Helen F. Siu (Ph.D., Stanford 1981) is Professor of Anthropology and a former Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Since the 1970s, she has conducted historical and ethnographic fieldwork in South China and Hong Kong, examining socialist and post-socialist transformations, the revival of market towns, community festivals and rituals, and lately, migration and vernacular modernity. She served as an overseas member of the University Grants Committee and the Research Grant’s Council in Hong Kong for which she was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star. In the U.S. she served on the Committee for Advanced Study in China and the National Screening Committee for Fulbright awards. In 2001, she set up the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Institute promotes creative, interdisciplinary research that aims to bond scholars in major universities in North America, Europe, China and Hong Kong. She has written numerous articles and book chapters. Her monograph, edited and co-edited volumes include Mao’s Harvest: Voices of China’s New Generation (Oxford, 1983); Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution (Yale, 1989); Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals and the State (Stanford, 1990); Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China (Stanford, 1995); and Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China (U. California, 2006). Her teaching interests are historical and political anthropology, urban anthropology and global change, culture, history, power and representation.

Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277 

Office address:
Rm. 112, 10 Sachem Street
Tel: (203) 432-3680
Fax: (203) 432-3669
Email: helen.siu@yale.edu
Homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hfsiu

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