Helen F. Siu
Autor de Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Helen F. Siu
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Educación
- Stanford University (PhD, 1981)
- Ocupaciones
- Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
- Biografía breve
- Helen F. Siu is a Professor of Anthropology and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. She has conducted decades of fieldwork in Southern China, exploring agrarian change and commerce, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she explores rural-urban interface in China, inter-Asian connections, China-Africa encounters, popular music and new political space in Hong Kong. She has served funding and research assessment committees in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is the founding director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. It highlights cross-disciplinary research and global collaborations (www.hkihss.hku.hk). Her recent publications are Asia Inside Out (3 volumes, Harvard U Press 2015, 2019); Tracing China: A Forty year Ethnographic Journey (HKU Press 2016), “China-Africa Encounters: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities” Annual Review of Anthropology 46 (Nov 2017), and “Financing China's Engagements in Africa: New State Spaces along a Variegated Landscape” Africa 89 (4), 2019.
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Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 49
- Popularidad
- #320,875
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 16
Pretty dry (very scholarly and clinical in tone) but seemingly full of solid, well-researched material borne from the author's genuine interest in the topic (much of the research for which was carried out AFTER the author had already published her dissertation on the subject). I stopped reading after p.150 because my grandparents had migrated out of China by 1953 (as a landed family, hopefully they were able to avoid persecution from Japanese occupation, local bosses, police etc., and the Communist land reform/reclamation movement, but I'm fairly certain there was some kind of traumatic experience that my grandmother refused to talk about). If you are researching anything specific, you likely won't find this a very straightforward resource, but the content has a lot of value if you care to wade through it.
Sample sentence: "It follows that if one looks at community-building within this wider structure of property and power relationships, one must also examine the town-based corporate estates to appreciate their influence on the rural hinterland." (p 55)… (más)