Steinmüller, Hans

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  • Steinmüller, Hans (2025). Against virtue ethics in China anthropology. In Bunkenborg, M. & Hansen, A. S. (Eds.), Popular Moralities: The Anthropology of Ethics in Chinese Society . University of Hawaii (System). Press. [In Press]
  • Arias, Liliana, Caycedo, Hans, Steinmüller, Hans (2025). Stories of extortion between Chinese miners and Shuar communities in Ecuador. In Michelutti, L. (Ed.), Stories of Extortion . UCL Press. [In Press]
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2019). Anthropological theory is serious play. Anthropology of This Century, (25),
  • Brandtstädter, Susanne, Steinmüller, Hans (Eds.) (2017). Popular politics and the quest for justice in contemporary China. Routledge.
  • Feuchtwang, Stephan, Steinmüller, Hans (2017). China in comparative perspective. World Scientific (Firm).
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2017). Maoist militarism in the Wa hills of Burma, 1947-1989. In Verne, M., Ivanov, P. & Treiber, M. (Eds.), Körper Technik Wissen: Kreativität und Aneignungsprozesse in Afrika. In den Spuren Kurt Becks (pp. 455-476). LIT Verlag.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2016). Un proyecto de fachada y un funeral. Formas cotidianasde formación del Estado en la China contemporánea. Etnografías Contemporáneas, 2(2), 100-112.
  • Steinmüller, Hans, Brandtstädter, Susanne (Eds.) (2015). Irony, cynicism and the Chinese state. Routledge.
  • Steinmüller, Hans, Tan, Tongxue (2015). Like a virgin?: Hymen restoration operations in contemporary China. Anthropology Today, 31(2), 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12165
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2015). Book review: humour in Chinese life and culture: resistance and control in modern times. The China Journal, (73), 246-248. https://doi.org/10.1086/679234
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2015). Book review: Moskowitz, Marc. Go nation: Chinese masculinities and the game of Weiqi in China. Anthropos, 110(2).
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2014). Book review: drink water, but remember the source: moral discourse in a Chinese village. Études Chinoises, 32(2), 195-197.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2013). Communities of complicity: everyday ethics in rural China. Berghahn Books.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2013). Le savoir-rire en Chine. Terrain, 61(2), 40-53.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2013). The ethics of irony: work, family and fatherland in rural China. In Stafford, C. (Ed.), Ordinary Ethics in China . Bloomsbury (Firm).
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2012). Book review: China and postsocialist anthropology: theorizing power and society after communism - by Andrew Kipnis. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18(2), 481-483. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_15.x
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2011). The reflective peephole method: ruralism and awkwardness in the ethnography of rural China. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22(2), 220-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00125.x
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2011). The state of irony in China. Critique of Anthropology, 31(1), 21-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X10393434
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2010). How popular Confucianism became embarrassing: on the spatial and moral centre of the house in rural China. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2010(58), 81-96. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2010.580106
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  • Steinmüller, Hans (2026). No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70065
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2025). For the sake of simplicity: no China, no context. In Wu, D., Pia, A. E. & Pulford, E. (Eds.), China as context: Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China (pp. 119 - 143). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526184320.00015 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2023). Crises of care in China today. China Quarterly, 254, 301 - 309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023000322 picture_as_pdf
  • Fengjiang, Jiazhi, Steinmüller, Hans (2023). Leadership programmes: success, self-improvement, and relationship management among new middle-class Chinese. Ethnos, 88(1), 109 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1867605 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans, Feuchtwang, Stephan (2022). Implicit comparisons, or why it is inevitable to study China in comparative perspective. In Pelkmans, M. & Walker, H. (Eds.), How People Compare (pp. 172 - 190). Routledge-Cavendish. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669-11 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2022). Sovereignty as care: acquaintances, mutuality, and scale in the Wa State of Myanmar. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64(4), 910 - 933. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417522000299 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2022). Grace is incommensurability in commensuration the semantics of bwan among three generations of Wa and Lahu prophets’. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2022.400108 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2022). The aura of the local in Chinese anthropology: grammars, media and institutions of attention management. Journal of Historical Sociology, 35(1), 69 - 82. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12359 picture_as_pdf
