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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 8d

China is one of Switzerland’s main trading partners. Anthropologist @lenakaufmann.bsky.social and historian Niklaus Remund analyse half a century of this commercial partnership in a study that is particularly topical in view of current trade wars.
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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you @snf-fns.ch for featuring our article on the history and present of economic relations between #China and #Switzerland, and for funding the research behind this project. 🙏

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds - Fonds National Suisse @snf-fns.ch · 8d

China gehört zu den wichtigsten Handelspartnern der Schweiz. Die Anthropologin @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und der Historiker Niklaus Remund erforschen die letzten 50 Jahre dieser Partnerschaft. Die Studie ist aufgrund neuer Handelskriege besonders aktuell.

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds - Fonds National Suisse @snf-fns.ch · 8d

La Chine est un des partenaires commerciaux principaux de la Suisse. L’anthropologue @lenakaufmann.bsky.social et l’historien Niklaus Remund analysent un demi-siècle de ce partenariat commercial dans une étude particulièrement d’actualité face aux guerres économiques.

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

CfP closing soon!

Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Jul 17

📍Call for Papers!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2025

www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
#conference #anthropology #CfP

Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Aug 1

Delighted to be part of this #OpenAccess issue on researching #Global #China!

Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Jul 29

The new issue of Global China Pulse is now live! What does it mean to do fieldwork on Global China? This issue explores the methodological, ethical, and political challenges researchers face when studying China’s global presence from the ground up. Download here: globalchinapulse.net/download/glo...

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Marco Lazzarotti 李克 @marcolazzarotti.bsky.social · Jul 25

@lenakaufmann.bsky.social at the @rg-china.bsky.social meeting

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Marco Lazzarotti 李克 @marcolazzarotti.bsky.social · Jul 25

@rg-china.bsky.social day 2. @lenakaufmann.bsky.social sharing her project about technology between Switzerland and China

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Jul 17

📍Call for Papers!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2025

www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
#conference #anthropology #CfP

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Regional Group China(s) of the DGSKA/GASCA @rg-china.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Swiss-Chinese Entanglements: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Transnational Economic Collaborations” by Niklaus Remund and @lenakaufmann.bsky.social .
Free to access in both web and PDF versions: zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025/...

Swiss-Chinese Entanglements | Zeithistorische Forschungen

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Ausserdem ein Interview von Nils Güttler und @lenakaufmann.bsky.social mit Debjani Bhattacharyya und Brian Larkin. Und eine Besprechung des Projektes »Digital Benin« von @bildoperationen.bsky.social !

1/2024-2025: Sozial-/Kulturanthropologie und Zeitgeschichte | Zeithistorische Forschungen

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mit tollen Beiträgen, u.a. von @gesinekrueger.bsky.social und Michaela Oberhofer, Madlen Kobi und Adam Przywara, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und Niklaus Remund und von mir und @mrtzg.bsky.social.

1/2024-2025: Sozial-/Kulturanthropologie und Zeitgeschichte | Zeithistorische Forschungen

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist.
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · May 21

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically amid geopolitical & tech rivalry restrictions?
@lenakaufmann.bsky.social uses Swiss fieldwork to propose innovative methods and a socio-technical lens for ICT firm research in Europe and beyond. buff.ly/KN0VP9b

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · May 14

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically when access is restricted by geopolitics and tech rivalry? In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social draws on fieldwork in Switzerland to propose creative methods and a socio-technical lens for researching ICT firms in Europe and beyond.

Polymorphous Engagement with Global China: Researching Contested Chinese Companies in Western Europe

This essay explores how we can ethnographically study contested Chinese multinationals when access is limited due to geopolitical sensitivities and technological competition. I argue that, despite the...

globalchinapulse.net

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · May 10

📍Call for Panels!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!

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Screenshot of the conference announcement if the Swiss Anthropological Association, showing a photo from Matthäus Rest of four men digging up a street.

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · May 7

Sent, thanks!

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Regional Group China(s) of the DGSKA/GASCA @rg-china.bsky.social · May 3

@lenakaufmann.bsky.social “Prefiguring China’s Digital Silk Road to Europe”, is featured in the latest episode of the joint ReConnect China - Horizon Europe Research Consortium and CHERN China in Europe Research Network podcast.

Podcast: soundcloud.com/turun-yliopi...

ReConnect China & CHERN Podcast: China’s Digital Silk Road to Switzerland

In this episode, we trace China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) into Western Europe. Dr. Lena Kaufmann unpacks the “downstream effects” of Chinese digital infrastructures in Switzerland—an often-overlooked

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Jan 25

🥳 Out now: Our article "Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective", in Population, Space and Place, co-authored by Han Tao & me.

👉 doi.org/10.1002/psp....
Or contact us directly for a copy

#China #migration #agriculture #technology #anthropology

Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective

This article sheds new light on the connection between agriculture and rural-urban migration in contemporary China. Focusing on migrants' places of origin and the case of paddy rice fields, it invest...

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Jan 6

Hot off the press!📚 “Seeing China‘s Belt and Road“ @oxunipress.bsky.social by @edwardschatz.bsky.social & Rachel Silvey eds. rb.gy/to24vn
My chapter on the history & present of the #DigitalSilkRoad between #China & Europe is OA:
doi.org/10.5167/uzh-...

#NewBook #BeltandRoad
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Book cover of “Seeing China’s Belt and Road“, Oxford University Press, 2025

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Dec 11

Coming soon! Including my chapter on the history and present of the Digital Silk Road to Europe, particularly Switzerland.

#digital #china #europe #newbook

Ed Schatz @edwardschatz.bsky.social · Dec 11

Seeing China's Belt & Road (Oxford Univ. Press) will be available on January 2.

With a crack team of scholars, Rachel Silvey & I seek to learn, ground-up, from countries around the globe what the BRI's downstream impact is shaping up to be.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Regional Group China(s) of the DGSKA/GASCA @rg-china.bsky.social · Nov 23

Dear all, from today you can also follow us on this account. If you haven't done so yet, take a look at our web page and our initiatives.
ethnologiechinas.org

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Nov 16

My new @snsf-ch.bsky.social project on agricultural drones in #China and #Europe at the University of Fribourg. Now with the fabulous Dr. Han Tao and Ruishi Zhen, MA, MSc. 🥳🎉

Details: www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr...

Agricultural drone in Guangdong province, China

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Nov 16

My review of “The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China: Policymaking, Funding, Talent, and Organization” by Yutao Sun & Cong Cao in the China Quarterly.

Email me if you can’t access it here: doi.org/10.1017/S030...

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · Nov 16

📖 Out now! My article

“‘Today There are Ploughing Machines, That’s Quicker!’ The Transformation of Agricultural Working Knowledge in Post-Reform China”

In this volume on the history of the transformation of work.
OA next year, for now access here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Publication: https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28480

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