Publications of Biao Xiang
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Journal Article (64)
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Xiang, Biao. 2025. Double alienation: regrounding critical consciousness in troubling times. Inter-Asian Cultural Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2025.2549632.
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Xiang, Biao. 2025. Comment on Tina Shrestha "Infrastructural mediation and vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia labor migration". Current Anthropology 66(4): 468–469. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/736932.
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Xiang, Biao. 2025. Channels and logistical power: making a ‘perfect market’ under authoritarian rule in China. Theory, Culture and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251343305.
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Xiang, Biao. 2025. 构建数字时代的文化新秩序 [Reconstructing the cultural order in the digital age]. 全球传媒学刊 [Global Journal of Media Studies] 12(3): 1–2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26599/GJMS.2025.9330026.
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Xiang, Biao. 2025. 人重新站在大地上：“附近” 的 保守和热情 [I stand anew on the ground: the conservativism and the enthusiasm]. 福建论坛 [Fujian Tribune] 2025(3): 87–105.
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Lems, Annika, Danaé Leitenberg, and Biao Xiang. 2025. Losing one’s place in the world: rethinking alienation as a diagnostic for our time. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 26(5): 761–780. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2025.2549631.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2025. 关于承认的两种模式:认得与认可 [Two modes of recognition: Rende (recognition-as-understanding) and Renke (Recognition-as-approval)]. 当代青年研究 [Contemporary Youth Research] 2025(4): 1–22.
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Xiang, Biao. 2024. (Im)mobility infrastructure: a 21st-century dystopia? Applied Mobilities 9(4): 392–397. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2024.2343541.
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Xiang, Biao. 2024. Brutaler Moralismus: eine globale Perspektive auf den Extremismus. Asien 166(167): 93–97.
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Xiang, Biao, (tran.). 2023. Chinesische Migration und soziale Reproduktion. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 26-27: 48–54.
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Xiang, Biao. 2023. Transnational migration in an era of power contestation. Baltic Rim Economies (1): 30–31.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2023. The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the southern left. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 24(1): 174–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156130.
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Xiang, Biao. 2023. Logistical power and logistical violence: lessons from China's COVID experience. Journal of Contemporary East Asia studies 12(1): 315–330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2023.2285022.
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Xiang, Biao, , , , , , , , , and . 2023. Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty. Geopolitics 28(4): 1632–1657. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2091314.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Comment on Aihwa Ong "An anthropologist at Davos: civiliazation reimagined from the top of the world". Current Anthropology 63(25): 141–142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/722368.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. How COVID-19 has re-distributed human mobility. Current History 121(838): 304–309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2022.121.838.304.
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2022. 与项飙对话：在不确定的世界，建设自己的大后方 [Dialogue with Xiang Biao: In the uncertain world, build our own base]. Guyu Lab-Tencent News.
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2022. 跟项飙坐火车去上班 | 谷雨 [Go to work by train with Xiang Biao]. Guyu Lab-Tencent News.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. The global bazaar economy. Economic Sociology 23(2): 10–14.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Remote work, social inequality and the redistribution of mobility. International Migration 60(6): 280–282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13085.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Antisoziale Macht: Absurditäten des COVID-19-Lockdowns in Shanghai. INDES 3-4: 167–177.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2022. The re-enchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world: ideology and life strategies in middle-class migration to Europe and beyond. Intersections 8(2): 201–206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v8i2.1059.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. The nearby: a scope of seeing. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 8(2-3): 147–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00042_1.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Reproduction-driven labor migration from China. The Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs 7: 34–43.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Introduction: suspension; seeking agency for change in the hypermobile world. Pacific Affairs 94(2): 233–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2021942233.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. 为承认而挣扎：学术发表的现状和未来 [Struggling for recognition: the state of social science publishing and its future]. Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute (4): 113–119.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. 临界中的思考 [Thinking on the edge]. Beijing Culture Review 3: 70–79.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Suspension: seeking agency for change in the hypermobile world. Pacific Affairs 94(2): 233–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2021942233.
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Xiang, Biao. 2020. The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and pandemic governance in China. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 21(4): 521–532. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2020.1832305.
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and Biao Xiang. 2019. Space of mediation: labour migration, intermediaries and the state in Indonesia and China since the nineteenth century. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 35(1-2): 39–62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.12529.
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and Biao Xiang. 2019. 流动，还是被流动：跨国劳务的基础设施 [Moving or being moved: the migration infrastructure in transnational labor mobility]. 社会学评论 [Sociological Review of China] 7(6): 3–17.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2018. Infrastructuralization: evolving sociopolitical dynamics in labour migration from Asia. Pacific Affairs 91(4): 759–773. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2018914759.
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Xiang, Biao. 2017. Predicaments of formalization: twenty years' social changes in China as seen through 'Zhejiangcun' in Beijing [正规化的纠结: 北京“浙江村” 和中国社会二十年来的变化]. Twenty-First Century 159: 81–97.
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, , Biao Xiang, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2017. Migration infrastructures and the production of migrant mobilities. Mobilities 12(2): 167–174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292770.
