The University of Edinburgh

Anthropology of East Asia[2021-2022]

Welcome to the Course

East Asia, particularly China has undergone some of the most dramatic social cultural
transformations over the past decades. This course offers an overview of anthropological
studies on East Asia, with a particular focus on China and its ever-growing significance in
global politics. To this end, the course explores a wide range of thematic topics to critically
assess the social and cultural transformations of East Asia.

The main objective of the course is to help students develop critical evaluation skills for
analysing East Asia transformation in a global and transnational context. While this course is
grounded in anthropology, it will also incorporate perspectives from sociology, history,
geography, and political science. Students will engage with a range of textual and visual media
in order to develop a deeper understanding of East Asia, through which they will be
encouraged to reflect critically on their own impressions of, and/or encounters with the region.

Each week, students will watch one pre-recorded lecture which will be uploaded to the Learn
page by Monday each week. Each student will be expected to read the assigned essential
reading and attend one small group tutorial/seminar on Monday or Wednesday. Please
attend your allocated session. Students will be introduced the core topics through a
combination of lecture, discussion, and class debate. Core topics will be further explored in
relation to set readings via the small-group tutorials.

Learning outcomes (Undergraduate students)

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Show broad understanding of the key debates, issues, and theories in anthropology of
East Asia.
2. Critically evaluate, from an anthropologically-informed perspective, East Asia's social-
cultural transformations in a global and transnational context.
3. Assess the merits and drawbacks of different analytical approaches to study East Asia.
4. Develop skills in interpreting and critiquing textual and visual materials on East Asia
covering a diverse range of styles and lengths.

Learning outcomes (postgraduate students)

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. show advanced understanding and awareness of the key concepts, issues, and debates
in the anthropology of East Asia
2. critically evaluate, from an anthropologically-informed perspective, East Asia's social-
 cultural transformations in a global and transnational context
3. critically assess constraints and merit of different analytical and methodological
approaches in the field.
4. interpret and critique textual and visual materials on East Asia covering a diverse range
of styles and lengths
5. conduct independent research and analysis on contemporary issues relating to East Asia.

Week 1 Locating East Asia

This week gives an overview of the course. It introduces anthropology of East Asia in the field
of area studies and anthropology. It encourages you to think through the following questions:
what do we mean when we talk of “East Asia”; what may an anthropological perspective
offer to our understanding of East Asian society and culture and beyond? How may East Asia
become a method to broader anthropological and sociological questions?

Essential Readings
Wang, Gungwu. 2019. “Chapter VI: China’s South: Changing Perspective”. In China
Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order, 139-161. Singapore: World
Scientific Press.

Frank Pieke. 2012. Inaugural lecture (chair professorship, speech). - Anthropology and the 21
century. Chinese anthropology. (KEY) Anthropology and the Chinese century.
https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/19589

Week 2 Politics of fieldwork and knowledge

This week explores how fieldwork in East Asia is both restricted and enabled by specific
historical conjunctures and geopolitics in the post-WWII era. It raises questions on the politics
of knowledge production about areas such as “East Asia” in anthropology and area studies.
How anthropology becomes the discipline that is most identified with certain area studies?
How are area studies transformed in light of Said’s Orientalism and the field of postcolonial
studies? Why do China, Japan, and Korea matter? To whom? Are they unique and still unique?

Essential Readings
Ryang, Sonia. 2002. Chrysanthemum's Strange Life: Ruth Benedict in Postwar Japan, Asian
Anthropology, 1:1, 87-116

Yamashita, Shinji, Joseph Bosco, and J.S. Eades, “Asian Anthropologies: Foreign, Native, and
Indigenous.” In The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia, Shinji Yamashita,
Joseph Bosco, and J.S. Eades, eds., pp. 1-34. (New York: Berghahn, 2004).

Reading guide:
The first two weeks aims to historicize and contextualize the debates and ethnographies we
are going to explore in the following weeks in this course. To this end, you may skim through
the detailed debates presented in Ryang's reading. Try to locate Ryang's key argument in this
reading and her main critique on Benedict's Chrysanthemum. No worries at all if you haven't
read Chrysanthemum. It is the point that Ryang tries to make in this article that matters for
our purpose here. Same as the other essential reading on Asian anthropologies. It would help
if you try to relate these two readings to the claim: all forms of knowledge is political.

