Anthropologist and writer
Oxford
Joined August 2018
- Tweets455
- Following1.1K
- Followers1.2K
- Likes3.5K
Pinned Tweet
The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @FangYiren and @StellaHongZhang
Global China Pulse 2, 2024 @GlobalChinaMap
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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.2025.20
Here is the link: globalchinapulse.net/global-…
Miriam Driessen retweeted
🌟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 @CAFPower_ERC
Another proud supervisor moment--excellent essay by my former student, Ziyi Li, based on her MSc thesis project.
In recent years, many young urban mothers in China have embraced ‘mum blogging’ as a profession on Xiaohongshu. Motivated by a desire for freedom, mum blogging, however, is marked by precarity under the platform’s algorithmic governance, writes Ziyi Li. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/…
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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…
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.
Uxorilocal marriage is often celebrated in the contemporary Chinese online sphere as a sign of female empowerment. In this essay, Zhangluyuan Charlie Yang challenges this narrative by exploring the history of this practice in a district in Hangzhou. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/…
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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 1990s, ink wash animation disappeared for 30 years. the next major one 秋实 came in 2020. m.36kr.com/p/1725137485825
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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/…
Miriam Driessen retweeted
I recently had a conversation about Chinese Espresso with the Global China Pulse.” Thank you @DriessenMiriam for organizing this.
In 'Chinese Espresso', @GraziaDeng draws from ethnographic fieldwork to examine one of the most characteristic Italian places, the coffee bar, highlighting it as a crucial terrain to shape racialisation processes and transform racial hierarchies in Italy. globalchinapulse.net/chinese…
Huge thanks to Ruiyi Zhu for introducing me to the world of standards and standardization and drawing me in. Check out our special issue:
Our special issue on Chinese standards and standardization is out! Thanks to everyone who contributed.
All articles are freely available: China Information - Volume 38, Number 2, Jul 01, 2024 (sagepub.com) @chinainform
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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…
Great explainer on the controversy around the British Museum exhibition China's Hidden Century and the politics of history in China @MIC_Journal @britishmuseum
madeinchinajournal.com/2024/…
Miriam Driessen retweeted
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.…
Can't wait to dig into this book! @graziadeng
In Chinese Espresso, @GraziaDeng investigates why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008.
Out now, learn more: hubs.ly/Q02vxBHR0
ALT The cover of Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy by Grazia Ting Deng. The cover is red with an image of espresso.
Thrilled to share my conversation with Ningyi Sun and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, directors of the beautiful ethnographic film, Eat Bitter. thepeoplesmap.net/globalchin…
