Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Xu, Jing. 2024. "Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests." Global Networks. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12512. Publications, Articles
Xu, Jing. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Publications, Books
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
Xu, Jing. 2022. "Middle-aged Old Mothers" in China: Childrearing Anxiety, Humor and the Narrative Self. Ethos. DOI: 10.1111/etho.12327 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. 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. 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