If you have extra time, the following reading is highly recommended:

Sinah, Theres Kloß. 2017. “The Global South as Subversive Practice: Challenges and
Potentials of a Heuristic Concept.” The Global South 11 (2): 1–18.

Week 3 Labor and mobilities

This week explores a key question: Why does China, as the world’s factory today, show little
sign of active labor politics? The exploration starts from the early twentieth-century
proletarian revolution in China to the global rise of neoliberalism and its impact on East Asia
labor politics. We will discuss how the lens of mobilities sheds light on labor issues.

Essential Readings
Pun, Ngai. 2016. Migrant Labor in China: Post-Socialist Transformations. Cambridge: Polity.
Read “Chapter 1: China and its Labor in the Neoliberal World” (p.1-17).

Xiang, Biao. 2020. The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and
pandemic governance in China, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 21:4, 521-532, DOI:
10.1080/14649373.2020.1832305

Guide: No skim reading for this week. Both pieces worth some careful reading. If you still have
time, I highly recommend you to read one more ethnographic article for this week, you can
choose one from the following two:
Cassegard, Carl. 2014. Let us Live! Empowerment and the Rhetoric of Life in the Japanese
Precarity Movement. Positions. (an ethnographic case in Japan)

Fang, I-Chieh. 2021. When Ghosts Appear: Migrant Workers, Fears of Haunting, and Moral
Negotiation in a Chinese Electronics Factory. (an ethnographic case in mainland China)

Questions to discuss in tutorials in relation to readings, the lecture, and the documentary
clip.
(1). Why does China, as the world’s factory today, show little sign of active labor politics? (in
relation to Pun Ngai's, Xiang Biao's, Fang I-Chieh's articles, Dreamwork China, lecture)
(2). How does anthropology (and some sociological work) move beyond standard Marxist or
other economistic account of globalisation and precarity? (Xiang Biao’s, I-Chieh Fang’s,
Carl Cassegard's article) how the lens of mobilities sheds light on labor issues? (Xiang Biao's)
(3). Any thoughts from the clip Dreamwork China?
If we have time left, we will have an intervention debate: What do ethnographic perspectives
suggest should be done about labour relations and labour politics? How might we design
campaigns to build the rights of precarious workers in global production? (open to debate,
can refer to e.g., Pun Ngai's, Xiang Biao's, I-Chieh Fang's and Carl Cassegard’s articles and
beyond)

Week 4 State and society

This week explores the mutual constitution and transformation of state and society in East
Asia.
Dr. Sophia Woodman will give a guest lecture: "Citizenship is local: an ethnographic view on
citizenship from Tianjin, China"

In this lecture, I will explore the meaning of ‘citizenship’ in China drawing on ethnographic
research in the ‘basic level organizations’ in urban and rural China in the late 2000s. I will
show how this creates particular types of politics, and relations between citizens and the state.

Essential Readings
Woodman, Sophia. 2018. ‘All Citizenship Is Local: Using China to Rethink Local Citizenship’.
In Citizenship and Place: Case Studies on the Borders of Citizenship, edited by Cherstin M
Lyon and Allison F Goebel, 253–84. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
https://discovered.ed.ac.uk/permalink/44UOE_INST/1viuo5v/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781
786605856

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. 2020. Chapter 9 “Broadening and Pluralizing the Modern Category
of “Civil Society”: A Friendly Quarrel with Durkheim” in Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual
Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China. Durham: Duke University Press. (For those of you
who cannot access the chapter, see attached)

Pieke, Frank. 2010. Chapter 1 “Socialism, capitalism, and the anthropology of neo-socialist
rule” in The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 1-25

Additional Resources
If you have extra time, I recommend you also watch this documentary film "The Chinese
Mayor" by Zhou Hao (2015). It will offer you a good sense of "state in society"- how state and
society are mutually constituted; and "state as society" - how we can study the state in the
same way as we study society (the culture-power nexus). It is now available for online
streaming. You can check it out from the resource list (https://video-alexanderstreet-
com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/watch/the-chinese-mayor-2).

