Workshop: China as Context

Workshop organised by Di Wu (University of Oxford), Ed Pulford (Manchester University) and Andrea Pia (London School of Economics)

The aim of the workshop is to:

investigate the historical and intellectual conditions in Britain under which the ‘neglect’ of China occurred and was sustained;
bridge the gap between the anthropology of China and other regions via ethnographical studies of how China is influencing people’s lives on the ground and in different regions;
call for anthropologists to pay attention to the significance of understanding China when carrying out contextual analysis;
reflect on the potential contributions that the Anthropology of China can make in the process of increasing mutual understanding and decolonising knowledge production more generally.

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