Dr. Nimrod Baranovitch

Department of Asian Studies

Email: nbaranov@research.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 972-4-8288501, 972-4-8240559
Office hours: by appointment

 
 


Courses Taught

 


Research Areas

  • Chinese Popular Culture
  • Chinese Cultural Politics
  • Ethnic Minorities in China
  • Gender and Sexuality in China
  • Music in China
  Education
Postdoctoral Studies The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of
Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001-3)
Ph.D. Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh (1997)
M.A. Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh (1996)
B.A. (Cum Laude)

Department of East Asian Studies and Department of Musicology,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992)

 


Publications

Books

2003. China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics,
1978-1997. Berkeley: University of California Press. (332 pp.).


Articles

2010. "Others No More: The Changing Representation of Non-Han Peoples in Chinese History Textbooks, 1951-2003." The Journal of Asian Studies 69(1): 85-122.

2010. "Literary Liberation of the Tibetan Past: The Alternative Voice in Alai's Red Poppies." Modern China 36(2): 170-209.

2009. "The Politics of Memory: Why was the Nanjing Massacre Forgotten in China and How It was Rediscovered." Zmanim 105: 92-103 (In Hebrew).

2008. "Remembering Mao in Post-Mao China: Memory and Amnesia." Zmanim 101: 104-117. (In Hebrew).

2007. "From Resistance to Adaptation: Uyghur Popular Music and Changing
Attitudes among Uyghur Youth." The China Journal no. 58: 59-82.

2007. "Inverted Exile: Uyghur Writers and Artists in Beijing and the Political Implications of Their Works." Modern China 33(4): 462-504.

2003. "From the Margins to the Centre: The Uyghur Challenge in Beijing."
The China Quarterly 175: 726-750.

Proxime accessit ("close runner-up"), The Gordon White Prize for the
most original article published in The China Quarterly in 2003

2001. "Between Alterity and Identity: New Voices of Minority People in China."
Modern China 27(3): 359-401.


Chapters in Edited Volumes

2009. "Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market: The Case of Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong." In Andrew Weintraub and Bell Yung, eds., Music and Cultural Rights, 187-218. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

2009. "Compliance, Autonomy, and Resistance of a 'State Artist': The Case of Chinese-Mongolian Musician Teng Ge'er." In Helen Rees, ed. Lives in Chinese Music, 173-212. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1999. "Anthropology and Musicology: Seeger’s Writings from 1933 to 1953." In
Bell Yung and Helen Rees, eds., Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in
American Musicology
, 150-171. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Entries in Encyclopedias

2005. "China." In John Shepherd, David Horn, and Dave Laing, eds., Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume V: Asia and Oceania, 3-22. London and New York: Continuum.

2004. "Aniwar Mamat," "Dong Wenhua," "Jin Zhaojun," "Minority Pop Musicians:
The New Generation," "Saifu (Sai Fu) and Mailisi (Mai Lisi)," "Teng Ge’er,"
and "Zhang Guangtian." In Edward L. Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, 13-14, 156, 303, 396-397, 520-521, 589, 712-713. London: Routledge.