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
Xu, Jing. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Publications, Books
Xu, Jing. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Publications, Books
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
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
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
Melanie A. Martin & Michael Gurven (2021): Traditional and biomedical maternal and neonatal care practices in a rural Indigenous population of the Bolivian Amazon, Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1882531 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters
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
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
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
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
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
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
Xu, Jing. 2017. The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Publications, Books
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
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
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