Questions to discuss in tutorials:

(1). How do ethnographic cases from China inform our understanding of the relations
between state and society? (Woodman, Yang, Pieke) What do "socialized governance"
(Woodman), "state in society", and "state as society" (Pieke) mean?
(in our tutorials, we also mentioned Ferguson and Gupta's work on state and state effect -
Ferguson, James, and Akhil Gupta. "Spatializing states: toward an ethnography of neoliberal
governmentality." American ethnologist 29, no. 4 (2002): 981-1002. )
(2). To what extent is the modern category of "civil society" helpful for us to think with when
we analyze social organizations in China (Yang)
(in our tutorials, I mentioned that this question is to encourage you to always think with
(instead of within) categories)

Week 5 Family and gender

This week explores how gender is produced and reproduced in relation to different spheres
of social life, including but not limited to citizenship and nationhood, history and memory,
family and relationships. We also explore how the ideals of gender are going through changes
while also underpinning many social changes that we witness in East Asia societies today.
Dr. Mao Jingyu will give us a guest lecture.

Essential Readings
(1). Cheng, Sealing. 2011. “Sexual protection, citizenship and Nationhood: Prostituted
Women and Migrant Wives in South Korea”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 37:10,
1627-1648.
(2). Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping, and Yinni Peng. 2016. Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family,
and Gender in China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Read “Chapter 1
Introduction,” pp. 1-20.

Reading guide: Read the key questions we will be discussing in our tutorials (see "tutorial
activities"). Read the two essential readings with the key questions in mind and see how the
cases from South Korea and China speak to the questions. Choi and Peng's review does not
contain much ethnography. Hence if you have extra time, choose one of the two following
ethnographic pieces to read, which supplement Choi and Peng's review piece (recommended
reading, available on the resource list):
Zavoretti, Roberta. "Is it Better to Cry in a BMW or to Laugh on a Bicycle? Marriage,‘financial
performance anxiety’, and the production of class in Nanjing (People's Republic of China)."
Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 4 (2016): 1190-1219.

Mao, Jingyu. 2021. "Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using "the Multiplication of Labour"
to Understand Ethnic Performers' Work in Southwest China." China Perspectives 9-17.

Also recommended is a very short piece (only 5 pages) on mother-daughter relations that is
mentioned in the lecture:
Evans, Harriet. 2008. The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China. Rowman
and Littlefield. Read “The Changing Subject of Gender,” pp. 199-203.

Additional Resources
(1). Michel Foucault's idea of biopower is central to understanding this week's readings. If you
haven't read Foucault, you may wish to start with Rabinow, Paul. The Foucault Reader. (1984).
This is a fairly accessible short book on Foucault’s main ideas. I also recommend watching
Foucault’s debate with Noam Chomsky so that you will get a better idea of Foucault as a
thinker:

(2). In response to some of your interests on "villages in city". I mentioned Harriet Evans's
book Beijing from below (on the reading and review list). This interview contains some photos
of her fieldsite in Beijing: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/06/15/beijing-from-below-
a-conversation-with-harriet-evans/.

In fact, Xiang Biao's book: Transcending boundaries (on the reading and review list) is a great
ethnographic study of "Zhejiang village" in Beijing.
Here is a great project documenting urban villages in Shenzhen:
https://shenzhennoted.com/sz-urban-villages/

Week 6 Transnational human and non-human mobilities

This week explores transnational mobilities in multiple settings and how the lens of
transnational mobilities offer us insights into broader geopolitical questions. We will examine
how desires of mobilities are produced and embodied; and how might transnational
mobilities reproduce inequalities, inscribed along the racial, class, and gender lines. And finally,
we will reflect upon the labour of global social reproduction and what kind of politics could
emerge from it?

