Shuhua Chen
Om
Forskningsprosjekt: MidWay (ERC)
Dr. Shuhua Chen er seniorforsker ved Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier (KULT) ved NTNU. Hun deltar for tiden i det femårige prosjektet 'A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China' (MidWay), som har som mål å oppnå en bedre forståelse av konseptet 'tilstrekkelighet' ved bruk av eksempler fra kjøtt- og melkeproduksjon og -konsum i Kina.
Postdoktorprosjektet hennes ved Institutt for sosialantropologi, NTNU (2020-2022), fokuserte på forståelsen av tid i hjemmet og tidens bevegelse, og undersøkte 'hjem' som et konsept i nåtiden med alle dets tilknyttede uklarheter, preget som det er av konstant mobilitet, og analyserer individers erfaring med hensyn til kosmopolitiske perspektiver. Prosjektet utforsket opplevelsene av migrasjon og etablering av hjem hos kinesiske migranter på tvers av forskjellige tidsskalaer: i enkeltøyeblikk, gjennom livsløpet og på tvers av generasjoner.
Før hun begynte på NTNU, arbeidet Shuhua som forsker ved University of Birmingham (UK), hvor hun ledet kvalitative feltstudier i Kina for EU Horizon 2020-prosjektet AGRUMIG om migrasjon og rurale endringer i Europa, Asia og Afrika. Shuhua tok sin doktorgrad i sosialantropologi ved University of St. Andrews i 2018. Etter fullført doktorgrad jobbet hun som gjesteforsker ved University at Buffalo (US) med stipend fra Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund, og underviste ved Institutt for sosialantropologi, University of St. Andrews. Shuhua har også tilknytning til Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews (UK).
Medlem av følgende forskningsgrupper:
Senter for energi, klima og miljø
Temporaliteter av mobilitet og migrasjon
PhD-veiledning: Wenjia Zhou
Forskningsinteresser
- Bærekraftig tilstrekkelighet, lokal kunnskap og urfolks agentur, klimaendringer
- Matantropologi, urbane matlandskap, kjøtt og melk i Kina
- Antropologi om Kina, etnografi om det urbane Kina, migrasjon fra land til by i Kina
- Historie og antropologi, arkivforskning, kartlegging av minner, qiaopi-remitteringsbrev
- Hjem-i-bevegelse, hjemstedsfenomenologi, tid og temporaliteter
- Kosmopolitiske studier, eksistensiell antropologi, sanselig etnografi
Bakgrunn:
Ph.d. i sosialantropologi, University of St. Andrews, UK
Vitenskapelig akademisk og kunstnerisk arbeid
Et utvalg av nylige tidsskriftpublikasjoner, kunstneriske produksjoner, bøker, inkludert bok- og rapportutdrag. Se alle publikasjoner her.
Tidsskriftpublikasjoner
Chen, S. et al. (2025) Homing beyond Boundaries. Anthropology and Humanism.
Chen, S. (2024) De-labelling the ‘Memory of the World’: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Qiaopi Remittance Letters. Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology.
Chen, S. (2024) Cosmopolitan Networks – Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality. (co-authored with Lorenzo Cañás Bottos and Jan Ketil Simonsen). Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology.
Chen, S. (2022) Temporary Couples? A Chinese Migrant's Dream Narrative. Anthropology and Humanism.
Chen, S. (2022) Vulnerable homes on the move: An introduction (co-authored with Sara Bonfanti and Aurora Massa). Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (Issue 92).
Chen, S. (2017) Cosmopolitan imagination: A methodological quest for qiaopi archival research. Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies. Vol. 3.
Chen, S. (2017) To my city: Urbanisation and industrialisation in contemporary China (creative submission). The Unfamiliar: An Anthropological Journal. Vol. 7 (1).
Chen, S. (2013) Making home away from home: A case study of archival research of the Nanyang emigration in China. Durham Anthropology Journal. Vol. 18(2).
