Academics Professors Information

FARRER James

Professor
Sociology

B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research and Teaching Interests：
My research focuses on urban life in Shanghai and Tokyo, including cuisine, nightlife, migrant communities, and urban sexual cultures. In teaching sociology at Sophia, my emphasis is developing students’ hands-on skills in qualitative research, encouraging them to use original data to write about social phenomenon while incorporating insights from previous sociological research.

Email: j-farrer[at]sophia.ac.jp
Website: http://sophia.academia.edu/JamesFarrer
Tel: 03-3238-4066
Office: 10-503

Selected Publications

Books

• James Farrer and Andrew David Field. 2015.Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• James Farrer (ed.). 2015.Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  

• James Farrer. 2002.Opening Up: Youth sex culture and market reform in Shanghai.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Journal Articles

• *James Farrer and Anna Greenspan. 2015. “Raising Cosmopolitans: Expatriate Families Navigating Shanghai's Local Schools” Global Networks 15(2): 141–160.

• *James Farrer. 2014. “China Wants You: The Social Construction of Skilled Labor in Three Transnational Fields”Asian and Pacific Migration 23(4): 397-420.

• James Farrer. 2014.“Foreigner Street: Urban Citizenship in Multicultural Shanghai” in Nam-Kook Kim ed. Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia.London: Ashgate, 17-43.

• James Farrer. 2014.“Love, Sex and Commitment: Delinking Premarital Intimacy from Marriage in Urban China” in Deborah Davis and Sara Friedman eds. Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 62-96.

• James Farrer. 2014. “Imported Culinary Heritage: the Case of Localized Western Cuisine in Shanghai”in Sidney Cheung ed. Rethinking Asian Food Heritage. Taipei: The Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture, 75-104.

• James Farrer. 2013.“Good Stories: Chinese Women's International Love Stories as Collective Sexual Story Making”Sexualities 16(1/2): 12-29.

• James Farrer. 2011.“Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones” The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Volume 37, Issue 5, pp. 747-764.

• James Farrer. 2010.“New Shanghailanders or New Shanghainese? narratives of emplacement of western expatriate settlers in Shanghai” The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Volume 36, Issue 8 (June), pp. 1211 - 1228

• James Farrer. 2010.“A foreign adventurer’s paradise? Interracial sexuality and alien sexual capital in reform era Shanghai”Sexualities. Volume 13, Issue 1 (Feb.), pp. 69-95.

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