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Xiang, Biao. 2017. The base: a case of infrastructural governance of labour outmigration in China. Mobilities 12(2): 175–187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292775.
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Xiang, Biao. 2017. Hundreds of millions in suspension. Transitions 1(1): 3–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm.1.1.3_7.
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Xiang, Biao. 2016. Beyond methodological nationalism and epistemological behaviouralism: drawing illustrations from migrations within and from China. Population, Space and Place 22(7): 669–680. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1929.
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Xiang, Biao, , and . 2016. '从新清史到满学范式' [From 'new Qing history' to 'Manchu studies paradigm']. Twenty-First Century 157: 4–26.
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Xiang, Biao. 2016. Theory as vision. Anthropological Theory 16(2-3): 213–220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616660238.
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, Biao Xiang, and . 2015. Introduction to "governing marriage migrations: perspectives from mainland China and Taiwan". Cross-Currents 15: 1–8.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2014. Migration infrastructure. International Migration Review 48(1): 122–148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12141.
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Xiang, Biao. 2014. The would-be migrant: post-socialist primitive accumulation, potential transnational mobility, and the displacement of the present in northeast China. TRaNS 2(2): 183–199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.3.
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Xiang, Biao. 2014. Space of mediation. Anthropology News 55(12).
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Xiang, Biao. 2013. Multi-scalar ethnography: an approach for critical engagement with migration and social change. Ethnography 14(3): 282–299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138113491669.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2013. Ethnographic experiments in transnational mobility studies. Ethnography 14(3): 277–281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138113491655.
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Xiang, Biao. 2012. Labor transplant: "point-to-point" transnational labor migration in East Asia. South Atlantic Quarterly 111(4): 721–739. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1724156.
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, Biao Xiang, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2012. Opening the black box of migration: brokers, the organization of transnational mobility and the changing political economy in Asia. Pacific Affairs 85(1): 7–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/20128517.
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Xiang, Biao. 2012. Predatory princes and princely peddlers: the state and international labour migration intermediaries in China. Pacific Affairs 85(1): 47–68. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/201285147.
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and Biao Xiang. 2012. The emerging transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 32(11/12): 708–719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01443331211280737.
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Xiang, Biao. 2011. A ritual economy of 'talent': China and overseas Chinese professionals. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(5): 821–838. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.559721.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2009. International student migration and social stratification in China. International Journal of Educational Development 29(5): 513–522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.04.006.
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Xiang, Biao. 2009. Tackling global uncertainties. City and Society 21(1): 22–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-744X.2009.01013.x.
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Pieke, Frank N. and Biao Xiang. 2009. Les Chinois au Royaume-Uni, ou l'illusion de l'immigration choisie. Critique Internationale 45(4): 97–117.
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Pieke, Frank N. and Biao Xiang. 2009. Legality and labour: Chinese migration, neoliberalism and the state in the UK and China. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 1(1): 11–45.
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Xiang, Biao. 2007. The making of mobile subjects: how migration and institutional reform intersect in northeast China. Development 50(4): 69–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100430.
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Xiang, Biao. 2007. Productive outflow of skills: what India and China can learn from each other. Asian Population Studies 3(2): 115–133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730701499876.
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Xiang, Biao. 2007. How far are the left-behind left behind? A preliminary study in rural China. Population, Space and Place 13(3): 179–191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.437.
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Xiang, Biao. 2005. Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 12(2-3): 357–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/097152150501200209.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2005. Does migration research matter in China? A review of its relationship to policy since the 1980s. International Journal on Multicultural Societies 7(1): 11–32.
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Xiang, Biao. 2003. SARS and migrant workers in China: an institutional analysis. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12(4): 467–499. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/011719680301200403.
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Xiang, Biao. 2003. Emigration from China: a sending country perspective. International Migration 41(3): 21–48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00240.
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Xiang, Biao. 2001. Structuration of Indian information technology professionals' migration to Australia: an ethnographic study. International Migration 39(5): 73–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00172.
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Xiang, Biao. 1999. Xi, relations cluster, and the formation of a migrant community in contemporary China. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 8(3): 343–359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/011719689900800305.
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and Biao Xiang. 1998. Native place, migration and the emergence of peasant enclaves in Beijing. China Quarterly 155: 546–581. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000049997.
Book Chapter (10)
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Recognizing the body. In: (ed.). Liu Xiaodong: your friends. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Publishing, pp. 110–115.
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Xiang, Biao and . 2019. Mobility assemblage and the return of Islam in Southeast China. In: , , and (eds.). Asia inside out: itinerant people 3. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, pp. 52–74.
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and Biao Xiang. 2018. The infrastructural turn in Asian migration. In: (ed.). Routledge handbook of Asian migrations. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 152–161.
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Xiang, Biao. 2016. "You've got to rely on yourself ... and the state!" A structural chasm in the Chinese political moral order. In: and (eds.). Ghost protocol: development and displacement in global China. Durham; London: Duke University Press, pp. 131–149.
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Xiang, Biao. 2014. The Pacific paradox: the Chinese state in Transpacific interactions. In: and (eds.). Transpacific studies: framing an emerging field. Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 85–105.
