Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System

日期： 2024/02/27

時間： 10:00~12:00

地點： 檔案館第三會議室

主持人： 傅家倩教授（中研院近史所副研究員）

主講人：徐莊驊（Jerry C. Zee）教授（普林斯頓大學人類學系與高草甸環境研究所（HMEI）助理教授）

主辦單位： 西學與中國研究群

摘要：
This talk explores mobile sands and floating dusts as a medium of a contemporary political and meteorological condition in China and downwind. Decades of Reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Based on ethnographic research at multiple points in the formation and trajectory of a major dust event, Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, we explore contemporary China both as a geopolitical entity and as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand “the rise of China” literally, as the country itself rises into the air?

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