Essential Readings
Chu, Julie Y. 2006. “To Be ‘Emplaced’: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of
Destination.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 13(3): 395–425.
Guevarra, Anna Romina. 2018. “Mediations of Care: Brokering Labour in the Age of Robotics.”
Pacific Affairs 91(4): 739–758.
Both are ethnographic pieces and worth careful reading. They offer divergent and yet
complimentary perspectives on transnational mobilities.

Additional Resources
(1). After reading Guevarra's piece, please watch this short clip on Engkey, the robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHe5XDAqp8&t=85s
And if you have extra time, please watch this short clip of the film why-cybraceros (1997, 5
minutes) at http://alexrivera.com/project/why-cybraceros/

(2). After reading Chu's piece, you may like to watch this short clip and recent news article on
Fujianese migrants in the US: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national-
politics/the-race/fujian-americans-push-to-make-change-weve-waited-100-years
Here is a good case in comparison with Chu's case study on the significance of "home":
Kaiping Diaolou and villages (3 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-iMDji_wQA
Chu's piece on transnationalism could be read against the idea of the nation as the organizing
"imagined community" (Anderson 1991). For those of you who have not read or are not
familiar with Anderson's Imagined Community (1983), I recommend you have a quick watch
of this short documentary about Anderson's main ideas:
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2526-imagined-communities-benedict-anderson-on-
british-nationalism. Anderson's idea is not central to understanding this week's reading. So
it is entirely optional.

Questions to discuss in tutorials

(1). How desires of mobilities are produced and embodied (Chu)
(2). What is the racial politics of the global labour of care and how is this manifest within new
technologies? (Guevarra)
(3). How might transnational mobilities reproduce inequalities, inscribed along the racial, class,
and gender lines? (Chu and Guevarra).
Intervention debate: What kind of politics could emerge from our ethnographic
understanding of the labour of global reproduction? (all readings,
link to week 5, and your imagination)

Week 7: Globalisation
This week explores the rise of China as an important driving force in reconfiguring the local
and the global. It encourages us to rethink the global implications of “Made in China” and
how we come to approach informal and formal economy on a transnational scale. Special
attention is paid to China’s role in shaping the South-South trade and its impact on the
economy and society of the Global South.

Essential Readings
Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana. 2018. “Rethinking the Informal and Criminal Economy From a
Global Commodity Chain Perspective: China-Paraguay-Brazil.” Global Networks 18(3): 479–
499.

Cheuk, Ka-Kin. 2021. "Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai
Through Indian Trading Networks." American Behavioral Scientist. DOI:
10.1177/00027642211020056

Both pieces contain rich historical and ethnographic materials. Careful reading is
recommended.

For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of "informal economy", Keith Hart has
a short yet critical overview of the concept here:
https://thememorybank.co.uk/papers/informal-economy/ . This concept is central to
understanding both essential readings. So if this concept is new to you, I recommend you
read this blog entry (converted from a book chapter) as a background reading. It is less than
2000 words! No worries if you still find the idea elusive, I will also briefly recap the debate in
my lecture.
Questions to discuss in tutorials:
(1). Economic anthropologist Keith Hart suggests that there has been an “informalization”
of the global economy. Discuss in relation to the readings and the lecture (Cheuk and
Pinheiro-Machado).
(2). How are the formal and the informal related? How do people go beyond the
formal/informal, licit/ilicit dichotomy? (Cheuk and Pinheiro-Machado)
(3). Why do we need to study informal/illegal economy as a global system? What is the
significance of the informal economy in the Global South and for the marginal? (Lecture and
all readings)

Week 8 Creative agency and visions

This week explores creative agency and visions among artists, dancers, sportspersons, and
creative laborers. What forms of global social mobility and recognition do creative industries
such as the arts, sport, and the digital world enable? How may creativity resist appropriation
by capital? What is the power of creativity and art? We will venture into an ethnographic
exploration of global creative production that will shed light on these questions.

Essential Readings
Ong, Aihwa. 2012. “ ‘What Marco Polo forgot’: contemporary Chinese art reconfigures
the global”. Current Anthropology 53(4): 471–494.

