Yan Yunxiang

Yunxiang Yan is a Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA[1]. He is known for his field work studies in Xiajia Village, Heilongjiang Province, which locates in the northeastern part of China.

Yunxiang Yan
Occupationanthropologist
Known forAnthropological studies in China
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yan.
Yan Yunxiang
Traditional Chinese閻雲翔
Simplified Chinese阎云翔

Yunxiang Yan is also a featured subject, together with Tianjian Shi and Emily Wu, in Chris Billing's 2005 documentary Up to the Mountain, Down to the Village. From 1968 onwards more than 17 million high school students and young adults were sent "up to the mountain, down to the village" (上山下乡 shang shan, xia xiang) to "learn from the peasants." In the documentary three of those youngsters revisit the remote villages to which they were sent thirty years ago.

Significant views

Yunxiang Yan noticed fewer violations of China's One-Child policy among rural populations in the 1990s who were historically resistant. He believes this change is because these rural parents, having grown up with birth planning, placed a higher value on material comforts and individual happiness compared to earlier generations[2].

Career landmarks

Publications
  • The Flow of Gifts. Stanford: University Press, 1996
  • Private Life under Socialism. Stanford: University Press, 2003
  • The Individualization of Chinese Society. Oxford & NY: Berg, 2009

Awards

References
  1. "Yunxiang Yan 阎云翔".
  2. Rodriguez, Sarah Mellors (2023). Reproductive realities in modern China : birth control and abortion, 1911-2021. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-009-02733-5. OCLC 1366057905.
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