I am a cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida. My research interests have evolved around ethnography, historical anthropology, and anthropological demography. I have conducted extensive fieldwork among the Moso, Pumi, Naxi, and Han in Southwest China. I have published in forms of books, journal articles and book chapters in the United States, France, Switzerland, Mainland China, and Taiwan. My major publications are concerned with issues such as family structure, institutionalized sexual union, gender, ethnic identity, ethnic relations, ethnohistory, impact of culture on demographic configurations, the Han Chinese as a minority in a multitethnic community, and so forth. In addition to introductory courses on cultural anthropology, ethnographic methods, anthropological demography, and Chinese culture and society, I also offer graduate seminars on ethnicity, gender, the family, and population in China.