Dr. Sum\u2019s research examines changing understandings about moral personhood and responsible citizenship in contemporary China. She works with both elite university students in the urban south and Mosuo (Na) youth in China\u2019s southwestern borderlands to investigate how expressions of national belonging and civic participation evolve in the late-socialist economy.<\/p>\n
Morality, Identity and Belonging, Emotions, Kinship, Citizenship, Civil Society, Socialism, China<\/p>\n
Anthropology, Gender, Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Education, China, East Asia<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond romantic partnerships:\u00a0Sese,\u00a0<\/i>gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society,\u201d with Tami Blumenfield and Siobh\u00e1n M. Mattison (book chapter, forthcoming)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China<\/a>,\u201d with Tami Blumenfield, Mary K. Shenk, and Siobhan M. Mattison, Modern China<\/i>\u00a048.3 (2022): 568\u2013592 (doi:10.1177\/00977004211017814)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPolitics of Indifference: Mourning Wang Yue in Late Socialist China<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory<\/i>\u00a011.3 (2021): 986\u2013999 (doi: 10.1086\/717569)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFrom Water to Tears: Extracurricular Activities and the Search for Substance in China\u2019s Universities,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Children\u2019s Geographies<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>16.1 (2018):15\u201326 (doi:<\/span>10.1080\/14733285.2017.1380166)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA Great Leap of Faith: Limits to China\u2019s University Cities,\u201d\u00a0Urban Studies<\/i>\u00a055.7 (2018):1460\u201376 (doi: 10.1177\/0042098017716845)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSuffering and Tears: Authenticity and Student Volunteerism in Post-Reform China,\u201d\u00a0Ethos<\/i>\u00a045.3 (2017): 409\u201329 (doi: 10.1111\/etho.12172)<\/span><\/p>\n