Peter Guangpei Ran
Biographic Data
| ID | 150874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Guangpei Ran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Guangpei |
| FAMILY NAME | Ran |
| SIGNATURE | RAN P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries, Specialty Coffee, and the New Life in Dali
In recent years, tourist destinations in southwest China have become attractive sites of relocation for educated urbanites seeking alternatives to the intense competition and precarity of China’s major cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among three independent coffee ventures in Dali, this article examines how two migrant entrepreneurs and one Bai local mobilise specialty coffee to pursue self-determination, professional reinvention, and a…
Stitching Coherence
This article examines how state agents and allied actors produce spectacles and narratives of order and progress in the governance of a Chinese border city. Drawing on patchwork ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2025, it traces how bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and local residents navigate shifting terrains of development, intensified pandemic control, and post-pandemic recovery by holding together contradictory practices – formal regulation a…
The placing of care
This article concerns the migratory experiences of a group of Naxi in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, framed by the drastic social changes brought about by market reform in the past few decades in rural China. The unprecedented level of mobility of a younger generation leaving home for education or work leads to tension between their deep ties to local lifeworlds and a yearning for prosperity envisioned elsewhere. The article looks at the ethical a…
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The placing of care
This article concerns the migratory experiences of a group of Naxi in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, framed by the drastic social changes brought about by market reform in the past few decades in rural China. The unprecedented level of mobility of a younger generation leaving home for education or work leads to tension between their deep ties to local lifeworlds and a yearning for prosperity envisioned elsewhere. The article looks at the ethical a…
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries, Specialty Coffee, and the New Life in Dali
In recent years, tourist destinations in southwest China have become attractive sites of relocation for educated urbanites seeking alternatives to the intense competition and precarity of China’s major cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among three independent coffee ventures in Dali, this article examines how two migrant entrepreneurs and one Bai local mobilise specialty coffee to pursue self-determination, professional reinvention, and a…
Stitching Coherence
This article examines how state agents and allied actors produce spectacles and narratives of order and progress in the governance of a Chinese border city. Drawing on patchwork ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2025, it traces how bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and local residents navigate shifting terrains of development, intensified pandemic control, and post-pandemic recovery by holding together contradictory practices – formal regulation a…
China's Global Influence and Migration (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · aesthetic labour (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work) · Beijing (1 work) · China (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Cosmopolitanism (1 work) · Dali (1 work)