Call for Papers : Chinese Individuals in Dilemma: Rethinking China’s Path to Individualization in the New Era
Guest editors:
Canglong Wang (University of Brighton, UK)
Yunxiang Yan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Jun Yang (East China University of Science and Technology, China)
The individualization thesis was first proposed by Western sociologists such as Ulrich Beck (Beck ; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim ), Anthony Giddens (), and Zygmunt Bauman () in the late 20th century, aiming to explain how individuals in late modernity gradually disembed from traditional social structures, gaining more autonomy and choice. Over the past two decades, the individualization thesis has been widely applied by sociologists globally to various social issues. Researchers have utilized this theoretical framework to explore the complex dynamics of multiple identities (Speck ), social mobility (Botterill ), changes in family structures (Smart and Shipman ; Kyung-Sup ; Yan ), cultural transformations (Houtman, Aupers, and Koster ), and political actions (Gøtzsche-Astrup ) in modern society. Through the study of individualization processes across different cultural and social contexts
Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Yan followed a rather unusual path to become an anthropologist in the United States. He was born in Beijing, China. In , like some , other people nationwide he involuntarily became an impoverished villager when his family was expelled from the city to a remote village due to his father’s political opinions. In the same year he was forced to drop out of primary school and to work as a shepherd, farmer, and seasonal manual laborer in rural China until As a young political outcast living and working in two villages during this year period, he had more opportunities than many of his peers to experience the devastating economic hardships (including famine) and the brutal political oppression under radical Maoism. Regardless, he benefited a great deal from living at the very bottom rungs of society as he learned directly from everyday life what really matters to ordinary people, experiencing their struggles for subsistence and meaning in life and sharing their efforts to cope with radical and rapid social changes, while at the same time attempting to maintain, sometimes with great difficulty, a proper sense of the self.
This long-term experien
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Yan Yunxiang
University of California, Los Angeles
Yan Yunxiang is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Unpacking and understanding the moral experiences of ordinary people in the fast-changing world today constitutes the abiding theme in his anthropological career over the last plus years, and his research interests include family and kinship, economic anthropology, social change and development, cultural globalization, and the individual-society relationship. He is a participant in the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues Research Group on Culture and Society.
- Author of The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, ); Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, (Stanford University Press, ); and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, ).
- Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in
Participating in:
Sociocultural Anthropology
The anthropology of transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; Africa in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria), African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), history of anthropology, social theory
Subfield:African History and World History
Ethnic and religious minorities; Islam; anthropology of religion, history, youth, and festival; Holocaust; sociology of Morocco; historiography; Morocco; North Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, economy and value, gender, environment, American public culture, Indian gaming; United States, Native North America
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Violence; materiality; Latino migration; forensic science; archaeology of the contemporary; photoethnography
Subfield:Archaeology
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