Mao und der „Seuchengott“. Eine kurze Geschichte der chinesischen Gesundheitspolitik
Einem Klischee zufolge ist China der „kranke Mann Asiens“, wie dem Land gerade wieder vorgeworfen wird. Um 1900 hatte das durchaus seine …
Volunteering, care and the self in a Chinese metropolis
Charlotte Bruckermann: With China’s increasing integration into global capitalism after the demise of high socialism, feelings of moral decline and even moral …
Unzureichend, aber unentbehrlich. Die WHO und die Geschichte der globalen Gesundheit
Die USA kritisieren die WHO scharf: Präsident Trump wirft ihr eine mangelnde Distanz gegenüber China vor. Doch diese Haltung ist nichts Neues. …
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the …
“In Beijing They Eat Snakes And Then Pig Out”: Xenophobia, Geopolitics, and the Role of the Italian Far-Right in Covid-19 Constructions of China
FRANCESCO FLORIS Well before the high rate of infections grew and lay citizens became affected by COVID-19 in Italy, fear, news from …
Platypus Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
In celebration and recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, take a look back at some of our favorite past …
Goodbye “American Greatness”
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with …
The Past 60-plus Days in China: Covid-19 Perspectives from a Wuhan-native
LI HONGLIN With the arrival of April, the weather in Beijing becomes particularly warm, and people in masks rush to the park …
The Sleeping Bull in a China Shop
Exploring how Covid19 elucidates exploitation along the crosshairs of the occident vs the orient, and class stratification, in a neo-liberal age. LOUIS …
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice
Interview by Johannes Lenhard https://www.dukeupress.edu/best-practice Johannes Lenhard: Your book is continuing a so far relatively short line of monographs in anthropology started …
“When the Cherry Blossoms, we will meet again in Wuhan”: A Nurse’s Reflections
CORALINE CUI YA PING On 9th February 2020, Coralline, a nurse from Nanjing, volunteered to go to Wuhan to help attend patients …
“When the Cherry Blossoms, we will meet again in Wuhan”:A COVID-19 Photo Essay
CORALINE CUI YA PING Coralline is a nurse from Nanjing, China. On 9th February 2020, she volunteered to go to Wuhan to …
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Eldercare in Wuhan under COVID-19 by Zhe Yan
When the pernicious effects of COVID-19 manifested clearly first in Wuhan, the entire city and the whole of Hubei Province came to …
Reflecting on SARS, 17 years and two flu-like epidemics later by Katherine A. Mason
On April 12, 2003, I was evacuated from my post teaching English at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. I packed my belongings …
COVID-19: Sind wir zur Solidarität fähig?
Das neuartige Corona-Virus ist gefährlich. Doch die Risiken, die mit ihm verbunden sind, entziehen sich der individuellen Wahrnehmung und Erfahrung – sie …
Going Viral in Hong Kong
Disease is but the most obvious part of an epidemic. As coronavirus spreads, it fuels many other kinds of contagious forces. AN …
#Hashtag: “I AM one of the 1.4 Billion”
When I agreed to write this post in January, I could not have imagined that I would be doing so in quarantine. …
New Project Pages
Here on Shreds and Patches, there is a new menu item for Projects. The Projects landing page gives a quick overview of, …
Material Culture and Heritage Studies in Northern Guangxi, China at #AFSAM19
I am here using a blog post not to share current news, but to get an older document online and linkable. What …
Toxicology and the chemistry of cohort kinship by Janelle Lamoreaux
Birth cohort studies are characterized as longitudinal investigations of research subjects with at least one common characteristic, usually being born in the …
Hongkongs Proteste, postkolonial
Die Hongkonger Proteste sorgen weltweit für Aufmerksamkeit. Vollkommen zu Recht, veranschaulichen sie doch grundsätzliche Themen sowie Konfliktlinien vieler kapitalistischer Gesellschaften. Gleichzeit…
Inventing the Way of Tea in Taiwan
Photo by David Boté Estrada One never knows how to read the NY Times when it comes to their reporting on the …
#AFSAM19: Material Culture and Heritage Studies in Northern Guangxi, China
A title slide showing key project sites in the Dong areas of Guangxi and Guizhou. Shreds and Patches has been quieter than …
#48 The Nature of Anthropology: Andrew Kipnis on China, Funerals, Ethnographic Socialising & Academic Speech
“I think you’d be crazy to go into something like anthropology if you want to learn how to say whatever other people …