About Gene-George Earle

I am currently a PhD (final year) candidate at East China Normal University in Shanghai researching and working in Social Anthropology. My current thesis is on the Chinese tertiary education and education consultancy firms that help students migrate and study abroad, but interests range fairly broadly across a host of fields as I am coterminously involved in research projects and papers with others on divination and fortunetelling in rural parts of China, sex work and migration in Hong Kong, and aspects of early and modern Chinese philosophy. My educational background also includes more broadly development studies for my Masters (especially its intersection with critical theory and post-colonialism), as well as in a former life graduating in visual arts with focus on art history.

Gene-George Earle is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at East China Normal University in Shanghai.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Gene-George:

David Zeitlyn, "Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers" (Routledge, 2021)

September 7, 2024

Mambila Divination

David Zeitlyn

Professor David Zeitlyn’s book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in …

Le Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

August 21, 2024

The Fruits of Opportunism

Le Lin

An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s sup…

David Zeitlyn, "An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

June 30, 2024

An Anthropological Toolkit

David Zeitlyn

In Professor Zeitlyn's words, anthropology “has had enough of the big ideas already” -especially theories with a big ‘T’. In a discipline that seems…