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Miriam Driessen

@driessenmiriam

Anthropologist and writer

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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: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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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 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/l…

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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 Made in China Journal British Museum madeinchinajournal.com/2024/07/11/sec…

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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:

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山水情 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/2024/10/09/sod…

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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 赘婿 in the family.

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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. globalchinapulse.net/playing-with-t…

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🌟Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”! 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 China Africa Fashion Power

🌟Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”!
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 <a href="/CAFPower_ERC/">China Africa Fashion Power</a>
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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 🆓✅ doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…