[Anthropgrad] Midterm Review - Sin Wen Lau - Thursday, 25 Oct 07

[Fay.Castles]

Coombs Building, Seminar Rm C (Nadel Rm)

Thursday 25 October 2007, 3pm

Sin Wen Lau is presenting her midterm paper, 'Cosmopolitanism, Flexibility & 
Belonging: An Overseas Chinese Christian Group in Shanghai', this 
Thursday. Do come along and share your insights.

This seminar is about a group of overseas Chinese women who are part of 
a Christian network in the city of Shanghai. It draws on some findings 
and analysis of my fieldwork in China between 2006 to 2007. These women 
are trailing spouses who moved to mainland China with their husbands who 
are either employed by multinationals or have invested in the China 
market. The seminar discusses ethnicity and religion as dual principles 
of organization and perceptions of home within the group. In doing so, 
it highlights some critical issues surrounding the group and suggests a 
complex understanding of self, essentially of struggling to find 
stability in mobile lives.

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Lau Sin Wen
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT0200
Australia

Telephone : +61-2-6125-3271
Fax	 : +61-2-6125-4896
Email	 : sinwen.lau at anu.edu.au
Website	 : http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology
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