Education

PhD 1993 , University of London;

MA 1987 (Anthropology),  Xiamen University;

BA 1985 (Anthropology) ,  Xiamen University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Sociology

Research Interests

Cultural theory

Regional research (historical ethnography of southeast and southwest China)

Religious Anthropology

Study of comparative civilizations in Europe and Asia

Courses Taught 

Undergraduate courses:

    Social Anthropology(1996-2016)

    Social Anthropology and Chinese Studies (1995-2021)

    Fieldwork(2021)

Graduate courses:

    Social Anthropology and Chinese Studies (1995）

    Selected Readings of Original Western Anthropology (1998 to present)

    Lecture on Overseas Ethnography (2007 to present)

    Symbolic Anthropology (2008 to present)

    Art Anthropology (2008 to present)

    Mythology and Anthropology (2008 to present);

    Seminar for PhD thesis (2020);

    Selected Readings of Original Anthropology (2010-2014)

    Lectures on Anthropology (2020-2021)

    Disciplinary Frontier Fields (2016)

    Reading Discussion Class·Selected Readings of Anthropology Classics (2017-2021)

    Research on the History of Anthropology at Home and Abroad (2021).

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Wang, Mingming. 2021. "Inheritance and reflection: re-study of three anthropology fieldwork sites in China’s Yunnan Province." International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology. 5(9)

Wang, Mingming. 2021. "We are one of the other." Social Sciences in China. 43(3):162-179

Wang, Mingming. 2020."On rhe Relevance of the Classic to Anthropology: Critically Re-engaging an Old Argument" Shehui, 2020,40(02):42-75. (in Chinese)

Mingming Wang. 2019. "The Construction of Academic System from the Perspective of Geography-Universal Form and Historical Timeliness." China Scocial Science Review, 4.(in Chinese)

Wang, Mingming. 2019."The Ambit of Flourishing Peace: Kang Youwei’s Perspective of Eurasian Civilizations as Seen in The Travelogue of Italy." Shehui,  3.(in Chinese)

Wang, Mingming. 2019. "Two Prefaces, to Things and Persons (2016) and Local Knowledge and Natural Hierarchy (2018)." Northwestern Journal of Ethnology.

Wang, Mingming. 2018. "The Entry of Fei Xiaotong in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory." Northwestern Journal of Ethnology, 3.(in Chinese)

Wang, Mingming. 2018. "Between Nations and the World: Marcel Mauss's Conceptualization of Civilization and Envisioning of Human Science." Shehui,  4.(in Chinese)

Wang, Mingming. 2018. "Some Turns in a 'Journey to the West': Cosmological Proliferation in an Anthropology of Eurasia", in Janet Carsten and Simon Frith (Eds.), British Academy Lectures, 2016-2017,Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wang, Mingming. 2018. "Afterword: a view from a relationist standpoint, The New Chinese Anthropology." Revue Internationale d’Anthropologie Culturelle & Sociale, Paris: de 1’université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité.

Wang, Mingming. 2017. "Some turns in a journey to the West: Cosmologicalproliferation in an anthropology of Eurasia", Journal of the British Academy, 5: 201–25