My research projects are largely centered on the politics of visual representation, documentary media, and ethnicity in contemporary China. I completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology at UC Berkeley in May 2009. My dissertation explores the consequences of mobility and visuality in rural, ethnic minority tourism villages in China. I am also producing a film about the villages I studied (titled Nong Jia Le: Peasant Family Happiness). Now I am starting a new project on media commercialization, ethnicity, and contemporary Chinese society as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney. Ph.D. Dissertation Landscape of Travel: Tourism, Media, and Identity in Southwest China Fieldwork in China funded by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, and the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley, and supported by Yunnan University, Kunming, China Press on rural tourism in Upper Jidao: "No Early Harvest In China's Rural Tourism Push" by Ben Blanchard, Reuters 2007 M.A. Thesis (digital video) Film the People: National minorities in ethnographic films in the People’s Republic of China, 1957-1966 Watch the film here Footage and access supported by Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Institute for Knowledge and Media Screened at the 2004 Goettingen International Ethnographic Film Festival and the 2005 Royal Anthropological Institute International Film Festival B.A. Honors Thesis Now Exhibiting: Self-Representation and Community Identity in Native American Museums Supported by the Department of Anthropology, Brown University Fieldsites included Plimoth Plantation and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center |  A farmer works in terraced fields, Ping'an village, 2007. Copyright Jenny Chio 2008 |
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