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About Yadong Li
Yadong is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Tulane University of Louisiana. Through his ethnographic and archival research, he wants to know how power constantly shapes environments, how hope emerges out of ruination, and how how hope inevitably becomes entangled in power dynamics. Feel free to chat with him by email: yli88@tulane.edu / lydooooong@gmail.com.NBN Episodes hosted by Yadong:
March 28, 2026
Precarious Accumulation
In Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke UP, 2026), the cultural anthropologist Nellie Chu tells the story of …
March 12, 2026
Contested Environmentalisms
For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid incr…
February 23, 2026
Delta Futures
A free e-book version of Delta Futures is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to …
February 16, 2026
Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China
Chen examines the Chinese Nationalist government's distinctive support for private Muslim teachers schools between the 1920s and 1940s, and explores t…
February 2, 2026
We Stay the Same
An ethnography of indigenous lives amidst subsistence labor, large-scale logging, and unrealized schemes, We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and …
January 16, 2026
China as context
A provocative collaborative project, China as Context challenges the marginalization of Chinese-grounded ideas in academia, arguing that neglecting Ch…
January 14, 2026
Deep Cosmopolitanism
Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India explores the extraordinary past and present of Kutiyatt…
December 27, 2025
Spaces of Creative Resistance
An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in Eas…
December 7, 2025
Crafting Rural Japan
Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Re…
November 25, 2025
The Time of the Cannibals
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals: On Consp…
October 24, 2025
Ecological States
Based on two years of extensive fieldwork, Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (Cornell UP, 2023) examines ecologica…
August 28, 2025
Plantation Worlds
In Plantation Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations.…
July 31, 2025
Gardens of Hope
Gardens are often spaces of hope, expected to solve many problems in a city including food insecurity and climate resilience. In fact, there has been …
May 30, 2025
Vote of Faith
A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements, Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire…
May 8, 2025
The Time Inheritors
Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shap…
May 6, 2025
Staging the Promises
Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the residents of Bor — a Serbian copper-mining town m…
April 8, 2025
Haunting Ruins
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of t…
April 5, 2025
The Extraordinary in the Mundane
How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume…
March 21, 2025
Boaters of London
Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the politica…
March 6, 2025
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Aiming to explore the Sino-Tibetan border region, which is renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Te…
February 15, 2025
Hydropower Nation
As a rising infrastructure powerhouse, China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second to…
January 22, 2025
'Unruly' Children
How do we become moral persons? What about children’s active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more…
December 27, 2024
Rocking China
Andrew Field, in his new book Rocking China (Earnshaw Books, 2023), documents one of the most exciting moments in the history of Chinese indie music. …
December 17, 2024
How Is It Between Us?
How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World (HAU Books, 2023) offers a new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary i…