Familiar Strangers: Social Media and the Outsider in China

Hong Kong Museum of History 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Anthropological accounts of social relations within Chinese society have traditionally viewed both kinship and familiarity as the basis of relationships between persons, which has inevitably led to the exclusion of strangers from the majority of attempts to theorize such relations. This lecture draws on ethnographic evidence collected during 15 months of fieldwork studying the impact … Continue reading "Familiar Strangers: Social Media and the Outsider in China"