New Research Trends in Anthropology/Sociology of China

Abstract

This paper looks at the new country-specific and disciplinary challenges and the ways in which anthropologists and sociologists of China have re-oriented their methodological and theoretical conventions in rethinking the role of the ethnographer and resiting the audience for their writings. In doing so, this short paper argues that there is a recognisable loss of space-specificity and a tendency to retreat into the discipline.