Miriam Driessen

The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @FangYiren and @StellaHongZhang Global China Pulse 2, 2024 @GlobalChinaMap

My new article discusses how Nigerian importers of Chinese goods use RMB and cryptocurrency to ease international business transactions, and in the process, cultivate a multicurrency fluency that befits our everchanging multipolar world. Open access 🆓✅ doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

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The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @FangYiren and @StellaHongZhang Global China Pulse 2, 2024 @GlobalChinaMap

🌟Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”! Speakers: Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA) Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) @ Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Ams #ERC @CAFPower_ERC

Another proud supervisor moment--excellent essay by my former student, Ziyi Li, based on her MSc thesis project.

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At Chinese restaurants in Nairobi, interactions between Kenyan employees and Chinese customers are often hampered by language barriers. In this essay, Amanda Kaminsky explores how the use of pidgin English facilitates fleeting moments of affinity. globalchinapulse.net/playing-with-t…

My former student, Charlie Yang, wrote a wonderful essay on matrilocal marriage in China, challenging common assumptions about the place of the live-in son-in-law 赘婿 in the family.

山水情 made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. the studio invented ink wash animation and made 4 in total between 1960s-1980s, and this is the last one. it was extremely costly to make and commercially unprofitable, which is why after the marketization of the film industry in the 1990s, ink wash animation disappeared for 30 years. the next major one 秋实 came in 2020. m.36kr.com/p/1725137485825

For years, companies like Coca-Cola have shaped science and society in the West. In 'Soda Science', Susan Greenhalgh discusses how their ideas of fitness and nutritional science have been exported to China as well. A conversation with @yangyang_cheng. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/10/09/sod…

@zhou_yunyun @QMPoliticsIR @StoffelAlex Huge congratulations! Enjoy London 😊

📢 Some personal update: I left Oslo and joined @QMPoliticsIR this September in east London as a Lecturer in Politics and Gender. Colleagues have been kind and inspiring. Also started co-teaching with @StoffelAlex on Gender, Sexuality, and Capitalism. A new journey begins!

I recently had a conversation about Chinese Espresso with the Global China Pulse.” Thank you @DriessenMiriam for organizing this.

@Hang_Ayomide @pol_ulaval @cmi_no Congratulations! I hope you'll have a wonderful time in Canada.

Professional update: officially first teaching week at my new job as professeur adjoint (assistant prof) at @pol_ulaval! Grateful for the wonderful support and companionship at @cmi_no during my postdoc and excited to start a new chapter!

@akankshaawal Cinnamon

Can't resist sharing. We adopted a pup last week. She loves sitting on tree stumps.

@jcmittelstaedt @SOASpolitics Huge congratulations!

Professional update: Started a new position as a permanent lecturer (Assistant Prof) in the Politics of China at @SOASpolitics! Grateful for the support and excited to join this incredible department and university after six rewarding years at Oxford.

Huge thanks to Ruiyi Zhu for introducing me to the world of standards and standardization and drawing me in. Check out our special issue:

Happy Friday! The cover of my book is out! The book is a literary non-fiction, sometimes personal series of interlocking profiles of people who exemplify the wonderful complexity of identity in China and of course, how the state tries to control it penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/l…