2012 - Mary Brown Bullock, The Oil Prince’s Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China, for The China Journal, 67: 203-4.
2008 - Amy Hanser, Service Encounters (Stanford University Press, 2008) for The China Journal, 63.
2007 - Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State (Harvard University Press, 2007), for The China Quarterly, 191: 758-759.
2006 - Jie Tang: Managers and Mandarins in Contemporary China (Routledge, 2005), for The China Journal, 55:165-167.
2001 - Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson, eds. Re Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China, for American Ethnologist, 28 (4): 942-4.
2007 - “Corruption, Social Capital, and Reasonable Practice: The Role of Tact in the Performance of Guanxi in Market Socialist China,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
2006 - “How Ordinary People Co create and Practice the Ideology of Suzhi (Quality) in Post Socialist China: The Case of Project Hope.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.
2006 - “Rehabilitating Charity” in China: The Case of Project Hope and the Rise of Non-Profit Organizations.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
2006 - “The School in the City and the City in the School: Ideological Transformations in China.” International Visual Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Urbino, Italy.
2005 - “Cadres, Getihu, and Good Businesspeople: The Social Construction of Entrepreneurs in a Early Post-Socialist China,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2005 - Panel organizer, Guanxi and Capitalism: A Comparative Analysis of Favor-Exchange Practices in Asian Economies. Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Also presented paper: “Capitalism Without Contracts Versus Capitalists Without Capitalism: Comparing the Influence of Chinese Guanxi and Russian Blat on Marketization”
2004 - “Cadres,” Getihu,” and Good Businesspeople”: The Social Construction of Entrepreneurs in a Early Post-Socialist China Society for East Asian Anthropology Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA.
2004 - “What Guanxi Can Teach Us About Capitalism,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2003 - “My Husband Stays Home”: Transnational Entrepreneurship and Marriage Relations in Harbin, China,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2002 - “Interpreting the New Business Class in Market Socialist China: The Narrative Construction of Getihu in Harbin,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
2001 - “Narratives and New Institutions: The Role of Cultural Repertoires in the Construction of Market Socialism in China.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
2000 - “Political Narratives and the Production of Legitimacy: The Case of Corruption in Post-Mao China.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
1999 - “Market Socialism and Daily Life: Searching for the Emerging Foundations of Legitimacy in the PRC.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
1999 - “Strategies for Dealing with Market Socialism on the Ground Level.” Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
1996 - “Corruption and Morality in the People's Republic of China.”American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, New York.
1995 - “Shifting Circles of Citizenship in China.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.