Sarah Hanisch's monograph Searching for Sweetness: Women's mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022) is out! The book provides a fascinating ethnography, linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa from the perspectives of the women involved.
RG China(s) Colloquium: Summer Semester Program
Next up: Friday, 27 May, 12:30–13:30 Marius Meinhof (University of Bielefeld) Defining Filial Piety - Negotiating notions of Obligations and Belonging in Intergenerational Relations in China – More info in the post!
Kick-off meeting: DFG Scientific Network “Anthropology and China(s)” in Cologne, November 5-6, 2021
Christof Lammer, Marco Lazzarotti, Jean-Baptiste Pettier Members of the DFG network at Cologne University, November 6, 2021. Photo: Christof Lammer More than twenty scholars participated in the first of six conferences of our network “Anthropology and China(s)” at the University of Cologne to start exploring the first of three themes: “Anthropology and the Study of …
New book chapter: ‚Place, the Locus of Alterity‘ by Marco Lazzarotti
Published in Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions Across Disciplines, edited by Arianna Maiorani and C. Bruna Mancini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester Program
Next up: February 25, 2022: Cheryl Schmitz (MPIWG Berlin) – "Indebtedness, Predation, and Mistrust in Chinese-Angolan Transactions" – More info in the post!
Podcast Episode: Lena Kaufmann on rural migration and agro-technological change
NEW! A new TechnoViews podcast with anthropologist Lena Kaufmann discussing her new book on rural migration and agro-technological change in contemporary China. Available on major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple, ...).
Now open access: „The Reinvention of Matchmakers – Ethnography of a Marriage Agency in Urban China“
One of our member's articles just became available open access! Check out Jean-Baptiste Pettier's 2019 contribution to L'Homme on matchmaking in China, translated from the French by Catriona Dutreuilh.
New article: ‚Big Data Dreams and Reality in Shenzhen: An Investigation of Smart City Implementation in China‘
Published in Big Data & Society by Jelena Große-Bley and Genia Kostka. Read here.
Interview with Dr. Lena Kaufmann: A socio-technical perspective on farmland and rural-urban migration in contemporary China
In July 2021, Jelena Große-Bley spoke to Lena Kaufmann about her new book, Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China (Amsterdam University Press, 2021, available open access).
RURBAN China Lunch with Dr. Lena Kaufmann – recording available (in German)
URBAN China Lunch | organized by URBANI[XX], Deutsch-Chinesisches Alumninetzwerk Urbanisierung und Stadtentwicklung | Dr. Lena Kaufmann | "Land-Stadt-Migration und agrartechnischer Wandel in China"
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