[A conversation with Xiang Biao] Forced competition and existential comparisonism: Experiences in China and Japan
Fri 07 Apr
|Shinjuku City
Method of differentiation has profound consequences, including the widespread mental stress that young people face in China, Japan, and other parts of the world today. In this conversation, participants are invited to share their personal experiences and observations about this phenomenon.
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Date and Venue
07 Apr 2023, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9
Shinjuku City, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Dr. Xiang Biao (Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research)
Xiang Biao studied sociology at Beijing University, China, and received his PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. He worked at Oxford from 2004. Xiang is the winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize for his book Global Bodyshopping and the 2012 William L. Holland Prize for his article ‘Predatory Princes’. His 2000 Chinese book 跨越边界的社区 (published in English as Transcending Boundaries, 2005) was reprinted in 2018 as a contemporary classic. His work has been translated into Japanese, French, Korean, Spanish, and Italian. Since September 2021, Biao Xiang heads the department "Anthropology of Economic Experimentation" at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research.
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