Jiazhi Fengjiang

Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang (she/her) is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Sciences. She has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in southeast China and rural central China on work, ethics, mobilities, and social change. 

Her research interests include:

• Economy and work
• Political and economic anthropology
• Charity, philanthropy, and humanitarianism
• Gender and mobilities
• China and East Asia.

Jiazhi’s ongoing book project explores the political, moral, and economic lives of ordinary people who strategized volunteering and charitable work in coping with political-economic restructurings in contemporary China. She is also working on a graphic anthropology project that explores the potential of drawing as an alternative means for anthropological knowledge production, in addition to a new research project on Chinese transnational humanitarianism in Southeast Asia. 

Her recent publications include:

• Fengjiang, J. (Accepted/In press). Book Review: The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy, by George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan (Anthem Press, 2018). Anthropology of Work Review.
• Fengjiang, J., & Steinmüller, H. (2021). Leadership programmes: Success, self-improvement, and relationship management among new middle-class Chinese. Ethnos. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1867605
• Fengjiang, J. (2021). “To be a little more realistic”: The ethical labour of suspension among nightclub hostesses in Southeast China. Pacific Affairs, 94(2), 307-328, doi.org/10.5509/2021942307