Xianghong Feng
(she/her/hers)
Education
- Ph.D., Washington State University, 2008
Interests and Expertise
- Political economy
- Social power and cultural scale
- Economic growth and social inequality
- Mobility and individualization
- Tourism development and sustainability
- The Miao (Hmong)
- Kinship and gender
- Handicraft
- Ritual and belief
- Comparative cultural study between China and the US
Professional
Xianghong Feng is a sociocultural anthropologist. She worked as a journalist for national newspapers and a magazine in Beijing, China, before she came to the US for doctoral training in anthropology. Her current research interests are in tourism analysis regarding economic growth, social inequality, scale, space, gender, everyday resistance and their dialectical relationships with power. She has been conducting ethnographic research in Fenghuang in West Hunan of China since 2002, and in Upper Langde Miao Village in Guizhou of China since 2018. She infuses her passion for journalism into anthropology, and enjoys the adventures in the field. She loves traveling, photographing, videotaping and reading and writing stories. She has published peer-reviewed articles in journals including Human Organization, Anthropology of Work Review, Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Tourism Tribune (旅游学刊), Asian Anthropology, Journal of Northwest Anthropology, and Studies on Asia. Her other publications include research essays, book reviews and ethnographic photos appearing in American Ethnologist, The Journal of Asian Studies, Tourism Tribune, Anthropology News, and SfAA News. She also published an ethnographic monograph, Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China. Engaged in public anthropology, She recently published two ethnography-based research articles by The Paper (澎湃新闻), one of China's leading digital media outlets.
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]