Stevan Harrell (University of Washington), Interviewed by Gonçalo Santos in June 2018, Whatcom County, WA.FEATURED AUTHORStevan Harrell is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve is one of the most well known anthropologists of China. He has been doing empirical research in China and Taiwan for more than four decades. He has published a large number of books and journal articles on diverse topics such as family, kinship, fertility, aging, and gender, as well as religion and ethnicity. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Steve started doing fieldwork with ethnic minority communities in Sichuan province. Work in Liangshan, Sichuan, led Steve to develop a strong interest in environmental sustainability and community development. He is currently writing a new book on the history of modern and contemporary china from an ecological perspective. In this podcast, Steve shares his insights on China’s environmental crisis, its historical roots, as well as some of the future challenges faced by the country in the age of the Anthropocene.AUTHOR’S PERSONAL WEBSITEhttp://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/index.htmlSELECTED PUBLICATIONSGreening East Asia. The Rise of the Eco-developmental State (University of Washington Press, 2020, co-edited with Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, and Joanna I. Lewis)Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century (University of Washington Press, 2017, co-edited with Gonçalo Santos)Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001)Human Families (Westview Press, 1997)Chinese Historical Micro-Demography (University of California Press, 1996)Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers (University of Washington Press, 1995)Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (University of California Press, 1993)Ploughshare Village. Culture and Context in Taiwan (University of Washington Press, 1982)

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