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!
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.
Genehmigung des DFG Netzwerk-Antrags “Anthropology and China(s): Co-constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions” (2021-2024)
Approval of the DFG Network application “Anthropology and China(s): Co-constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions” (2021-2024)
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