Self As Method Av Biao Xiang, Qi Wu

1.Introduction.- Part I.Beijing Interview, March 2018.- 2. Setting the Stage.- 3.Childhood Picture.- 4.The 1980s Culture Craze.- 5.Beida after 1989.- 6.Researching Zhejiang Village.- 7.Youth Melancholy.- 8.The Center and the Margins.- 9.Personal Crisis.- 10.Globalization and Anti-Globalization.- 11.Using the 1980s to Critique the 1980s.- 12.What is Criticism?.- 13.Empathetic Scholarship.- Part II.Oxford Interview, August 2018.- 14.Setting the Stage.- 15.Impressions of Oxford.- 16.A Sense of Distance and Directness.- 17.Anthropologists and their World.- 18.Non-Fiction Writing.- 19.Academics is not a vocation.- 20.Nationalism and Populism.- 21.Singapore Enlightenment.- 22.The Importance of Community.- 23.Building your own Cross-Border Worlds.- 24.Universities Should Look for the Exceptional.- 25.Problematizing Individual Experience.- 26.New Research.- 27.Common Ideals.- 28.Local Gentry as Method.-Part III. Wenzhou Interview, December 2018.- 29.Setting the Stage.- 30.Social Reproduction.- 31.The Paradox of Class Mobility.- 32.Looking for a New Discourse.- 33.Anthropology as Intermediary.- 34.The Local Gentry: Once More with Feeling.