Linda Qian received her PhD in Area Studies (China) from the University of Oxford. Drawing on anthropology and political economy, her research explored rural China, with a particular focus on rural revitalisation, return migration, affective governance, and xiangchou (‘homesickness’/‘nostalgia’). She is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she continues to explore questions of place and belonging and conceptualisations of ‘home’.
Linda Qian’s Homesick Nation: Development, Migration and Yearning in Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines rural development in contemporary China through the lens of 乡愁 xiangchou, a concept connoting homesickness and rural nostalgia. Centred on Heyang, a heritage village in Zhejiang, the book employs hometown ethnography to trace the complex return flows of people, […]
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