Landed in Delhi
By Isobel Chiang, 07/11/2019. In the Airbnb I’m currently staying in, there’s a paperback book on my nightstand. It’s called “The Sikh Gurus,” and it’s [...]
Heidegger and Shankara
By Luke McCusker, 06/18/2019. In his aesthetic writings, Martin Heidegger suggests that art works can make us aware of the nonconceptual, undefined, unmanifest reality out [...]
The Ningbo Odyssey: Part Two
By Yang Allen, 06/18/2019. Over the past month, I have been to 55 villages in Ningbo. Before entering the rural sites, I was confident to [...]
Preparations
By Collin McClain, 06/05/2019. I am anxious, scared. In just over a month, I will be boarding a flight to India. There is much to [...]
The Ningbo Odyssey: Part One
By Yang Allen, 06/05/2019. As I write this blog post, I am set to embark for Ningbo to conduct my fieldwork in the next two [...]
The Chinese Diaspora Living in Kolkata, India
By Isobel Chiang, 06/05/2019. In a little over one month, I leave for India to conduct field research on the Chinese diaspora living in Kolkata. [...]
Being a Woman in the Field
By Feng Chen, 09/11/2018. Being a Woman in the Field Thanks to India China Institute’s summer grant, I was able to conduct my first field [...]
Minority Communities in Yunnan Province
By Utsa Hazarika, 08/20/2018. Minority Nationalities of Yunnan Province, from "Yunnan: China South of the Clouds" by Jim Goodman, 2009 China’s Yunnan province is widely [...]
Building Inequality through the Housing Industry
By David Lopez Garcia, 07/30/2018. Building Inequality Through the Housing Industry: A Comparison of Shanghai and Mexico City I am now in the fourth week [...]