Totalizing Infrastructures: Statecraft in the Uyghur Penal Colony
There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan Desert in …
Gesichtsverlust 3.0
Gesichtserkennungstechnologien werden in unserem Alltag immer präsenter, aber nirgendwo werden sie so vielfältig eingesetzt wie in Xi Jinpings China. Bequem in vielen …
Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic
The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in …
China: The Unpopular Winner of the Year in Pandemic Times. Resilience in China under COVID-19 (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Mengyi Zhang Figure 1: Photo taken by the author’s parents (age 48 and 49) when they …
Book Forum: Reflections on Li Zhang’s Anxious China by Priscilla Song
This book forum brings together eight anthropologists to discuss Li Zhang’s Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (University of California Press …
Book Review: Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China by Yang Shen
In Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China, Yang Shen examines the life experiences of men and women who …
On the Search for the Origins of COVID-19: A Forum by Andrew Lakoff
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus causing the disease remains uncertain. The predominant theory is …
In the Journals – Incarceration, Rehabilitation, and Recidivism
Josh Shapiro: Fair Commutation Not Mass Incarceration by joepiette2 via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to …
A Political Project and a Geopolitical Terrain: The New Referral Hospital Built by China in Niamey by Fanny Chabrol
Design by okb-buro.com The first time I approached the new General Referral Hospital in Niamey in June 2018, I thought it looked …
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Bamboo Basket Hampers Used by Tobacco Farmers in Nanhua County, Yunnan, China
While doing background work on FEI Xiaotong and ZHANG Zhiyi’s studies of the basketry industry(*) in Yunnan, China, my colleague W. discovered …
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center …
From Bat Soup to Bean Sprouts: Coronavirus Food Fears in Historical Perspective by Jack Greatrex
On a trip to Shandong, China, at the end of January 2020, a few days after the lockdown of Wuhan, I watched …
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 …
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 …