- China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Industrial Technology and Control Systems
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Philippine History and Culture
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Environmental Quality and Pollution
- Bamboo properties and applications
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Research studies in Vietnam
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Analysis of environmental and stochastic processes
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Microbial Inactivation Methods
- Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
Xiamen University
2001-2024
South China University of Technology
2016
Netherlands Standardization Institute
2014
Tsinghua University
2013
Southwest University
2001-2012
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
2001-2012
Nankai University
2011
Fujian Jiangxia University
2011
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2010
Guangdong Hydropower Planning & Design Institute
2010
Abstract Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in a public school of largely migrant children suburban Xiamen, south-east China, this article first looks into the formation class lines between people with different backgrounds – migrant, urban or rural against suzhi jiaoyu programme school. This particularly targets populace carefully and specifically selected curriculum quantifiable techniques, order to turn them self-individuated homogenized subjects China's modernization project. However, also...
This paper draws upon fieldwork among a Muslim community in the Qinghai-Gansu borderland areas to explore how desire of Muslims achieve social mobility through education is blocked by larger society which regards them as ‘familiar strangers’. can be understood tension between their for full citizenship form rights employment and limited cultural capital they possess that prevents from achieving former. primarily caused party-state's ambivalence over project state nation building minority...
Abstract Drawing upon the theses of State racism (Michel Foucault), homo sacer (Giorgio Agamben), and safe citizenship (Cynthia Weber), fieldwork data collected from a multiethnic primary school in Xinjiang, this paper examines way which state agencies local government, mainstream citizens design for Uyghurs, how Uyghurs interpret act their citizenship. The findings show why, how, designed by system has failed to produce desirably productive force prosperity both Uyghur community society at...
Abstract Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with a group of dislocated Tibetan undergraduate students the neidi ban program in Han-predominated university, this paper examines ways which these make sense their worlds. To achieve this, they have actively and engagingly organized series symbolically meaningful activities that draw on symbolic resources from cultural traditions, specific educational trajectory, anticipation for future. The paper, nonetheless, also questions conclusion how can...
By focusing on education-to-work transitions, this article aims to unveil how the emergence of life politics (Giddens, 1991) among newly graduated neidiban Tibetan college students contributes a more complicated and contradictory, yet nuanced, identity crisis (re)construction against socio-cultural landscape contemporary China. Drawing qualitative data collected from fieldwork, examines in detail these graduates’ reflexive perceptions of, aspirations for, their study, work course...
Drawing upon ethnographic data collected from fieldwork among a reading-based community in coastal city over 10 years, and Michel Foucault’s notion of the cultivation an ethical self, primary aim this study is to examine three issues: (1) how do middle-class citizens articulate practise cultural activities that they advocate?; (2) are their practices simultaneously individualized totalized way Foucault demonstrates?; (3) these internally oriented have civic significance?
Drawing upon fieldwork data collected among a group of Tibetan graduates who attended an internationally linked English training program that dramatically and fundamentally altered their life trajectories, this study argues these Tibetans acquired individualism prior to individualization practice. Their pathway is in contrast with the tendency found Korean women "toward without individualism, region-wide phenomenon East Asia'. Different scenarios exactly reveal complicatedness complexity...
Drawing on qualitative data collected from men who have sex with living HIV in Fujian and Sichuan provinces southeast southwest China, respectively, this study aims to understand their lived experiences the context of social norms, institutions roles. We argue that informants encountered biographical disruption as a result diagnosed infection. They then painfully experienced different forms death one hand, while other, some also exerted agency/autonomy by strategically fighting for rights...