XIAOSHUO HOU, PH.D. Skidmore College·Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 [email protected]·518-580-5427 ____________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. in Sociology, Boston University Concentrations: Economic Sociology, Social Change, China Dissertation: “Capitalist Collectivism: Contradiction or Synthesis?” 2002 B.A. in English (with High Distinction), Nanjing University, China Concentration on International Business Communication TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Sociology of Development, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Organizations, China EMPLOYMENT Skidmore College, Department of Sociology and the Asian Studies Program Associate Professor, Spring 2016- (tenured since March 2018) Frances Young Tang ‘61 Chair in Chinese Studies, 2016-2021 St. Lawrence University, Department of Sociology Associate Professor (tenured), Fall 2015 Assistant Professor, Fall 2009-Spring 2015 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Sociology Visiting Assistant Professor, 2008-2009 PUBLICATIONS * designates scholarship after joining Skidmore Peer-Reviewed Book • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2014 (paperback), 2013 (hardback). Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Reviewed in The China Journal; Pacific Affairs; the Economic Sociology and Political Economy blog) Edited Volumes • John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, and Xiaoshuo Hou, eds. Forthcoming in 2020. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell.* • John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony D. Smith, and Xiaoshuo Hou, eds. 2016. The 1/11 Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, five volumes. Wiley-Blackwell.* Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters Xiaoshuo Hou and Ping Li. Forthcoming in 2019. “Whose Legitimacy? China’s Drive for Electric Vehicles. ” Sociology of Development.* • Xiaoshuo Hou and Siqi Chen. Forthcoming in 2020. “Dance with the State: The Case of a Chinese Social Service Organization.” Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, edited by Euiyoung Kim and Hiroki Miura. Lexington Books.* • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2014. “Dissecting China’s Rise: Controversies over the China Model.” China Perspectives 2014(2): 61-67. (French version: Perspectives chinoises, 2014/2: 67-74). • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2011. “From Mao to the Market: Community Capitalism in Rural China.” Theory, Culture & Society 28(2): 46-68. DOI: 10.1177/0263276410396917. Invited Journal Articles and Book Sections • Xiaoshuo Hou. Forthcoming in 2020. “The Paradox of Nationalism and Globalism: China’s Participation in Global Capitalism.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Wiley-Blackwell.* • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “East Asia.” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Volume II, pp. 637-646. Wiley-Blackwell.* • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “Market Transition.” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Vol ume III, pp. 1354 -1359. Wiley-Blackwell.* • John Stone and Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859).” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Volume V, pp. 2055-2057. Wiley-Blackwell.* • Xiaoshuo Hou and Ling Xiao. 2012. “An Analysis of the Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship in China.” Journal International de Bioéthique (International Journal of Bioethics) 23(2): 83-94. DOI: 10.3917/jib.232.0083. Review Articles and Book Reviews • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2017. Review Essay. “Exceptionalism or Universalism?: The Social and Environmental Consequences of China’s Economic Development.” ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 24(1): 151-158. DOI: 10.16995/ane.248.* • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2011. Review of Reactions to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China by Laura J. Enríquez. Contemporary Sociology 40(2): 173-175. DOI: 10.1177/0094306110396847p. 2/11 • John Stone and Xiaoshuo Hou. 2010. “Alexis de Tocqueville in the Twenty-First Century: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?” Theory and Society 39(1): 109-118. DOI: 10.1007/s11186-009-9099-z. • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2008. “The Social Meaning of Money and Intimacy,” Review of The Purchase of Intimacy by Viviana A. Zelizer. Theory and Society 37(3): 311-315. DOI: 10.1007/s11186-008-9060-6. • Xiaoshuo Hou and John Stone. 2008. “The Ethnic Dilemma in China’s Industrial Revolution” Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(4): 812-817. DOI: 10.1080/01419870801957118. • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2004. Review of Social Connections in China by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank. Journal of Asian Studies 63(4): 1101-1102. DOI: 10.1017/S0021911804002591. WORK IN PROGRESS • Xiaoshuo Hou. Young and Restless in China: Informal Economy and the Emerging Precariat.* CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND MEDIA APPEARANCES • “Fieldwork in Sociology.” Invited lecture at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, 09/23/2019. • “Dance with the State: The Case of a Social Service Organization.” Invited lecture at Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea, 12/27/2018. • “Balancing Growth and Sustainability: China’s Environmental Challenges.” Invited lecture for IA101 Introduction to International Affairs, Skidmore College, 10/23/2018. • “Doing Ethnography in China.” Invited lecture for MB351 Insight-Driven Marketing: Theory and Practice, 09/28/2018. • “The Paradox of Globalism and Nationalism: China under Xi Jinping,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Mini-conference on Globalization in Uncertain Times), 02/24/2018. • Panelist, “From the Asian Miracle to the Asian Century: A Panel Discussion on East Asia in the Global Order,” Asian Studies Program, Skidmore College, 11/15/2017. • “Greening the Economy?: The Case of Electric Vehicles in China,” invited paper presentation at the International Workshop on “Social Economy in Asia: Diversity and Common Agendas” organized by the Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea, 06/23/2017-06/24/2017. • “Trust in the Era of Food Anxiety: Selling 'Home-Made' Food Online in China,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Mini-conference on Food), 02/25/2017. 3/11 • “Community Capitalism in Rural China.” Invited lecture at SOAR North Country, 11/07/2014. • “Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism.” Talk given at the Book Publication Celebration, St. Lawrence University, 05/02/2014. • Panelist, “Supporting Faculty of Color: Teaching, Leadership, and Scholarship.” New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium Conference on Teaching, Scholarship, and Leadership: Faculty of Color in the Liberal Arts, 04/11/2014. • “Build Your Dreams: China’s Green Initiatives.” Paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 02/22/2014. • Interviewed and quoted in “‘Da Huaxi’ Kunjing: Tudi Maodun Cheng Lanluhu” (Great Huaxi’s Dilemma: Land Conflicts Have Become the Obstacle), in Chinese. Diyi Caijing Ribao (China Business News), October 8, 2013. http://www.yicai.com/news/2013/10/3036431.html. • “Eight Questions: Hou Xiaoshuo on Community Capitalism.” China Real Time Report, The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2013. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/03/21/eight-questions-hou-xiaoshou-on-community-capitalism/. Chinese version: http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20130322/rec160230.asp. • “Community Capitalism: Grassroots Institutional Innovation in China.” Invited keynote speech at the First Model UN Conference at Ogdensburg Free Academy, 03/28/2012. • “The Double Helix of China’s Rise: A Chinese Model of Development?” Paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 02/24/2012. • “Factory Girls, Rural Transformation, and Human Rights,” invited lecture for “FYP: Human Rights in China,” St. Lawrence University, 10/26/2011. • “From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus,” invited presentation at the 19th Global Chinese Elite Forum in Taiwan, July 25-August 2, 2011 (delivered in Chinese). • “All Roads Lead to Washington?: Controversies over the China Model,” invited presentation at the International Conference on Visions and Perspectives: Global Studies in the 21st Century organized by Michigan State University and Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 27-29, 2011. • “Back to the Future: Institutional Innovation in Rural China,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 03/19/2010. • “From Mao to the Market: Three Variations on a Materialist Theme,” paper presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, 08/01/2008. 4/11 • Interviewed by Erin Kutz and quoted in “You Bought What?: MIT professor researches impulse shopping pitfalls” by Bobby Cummings in The Daily Free Press, Friday, 10/05/2007. • “Capitalist Communism: A Tale of Three Chinese Villages,” presentation at the lunchtime seminar in the Department of Sociology, Boston University, 04/04/2007. • “Capitalist Communism?: The Case of Nanjie Village,” paper presentation at the International Conference on Social Science Research, Vancouver, CA, 12/2006. • Chair/Discussant of the panel “The Emerging Middle Class, Professionals, and Newly Rich,” the 8th Overseas Young Chinese Forum Annual Conference on Social Classes in Transitional China, the Center for Asian Studies at UC Irvine, May 26-28, 2016. • Guest speaker (with Prof. Tony Saich of Harvard University), “On Point” radio program on China’s sexual revolution at WBUR, Boston, MA, 12/19/2005. • “Capitalist Communists: the Future of a Paradox,” paper presentation