Lin, Jian. and de Kloet, Jeroen., 2019. Platformization of the unlikely creative class: Kuaishou
and Chinese digital cultural production. Social Media+ Society, 5(4).

I encourage you to read the two readings with the guiding questions in mind (available in the
week's introduction and the "tutorial activities"). Many anthropologists are exploring the
visionary potential of our knowledge production. David Graeber has written extensively on
the political potentials of imaginations (see the resource list). The following article by Xiang
Biao is highly recommended as an additional reading if you have extra time.
Xiang Biao. 2016. "Theory as Vision." Anthropological theory DOI:
10.1177/1463499616660238

Questions:
1. What is the politics of the immaterial labour of art and current modes of perception? Do
you agree with Ong that (Chinese) Art can generate an ‘anticipatory imaginary’? (Ong and
the lecture)
2. What kind of subjectivity and agency are algorithmic social media cultures associated with?
Can we game the algorithm? Are we its victims? (Lin and de Kloet)
in-class DEBATE: It is possible to imagine and be creative without contributing to global
accumulation
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree
Remember to back up what you are saying with ethnographic examples, news articles, or
personal experiences.
How does art (broadly defined) mediate this dilemma in distinct ways? What do artists and
the "unlikely creative class" tell us about creative agency in general?

Week 9 Ethnicity and nationalism

Debates on nationality/nationalism have both been academic and political. This is particularly
the case for debates on Ethnic minority issues in China. This week explores this key debate
from an anthropological perspective.

Essential Readings
(1). Schein, Louisa. 2000. “Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work”. In
Minority Rules. Durham: Duke University Press.Ch. 3. Available here: 9780822397311-003.pdf
(2). Wu, David. 1990. "Chinese minority policy and the meaning of minority culture: the
example of Bai in Yunnan, China." Human Organization 49, no. 1: 1-13. 44125990.pdf

If you are into how anthropological perspective contributes to rewriting the history of the
ethnic margins, the following article is recommended (this is a long yet intriguing article. I will
also mention it briefly in my lecture):
Mueggler, Erik. 2021. "Lady Qu's Inscriptions: Literacy and Sovereignty in a Native Domain,
Southwest China." The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1: 27-48.

Questions to discuss
(1). How relevant is "culture" to the construction of ethnic groups? Discuss in relation to the
ethnographic cases. (Wu, Schein)
(2). Sociologist Richard Jenkins said: "Ethnicity as a social identity is collective and individual,
externalized in social interaction and internalized in personal self-identification." Discuss
(Lecture, Wu and Schein)

Week 10 Religion and the question of modernity

Essential Readings
Cao, Nanlai. 2008. "Boss Christians: The business of religion in the" Wenzhou model" of
Christian revival." The China Journal 59: 63-87. https://openresearch-
repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/33781/4/01_Cao_Boss_Christians%3A_The_Business_2
008.pdf
Weller, Robert, Julia Huang and Keping Wu. 2020. “Philanthropy and the religious life of
goodness in China.” in Handbook on Religion in China, 34-53
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786437969.00008

Tutorial Activity
We are turning our final tutorial into a mini symposium. Please refer to the email I sent for
the presentation schedule. Let me know beforehand if you could not make it to the final
tutorial.
Each student will give a 3-minute presentation on their final research paper outline.
This is followed by the critical friend's comments (within 2 minutes)
I will be very strict with timing.
If you wish to use PPT, please send me your PPT beforehand by Noon Tuesday 23 Nov. PPT
is NOT essential. It is perfectly fine for you to present without a PPT.
Please arrive on time.
Additional options
Given the limited number of themes we may cover in the course, I have listed some additional
topics for you to explore beyond the classroom. You may also explore these options for your
second assessment––the research paper.

