Confucianism and Inequalities: Applications in the Treatment of Women and Ethnic Minorities

Melissa Brown will speak on Confucianism and inequality at Stanford University.

Melissa Brown autobiography:

I am a sociocultural anthropologist of China and Taiwan. My research examines broad-scale sociocultural changes, including ethnic and national identities in Taiwan and China, girls’ and women’s labor contributions to the Chinese rural economy, footbinding, the impact of son preferences and the population sex-ratio imbalance on marriage and well-being in China, and historical demography of the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan. I am interested in bridging classic and contemporary social theory with gene-culture coevolutionary theory to identify processes of how broad-scale sociocultural changes move from the micro- to the macro-level.