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About Yadong Li
I am a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology. My current research interests lie at the intersection of environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, hope studies, and time studies. My current ethnographic project focuses on a town named Taole (陶乐) in Northwest China, which is a former county seat, a place on multiple thresholds, and a space with twisted temporalities, promises, and hopes. I have also written about urban legends, moral panic, and UFO enthusiasts in China. If you are interested in my research and also, (the anthropology of) food, please feel free to contact me via email.NBN Episodes hosted by Yadong:
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 21, 2024
Ginkgo Village
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China (Anu Press, 2023) provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China…
October 14, 2024
Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in…
October 6, 2024
Being Human
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in…
September 30, 2024
The Precarity of Masculinity
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, P…
September 24, 2024
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global inf…
September 17, 2024
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Y…
September 14, 2024
China's Camel Country
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted…
September 8, 2024
From Skepticism to Competence
From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatrist…
July 25, 2024
Past Progress
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former…
June 11, 2024
Inside the Circle
After the end of the Maoist era in the People's Republic of China, the rise of queer communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has generat…
June 10, 2024
Breathless
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The co…
June 7, 2024
The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist
Alan McGowan delves into Franz Boas’s dual identity as both a scientist and a political activist, shedding light on how his work transcended academic …
May 2, 2024
The Labor of Hope
Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfillin…
April 22, 2024
Seeking a Future for the Past
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities a…
April 12, 2024
Precarious Modernities
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the po…
April 9, 2024
Enchanted Revolution
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in …
April 3, 2024
Hokkaido Dairy Farm
As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Ot…
March 23, 2024
Righteous Revolutionaries
In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of vi…
March 20, 2024
Dreams of Flight
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in t…
March 10, 2024
An Anthropology of Disappearance
All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while mig…
March 4, 2024
Compliance
Compliance, namely everyday accommodations, is a practice allowing us to work and live with others. Exploring compliance from an anthropological persp…
February 26, 2024
Experiments in Skin
Through a creative focus on skin, in Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke UP, 2021), Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the …
February 7, 2024
Deindustrializing Montreal
Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighborhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neigh…