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Bernard Wong
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974
Office: SCI 385, Office Hours: TTH 340-440 or by appt.
Phone: (415) 338-7518, Email: bernardw@sfsu.edu
Theoretical/Topical Specialization: Ethnicity, Entrepreneurship,Transnational Migration/Immigration, Impact of Globalization on Diaspora Communities, Anthropology of Work, Kinship and Social Networks, Immigrant Families, Urban and Economic Anthropology, and Social Stratification.Geographical Areas of Specialization: China and Overseas Chinese Communities, East and Southeast Asia, North America
Teaching Experience
The University of Wisconsin – Janesville (1974-1986); San Francisco State University (1986-present).
Background
I started my anthropological studies in the Philippines under the directions of Dr. Frank Lynch and Dr. Catherine Bateson at the Ateneo de Manila University. In 1969 I came to the United States to continue my graduate training in anthropology with Dr. Arnold Strickon, Dr. Robert J. Miller and Dr. Aidan Southall at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Research
I have conducted field research in the Philippines (1967), Singapore (1978, 1995), New York City (1972, 1973, 1974), Peru (1971), Wisconsin (1979), China (1983, 1984), San Francisco (1987 1994), Silicon Valley (1998-2005), Japan (1995, 1997), and Hong Kong (1995) on a number of topics: Chinese Overseas, family, kinship, ethnicity, religion, social stratification, assimilation, immigration, ethnic entrepreneurship, work subculture, globalization and transnationalism.
On going research project: Impact of Globalization on the Overseas Chinese in Three Pacific Rim Countries: U.S., Japan and the Philippines.
Publications
1976 "Social Stratification, Adaptive Strategies and the Chinese Community
of New York" In Urban Life, Vol. 59(1):33-52
1977 "Elites and Ethnic Boundary Maintenance" In Urban Anthropology,
Vol. 6(1):001-25. Also In Urban Place and Process, New York: Macmillan
1978 "A Comparative Study of the Assimilation of
the Chinese in New York
City and Lima, Peru"
In Comparative Studies in Society and History
Vol. 20(3):335-358
1979 (book) A Chinese American Community: Ethnicity and Survival
Strategies. Singapore:Chopmen Publishers
1980a "Social Stratification in a Midwestern Town" In Proceedings of the
Third Conference on the Small City and Regional Community, Vol. 3
l980b Book review on the Wood-carvers of Hong Kong, American
Anthropologist, Vol. 63 (2)
1980c Book review on the Medical Ethics in Imperial China. American
Anthropologist, Vol. 83(2)
1982 (book) Chinatown. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
1983 Book review on Chia-ling Kuo's Social and Political Change in New
York's Chinatown and Peter Kwong's Chinatown, NY: Labor and Politics Amerasia Vol. 10(1), 1983
1984 Book review on P.M. Chang's Continuity and Change: the Chinese
Americans. International Migration Review
1985a "On the Assimilation of the Asians in the Americas." In Comparative
Studies in Society and History Vol. 27(1)
1985b "Family, Kinship and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese in Lima, Peru and
Manila, Philippines" In Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. XVI (2):231-254, Special Issue, edited by Francis L.K. Hsu and Hendrick Serrie
1986 "The Impact of Changing U.S.‑China Policies On Chinese Americans.
In Asian Profile, Vol. 14(1):1-11
1987a "The Chinese: New Immigrants in New York's Chinatown". In The
New Immigrants, Nancy Foner, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, pp 242-271.
1987b "The Role of Ethnicity in Enclave Enterprises: A Study of the Chinese
Garment Factories in New York City". Human Organization, Vol.46 (2):120-131
l988(book) Patronage, Brokerage, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese
Community of NewYork. New York: AMS Press.
1989a Book reviews on Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in
Taiwan, Hill Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l987 and A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community, David Schak, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, l988. In: American Anthropologist, March, l
1989b "Chinese in Latin America with Special Reference to the Chinese in
Peru" Journal of Overseas Chinese Studies, No.1, June l: 47- 64.
l990a A book review on Lawrence Palinka’sRhetoric and Religious
Experience: The Discourse of Immigrant Churches, Anthropological Quarterly.
l990b "Ethnicity and International Relations: A Study on the Impact of
Tiananman Incident on Chinatown" Proceeding of the Conference on the Overseas Chinese in the Pan-Pacific Area Tsukuba University, Japan
1990c "Ethnic Relations in China: the Case of the
Chinese Muslims" In The
Anthropology of War and Peace Eds. Mario Zamora, Bjorn Erring, Anthony Laruffa. Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines: Saint Mary's College
1992a "Legal Adaptation of the Chinese Americans: From Centripetal to
Centrifugal
Approaches of Conflict Management. In Anthropology of
Peace: Essays in Honor of E. Adamson Hoebel. Eds. Vivian Rohrl, M.E.R.
Nicholson and Mario Zamora. Williamsburg, VA: Society for the
Studies of Third World Societies.
1992b "Chinese Americans" In Multiculturalism in the United States: A
Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity Eds. John Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner. New York: Greenwood Press.
1992c "Ethnicity and Family Business: Chinese Family Firms in the San
Francisco Bay Area". Family Business Review, Vol V., No. 4. Co-authored with Becky McReynolds and Wynnie Wong.
1993a "Anciens et Nouveaus Migrants Chinois" (in French). Hommes &
Migrations. February- March, 1993.
