Miriam Driessen
@DriessenMiriam
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Anthropologist and writer
Oxford
Joined August 2018
The new issue of Global China Pulse is out š Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @FangYiren and @StellaHongZhang Global China Pulse 2, 2024 @GlobalChinaMap
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My new article discusses how Nigerian importers of Chinese goods use RMB and cryptocurrency to ease international business transactions, and in the process, cultivate a multicurrency fluency that befits our everchanging multipolar world. Open access šā
https://t.co/LVHGB02B7T
cambridge.org
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization - Volume 68 Issue 1
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šJoin our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: āBuilding Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focusā! Speakers: Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA) Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) @ Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Ams #ERC @CAFPower_ERC
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Another proud supervisor moment--excellent essay by my former student, Ziyi Li, based on her MSc thesis project.
In recent years, many young urban mothers in China have embraced āmum bloggingā as a profession on Xiaohongshu. Motivated by a desire for freedom, mum blogging, however, is marked by precarity under the platformās algorithmic governance, writes Ziyi Li.
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At Chinese restaurants in Nairobi, interactions between Kenyan employees and Chinese customers are often hampered by language barriers. In this essay, Amanda Kaminsky explores how the use of pidgin English facilitates fleeting moments of affinity.
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āIām getting good at dealing with these Chinese guys,ā Grace (a pseudonym, as are all other names of people and businesses in this essay) told me one day
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My former student, Charlie Yang, wrote a wonderful essay on matrilocal marriage in China, challenging common assumptions about the place of the live-in son-in-law čµå©æ in the family.
Uxorilocal marriage is often celebrated in the contemporary Chinese online sphere as a sign of female empowerment. In this essay, Zhangluyuan Charlie Yang challenges this narrative by exploring the history of this practice in a district in Hangzhou.
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made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. the studio invented ink wash animation and made 4 in total between 1960s-1980s, and this is the last one. it was extremely costly to make and commercially unprofitable, which is why after the marketization of the film industry in the
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For years, companies like Coca-Cola have shaped science and society in the West. In 'Soda Science', Susan Greenhalgh discusses how their ideas of fitness and nutritional science have been exported to China as well. A conversation with @yangyang_cheng.
madeinchinajournal.com
To many, a can of Coke is a refreshing treat or an unhealthy indulgence. For years, companies like Coca-Cola have shaped not just our diet and waistlines, but also science and society. Their influe...
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I recently had a conversation about Chinese Espresso with the Global China Pulse.ā Thank you @DriessenMiriam for organizing this.
In 'Chinese Espresso', @GraziaDeng draws from ethnographic fieldwork to examine one of the most characteristic Italian places, the coffee bar, highlighting it as a crucial terrain to shape racialisation processes and transform racial hierarchies in Italy.
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Can't resist sharing. We adopted a pup last week. She loves sitting on tree stumps.
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Huge thanks to Ruiyi Zhu for introducing me to the world of standards and standardization and drawing me in. Check out our special issue:
Our special issue on Chinese standards and standardization is out! Thanks to everyone who contributed. All articles are freely available: China Information - Volume 38, Number 2, Jul 01, 2024 ( https://t.co/l2xYznESgd)
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Happy Friday! The cover of my book is out! The book is a literary non-fiction, sometimes personal series of interlocking profiles of people who exemplify the wonderful complexity of identity in China and of course, how the state tries to control it https://t.co/iZmNOKGkNe
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A āgripping and scrupulously reportedā (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to...
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Great explainer on the controversy around the British Museum exhibition China's Hidden Century and the politics of history in China @MIC_Journal @britishmuseum
madeinchinajournal.com
In the summer of 2023, the British Museum hosted a major exhibition titled āChinaās Hidden Centuryā (British Museum 2023). This ambitious display aimed to present the political, economic, and social...
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One reason why UK universities are in such a dire state is because they're increasingly being captured by management consultants. This article explains why this is happening: https://t.co/cRXUlsuIuG
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Can't wait to dig into this book! @graziadeng
In Chinese Espresso, @GraziaDeng investigates why and how local coffee bars in Italyāthose distinctively Italian social and cultural spacesāhave been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008. Out now, learn more: https://t.co/TQlehej2YV
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Thrilled to share my conversation with Ningyi Sun and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, directors of the beautiful ethnographic film, Eat Bitter.
thepeoplesmap.net
Touching, absorbing, and, at times, hilarious, the 2023 documentary Eat Bitter reveals the human face of Chinese involvement in Africa. Set in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, the...
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