Description
Doing fieldwork inside the PRC is an eye-opening but sometimes also deeply frustrating experience. Fieldwork-based studies form the foundation for our understanding of Chinese politics and society, but there are conspicuously few detailed descriptions in the China literature of how people actually do their fieldwork, and of the problems they encounter.
This lack of public methodological debate not only undermines academic standards of openness: it also stalls constructive discussion on coping strategies to shared problems, and it leaves graduate students going to the field for the first time with a feeling of being the only ones to encounter difficulties. In this volume scholars from around the world reflect on their own fieldwork practice in order to give practical advice and discuss more general theoretical points.
The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines such as political science, anthropology, economics, media studies, history, cultural geography, and sinology. The book also contains an extensive bibliography. This work is of relevance to postgraduate students from the social sciences and humanities who plan to do fieldwork in China; to experienced scholars who are new to the China field; and to experienced China scholars with an interest in methodological issues.
About the Author
Maria Heimer researches children's rights, especially children's right to speak, from a broader welfare perspective. Some of her research in this area was conducted in China.
Prior to his retirement, Stig Thogersen was professor of China Studies at Aarhus University. He has published extensively on Chinese education and on political, social and cultural change in rural China.
Book Information
ISBN 9788791114977
Author Maria Heimer
Format Paperback
Page Count 334
Imprint NIAS Press
Publisher NIAS Press