You are cordially invited the following event organized by the Joint
\nResearch of CSEAS (IPCR), \u201cWomen\u2019s Migration Amid Political and Economic
\nTransformation: A Comparative Study of China and Southeast Asia\u201d . The
\nevent is open to everyone.<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: January 17, 2019 (Friday) 13:30-15:00
\nVenue<\/strong>: CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies), Kyoto University,
\nInamori Foundation Memorial Building, 201 (\u201cTonan-tei\u201d)
\nhttps:\/\/kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Program<\/strong>:
\n13:30-14:30 \u201cFraming Subjectivity, Identities, Mobility & Multiple
\nModernities: The Life History Narratives and Migratory Experiences of
\nthe Hmub Women in Southeastern Guizhou\u201d by Prof. Mei-Ling Chien
\n(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)<\/p>\n

14:30-15:00 General discussion<\/p>\n

Mei-ling Chien<\/strong> is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at National Chiao
\nTung University. Her special fields include kinship, gender and the
\nanthropology of emotions among the Hmub (Miao\/Hmong) in Southwest China.
\nShe is the author of the book, Sentiment and Marriage among the Miao in
\nEastern Guizhou (Guiyang: Guizhou University Press, 2009) and the
\nco-editor of the book, the Hakka: Formation and Transformation (Hsinchu:
\nNational Chiao Tung University Press, 2010). She has published a series
\nof articles related to the above theoretical and areal interests for
\nmore than 15 years. She is now staying at CSEAS of Kyoto University as a
\nvisiting research scholar in August 2019-January 2020.<\/p>\n

Abstracts<\/strong>:
\nMass migration from rural to urban areas is one of the most visible and
\nsignificant aspects of the \u201crise of China.\u201d Personal experiences both
\ndescribe and help us interpret such macro phenomena. This paper is an
\nethnography that draws on the author\u2019s ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in
\nHmub (Hmong\/Miao) villages in the highlands of southeastern Guizhou
\nsince 1997, in particular, field trips in 2011 and 2014. It aims to
\nexplore identity, mobility, marginality, and multiple modernities
\nthrough personal histories and narratives that deal with the
\ncross-regional movement of Hmub-speaking individuals and families, and
\nthe villages and counties they inhabit. Life history narratives not only
\nhelp us to reconstruct and interpret the lives of real people through
\nempirical methodology, but also relate to concepts of performance,
\nexistence and linguistic practice. In particular, this paper focuses on
\nthe life histories of Hmub women and their experiences of rural-urban
\nmigration in southeastern Guizhou (Qiandongnan). Through the study of
\nthese cases, this paper describes and discusses personal experiences and
\nsocial transformation from the 1920s to 2010s, showing how Hmub women
\nmigrants frame their own subjectivity, identity, mobility and multiple
\nmodernities through narrating their own life histories. The paper is
\nbased on empirical data gathered through in-depth interviews,
\nparticipant observation and historical research.<\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: life history, narratives, rural-urban migration, gender,
\nsubjectivity, identity, mobility, multiple modernities, Hmub,
\nSoutheastern Guizhou<\/p>\n

Contact<\/strong>:
\nWakana Sato, Niigata University of International and Information Studies
\n(wsato[at]nuis.ac.jp)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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