On Contradictions Among Animals and the People: Chinese Socialist Animation and the War Against Nature

Introduction: Rethinking Southwest China beyond Exoticism
Kendall, P. and Ran, P. G. 2026. Introduction: Rethinking Southwest China beyond Exoticism. China Perspectives.

From State Secret to Industrial Heritage to New Ruins: Anticipatory Urbanism and the Third Front Spirit
Kendall, P. 2026. From State Secret to Industrial Heritage to New Ruins: Anticipatory Urbanism and the Third Front Spirit. China Perspectives.

Orientalist Animation: Ma Liang and His Magic Paintbrush
Kendall, P. 2026. Orientalist Animation: Ma Liang and His Magic Paintbrush. in: Holliday, Chris and McGowan, David (ed.) Encyclopedia of Animation Studies Volume 4: Characters and Aesthetic Bloomsbury Professional.

Ordinary Life within an Extraordinary Project: Demystifying the Third Front
Kendall, P. 2025. Ordinary Life within an Extraordinary Project: Demystifying the Third Front. Modern China. 51 (6), pp. 600-631. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004251350051

The City as Marginalized Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s-80s)
Kendall, P. 2025. The City as Marginalized Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s-80s). in: Feng, Lin (ed.) Film History and Screen Culture in and beyond Greater China London Routledge.

Introduction: Afterlives of the Third Front
Kendall, P. and Meyskens, C. 2024. Introduction: Afterlives of the Third Front. The China Quarterly. 260, pp. 867-871. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024001097

Third Front as Method: Mao, Market and the Present in CCTV Documentaries
Kendall, P. 2024. Third Front as Method: Mao, Market and the Present in CCTV Documentaries. The China Quarterly. 260, pp. 872-886. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024000912

论“百节之乡”的空间生产——以列斐伏尔空间理论分析一座中国小城 (On the Spatial Production of the “Homeland of 100 Festivals”: Using Lefebvrian Spatial Theory to Analyse a Small Chinese City)
Kendall, P. 2024. 论“百节之乡”的空间生产——以列斐伏尔空间理论分析一座中国小城 (On the Spatial Production of the “Homeland of 100 Festivals”: Using Lefebvrian Spatial Theory to Analyse a Small Chinese City). 人类学研究 （Anthropological Research).

Orientalist Afterlives: Theorizing Discourse about Peppa Pig and China
Kendall, P. 2023. Orientalist Afterlives: Theorizing Discourse about Peppa Pig and China. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. 9 (2), pp. 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00107_1

‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Your Fingers Clean is a Good Habit’: On Learning Chinese and Learning About Discourse from Chinese-language Textbooks.
Kehoe, S., Kendall, P. and Wielander, G. 2023. ‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Your Fingers Clean is a Good Habit’: On Learning Chinese and Learning About Discourse from Chinese-language Textbooks. in: Hird, D. (ed.) Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education Bloomsbury. pp. 183-199

‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Your Fingers Clean is a Good Habit’: On Learning Chinese and Learning About Discourse from Chinese-language Textbooks.
Kehoe, S., Kendall, P. and Wielander, G. 2022. ‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Your Fingers Clean is a Good Habit’: On Learning Chinese and Learning About Discourse from Chinese-language Textbooks. Critical Pedagogy for Modern Languages Education Workshop. Lancaster 04 - 05 Feb 2022

Translating Wang Xiaoshuai: From Third Front to Cultural Revolution
Kendall, P. 2022. Translating Wang Xiaoshuai: From Third Front to Cultural Revolution . British Journal of Chinese Studies. 12 (1), pp. 40-59. https://doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v12i1.133

Music, Identity, and Community
Kendall, P., Zou, Sheng, Chu, Yiu-Wai, Morcom, Anna and Harris, Rachel 2021. Music, Identity, and Community. in: Kehoe, S. and Wielander, G. (ed.) Cultural China 2020: The Contemporary China Centre Review London University of Westminster Press. pp. 45-63

Heritage and Memory
Verdini, G., Evans, H., Demgenski, P., Kendall, P. and Zhang, L. 2021. Heritage and Memory. in: Kehoe, S. and Wielander, G. (ed.) Cultural China 2020: The Contemporary China Centre Review London University of Westminster Press. pp. 85-102

Ruins on Ruins: Forgetting, Commemorating and Re-Forgetting the Third Front
Kendall, P. 2020. Ruins on Ruins: Forgetting, Commemorating and Re-Forgetting the Third Front.

The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China
Kendall, P. 2019. The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China. Honolulu, Hawaii University of Hawaii Press.

The Location of Cultural Authenticity: Identifying the Real and the Fake in Urban Guizhou
Kendall, P. 2017. The Location of Cultural Authenticity: Identifying the Real and the Fake in Urban Guizhou. The China Journal. 77, pp. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1086/688851

Small-City Music, China
Kendall, P. 2016. Small-City Music, China. in: Murray, Jeremy A. and Nadeau, Kathleen M. (ed.) Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania Santa Barbara, California ABC-CLIO. pp. 61-63

Ethnic Music, China
Kendall, P. 2016. Ethnic Music, China. in: Murray, Jeremy A. and Nadeau, Kathleen M. (ed.) Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania Santa Barbara, California ABC-CLIO. pp. 12-15

The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Chinatown
Kendall, P. 2015. The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Chinatown. in: Witchard, A. (ed.) British Modernism and Chinoiserie Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 156-176

Between Big City and Authentic Village: Branding the Small Chinese City
Kendall, P. 2015. Between Big City and Authentic Village: Branding the Small Chinese City. CITY. 19 (5), pp. 665-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071116

False starts and reformulations in the study of everyday musical life in urban China
Kendall, P. 2014. False starts and reformulations in the study of everyday musical life in urban China. Field Research Method Lab Blog.