Anni Kajanus

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Let’s be prepared to do some mediation work. Perhaps it's our turn, based in Euro-American institutions, to take some of it on.

Negative view: silo effect is likely. The conversations diverge and we don’t read each other.

Hopeful view: some of this linguistic insularity can generate genuine plurality of thought and have an impact on anthropology more broadly.

Meantime in the mainland, anthro is in high demand in public debates, and the publication field in Chinese has expanded. It is in the interests (and sometimes required) of mainland colleagues to direct their energies there.

In the future China anthro will be increasingly done in Chinese, by Chinese colleagues. for the past 5 years it’s been very hard to plan long-term fieldwork in China, and because the first fieldwork is so crucially important, our non-Chinese PhD students are not currently specialising in China.

Just spent 3 days in Hong Kong with a great group of Chinese China anthropologists. Some of my main takeaways. 1/6