Eugene Cooper
Expert in anthropology of Chinese culture, including language, social organization, commerce and arts
Professor of Anthropology
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Contact at: (213) 740-1905, (626) 798-6835 or eugeneco@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Chinese society and culture
- Chinese family and kinship organization
- Chinese etiquette and ritual
- Chinese political economy
- Chinese rural development and industrialization
- Chinese business practices and culture
- economic policies and development in pre- and post-Mao China
- Chinese popular culture
- Chinese craft production & export
- Chinese market temple fairs
- overseas Chinese diaspora
- U.S.-China relations
- Hong Kong studies
- social organization
- anthropology of work
- urban anthropology
- American folklore
- Author of The Woodcarvers of Hong Kong (1980) and Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy (2000)
- Co-author of Readings in Anthropology (1994) and The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China (1998)
- Consultant to the business community and legal profession on Chinese habit, custom and social organization
- Member and Founding Secretary, Hong Kong Anthropological Society
- Fellow, American Anthropological Association
Foreign Languages:
Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)
More:
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http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1003180.html
http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/anth/FacultyPages/cooper.html
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