1993b "China and the Chinese Americans" In Continuity and Change in
Overseas Chinese Community in the Pan-Pacific Area. Proceedings of Symposium. Eds. Tsuneo Ayabe and Masaki Onozawa. February, 1993.
1994 "Hong Kong Immigrants in San Francisco"
In Reluctant Exiles?
Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese. Ed. Ronald Skeldon. New York: M.E, Sharpe. (This work had been translated into Japanese).
1995a A Review Essay on Asian Americans by Sucheng Chan; Chinatown
by Min Zhou; and Chinatown: Most Time, Hard Time, Edited by Chalsa M.Loo. Published in the Journal of American Ethnic History. Vol. 14, Number 3, Spring 1995.
1995b A Book Review on Charles J. McClain's In Search of Equality: The
Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Published in American Historical Review, December, 1995
1996 "The Global Economy and the Chinese Immigrants." In Chinese
Experience in North America. Published by Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
1997a (book) Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship: The New Chinese
Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
1997b “Global Migration Movement, Ethnicity and
Economic Adaptation of
the Chinese Overseas.” In: Contemporary Diaspora: A Focus on Asian Pacific. Monograph Paper No.3, Vol. 2. Los Angeles: The Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California.
1997c The Chinese In: Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Culture.
Macmillan Library Reference, U.S.A.
1997d “The Chinese in New York City: Kinship and Immigration”
In: The Overseas Chinese: Ethnicity in National context” Eds.
Francis L, K. Hsu and Hendrick Serrie. New York: University Press of America.
1998 "Transnationalism and New Chinese Immigrant Families in the United
States".Selected Papers on Refugee and Immigrant Issues, Vol 6.
Arlington: American Anthropological Association.
2000 (book)
Family, Kin and Community: A Contemporary Reader.
Des Moines: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
2001(book) Family, Kin and Community: A Contemporary Reader
(Revised Edition). Des Moines: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
“The Role of Kinship in the Economic Activities of the Chinese in the Philippines. In Family, Kin and Community: A Contemporary Reader. (Revised Edition) Bernard Wong, Ed. Des Moines: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
2001 "From Laundry to High-Tech: The Chinese in
the San Francisco Bay
Area". In Manifest Destinies. David Haines and Carol Mortland, Eds. Praeger Publishing.
2002 San Francisco. In Encyclopedia of Urban Culture. Ember and
Ember. Editors. Grolier.
2003 A book review of Surviving the City:The Chinese Immigrant
Experience in New York City, 1890-1970. By Xinyang Wang. The China Quarterly, Vol. 173, March 2003, pp.241-242
1994-2006 Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Edited by
Bernard Wong. 6 Issues have been completed and published.
2004 A book review on Kenneth Guest’s God in Chinatown: Religion and
Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community. American Anthropologist 106, no.4 (December 2004).
2005 The Chinese Diaspora. In Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to
Present. Edited by Matthew Gibney and Randall Hansen. Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO.
2005 Chinese Cuisine and Chinese Restaurants
in America: An
Anthropological Study. In Chinese Cuisine around the World. Published In Japanese. Edited by Makio Morikawa. Tokyo: Bensey Publishing Inc.
2006 (Book) Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks
and Ethnic Identity. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
2007 “Immigration, Globalization and the Chinese American Families”. In
Immigrant Families in America. Edited by Lansford, Deater-Deckard and Bornstein. New York: Guilford Publications.
2007 “From Sojourners to Luo Di Sheng Gen: Globalization and Localization
of the Chinese Americans”. Journal of Chinese Overseas Studies. No. 4, 2007.
2008 “Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley” In
Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States. Edited by Deborah Reed-Danahay and Caroline Brettell. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Academic Honors
Member of 13 professional Societies (selected listing).
Chair of Anthropology Department (SFSU, 1991-94).
Fellow of American Anthropological Association;
Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology;
Chair of Membership and Board Director, Society for Urban, Transnational and National Anthropology (1999-2001);
Member of Steering Committee of the Society of East Asian Anthropology (1998-2000)
Papers presentation (selected listing):
Presented more than 40 professional papers at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, International Society for the Study of Overseas Chinese, Association for Asian studies and at institutions of higher learning’s which included, among others, the University of Wisconsin, Keio University (Japan), Yonsei University (Korea), Institute of Migration and Entrepreneurship Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Tsukuba University, UC-Berkeley and UCLA, University of Singapore.
Plenary Speaker for the Canadian Metropolis Meetings (2006), Plenary Speaker for the International Conference sponsored by the Incheon Metropolitan Museum (2006), Keynote Speaker for Japan Society for the Study of Overseas Chinese (2006). Selected to be a Distinguished speaker for the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2009), Plenary Speaker of the Asian-Pacific Conference (2008) of Ritsumekan University of Japan ... etc. Invited Speaker for the Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009), Invited Speaker for the Hong Kong Anthropological Society and the Hong Kong Historical Museum (2009)
As Academic Consultant and Reviewer for the following:
Reviewer for Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Reviewer for Grant Proposals, National Science Foundation, Reviewer for Grant Proposals, Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation; External Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure for various universities around the world; Reviewer for Academic Programs, California State University at Long Beach; External Reviewer for San Jose State University’s Anthropology Department; Reviewer for American Anthropologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Urban Anthropology ; Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Overseas Chinese
Website
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