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Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 123
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-1905
E-mail: eugeneco@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~eugeneco/
Research
Chinese Civilization; Contemporary China; Chinese Folk Custom; Overseas Chinese Diaspora; Economic Anthropology/Political Economy; Marriage, Family and Kinship; Peasant Society; Rural Development; Anthropological Theory; Popular Culture; American Folklore. Qianxiang Township
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Bio
"Gene" Cooper earned the Ph. D. in Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Columbia University in 1976. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh, and Hong Kong University before arriving at USC in 1980. His most recent research is on the market temple fairs of Jinhhua municipality, Zhejiang province, China.
Expertise in the following fields:
Chinese Civilization; Contemporary China; Chinese Folk Custom; Overseas Chinese Diaspora; Economic Anthropology/Political Economy; Marriage, Family and Kinship; Peasant Society; Rural Development; Anthropological Theory; Popular Culture; American Folklore.
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Education
Ph. D. Columbia University 1976
Department of Anthropology
Certificate Columbia University 1976
East Asian Institute
B.A., State University of New York 1968
Magna Cum Laude Buffalo
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Recent Publications
2000 Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy: a meta-anthropological saga.
New York: Nova Science Publishers.
1998 The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
1994 with Andrei Simic, Reader in Anthropology.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishers.
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Courses Taught
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Awards and Honors
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Professional Memberships
Fellow, American Anthropological Association 4/76 - present
Member, Association of Asian Studies 5/74 - present
Member, Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 4/78 - present
Founding Secretary, Hong Kong Anthropological Society 5/78 - 6/80
Member, Hong Kong Anthropological Society 5/78 - present
Member, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California 4/83 - present
(Executive Board member 6/88 – 6/00)
Chair, Historic Research and Preservation 9/89 - present
Committee of the Chinese Historical Society
Member, Friends of Chinatown Library of 5/84 - present
Los Angeles (Board member 6/88 - 6/91)
Member, Asia Society, Los Angeles Center 9/87 - present
El Pueblo State Historic Park,
Chinese American Museum Advisory Board 10/84 - present
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