Bingxiang Zhu, senior professor of Wuhan University, doctoral supervisor, Director of Institute of Anthropology, is the former dean of Department of Sociology of WHU and also the founder of MA programme of Anthropology of the college, majoring in Cultural Anthropology.
Research Interests
My research generally focuses on Cultural Anthropology, while the topics specifically differed. Starting with the concept ‘phylogeny of Culture’ I suggested in the early times with the publications of four monograph series, I turned to Anthropology study since the 1990s. I have conducted most of my field research with Yi people, Bai people and Tujia people, especially in Zhoucheng, a village of Bai people in Dali, where I have done 700 days’ field work in total.
Since 2011, under my reflection of Scientific Ethnography and Postmodern Ethnography of internationally Anthropological views, I am exploring to create and construct a new pattern of ethnography, Subjective Ethnography.
Publications
Reflection and Reconstruction: on "Subjective Ethnography", Ethno-national Studies, 2011(03):12-24.
Revisiting Subjective Ethnography: The Paradigm Shift of Ethnography and the Inquiry on Its Self-Evident Basis, Ethno-national Studies, 2013(03):60-72.
The Third Essay on Subjective Ethnography : Out of the Crisis of Representation, Ethno-national Studies, 2014(02):39-50.
AMicroscaleExperimentofTriplexNarrativeofSubjectiveEthnography:The Naked Presentation of a Bai People's Religious Beliefs and Its Interpretationand Reflection, Ethno-national Studies, 2015(01)58-71.