Option: Development and transformation

This week further explores East Asian societies in the midst of rapid change since the 1980s.
The focus is on the processes of transformation from Maoist socialism to late socialism in
China and the neoliberal reform in South Korea. We will read ethnographies that shed light
on the lived experiences and vernacular understanding of such transformation. Our
explorations will help us rethink the role of states and markets in maintaining societies.
Essential readings:
Song, Jesook. 2009. South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare
Society. Durham: Duke University Press. Read the chapter "Youth as Neoliberal Subjects of
Welfare and Labor"
Rojas, Carlos, and Ralph A. Litzinger, eds. 2016. Ghost Protocol: Development and
displacement in global China. Duke University Press. Read the Introduction chapter.
Allison, Anne. 2014. Precarious Japan. Duke University Press. Read chapter "Ordinary
Refugeeism: Poverty, Precarity, Youth" or the chapter "Home and Hope".

Option: Technology and wellbeing

This week explores the rise of “therapeutic self” and multiple technologies of seeking and
maintaining wellbeing in relation to social cultural transformations.
Essential:
Zhang Li, 2020. Anxious China: Inner revolution and politics of psychotherapy. University of
California Press. Read Chapter 5 Crafting a Therapeutic Self
Song, Priscilla. 2017. Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. Read Introduction chapter.

Option: Borders
This week is a follow-up to week 6 and week 7. It further explores transnationalism and
globalization with a focus on borders. How borders and transnational mobilities are governed
and transformed?
Essential:
Smart, Alan, and Josephine Smart. 2008. “Time-Space Punctuation: Hong Kong’s Border
Regime and Limits on Mobility.” Pacific Affairs 81(2): 175–193.
Hans Steinmuller. 2020. The moral economy of militarism: peasant economy, military state
and Chinese capitalism in the Wa State of Myanmar Social Anthropology/Anthropologie
Sociale 28, 1 121–135.
Please refer to the resource list for the additional reading
list of references mentioned in Week 10's presentation sessions
Dear all,
Some of you might not have noticed the announcement I made last week. Here is a list of
references that I mentioned in the three presentation sessions in Week 10 in case you might
not have noted them down. Some are already on the resource list; some are not. There are
clearly overlapping interests among you.
(1). Emotional labour literature (Arlie Hoschschild); affective labour (Michael Hardt);
gerontechnologies (e.g., Hsu, Eric L., et al. "The development of aged care robots in Japan as
a varied process." Technology in Society 63 (2020): 101366.
(2). Father’s role in Childcare: jiao/yang reminds me of the article on guan/ai: (Zhu, Jianfeng,
et al. "Guan (Care/Control): An ethnographic understanding of care for people with severe
mental illness from Shanghai’s urban communities." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 42.1
(2018): 92-111.); And the book by Xu Jing The good child: Moral development in a Chinese
preschool. Stanford University Press, 2017.
(3). Inter-generational care; neo-familism: Yan, Yunxiang. "The Rise of Neo-Familism in
Contemporary China." (2017).
(4). Algorithm and attention economy: Precarious Popularity: Facebook Drinking Photos, the
Attention Economy, and the Regime of the Branded Self - Ian Goodwin, Christine Griffin,
Antonia Lyons, Timothy McCreanor, Helen Moewaka Barnes, 2016
The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms - Taina
Bucher, 2017
(5). Changing moral life/landscape: there is an introduction chapter to the earlier book Deep
China. And Yan, Yunxiang has a latest article revisiting his argument on moral change: (2021).
The Politics of Moral Crisis in Contemporary China. The China Journal, 85(1), 96-120.
(6). Mobilities and labour in a pandemic time, gig economy in particular: “mobile livelihoods”
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2020/mobile-livelihoods-in-stress/
(7). Representations of the minorities from the perspective of minority intellectuals: Ralph
Litzinger Other Chinas.
(8). A more constructive analysis on tourism: consumption of home in the tourist sites (Su,
Xiaobo. "Tourism, modernity and the consumption of home in China." Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers 39, no. 1 (2014): 50-61 ); Walsh, Eileen Rose, and Margaret
Byrne Swain. "Creating modernity by touring paradise: Domestic ethnic tourism in Yunnan,
China." Tourism recreation research 29, no. 2 (2004): 59-68.

For those of you who are looking at marriage, there is a new book by our colleagues Janet
Carsten, Siobhan Magee and Hsiao-Chiao Chiu. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/177355.
We will host a book launch talk for them in semester 2. So stay tuned!