Xiang Biao

University of Oxford

Xiang Biao is Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Having grown up in southeast China and educated in Beijing, I was most influenced by the tense debates in 1980s China. I became interested in ethnographic research because of its attention to complexities that cannot be foreseen beforehand and I have always sought to integrate ethnographic data into historical, institutional and especially political economy analysis.