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Tracing China. A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

Siu_hb.inddHelen F. Siu, Tracing China : a forty-year ethnographic journey. Hong Kong University Press, 2016, 528 p.

Tracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China’s global reach and Hong Kong’s cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China’s frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals—laden with historical baggage—venture forward.

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picture-18-1392852510Helen F. Siu is professor of anthropology at Yale University and founding director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.

Recent Publications

  • Asia inside out : connected places. Harvard University Press, 2015.
  • Asia inside out : changing times. Harvard University Press, 2015. Disponible à Paris-BULAC
  • Merchants’ daughters : women, commerce and regional culture in south China. Hong Kong University Press, 2010. Disponible à Paris-BULAC
Jacqueline Nivard
Jacqueline Nivard
Jacqueline Nivard, Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jacqueline Nivard (11 août 2016). Tracing China. A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 14 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqwa


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