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About Suvi Rautio
Suvi's academic interests cover a range of fields that help her unpack the social orderings of marginalised populations living in China. Guided by stories of her own family history, Suvi is currently working on a four-year Postdoctoral project studying the transmission of memory and loss among Beijing’s intellectual class during the Maoist era.Dr. Suvi Rautio is an anthropologist of China.
NBN Episodes hosted by Suvi:
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…
October 29, 2023
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…
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…
January 15, 2023
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…
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 …
June 18, 2021
Light in Dark Times
Today I spoke to anthropologist Alisse Waterston and artist Charlotte Corden to ask them questions, such as: What will become of us in these trying ti…
June 9, 2021
The Inheritance
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where famil…
May 26, 2021
Discourses of Race and Rising China
Yinghong Cheng's book Discourses of Race and Rising China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is a critical study of the development of a racialised national…
May 25, 2021
The Best We Share
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a wid…
March 11, 2021
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…
January 20, 2021
Rural Origins, City Lives
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppressi…
January 8, 2021
Recovering Histories
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period…
December 1, 2020
Mao's Third Front
In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Unio…
November 11, 2020
Where Dragon Veins Meet
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours n…
October 22, 2020
Anxious China
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with in…