Anthropologist & author of "The Good Child" (Stanford U Press 2017) & " 'Unruly' Children" (Cambridge U Press, 2024): China, child development, culture & cognition, morality, education, family https://sites.google.com/view/jingxu/homehttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3m7sfpe6zyk2qNew publication: I’m happy to contribute an article on human/AI morality and ethnographic sense-making, through the lens of children’s play, to the inaugural issue, “Cultures of AI Interdisciplinarity,” of Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! https://doi.org/10.1017/cfc.2025.10008 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society/article/reading-childrens-moral-dramas-in-anthropological-fieldnotes-a-humanai-hybrid-approach/66341B0CAC7E8192FD1F3CA3E8BE106F12 Dec 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7sfpe6zyk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lyl7jvyo2s2uOur new publication @amanthro.bsky.social, interview with Mun Young Cho, on youth precarity, poverty, and inequality in China, South Korea and the responsibility and value of anthropology https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.7002311 Sep 2025 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyl7jvyo2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3ls2gxg42rc2fLooking forward to this online event on Saturday June 28th (in Mandarin), to discuss my book with Yunxiang Yan (UCLA), Shao-hua Liu (Academia Sinica), and Xiaojun Zhang (Tsinghua). Our discussion will be moderated by Fei Yan (Tsinghua). Zoom #: 919-4243-1528, link: mcmaster.zoom.us/j/9194243152820 Jun 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls2gxg42rc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3loqul5k5rs2dSo happy to be part of this unique book project! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqul5k5rs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lgdw7rvlys2hNew Books Network interview about my book (“Unruly” Children @cambridgeup.bsky.social): magical encounters (缘分), when the ethnographic past comes to the ethnographic present via technologies of the future. Really enjoyed the conversation with the host Yadong Li. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-network/id477719156?i=100068496763922 Jan 2025 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgdw7rvlys2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lfuvsdxqkk2cOur first interview, as associate editors for @amanthro.bsky.social “World Anthropologies” section, featuring the unconventional journey and work of Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros. We talked about traversing different worlds, language, gender, etc.: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.2803916 Jan 2025 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfuvsdxqkk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lfq4omuvec24看见“作为认知主体的儿童”，my short end-of-year review essay for the Chinese magazine “The Thinker.” https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aaLOy6gsRN3QL8t_29Rc7g14 Jan 2025 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfq4omuvec24https://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3ldra4y7hl223My friend Yang Zhan and I hosted a Wenner-Gren workshop in Hong Kong: “Precarity & Urgency: Debating the future of China anthropology”. A rare opportunity to bring scholars together from all around the world, especially half of our participants being Chinese scholars based in mainland institutions.20 Dec 2024 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldra4y7hl223https://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lcoejpw7b22ehttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YntH6oISeH2myhLBPfy6Gg Next Monday afternoon (Dec. 9th, Beijing time), virtual book talk at my Alma mater Tsinghua University! Looking forward to reconnecting with friends and colleagues! 北京时间下周一下午三点，连线清华人类学宣讲新书，期待与老师朋友们相聚！06 Dec 2024 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcoejpw7b22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbl2xzpxek2mMy new book, “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village, is published by Cambridge University Press. It simultaneously traces children’ active learning of morality and reconstructs an ethnography from a rare and unique set of fieldnotes. cup.org/409liB2 https://cup.org/409liB222 Nov 2024 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbl2xzpxek2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbktye5uos2qI had the opportunity to interview Barry and Bonnie Hewlett, two anthropologists who had made great contribution to the study of Hunter-gatherer childhood: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/hgr.2024.20?download=true22 Nov 2024 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbktye5uos2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbktrsmv4k2qIntroduce our recent article about understanding contemporary Chinese society via humor, in American Anthropologist: “Can anthropologists get humor?”: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13980 It marks the beginning of a new project: critical reflections on knowledge production through collaboration https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.1…22 Nov 2024 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbktrsmv4k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbktiqvcos2qI had the opportunity to write a commentary for the journal Global Networks’ special issue on East Asian childhood and migration: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.1251222 Nov 2024 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbktiqvcos2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbktffdymk2qHere’s our new editorial piece for “World Anthropologies” section, as Associate Editors for the journal American Anthropologist: “Seeking clarity at a time of confusion”: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.2802222 Nov 2024 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbktffdymk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jing-xu.bsky.social/post/3lbg57iw46c25My book talk at UW Taiwan Studies Program, on the official publication date of "Unruly" Children (Cambridge University Press, 2024), in front of pioneers in my field, including Profs. Hill Gates, Stevan Harrell, John Shepherd, Rob Weller, David Jordan, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdI2ZkGS-vg20 Nov 2024 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:7e2ushc575geygbay537rb4s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbg57iw46c25