Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture
A review of Life on the Move: Women’s Migration and Re/making home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film, by Hsin-Chin Hsieh. Before I…
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Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai
A review of Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in Shanghai, by Yang Shen. Although many existing literature study migrant workers in…
Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor
A review of Western Music By Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor, by Anjeline de Dios. Angeline de Dios’s…
The Work of Domestic Service in Contemporary Morocco
A review of Hired to be daughters: Domestic service among ordinary Moroccans, by Mary Elizabeth Montgomery. “Domesticity in Morocco has always been a ‘family’ thing,…
Immigrants in Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Tang China
A review of My Neighbor the Barbarian: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, and Tang Chang’an, by Ryan Russell Abrecht. Ryan Abrecht’s dissertation is…
Mobility and Senses of Belonging among the Fatani People
A review of Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi, by Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad. Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad offers an intriguing and perceptive study on…
Social Difference and Culinary Education in Peru
A review of The Taste of Distinction: Culinary Education and the Production of Social Difference in Lima, Peru, by Amy Lasater-Wille The thesis illustrates how…
Civil Unrest by Expatriates in Istanbul
A review of Sensemaking of Civil Unrest by Expatriates in Istanbul, Turkey from May 31, 2013 to July 18, 2013 by LeAnn Gale DeHoff. It has…
Decolonising Anglo-Indians
A review of Decolonising Anglo-Indians: Strategies for a Mixed Race Community in Late Colonial India during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, by Uther…
The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
A review of The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia). In July 2013, I embarked on a PhD research on…