Selected Publications

Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. Harvard University Press, 2010.

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. University of California Press, 2008.

Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, with Edwin A. Winckler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

The Chinese Biopolitical: Facing the Twenty-First Century. New Genetics and Society 28(3), September 2009, pp. 205-222.

Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy. China Quarterly 182, June 2005, pp. 253-276.

Globalization and Population Governance in China. In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 354-372.

Science, Modernity, and the Making of China’s One-Child Policy. Population and Development Review 29(2), June 2003, pp. 163-196.

Planned Births, Unplanned Persons: “Population” in the Making of Chinese Modernity. American Ethnologist30(2),May 2003, pp. 196-215.

Fresh Winds in Beijing: Chinese Feminists Speak Out on the One-Child Policy and Women’s Lives. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26(3), Spring 2001, pp. 847-886.

The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of 20th Century Demography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(1), January 1996, pp. 26-66.

Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction (with Jiali Li). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 20(3), Spring 1995, pp. 601-641.

De-Orientalizing the Chinese Family Firm. American Ethnologist, 21(4), November 1994, pp. 742-771.

Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. American Ethnologist, 21(1), February 1994, pp. 1-30.