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Paper Presentation: “Removing Houses and Relocating Graves: the Death-Scape in a Chinese Urban Village” – Yushuang Zheng (History)

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The paper is extracted from Yushuang’s thesis for the degree of M.Phil. in anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It presents a later version of the grave-relative relationships that she wrote for her first-year paper at Hopkins. Her FYP mainly dealt with practices related to grave-tending and the interpersonal interactions around these practices […]

John Delury

“Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China” – John Delury, Yonsei University

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Doing Transnational Intelligence History, Reflections on Writing "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" From Mao Zedong’s founding of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 until Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in February 1972, US-China political relations were by definition sub rosa. The two […]

Sharon Yoon

The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown – Sharon Yoon, University of Notre Dame

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The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown In the past ten years, China has rapidly emerged as South Korea’s most important economic partner. With the surge of goods and resources between the two countries, large waves of Korean migrants have opened small ethnic firms in Beijing’s Koreatown, turning a […]