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October 21, 2024 | Mikkel Bunkenborg | Books
Collaborative Damage: A Conversation with Mikkel Bunkenborg and Morten Axel Pedersen
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2022) is the outcome of a collaborative project conducted by three Danish anthropologists on China’s global impact and involvement in Mongolia and Mozambique. In the field, the anthropologists started to a…
October 2, 2024 | Hong Zhang | Books
The Railpolitik: A Conversation with Yuan Wang
While China’s engagement in Africa’s infrastructure sector has generated a burgeoning scholarship, fieldwork-based, full-length monographs with a comparative perspective remain few. The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development (Oxford University Press, 2023) falls into …
September 9, 2024 | Devi Sacchetto | Books
Chinese Espresso: A Conversation with Grazia Ting Deng
In Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (Princeton University Press, 2024), Grazia Ting Deng analyses one of the most characteristic Italian places: the coffee bar. Drawing from long-term ethnographic research, including some months of work as an informal and unpaid ap…
September 14, 2023 | Miriam Driessen | Books
Enclaves of Exception: A Conversation with Omolade Adunbi
What are the social costs of extraction? And how does extraction reconfigure traditional power structures and cultural practices? In Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2022), Omolade Adunbi compares the extraction of economic value t…
June 6, 2023 | Jordan Lynton Cox | Books | No Comments
on Transpacific Developments: A Conversation with Monica DeHart
Transpacific Developments: A Conversation with Monica DeHart
China scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean have long critiqued the monolithic way in which Chinese identity is represented in the dominant literature. In Transpacific Developments: The Politics of Multiple Chinas in Central America (Cornell University Press, 2021), Monica DeHart tackles this discont…
June 2, 2023 | Miriam Driessen | Books
Angloscene: A Conversation with Jay Ke-Schutte
Why do African students who attend Chinese universities have to teach English as a means of survival, while Chinese students are frantically acquiring the English skills that enable them to pursue studies in the United States and Britain? Why does the Third-World solidarity that Africans hope to find and s…
May 25, 2023 | Emily Wilcox | Books
Arise Africa, Roar China: A Conversation with Yunxiang Gao
The past two decades have witnessed an explosive growth in historical scholarship exploring African American connections with China during the twentieth century. In their Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies web resource Teaching China through Black History, Keisha A. Brown, Ruodi Duan, and James Ge…
March 5, 2023 | Miriam Driessen | Books
African Agency in China’s Tea Trade: A Conversation with Ute Röschenthaler
How has Chinese green tea become Mali’s national drink? By retracing the tea supply chain from Bamako’s corner shops and wholesale markets to southern China’s tea plantations and processing plants, in African Agency in China’s Tea Trade (Brill, 2022), Ute Röschenthaler describes in vivid detail how a disti…
March 3, 2023 | Denise Y. Ho | Books
The Hong Kong–China Nexus: A Conversation with John Carroll
How do we understand the trajectory of Hong Kong’s relationship with China? In The Hong Kong–China Nexus (Cambridge University Press, 2022), John Carroll—one of the foremost historians working on Hong Kong today—introduces the fateful history of the city, from its establishment as a British colony to its s…
February 2, 2023 | Juliet Lu | Books | No Comments
on Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush: A Conversation with Michael Dwyer
Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush: A Conversation with Michael Dwyer
Over the past two decades, Laos has been on the front lines of a global rise in transnational corporate land investments. This has been driven by China’s supposedly growing appetite for foreign land and resources, which has featured centrally in coverage of this so-called new global land rush. Mike Dwyer’s…