Bøker og spesialutgaver
Chen, S. (2024) Special Issue: Cosmopolitan Networks – Networking Cosmopolitans (as co-guest editors with Lorenzo Cañás Bottos and Jan Ketil Simonsen). Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Forthcoming in 2024 Issue-1).
Chen, S. (2022) Theme Section: Vulnerable Homes on the Move (as co-guest editors with Sara Bonfanti and Aurora Massa). Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (Issue 92).
Chen, S. and Kelley, A. (2014) Approaching letters and letter writing. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Del av bok
Chen, S. (2025) Sufficiency. In: Rapport, N. (eds) Anthropology’s Philosophy. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Chen, S. (2021) The taste of home: Migrant foodscapes in marketplaces in Shantou, China. Food, Senses and the City.
Chen, S. (2018) Homeawayness and life-project building: Making home among rural-urban migration in China. Travelling towards home: Mobilities and homemaking.
Chen, S. (2015) Making home, making sense of the world: Archival research with qiaopi letters. Private and public voices: An interdisciplinary approach to letters and letter writing.
Chen, S. (2015) The Qiaopi Museum, Shantou, Guangdong, China. Diaspora and Migration Studies, Dissertation Reviews.
Chen, S. (2014) Writing letter and making home: Archival research of qiaopi and Chinese emigrants. Approaching letters and letter writing.
Chen, S. and Kelley, A. (2014) Approach to letter and letter writing: An introduction. Approaching letters and letter writing.
Priser
AGRUMIG EU H2020 Postdoc Research Fellowship (2020)
Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund (2019)
First Prize of David Riches Medal (2014)
Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust (2014)
The Great Britain-China Educational Trust (2013)
RC21 Fellowship for the RC21-IJURR-FURS Summer School (2013)
Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies Scholarship, University of St Andrews (2012-17)
The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies Fellowship (2012-14)
Scotland’s Saltire Scholarship (2011)
Publikasjoner
2025
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Chen, Shuhua;
Hagosse, Kashu Ferede;
Tufa, Negash Abebe;
Negash, Gerawork Legesse.
(2025)
Homing beyond Boundaries.
Anthropology and Humanism
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
“For a While, I Closed My Eyes to Film”: The Annual Pig-Slaughter Banquet in Rural China.
Film
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
It inspired us: An ethnographic journey into the pig-human world in Wumu, China.
Film
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
Sufficiency.
Faglig kapittel
2024
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2024)
De-labelling the ‘Memory of the World’: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Qiaopi Remittance Letters.
Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Bottos, Lorenzo Cañás;
Simonsen, Jan Ketil;
Chen, Shuhua.
(2024)
Cosmopolitan Networks–Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality.
Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022
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Bonfanti, Sara;
Chen, Shuhua;
Massa, Aurora.
(2022)
Vulnerable homes on the move.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Chen, Shuhua;
Bonfanti, Sara;
Massa, Aurora.
(2022)
Focaal Theme Section: Vulnerable Homes. Guest Editors (Sara Bonfanti, Shuhua Chen, Aurora Massa)
1. Vulnerable homes on the move: An introduction
by Sara Bonfanti, Shuhua Chen, and Aurora Massa.
2. Struggling for home where home is not meant to be
by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug.
3. “All we need is a home”
by Aurora Massa.
4. From breadwinner to bedridden
by Sara Bonfanti.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Leder
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2022)
Temporary Couples? A Chinese Migrant's Dream Narrative.
Anthropology and Humanism
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2021)
The taste of home: migrant foodscapes in marketplaces in Shantou, China.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2018
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2018)
Homeawayness and life-project building: Making home among rural-urban migration in China.
Faglig kapittel
2017
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2017)
Cosmopolitan imagination: A methodological quest for qiaopi archival research.
Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2017)
To my city: Urbanisation and industrialisation in contemporary China.
