Miriam Driessen
@driessenmiriam.bsky.social
Anthropologist and writer
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The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Hong Zhang.
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Yamahata Yōsuke is best known for his grizzly photos of Nagasaki, which offered many Americans their first look at the bodily toll of the a-bomb when they were published in Life in 1952
What I learned only today was that before he was on the ground in Nagasaki, he was in the sky over Chongqing 1/
What I learned only today was that before he was on the ground in Nagasaki, he was in the sky over Chongqing 1/
May 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yamahata Yōsuke is best known for his grizzly photos of Nagasaki, which offered many Americans their first look at the bodily toll of the a-bomb when they were published in Life in 1952
What I learned only today was that before he was on the ground in Nagasaki, he was in the sky over Chongqing 1/
What I learned only today was that before he was on the ground in Nagasaki, he was in the sky over Chongqing 1/
Great article by Jing Jing Liu on 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. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization | African Studies Review ...
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization
www.cambridge.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Great article by Jing Jing Liu on 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. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Miriam Driessen
The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
March 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Hong Zhang.
globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Hong Zhang.
globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
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Explore the experiences of South African Chinese in this analysis, examining discrimination, marginalization, apartheid-era struggles, and inter-racial dynamics.
Living Between Worlds With One Homeland in Heart: The Story of South African Chinese
Chinese communities in South Africa are generally divided into three distinct groups. LaoQiao (老侨), are South African-born Chinese (SABC) whose families have been in the country for generations, with ...
chinaglobalsouth.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Explore the experiences of South African Chinese in this analysis, examining discrimination, marginalization, apartheid-era struggles, and inter-racial dynamics.
Reposted by Miriam Driessen
The three major cases against Meta in Kenya raise an important question: can big tech be sued in African countries, and thus others?
My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Three big lawsuits against Meta in Kenya may have global implications
One was prompted by the murder of an Ethiopian professor
www.economist.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The three major cases against Meta in Kenya raise an important question: can big tech be sued in African countries, and thus others?
My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
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.
Blogging on the ‘Little Red Book’ | Made in China Journal
About 20 minutes into our conversation, Jiao paused as though gathering her thoughts. ‘Actually, the timing of this interview is coincidental,’ she said, ‘I’m planning to resign this week and blog ful...
madeinchinajournal.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Another proud supervisor moment--excellent essay by my former student, Ziyi Li, based on her MSc thesis project.
A wonderful essay by Amanda Kaminsky on workplace banter and linguistic flexibility in Kenyan-Chinese encounters. @madeinchinajournal.com @globalchinamap.bsky.social globalchinapulse.net/playing-with...
Playing with the Rules at Duck Express: Workplace Banter at a Chinese Restaurant in Nairobi
‘I’m getting good at dealing with these Chinese guys,’ Grace (a pseudonym, as are all other names of people and businesses in this essay) told me one day after joking around with a customer. Grace was...
globalchinapulse.net
December 11, 2024 at 12:27 AM
A wonderful essay by Amanda Kaminsky on workplace banter and linguistic flexibility in Kenyan-Chinese encounters. @madeinchinajournal.com @globalchinamap.bsky.social globalchinapulse.net/playing-with...
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This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...
Climbers (part one): A way out of China
Drum Tower · Episode
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November 26, 2024 at 3:59 AM
This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...
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With lots of new people joining Bluesky, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the projects falling under the umbrella of the Global China Lab, a new non-profit we established this year with the aim of advancing open knowledge about China. 1/
Global China Lab
Global China Lab is a non-profit organisation established by researchers and practitioners with the aim of advancing knowledge of contemporary China.
globalchinalab.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:10 AM
With lots of new people joining Bluesky, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the projects falling under the umbrella of the Global China Lab, a new non-profit we established this year with the aim of advancing open knowledge about China. 1/
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. @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2024/11/19/u...
Uxorilocal Marriage in Xiaoshan, 1970s to 2020s | Made in China Journal
In late March 2024, I accompanied Yifan to Golden Phoenix, a matchmaking agency specialising in arranging uxorilocal marriages in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, a place where life still moves at a leisu...
madeinchinajournal.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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. @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2024/11/19/u...
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I watched this in one go at 3 am in the morning -- this is EASILY the best piece of media I've ever consumed about the craft of writing -- even more than Stephen King's "On Writing" or "How to write a lot" (both of which I really enjoyed).
LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
YouTube video by UChicago Social Sciences
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November 13, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I watched this in one go at 3 am in the morning -- this is EASILY the best piece of media I've ever consumed about the craft of writing -- even more than Stephen King's "On Writing" or "How to write a lot" (both of which I really enjoyed).