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About Suvi Rautio
With training in anthropology and having grown up in Beijing, Suvi's academic interests cover a range of fields that help her unpack the social orderings of marginalised populations living in China. Her new book, 'The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade', focuses on her previous long-term research on heritage-making in a rural ethnic corner of China. Today, Suvi is working on an EU-funded research project on Beijing’s intellectual class during the Maoist era.NBN Episodes hosted by Suvi:
January 5, 2026
Congo's Dancers
Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo's dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religi…
December 25, 2025
The Invention of Tradition in China
Today, anthropologist Professor Anru Lee is joining NBN as a guest host to interview me, Suvi Rautio, on my new book, The Invention of Tradition in Ch…
September 22, 2025
Self as Method
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originall…
August 11, 2025
Cave of My Ancestors
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kir…
April 18, 2025
Performing State Boundaries
On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt Univ…
April 5, 2025
Hard Work
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tamper…
February 11, 2025
My Father's Wars
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Aliss…
January 30, 2025
A Collection of Creative Anthropologies
In this NBN episode, I am joined by anthropologists Eva van Roekel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) to talk ab…
January 4, 2025
Utopian Ruins
In Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020) Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories abo…
September 20, 2024
Cutting the Mass Line
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting …
September 15, 2024
Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today
On this podcast today, I am joined by three scholars: postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt, Gil Hizi; assistant professor a…
May 16, 2024
Anxiety Aesthetics
Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Associate Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee on her new book, Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1…
February 26, 2024
The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China
On the podcast today, I am joined by Mai Corlin, who is external researcher at the department of cross-cultural and regional studies in the University…
February 9, 2024
Haunted Modernities
On the podcast today, I am joined by Professor Anru Lee, who is professor of anthropology at John Jay College, the City University of New York. Anru w…
May 3, 2023
Angloscene
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Jay Ke-Schutte on his just released book, Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations (U Ca…
December 1, 2022
Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Blooms…
October 7, 2022
Secondhand China
Today I spoke with Carles Prado-Fonts on his recently published book Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation (Northwestern …
September 5, 2022
Continent in Dust
Today Julia Keblinska and I had the pleasure of talking to Assistant Professor Jerry Zee about his book, Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese W…
August 15, 2022
Cosmic Coherence
Today I spoke to anthropologist William Matthews about his new book, Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination (Berghahn B…
July 25, 2022
Chinese Village Life Today
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra), about his new book, Chinese Village Life Today: Building Fami…
November 9, 2021
The Funeral of Mr. Wang
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are…
October 22, 2021
The End of the Village
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which…
September 29, 2021
The Inconvenient Generation
On the podcast today, I am joined by Minhua Ling, Assistant Professor in the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to talk a…
July 21, 2021
Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China's Privileged Young …