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SUMMARY:Gordon Matthews\, "The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace"
DESCRIPTION:Join us THURSDAY (5/13/2021) at 8PM-9:30PM (PST) to hear from Professor Gordon Mathews (Anthropology\, Chinese University of Hong Kong) about his recent publication The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace.\n\n\nJoin us via Zoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks (Zoom ID: 925 5728 2471)\n\nABSTRACT: Only decades ago\, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today\, it is a truly global city\, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives\, find themselves\, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods – often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items – to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou\, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of “low-end globalization” and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world.\nThrough detailed ethnographic portraits\, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality\, reputation\, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How\, he asks\, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups – Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans – that don’t share a common language\, culture\, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families? \nFull of unforgettable characters\, The World in Guangzhou presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world. \nSPEAKER: Prof. Gordon Mathews has written or edited books about what makes life worth living in Japan and the United States\, about the global cultural supermarket and the meanings of culture today\, about the Japanese generation gap\, about what it means to “belong to a nation” in Hong Kong and elsewhere\, about how different societies conceive of happiness\, about Chungking Mansions as a global building\, and about low-end globalization around the world. Recently\, he has written papers on anthropology in East Asia\, on happiness and neoliberalism in Japan\, and on how to smuggle goods past customs in China. \nCo-sponsored by the East Asia Center and the UCSB Confucius Institute.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/gordon-matthews-the-world-in-guangzhou-africans-and-other-foreigners-in-south-chinas-global-marketplace/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
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SUMMARY:Thinking about Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:For much of the twentieth century\, discussions of imperial-era Chinese identity were framed according to three conceptual categories then current in the social sciences: culture\, race\, and nation. In the 1980s\, Western historians began shifting to a new conceptual framework: ethnicity. Despite skepticism in some quarters\, ethnicity remains the framework within which most historians analyze politicized identities encompassing aspects of both culture and nation. But does “race” as a concept still have any place in this picture? What if we applied the broader and more structural understanding of race used by critical race theory (CRT)\, as scholars in the fields of Classics and Medieval Studies have lately begun to do? In this talk\, I will survey the development of imperial Chinese ethnic discourses from the Han to the Qing and propose that “race”—as understood by many CRT scholars in terms of institutionalized\, legally enforceable hierarchies of ethnic inequality within a state—was applicable primarily to “conquest dynasty” situations of minority rule. I will also argue that certain discourses previously characterized as racist or nationalist could be more usefully interpreted as two distinct but related traditions of foreign relations thinking that I term “Chinese supremacism” and “civilization-state discourse.” \nAbout the Speaker \nShao-yun Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Denison University. An intellectual historian specializing in medieval Chinese ideas relating to empire and ethnicity\, he is the author of The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and several articles\, book chapters\, and translations. His current projects include a sourcebook on race and ethnicity in imperial China and a Cambridge Element on “Tang China and the World.”
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/thinking-about-race-and-ethnicity-in-imperial-china/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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