Unfamiliar: An Anthropological Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2015
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2015)
Making Home, Making Sense of the World: Archival Research with Qiaopi Letters.
Faglig kapittel
2014
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2014)
Approaching Letters and Letter Writing.
The Inter-Disciplinary Press
The Inter-Disciplinary Press
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2014)
Writing Letters and Making Home: Archival Research of Qiaopi and Chinese Emigrants.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2013
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2013)
Making home away from home: A case study of archival research of the Nanyang emigration in China.
Durham Anthropological Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Chen, Shuhua;
Hagosse, Kashu Ferede;
Tufa, Negash Abebe;
Negash, Gerawork Legesse.
(2025)
Homing beyond Boundaries.
Anthropology and Humanism
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2024)
De-labelling the ‘Memory of the World’: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Qiaopi Remittance Letters.
Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Bottos, Lorenzo Cañás;
Simonsen, Jan Ketil;
Chen, Shuhua.
(2024)
Cosmopolitan Networks–Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality.
Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Bonfanti, Sara;
Chen, Shuhua;
Massa, Aurora.
(2022)
Vulnerable homes on the move.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Shuhua;
Bonfanti, Sara;
Massa, Aurora.
(2022)
Focaal Theme Section: Vulnerable Homes. Guest Editors (Sara Bonfanti, Shuhua Chen, Aurora Massa)
1. Vulnerable homes on the move: An introduction
by Sara Bonfanti, Shuhua Chen, and Aurora Massa.
2. Struggling for home where home is not meant to be
by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug.
3. “All we need is a home”
by Aurora Massa.
4. From breadwinner to bedridden
by Sara Bonfanti.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Leder
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2022)
Temporary Couples? A Chinese Migrant's Dream Narrative.
Anthropology and Humanism
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2017)
Cosmopolitan imagination: A methodological quest for qiaopi archival research.
Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2017)
To my city: Urbanisation and industrialisation in contemporary China.
Unfamiliar: An Anthropological Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2013)
Making home away from home: A case study of archival research of the Nanyang emigration in China.
Durham Anthropological Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Kunstneriske produksjoner
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
“For a While, I Closed My Eyes to Film”: The Annual Pig-Slaughter Banquet in Rural China.
Film
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
It inspired us: An ethnographic journey into the pig-human world in Wumu, China.
Film
Bøker
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2014)
Approaching Letters and Letter Writing.
The Inter-Disciplinary Press
The Inter-Disciplinary Press
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Del av bok/rapport
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2025)
Sufficiency.
Faglig kapittel
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2021)
The taste of home: migrant foodscapes in marketplaces in Shantou, China.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2018)
Homeawayness and life-project building: Making home among rural-urban migration in China.
Faglig kapittel
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Chen, Shuhua.
(2015)
Making Home, Making Sense of the World: Archival Research with Qiaopi Letters.
Faglig kapittel
-
Chen, Shuhua.