  • Buitron, Natalia, Steinmüller, Hans (2022). State legibility and mind legibility in the original political society. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 12(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2021.120104 picture_as_pdf
  • Buitron, Natalia, Steinmüller, Hans (2021). Governing opacity: regimes of intention management and tools of legibility. Ethnos, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.2007154 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2021). State, mind, and legibility without writing in the Wa State of Myanmar. Ethnos, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.2007153 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2021). Pioneers of the plantation economy: militarism, dispossession, and the limits of growth in the Wa State of Myanmar. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 686 - 700. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13009 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2021). Para-nationalism: sovereignty and authenticity in the Wa State of Myanmar. Nations and Nationalism, 27(3), 880 - 894. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12709 picture_as_pdf
  • Ong, Andrew, Steinmüller, Hans (2020). Communities of care: public donations, development assistance, and independent philanthropy in the Wa State of Myanmar. Critique of Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X20974099 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2020). Shanzhai: creative imitation of China in highland Myanmar. Positions, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2020). The Golden Triangle is in the papers. Critical Asian Studies, 52(3), 464 - 471. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1792320 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2020). The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state, and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar. Social Anthropology, 28(1), 121 - 135. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12755 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2019). Conscription by capture in the Wa State of Myanmar: acquaintances, anonymity, patronage, and the rejection of mutuality. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 61(3), 508 - 534. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417519000197 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2019). Social transformation in rural China. In Latham, K. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society . Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2019). Book review: on kings by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25(2), 413-414. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13056 picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2017). Comments to ‘seeking like borders: convergence zone as a post-Zomian model' by Jinba Tenzin. Current Anthropology, 58(5), 568-569. https://doi.org/10.1086/693731
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2017). Concealing and revealing senses of justice in rural China. In Brandtstädter, S. & Steinmüller, H. (Eds.), Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China (pp. 139-153). Routledge.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2016). Der Wa Staat: Chinas Bergfestung im Hochland Burmas. Merkur – Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 70(807), 28-39.
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2016). Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Komplizenschaft. Alltagsethik im ländlichen China. Anthropos, 111(2).
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2015). Father Mao and the country-family: mixed emotions for fathers, officials, and leaders in China. Social Analysis, 59(4), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2015.590406
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2014). China’s growing influence in Latin America. In South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2015 (pp. 19-22). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2014). A minimal definition of cynicism: everyday social criticism and some meanings of 'life' in contemporary China. Anthropology of This Century, (11),
  • Steinmüller, Hans (5 December 2013) Research ethics and everyday ethics: doing fieldwork with observers of their own ‘culture’ in rural Hubei. Field Research Methods Lab Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2011). The moving boundaries of social heat: gambling in rural China. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(2), 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01679.x
  • Steinmüller, Hans, Fei, Wu (2011). School killings in China: society or wilderness? Anthropology Today, 27(1), 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2011.00782.x
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2010). Communities of complicity: notes on state formation and local sociality in rural China. American Ethnologist, 37(3), 539-549. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01271.x
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  • Buitron, Natalia, Mühlfried, Florian, Steinmüller, Hans (2026). Nightmare egalitarianism. Commensuration, autonomy and imagination. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2025). For simplicity’s sake: no context, no China. In Wu, D., Pulford, E. & Pia, A. (Eds.), China as Context: Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China . Manchester University Press. [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Steinmüller, Hans (2024). The archaeology of the Kula and Malinowski’s notion of “economy". In Hann, C. & James, D. (Eds.), Malinowski and the Argonauts: A hundred years of economic anthropology (pp. 298 - 324). Berghahn Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Buitron, Natalia, Steinmüller, Hans (2020). Introduction: the ends of egalitarianism. L'homme, 236(3), 5 - 44. https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.37923 picture_as_pdf