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…
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…
Liang Siran will discuss the human-yak relationship at 4800 meters altitude in Nagqu, China, on 15th December. She bases her ethnographic account on a four-month stay in a…
The DFG-funded Scientific Network Anthropology and China(s) will convene its 4th conference on „Co-Constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions“ at the University of Erlangen–Nurembe…
Our monthly colloquium resumes this September. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss…
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, this new „The People’s Map of Global China“ country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland…
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, correspon…
This article investigates the relatively little explored urban development in China’s Northwestern Uyghur homeland of XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Based on 12 months of ethnographic field…
Until the 1990s and the spread of air-conditioning, cooling down during the hot, humid, and windless summers in the city of Chongqing (Southwest China) was mainly practiced outdoors:…
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…
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 E…
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 qualitat…
The minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in the People’s Republic of China has been claimed to be the „world’s largest cash-based social policy.“ Examining the making of d…
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 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…
Next up: 28 Friday, October, 12:30–13:30 Isabel Briz Hernández (Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ‘Miscellaneous care’: Bridging the In-between of Translational Science…
In July 2022, Cheryl Schmitz spoke to Sarah Hanisch about her new book Searching for Sweetness: Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho (Hong Kong University Press, 2022).
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…
Which versions of China are enacted in relations between area studies and regional anthropologies? And with what consequences? These are the questions we will explore in the second…
Go and check out three new articles by our group member Jean-Baptiste Pettier published in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Social Analysis! See post for details.
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 …
Next up: Friday, 24 June, 12:30–13:30 Fabienne Wallenwein (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg) Reconnecting cultural heritage and landscape in the Congjiang Jiabang Ri…
Christof Lammer, Marco Lazzarotti, Jean-Baptiste Pettier More than twenty scholars participated in the first of six conferences of our network “Anthropology and China(s)” at the University of Cologne…