Workshop: China as Context

June 16 & 17, 2022

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:

  1. investigate the historical and intellectual conditions in Britain under which the ‘neglect’ of China occurred and was sustained;
  2. 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;
  3. call for anthropologists to pay attention to the significance of understanding China when carrying out contextual analysis;
  4. 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.

Presenters:

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  • Ed Pulford
  • Ka-Kin Cheuk
  • Qiu Yu
  • Jennifer Hubbert
  • Noaman Ali
  • Andrea Pia
  • Jamie Coates
  • Matthew Erie
  • Alessandro Rippa
  • Tom White
  • Wu Di
  • Uradyn Bulag
  • Stephen Feuchtwang
  • Caroline Humphrey
  • Hans Steinmuller
  • Chen Bo