(2014)
Writing Letters and Making Home: Archival Research of Qiaopi and Chinese Emigrants.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Formidling
2025
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2025) Embodied Sufficiency: From Welfare to Well-being. Sufficiency and Beyond: Navigating the Middle Way , Olso 2025-06-23 - 2025-07-24
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua; Muradian, Roldan; Raina, Rajeswari S.. (2025) Keynotes Speaker/Plenary Dialogue: Is Degrowth Eurocentric? (https://isee-degrowth2025.no/recordings1/plenary3). Isee-degrowth 2025 Conference , Oslo, Norway 2025-06-24 - 2025-06-27
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Vitenskapelig foredragKorsnes, Marius; Chen, Shuhua; Zhang, Dunfu; Ely, Adrian. (2025) Exploring the past and present of degrowth and sufficiency debates in China. Isee-degrowth 2025 Conference , Oslo 2025-06-24 - 2025-07-24
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2025) Eating Sufficiency: An Autoethnographic Writing for Climate Future. SIEF 2025 Unwriting - Homeless In Language(s): Anthropological Writing As Transformative Experience , Aberdeen, Scotland 2025-06-03 - 2025-06-06
2024
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2024) Restoring the ‘Voices’ of Migrants: Critical approach to archival research of overseas Chinese remittance letters. The 2024 3rd Chenghai Overseas Chinese and Hometown Society Research Study Camp 2024-07-21 - 2024-07-21
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2024) Becoming sufficiency: Ecological philosophy, sustainable food practice, and auto-ethnography. European Association of Social Anthropologists 2024 Conference 2024-06-18 - 2024-06-18
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Faglig foredragKorsnes, Marius; Chen, Shuhua; Zhang, Dunfu; Ely, Adrian. (2024) «De-Eurocentrifying» degrowth? Insights from China. Post CC and the Gemini Center for Postgrowth Futures webinar series , Online 2024-12-16 -
2023
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2023) Practising ‘sufficiency’: Ancient Chinese philosophy, sustainable food consumption, and auto-ethnography. MidWay Workshop in Fudan University in Shanghai 2023-08-28 -
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Faglig foredragChen, Shuhua; Yan-chuan, Cai. (2023) Public talk: Anthropology and Cosmology. Public Talk , Guangzhou 2023-07-26 -
2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) Homing as de-labelling: A phenomenological approach to Chinese migrant letters. EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons , Belfast 2022-07-26 - 2022-07-29
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) Fleeting moments that last: Rapport's Zine. Emeritus Seminar Nigel Rapport at St Andrews, Lower College Hall , St Andrews 2022-04-12 - 2022-04-12
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) 'Silver Letters': Migrant Inscription on Space and Time in late Qing and Modern China. Seminar for Migrasjonsforskingsmiljøer - NTNU , Trondheim 2022-06-08 - 2022-06-08
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) Journeying toward home? Everyday life experience of homeawayness among rural migrants in urban China. The Annual Asianet Conference in 2022: Asia and Fragmented Globalisations , Trondheim 2022-06-16 - 2022-06-17
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Faglig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) Homing beyond boundaries: An open conversation. Antropologidagene i Trondheim 2022 , Trondheim 2022-03-18 - 2022-03-18
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2022) Panel organised (9 papers)--Home and away: Diverging Cross-Cultural Practices. The Annual Asianet Conference in 2022: Asia and Fragmented Globalisations , Trondheim 2022-06-16 - 2022-06-17
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Faglig foredragSimonsen, Jan Ketil; Chen, Shuhua. (2022) Encounters between Barth and Rapport's methodological individualism. Department seminar , Trondheim 2022-11-21 - 2022-11-21
2021
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2021) ‘A Massively Single Number’: Life of Chinese factory peasant-workers, Poetry and Anthropology. ASA 2021: RESPONSIBILITY , University of St Andrews 2021-03-29 - 2021-04-02
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2021) Writing together to author a better life: Peer learning, support and sociability during the pandemic. Teaching and Learning Anthropology during the Pandemic. Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities 2021-03-17 -
2019
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2019) The Migrant Inscriptions on Space and Time: Close readings of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia, 1820 – 1980. Public talk@ University at Buffalo 2019-10-08 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2019) Chinese Studies on Anthropology and Migration in China. Chinese Studies @ University at Buffalo, SUNY 2019-10-09 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2019) Workshop: Restoring the “Voices” of Migrants: Conducting archival research using overseas Chinese family letters (qiaopi). Workshop on Migrant Letters 2019-09-24 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2019) Movement within Movement: The temporal movement of consciousness within the epistolary practice of Chinese migrants’. 2019 New York Conference on Asian Studies , New Paltz, USA 2019-10-05 -
2018
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Vitenskapelig foredragChen, Shuhua. (2018) Representation of Homemaking, Lived Experience and Inner Turbulence: Archival research of overseas Chinese qiaopi remittance letters. Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, SOAS, UK 2018-06-03 -