China: The Basics - Paperback

by Anna L. Lora-Wainwright (Author)

Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture and politics.

Author Biography

Anna L. Lora-Wainwright is Professor of the Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University; and an MA in Chinese Studies and a BA in Anthropology, both from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is the author of two monographs on contemporary rural China and of numerous articles in the fields of social and medical anthropology, geography and environmental politics. Her current research focuses on evolving forms of morality and practices of care in China and among overseas Chinese.