Xu, J. 2024. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press.
Xu, J. 2017. The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press. 许晶，2021，《培养好孩子：儿童与道德发展》，祝宇清译，许晶审校，“薄荷实验”系列，上海：华东师范大学出版社。
Xu, Jing* & Jose Hernandez. Forthcoming. 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.
Xu, Jing & Yang Zhan* eds. Under review. Special Collection on China Anthropology, Social Analysis.
Xu, Jing. Seeing Children As Cognitive Agents. LOGOS Review. Inaugural Issue. (in Simplified Chinese). 许晶.《看见作为认知主体的儿童》，《汉语学志》第一期，教育特刊.
Cho, Mun Young, Yang Zhan*, and Jing Xu. 2025. “ “We Are All Implicated”: An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho.” American Anthropologist 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.70023
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
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
Woldekiros, Helina, Jing Xu & Yang Zhan. 2025. Bridging worlds: An interview with Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28039
Hewlett, Barry, Bonnie Hewlett & Jing Xu. 2024. Interview with Bonnie and Barry Hewlett: Encountering children in the field. Hunter Gatherer Research, 8 (1-2). (full text here)
Zhan, Yang & Jing Xu* (equal authorship). 2024. Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through World Anthropologies. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28022 (full text here)
Xu, Jing. 2024. Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests. Global Networks. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12512 (full text).
Xu, Jing & Yang Zhan* (equal authorship). 2024. Can Anthropologists Get Humor? A Collaborative Experiment on Empathetic Knowing at a Time of Predicaments. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13980 (open-access)
Zhining Sui, Qinyan Wang, and Jing Xu*. 2024. Modeling children’s moral development in postwar Taiwan through naturalistic observations preserved in historical texts. Scientific Reports, 14, 9140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59985-6 (open-access, link to pdf).
An, Mengzhu, Jing Wang, Jing Xu and Wei Ye (equal authorship). 2024. Finding Wang Tonghui: The Life & After-life of a Pioneer Female Chinese Anthropologist. Feminist Anthropology. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fea2.12139 (open access).
许晶, 2023. 《重新发现“儿童”： 对武雅士和卢蕙馨经典田野资料再阐释》，《社会学评论》, 第5期，65-88页. (full text)
Sheina Lew-Levy, Wouter van den Bos, Kathleen Corriveau, Natália Dutra, Emma Flynn, Eoin O'Sullivan, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Bruce Rawlings, Marco Smolla, Jing Xu, Lara Wood. 2023. Peer Learning and Cultural Evolution. Child Development Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12482 (open access).
Xu, Jing. 2022. Learning Morality with Siblings: The Untold Tale of a Mid-Twentieth Century Taiwanese Family. Journal of Chinese History. doi:10.1017/jch.2021.31 (full text here)
Xu, Jing. 2022. "Middle-aged Old Mothers" in China: Childrearing Anxiety, Humor and the Narrative Self. Ethos. DOI: 10.1111/etho.12327 (full text here)
许晶，2021，《文化、认知与儿童发展：跨学科研究之旅》，《清华社会学评论》，第11辑，第2期。（full text）
许晶，2020，《道德从何而来：心理认知人类学视野下的儿童道德发展研究》，《社会学评论》，8（4）(See link to full text)。
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 (full text here)
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 9(1): 180-208. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ach.2020.0003 (full text here)
Xu, Jing. 2019. Learning “Merit” in a Chinese Preschool: Bringing the Anthropological Perspective to Understanding Moral Development. American Anthropologist 121 (3): 655-666. DOI:10.1111/aman.13269 (full text here)
Xu, Jing, Lucie Saether, & Jessica Sommerville. 2016. Experience Facilitates the Emergence of Sharing Behavior among 7.5 Month-Old Infants. Developmental Psychology 52(11): 1732-1743. (full text here)
Chevalier, C., Xu, J., Adachi, K., Van der Henst, J-B, & Baumard, N. 2015. Preschoolers’ Understanding of Merit in two Asian Societies. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0114717. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114717. (full text here)
Xu, Jing. 2014. Becoming a Moral Child amidst China’s Moral Crisis: Preschool Discourse and Practices of Sharing in Shanghai. Ethos (2): 222-242. (full text here) (Winner of 2013 Condon Prize in Society for Psychological Anthropology and paper reported here: https://newrepublic.com/article/117420/raising-children-china-amid-moral-crisis)
