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Society for East Asian Anthropology

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A Flavor of Human Feeling in Beijing

Aging residents of a Beijing neighborhood give new value to old and used household objects, creating a community space rich with a feeling of belonging in an ever-changing city.

SEAA Highlights at the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting

Society for East Asian AnthropologyAaron Su and Jieun ChoDecember 15, 2021 Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) convened a vibrant virtual business meeting and featured many stimulating panels in its program for this year’s AAA. Membership and finance increases revealed a productive year of accomplishments, while numerous announcements, awards, […]

Digital Sociality in COVID-19 Japan

How has the heightened digital mediation brought about by the pandemic reconfigured sociality, intimacy, ideas of “normalcy,” and even ethnographic practice itself?

Awardees for 2021 Announced

Find extended citations from this year’s selection committees for the Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize and the SEAA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at https://seaa.americananthro.org/awards/past-seaa-awards/ 2021 Francis L. Hsu Book PrizeWinnerSylvia M. Lindtner. Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020). Honorable MentionLyle Fearnley. Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global […]

Japan’s Disaster Artisans

How do craft breweries in Japan and the United States weather unforeseen crises?

Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic

The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life.

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SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world. We hope to promote discussion and share information on diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan, PRC, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea; other societies/cultures of Asia and the Pacific Basin with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia; and diasporic societies/cultures identified with East Asia.

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A Flavor of Human Feeling in Beijing

April 11, 2022 By Jieun Cho

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