perspectives on Moral Development in China, in Ryan Nichols ed., The Routledge International Handbook of Morality, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior in China. Routledge, pp.193-214. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Cultural Anthropology, Culture, East Asian, Education, Social Change, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Sociocultural Anthropology
Glass, D., Geerkens, Joy., & Martin, Melanie. (2022). Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: A systematized review. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1-53. doi:10.1017/ehs.2022.24 Publications, Reviews Biological Anthropology, Children, Demography, Ecology
Xu, Jing. 2020. The Mischievous, the Naughty and the Violent in a Taiwanese Village: Peer Aggression Narratives in Arthur P. Wolf's "Child Interview" (1959). Cross-Currents: East Asia Culture and History Review (33). https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-33/xu Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Cultural Anthropology, East Asian, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, History, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2020. Tattling (Gaozhuang) with Chinese Characteristics: Norm Sensitivity, Moral Anxiety, and the “Genuine Child”. Ethos 48(1): 29-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etho.12262 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, History, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2019. Learning "Merit" in a Chinese Preschool: Bringing the Anthropological Perspective to Understanding Moral Development. American Anthropologist. doi: 10.1111/aman.13269 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2018.Review on Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School by Mette Halskov Hansen. University of Washington Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24: 646-647. Publications, Reviews Children, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Social Change, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2018.The Good Child: How do Culture and Mind Intersect in Moral Development in China? Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/06/27/culture-and-mind-in-moral-development-in-china/ Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters, Reviews Children, Cultural Anthropology, Culture, East Asian, Field Research Methods, Social Change, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2017. Review on The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai. Stanford University Press. Journal of Anthropological Research 73(2): 351-352. Publications, Reviews Children, East Asian, Education, Social Change
Xu, Jing. 2017. The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Publications, Books Children, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Qualitative Methods, Research Methods, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing, Saether, L., & Sommerville, J. 2016. Experience Facilitates the Emergence of Sharing Behavior among 7.5 Month-Old Infants. Developmental Psychology 52(11): 1732-1743. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children
Xu, Jing. 2015. Review on Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens by Orna Naftali. Palgrave Macmillan. The China Journal (74): 219-221. Publications, Reviews Children, Cities, Cultural Anthropology, East Asian, Education, Social Change, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2014. Becoming a Moral Child amidst China’s Moral Crisis: Preschool Discourse and Practices of Sharing in Shanghai. Ethos (2): 222-242. (Winner of 2013 Condon Prize in Society for Psychological Anthropology) Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Cities, Cultural Anthropology, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Research Methods, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing* & Jose Hernandez. 2025. Reading Children’s Moral Dramas in Anthropological Fieldnotes: A Human-AI Hybrid Approach. For the Inaugural Issue “Cultures of AI Interdisciplinarity,” Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society. 1, e6. doi:10.1017/cfc.2025.10008.  Publications, Articles Children, East Asian, Epistemology, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Sociocultural Anthropology
Kornbluh, M., Amador, R., Bell, S., Neal, J. W., Simpson, S. B., Corbett, B., Corriveau, K., Flynn, E., McShane, C., Scholz, C., Wood, L., Xu, J., & Dautel, J. (2025). Exploring Facilitators and Disruptors of Polarization During Adolescence Within Contested Settings: A Case Study of Catholic and Protestant Youth in Northern Ireland. Journal of Adolescent Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584251344215 Publications, Articles Children, Identity, Qualitative Methods
Wen, N., D, Amir, J. Clegg, H. Davis, N. Dutra, M. Kline, S. Lew-Levy, T. MacGillivray, P. Gairan, Y. Wang, J. Xu, & B. Rawlings. Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement. Evolutionary Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.3  Publications, Articles Children, Ethnography, Research Methods
Hewlett, Barry, Bonnie Hewlett & Jing Xu. 2024. Interview with Bonnie and Barry Hewlett: Encountering children in the field. Hunter Gatherer Research, 8 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2024.20 Publications, Articles African, Children, Ethnography, Evolution