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Xiang, Biao. 2014. The return of return: migration, Asia and theory. In: (ed.). Global and Asian perspectives on international migration. Global Migration Issues 4. Cham: Springer, pp. 167–182.
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Xiang, Biao. 2013. Return and the reordering of transnational mobility in Asia. In: Biao Xiang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and (eds.). Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham; London: Duke University Press, pp. 1–20.
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Xiang, Biao. 2013. Transnational encapsulation: compulsory return as a labor-migration control in East Asia. In: Biao Xiang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and (eds.). Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 83–99.
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Xiang, Biao. 2012. Wind through the woods: ethnography of interfaces between migration and institutions. In: , , and (eds.). Wind over water: migration in an East Asian context. Foundations in Asia Pacific Studies 2. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 36–46.
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Xiang, Biao. 2010. Labour pains. In: (ed.). India, China: neighbours, strangers. Noida; London; Toronto; Scarborough; Sydney; Glenfield; New York: HarperCollins, pp. 252–263.
Report (1)
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Report
Xiang, Biao. 2016. Emigration trends and policies in China: movement of the wealthy and highly skilled. Washington: Migration Policy Institute.
Issue (1)
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Issue
Xiang, Biao (ed.). 2021. Suspension: complexed developments and hypermobility in and from China. Pacific Affairs 94(2).
Other (5)
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Other
2022. 러시아의 ‘국뽕’에서 한·중의 위기를 읽다 [The rising Russian nationalism and risks in Korea and China]. The SisaIn. https://www.sisain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=47540.
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Other
Xiang, Biao. 2012. 为什么中国人出国打工费用这么高？[Why do Chinese migrants have to pay so much to work overseas?]. Asia Pacific Memo. https://apm.iar.ubc.ca/%e4%b8%ba%e4%bb%80%e4%b9%88%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba%e5%87%ba%e5%9b%bd%e6%89%93%e5%b7%a5%e8%b4%b9%e7%94%a8%e8%bf%99%e4%b9%88%e9%ab%98%ef%bc%9f/.
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Xiang, Biao. 2009. Compulsory return. IIAS Newsletter 50. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/theNewsletter/2019-06/IIAS_NL50_FULL.pdf#page=8.
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Other
Xiang, Biao. 2009. The changing order of mobility in Asia. IIAS Newsletter 50. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/theNewsletter/2019-06/IIAS_NL50_FULL.pdf#page=5.
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Xiang, Biao. 2008. "Commercial bureaucrats": international labour recruiters and the states in East Asia. Asia Research Institute Newsletter 16. Asia Research Institute. https://ari.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ARI-Newsletter16.pdf#page=8.
Newspaper Article (1)
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Newspaper Article
Xiang, Biao. 2025. Science: why institutions must remain neutral. Table.Briefings, March 17, 2025.
Collected Edition (1)
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Collected Edition
Xiang, Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and (eds.). 2013. Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham; London: Duke University Press.
Monograph (5)
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Monograph
Xiang, Biao and , (tran.). 2023. Self as method: thinking through China and the world. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Monograph
Xiang, Biao and , , , and (trans.). 2022. 주변의 상실 [The disappearance of the nearby]. Seoul: 글항아리 [Geulhangari].
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Xiang, Biao and . 2020. 把自己作为方法：和项飙的对话 [The self as method: conversations with Biao Xiang]. Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.
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Xiang, Biao. 2007. Global "body shopping": an Indian labor system in the information technology industry. In-Formation. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.
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Monograph
Xiang, Biao, (tran.). 2005. Transcending boundaries: Zhejiangcun; the story of a migrant village in Beijing. China Studies 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Blog Post (9)
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Blog Post
and Biao Xiang. 2022. Migrant care labour agencies as actors of social control: case studies from China. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.5418.
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Blog Post
Xiang, Biao. 2022. The securitization of mobility. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Change. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.1767.
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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Logistical power. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.6333.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Educational mobility and 'human nature': changes in student migration from China since 2000. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.1101.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Point-to-point labour transport: the securitization of mobility after lockdown. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.3265.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Shock mobility: convulsions in human migration are having large impacts. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.3577.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. The emerging 'mobility business'. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.2514.
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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Grid reaction: comparing mobility restrictions during COVID-19 and SARS. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.5217.
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Blog Post
Xiang, Biao. 2020. The emerging business of mobility. REALEURASIA Blog. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/5517502/blog_2020_07_17_01.
Interview (22)
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Interview
Xiang, Biao. 2025. 数字时代重建人与真实 世界的关系: 访谈人类学家项飙教授 [Rebuilding human connections in the digital age: an interview with anthropologist Biao Xiang on media, technology, and the nearby]. Interview by . 全球传媒学刊 [Global Journal of Media Studies]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26599/GJMS.2025.9330025.
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Interview
Xiang, Biao. 2025. China verstehen, um die Welt zu verstehen. MAX MAG. München: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-949B-8.
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Interview
Xiang, Biao. 2024. Xiang Biao on student protest. Reading the China Dream. https://www.readingthechinadream.com/xiang-biao-on-the-student-protests.html.