Boyer, P, Lienard, P, & Xu, J. Cultural Differences in Investing in Others and in the Future: Why Measuring Trust Is not Enough. PloS One, 7(7), e40750-e40750. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040750. (full text here)
许晶. 2006. On the Narrative Crisis of Anthropology from the Perspective of “Representation”, Guangxi Ethnicity Studies (3): 46-54. (In Chinese) （许晶，《从“Representation”看人类学“表述危机”》，《广西民族研究》第3期，46-54页。）
许晶. Impact Analysis of HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care Program among MSM (Men Who Have Sex With Men) in Yunnan and Sichuan Provice. Chinese Journal of AIDS & STD, 12 (3): 231-232, 215. (In Chinese) （许晶，《云南四川省男同性恋人群项目干预效果评估》，《中国艾滋病性病》第12卷3期, 231-232，215页。）
Xu, J. 2025. (chapter coordinator). Negotiating Fieldwork Challenges: Voices from the Field. In Sheina Lew-Levy and Stephen Asatsa (eds), A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0440
Xu, J. 2025. (chapter contributor). A History of Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning. In Sheina Lew-Levy and Stephen Asatsa (eds), A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0440
Xu, J. 2025. (chapter contributor). Research Methods: A Collage. In Sheina Lew-Levy and Stephen Asatsa (eds), A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0440
Xu, J. 2024. Learning Moral Norms: “Cultural Models” in Children’s Eyes. In Giovanni Bennardo, Victor de Munck, Stephen Chrisomalis, eds., Cognition in and out of the Mind: Cultural Models Theory. Palgrave-McMillan, pp 321–342. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48181-9_13
Xu, J. Forthcoming. Children at the Margins: Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives about Mid-20th Century Chinese Childhoods. In Isabella Jackson & Yushu Geng eds., Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History. Routledge.
Xu, J., Kubler, C., Naftali, O. and Huang, F. 2022. Children and Parenting. In Kehoe, S. and Wielander, G. (eds.) Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.
Chapin, B., Xu, J. Children in Social Change: Socialization and the Shifting Contexts of Childhood. In Edward Lowe ed., Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology, Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
Xu, J. 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.
Xu, J., & Xiaojun Zhang. 2007. Practice of Love: Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care, in Xiaojun Zhang ed., Cultural Challenges: Localized Thinking of Cultural Globalization and Human Development, pp.155-176. Hong Kong: China Social Science Documentation Press. (In Chinese). （许晶、张小军，《爱的实践：艾滋病防治中的社会性别主流化》， 张小军主编， 《文化的挑战——文化全球化和社会发展的本土思考》，115-176页，香港：中国世纪出版集团。）
Xu, J. 2025. Review of Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods by Meghanne Barker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Children and Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.13007
Xu, J. 2020. Review of Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today by Paul Willis. UK: Polity Press. China Review International. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/760956
Xu, J. 2019. Review on Doing Feildwork in China ... with Kids! The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic of China with kids. Edited by Candice Cornet and Tami Blumenfield. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press. Asian Anthropology.
Xu, J. 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.
Xu, J. 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.
Xu, J. 2015. Review on Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens by Orna Naftali. Palgrave Macmillan. The China Journal (74): 219-221.
G. W. Skinner. Stevan Harrell & William Lavely eds., Chen, B. trans., Xu, J. review & revise (trans.), Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950. Zhonghua Shuju. Forthcoming. (In Chinese).（施坚雅著， 郝瑞、雷伟立编，陈波译，许晶审校，《解放前夕的中国乡村：四川田野笔记，1949-1950》，中华书局。）
Xu, J. 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/
Xu, J. 2011. Calamity and Harmony in China: Remembering and Forgetting of Children’s Deaths in Sichuan Earthquake, Anthropology News, 52 (6): S51-S164.