Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the author

YU Hua is (余华) is a lecturer in linguistic ethnography at Shanghai International Studies University. Her previous study was an anthropological investigation of ritual heritage in a Miao village in West Hunan, China. Her current research involves critical heritage studies, contemporary practice of ritual from the perspective of ancient ritual writings, ethnography and language policy, and educational activities in a migrants’ community in urban China.

Allen Chun (陈奕麟) is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. His thematic interests cover the fields of socio-cultural theory, historical anthropology, cultural sociology of the state as well as colonial and post-colonial societies. He has carried out research in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore and published broadly. He is the author of Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of ‘Land’ in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Harwood Academic Press, 2000) and articles in numerous journals.