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Curriculum Vitae MA, Jianxiong 2016 Mailing Division of Humanities Address The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, N.T. Hong Kong E-mail hmjxm@ust.hk Phone 2358 7766 (Office phone) Areas of Research Ethnicity, Kinship, Anthropology of Borderland, Ethnic Minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia. Education 2002-2007 PhD (Social Science), Division of Social Science, HKUST. Thesis title: The Collapse of Social Life: Marginalization and Exit among the Lahu Minority in Southwest China. 1998-2000 MPhil (Social Science), Division of Social Science, HKUST. Thesis title: Ghosts, Gods, and Pirates: Local Elite and Popular Religion in South China. 1994-1997 MA (Ethnology), Yunnan Nationalities University. Thesis title: The Spiritual World of the Lahu: Social Transformation and Modernization. 1987-1991 BA (Library Science), Yunnan University. Appointments 2013 - present Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, HKUST (in Chinese Anthropology with special emphasis on South China). 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University. 2014-2015 Research Scholar on East Asian Ethnic Polities, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. 2008- 2013 Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, HKUST (in Chinese Anthropology with special emphasis on South China). 2011-present Research Fellow, the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Sun Yat Set University Center for Historical Anthropology. 2008-2010 As