China

by Gransow, Bettina; Nyiri, Pal; Fong, Shiaw-chian

• ISBN13: 9783825888060
• ISBN10: 3825888061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

Twenty years ago, foreign researchers were just (or to be more exact: again) beginning to venture into China for fieldwork. Today, "the field" itself has become mobile, ephemeral and virtual as more research focuses on human mobility and communication. This issue of the Berliner China-Hefte takes a look at some of the trends and problems of fieldwork in and about China today, touching on issues that range from Internet research to sexual harassment in the field, foreign investors in China and Chinese tourists abroad as research subjects, and the role of social and poverty assessment in development. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

China: New Faces of Ethnography
China: New Faces of Ethnography: Introductory Remarks	3	(7)
Bettina Gransow
The Field Transformed: From Village to Development Zone	10	(10)
Flemming Christiansen
Surfing the Virtual Minefield: Doing Ethnographic Research on the Chinese Internet	20	(24)
Karsten Giese
Scenic Spot Europe: Chinese Travelers on the Western Periphery	44	(12)
Pal Nyiri
Sex ``Suggested'' and Power Play: Notes on Harassment in the Field	56	(12)
Helen Brannagh
Need for Reflexivity: Field Research for Social Analysis in Development Planning in China	68	(15)
Susanna Price
Defining Poverty: The Role of Social Analysis in Development Policy and Practice in Contemporary China	83	(16)
Jillian Popkins
Feelings of Belonging: The Identity Problem of Taiwanese Businesspersons in Globalizing Shanghai	99	(11)
Shiaw-Chian Fong
Between Integration and Marginalisation: Women's Issues in the Labour Market Policies of the PR China	110	(13)
Anne J. Braun
Ethnic Evolvement in a South Fujian Hui Community	123	(9)
Fan Ke
Lu Bicheng: An Extraordinary Woman in a Patriarchal Society	132	(6)
Hou Jie
Qin Fang
Linus Zhang Feng (1669?-1743): A Catholic Lay Evangelist in Early Qing Sichuan	138	(9)
Robert Entenmann
Conference Report
International Symposium: Foreign educated Students and Modern Sino-Foreign Culture, Tianjin and Xuzhou (Hou Jie, Li Jingfang, Qin Fang)	147	(3)
Reviews
James L. Hevia, English Lessons. The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China (Mechthild Leutner)	150	(1)
Chen Guidi and Chun Tao, Zhongguo nongmin diaocha (Untersuchung chinesischer Bauern) (Mechthild Leutner)	151	(1)
Andrea Janku, Nur leere Reden, Politischer Diskurs und die Shanghaier Presse im China des spaten 19. Jahrhunderts (Andreas Steen)	152	(3)
Notes on Contributors	155