[Anthropgrad] Reminder: Midterm Review (Thursday, 25 Oct 07)]

[Fay.Castles]

Coombs Building, Seminar Rm C (Nadel Rm)
Thursday 25 October 2007, 
3pm

Sin Wen 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 <mailto:sinwen.lau at anu.edu.au>
Website : http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology
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