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Doing Fieldwork in China … with Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People’s Republic
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Candice Cornet & Tami Blumenfield (eds) 2015 While many anthropologists and other scholars relocate with their families in some way or another during fieldwork periods, this detail is often missing from their writings even though undoubtedly children can have had a major impact on their work. Recognizing that researcher-parents have many choices regarding their children’s […]
Read moreDoing Fieldwork in China … with Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic
E-book
Candice Cornet & Tami Blumenfield (eds) 2015 While many anthropologists and other scholars relocate with their families in some way or another during fieldwork periods, this detail is often missing from their writings even though undoubtedly children can have had a major impact on their work. Recognizing that researcher-parents have many choices regarding their children’s […]
Read moreWalking a Tightrope: Defending Human Rights in China
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Gert Holmgaard Nielsen 2014 How do Chinese people defend human rights in China without going to jail? How can they seek justice without the state hitting back at them? The human rights situation in China is not without its challenges but even so the last decades have seen marked improvements. Even so, much of the […]
Read moreQueer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures
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Elisabeth L. Engebretsen & William Schroeder (eds), with Hongwei Bao 2015 This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work […]
Read moreChina’s Contested Internet
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Guobin Yang (ed) 2015 Is there a pre-Weibo and post-Weibo era in Chinese Internet history? Are hackerspaces in China the same as in the West? How can the censorship of an Internet novel end up “producing” it? How is Lu Xun’s passive and ignorant spectator turned into an activist on the Internet? What are the […]
Read moreChina's Contested Internet
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Guobin Yang (ed) 2015 Is there a pre-Weibo and post-Weibo era in Chinese Internet history? Are hackerspaces in China the same as in the West? How can the censorship of an Internet novel end up “producing” it? How is Lu Xun’s passive and ignorant spectator turned into an activist on the Internet? What are the […]
Read moreEnd of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
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David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb & Li Narangoa (eds) 2016 Aiming to balance the focus on European events in global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II, End of Empire focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia – a time when the […]
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