Yukun Zeng holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His book project Radical Wisdom: Reading Classics and Staking Morality in Contemporary Chinese Confucianism explores grassroots Confucian revivalism in contemporary Chinese society at the intersection of language, knowledge, gender, and social movements. He also co-runs the public anthropology platform Tying Knots 结绳志 and experiments with new modes of urgent, engaged ethnography.
In January 2025, I was chatting online with a few friends about the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a factory for Chinese carmaker BYD in Brazil, which had just come under scrutiny after the country’s Public Labour Prosecution Office accused it of ‘slavery’, following an investigation into the working conditions of Chinese labourers at […]
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