Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Charm of the Gentry Class
I was smiling the whole time once you were talking and nodding but I think that really overlaps with what we were talking earlier about paying attention to the conflicts. The charm of the gentry class also my understanding is that it relates to a lot what you write about or talk about with Ute in the book this necessity to close the gap between concepts discussed in the classroom and in real social practice. There's a gap between knowledge or information as recorded in texts and then there's a life going on in the world, so how does academic research reflect global concerns local reality? In a very practical sense when you go to New York or London present a conference paper to scholars come from different worlds and
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