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 A.G. WILKES Night and Day; East…
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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 by perhaps Caitli…
“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 in the Coronavirus pandemic. She will…
“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 help attend patients in the Coronavirus…
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 a standstill. The lockdown of Wuhan…
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 into two suitcases and a duffle…
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 erscheinen abstrakt. Die Frage ist, ob…
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 editor’s note: How can anthropology help…
#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. The state of the coronavirus continues…
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, and links to, some of key…
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 follows is the short (public) and…
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 same time and place. Such studies…
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 lifestyles of the one-percenters, but not…
#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 usual as I work my way…
#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 tell you to say – you…
Understanding the Digital Infrastructure of Photo-sharing in China: Notes on Tuchong as an Example
Yunchang Yang, PhD Candidate, UCL Anthropology A photo of my working space, showing my laptop, notebook, IC card for working with images On 3rd July 2019, I caught up…
Review: The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. University of Washington Press. Seattle, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-295-74403-2. 276 pp. Tempest, Juliet (SOAS, University of London) Ambivale…
Optics and Fluidity: Evading Surveillance in Hong Kong
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
Ep. #45: Financial Identity, Quiet Fields, Silencing Students & Angry Anthropologists: This Month On TFS
Simon [1:00] begins our chat by asking what happens to your identity when you become a dependent spouse; that is, when your partner is supporting the household financially…
A Cooperative Craft Survey in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Part 1
A note on photographs. Here just a few photographs from the first day of our May 2019 travel in Yunnan are presented. It will take time to work…
2019 Summer Folklore Institute: Building Capacity for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
I have just returned from a second summer trip to China. This time I was part of an American delegation to one of the summer institutes jointly organized…
The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies
The following is a report on The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies (第七届中美民俗学与非物质文化遗产论坛: 博物馆民俗与遗产研究的协作工作). …
Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang
Lisa Ernst is trained in Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Studies and Islamic Studies and is currently a PhD student in Central Asian Studies at the Berlin Graduate School…