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NEW blogpost „Methodological Mutualism: Rethinking the Agency of Local Communities in the Belt and Road Initiative“ by Verena La Mela

Richly decorated tables are the social centre of female economic chai networks in the Sino-Kazakh border town Zharkent (Photo: Verena La Mela). Verena La Mela (University of Zurich) proposes a paradigm shift towards methodological mutualism, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of the interplay between the BRI and people on the ground. Read the blogpost: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/belt-road/research/methodological-mutualism-rethinking-agency-local-communities-belt-and-road-initiative

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NEW article on sociotechnical transformations of social policy in China by Christof Lammer

Democratic appraisal at a villagers’ group meeting in 2015, photo by Christof Lammer. China studies has suggested that the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) was originally designed as a market-oriented response to transformations of labour (mass layoffs, peasant proletarianisation and associated unrest) but later revamped to only combat extreme poverty. Scholars have often attributed such changes …

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New SNSF Ambizione project on the digitalisation of agriculture in China and Europe

Congratulations: Lena Kaufmann has been awarded a highly competitive Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her project "Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations". The project will provide in-depth perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of digital agricultural technologies in relation to China and Europe. The project will be based at the University of Fribourg. The collaboration partners include Oxford University, the University of Neuchâtel, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Agroscope, the Sino-German Agricultural Center, and Yunnan Agricultural University. A PhD position will be announced in the coming months.

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RG China(s) Colloquium: Summer Semester 2023

Our monthly colloquium resumes this May. See our dates below! These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss work in progress and will occasionally be dedicated to organisational matters, such as plans for our DFG-Network "Anthropology and China(s): Co-constructions of Ethnographic …

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The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier

The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier for starting a new position as a professor for social and cultural anthropology, focus East Asia/China at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as well as Director of the Elite Master Program "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures." We are delighted to take this occasion for holding our upcoming conference of …

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Plädoyer für eine wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit China in Anbetracht ethischer Bedenken / Plea for a scientific engagement with China in view of ethical concerns

***English version below*** Die Regionalgruppe China(s) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie setzt sich aus Forschenden der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie sowie der Sinologie zusammen, die mit qualitativen bzw. ethnografischen Methoden wie Interviews und teilnehmender Beobachtung arbeiten. Durch den engen Austausch mit unterschiedlichen sozialen und kulturellen Gruppen Chinas beschäftigen wir uns mit jenen Themen, die …

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DFG Network prepares book project “China Multiple: Un/Doing Ethnographic Regions in Anthropology” at Zurich

The photo shows the participants of the 3rd DFG network conference in Zurich. Twenty people are standing in front of the Völkerkundemuseum in warm winter clothes.

Members of the DFG network at the University of Zurich, December 16, 2022. Photo: Kyimo Ghung, Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz From 15 to 17 December 2022, the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” convened its 3rd Conference in Zurich. The meeting continued the preparation of a book that reconsiders the place of regional anthropologies in the general discipline. …

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Upcoming: 3rd Conference of the DFG Network „Anthropology and China(s)“ in Zurich, December 15–17, 2022

The 3rd Conference of the DFG Network "Anthropology and China(s)" will take place at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. It will explore the topic "The Politics of the Anthropology of China(s)." Among others, the conference will explore the following questions: How has China become an ethnographic region in certain academic regions but not …

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DFG Network at Heidelberg: Anthropology of China and Area Studies – Human and More-than-Human

Last November in Cologne , the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” was launched. Back then we started our collective work on the first theme that we continued at the second network conference that we held in Heidelberg on 3-4 August, 2022. A conference report by Christof Lammer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Klagenfurt.