Sasha Welland (PhD 2006, UC Santa Cruz)
Research Interests:
Gender, feminist ethnography, anthropology of art, visual/expressive culture; China, East Asia, Asian America
"My current research project, Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China¹s Capital, examines the social role of visual art and competing ideas of aesthetic, cultural, and market value in reform-era China, with a particular focus on how gender shapes Chinese contemporary art worlds. This research reflects my larger concerns with how various forms of cultural expression--visual and narrative--shape social categories, such as gender, ethnicity, race, national identity, and class; and how these cultural forms are deeply enmeshed in social, political, and economic relations and struggles."
Personal Web Page: [Click Here]
Class Web Pages:
ANTH 429: Expressive Culture
ANTH 442/SISA 442/WOMEN 446: Global Asia
WOMEN 305: Feminism in an International Context
WOMEN 503: Feminist Research and Methods of Inquiry
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Selected
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2007
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"Ocean Paradise," Journal of Visual Culture 6(3): 419-435.
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2006
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A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman and Littlefield.
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2006
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"What Women Will Have Been: Reassessing Feminist Cultural Production in China," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4): 941-966.
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2004
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"On Curating 'Cruel/Loving Bodies,'" Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3(2): 17-36.
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2002
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"The Long March to Lugu Lake: A Dialogue with Judy Chicago," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 1(3): 69-75.
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2002
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"Traveling Artists, Traveling Art, Ethnographic Luggage," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 1(2): 4-12.
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