Linliang Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linliang Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linliang |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southeast University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1429-5404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The life and death of Taobao villages
The Global Imperative
Globalisation has allegedly been in decline for the last decade, and fears of its imminent end have been further heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews with cross-border e-commerce merchants, local foreign trade officials, and e-commerce platform agents in the Chinese city of Yiwu, this article shows how a group of globalists think about and respond to deglobalisation. It argues that heavy involvement in…
Refashioning “the world's capital of small commodities”
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has been widely criticised in the anthropological literature. While acknowledging its negative impacts, this study argues that the adoption of neoliberal mechanisms and ethos may contribute to the betterment of individual wellbeing in certain circumstances. Drawing from a group of Chinese rural migrant e-commerce traders’ entrepreneurial experiences, this study finds that they have acquired material benefits, techno-cultural capital…
Where you live determines how you are treated”
Amid global attention on the growth of China’s e-commerce economy, prior research has focused more on demonstrating the digital dividends created by this new economy than on addressing the social inequalities that arise. One presumption in particular is that e-commerce economy will leverage the deterritorializing effects of digital technologies to create more equal opportunities for consumers in remote areas. Based on fieldwork with e-traders in …
Ethnographic Imagination as an Interpretative Approach to the World of Infants and Children with Developmental Disabilities
Reflections on children's agency have become popular in anthropological and sociological studies of childhood. Scholars tended to treat children as independent and active social members, rather than individuals still undergoing maturity. To guarantee their right to information and participation, researchers have constantly refined their methods in hopes of involving children in research projects as much as possible and empowering their voices. Ye…
Moral diversification and moral agency
Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of morality. By examining the divergent ethical trajectories of Chinese e-commerce traders in their business encounters, this study identifies more complicated moral states in these business people, who join a newly emerging industry but are und…
The Art of Performing Affectation
Professional training in self-branding in Western societies usually emphasises the need for authentic self-representation and individual uniqueness. This study explores an equivalent practice in contemporary China called zhuangbi. Although it also invokes a sense of self-enterprise, this practice is openly presented as including pretence or exaggeration, which is why I translate it as “performing affectation”. Chinese e-traders are categorised by…
Buying Power
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The ‘Inferior’ Talk Back
Rural migrants in Chinese cities are often stigmatized as ‘low-suzhi’ population and marginalized in urban social hierarchy. Existing scholarship has demonstrated how urbanities used suzhi discourse to justify their exploitation of migrants while maintaining class distinctions, and how migrants embraced urban lifestyles to improve their suzhi. Yet, this literature rarely addresses resistance of the ‘inferior’. By looking at the social interaction…
Everyday religiosity in the state sphere
The religious sector in contemporary China is often portrayed as resisting or negotiating with an interventionist state in order to survive or protect its autonomy. This article, however, shows how it enters the state sphere and imbues the presumed state agents. By exploring folk beliefs and practices in a state-run orphanage (such as philanthropists' activities, which they related to accumulation of karmic merits, childcare workers' discourses, …
Consuming “the unfortunate”
The ‘Inferior’ Talk Back
Rural migrants in Chinese cities are often stigmatized as ‘low-suzhi’ population and marginalized in urban social hierarchy. Existing scholarship has demonstrated how urbanities used suzhi discourse to justify their exploitation of migrants while maintaining class distinctions, and how migrants embraced urban lifestyles to improve their suzhi. Yet, this literature rarely addresses resistance of the ‘inferior’. By looking at the social interaction…
The Art of Performing Affectation
Professional training in self-branding in Western societies usually emphasises the need for authentic self-representation and individual uniqueness. This study explores an equivalent practice in contemporary China called zhuangbi. Although it also invokes a sense of self-enterprise, this practice is openly presented as including pretence or exaggeration, which is why I translate it as “performing affectation”. Chinese e-traders are categorised by…
Where you live determines how you are treated”
Amid global attention on the growth of China’s e-commerce economy, prior research has focused more on demonstrating the digital dividends created by this new economy than on addressing the social inequalities that arise. One presumption in particular is that e-commerce economy will leverage the deterritorializing effects of digital technologies to create more equal opportunities for consumers in remote areas. Based on fieldwork with e-traders in …
Refashioning “the world's capital of small commodities”
Everyday religiosity in the state sphere
The religious sector in contemporary China is often portrayed as resisting or negotiating with an interventionist state in order to survive or protect its autonomy. This article, however, shows how it enters the state sphere and imbues the presumed state agents. By exploring folk beliefs and practices in a state-run orphanage (such as philanthropists' activities, which they related to accumulation of karmic merits, childcare workers' discourses, …
Moral diversification and moral agency
Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of morality. By examining the divergent ethical trajectories of Chinese e-commerce traders in their business encounters, this study identifies more complicated moral states in these business people, who join a newly emerging industry but are und…
Consuming “the unfortunate”
Everyday religiosity in the state sphere
The religious sector in contemporary China is often portrayed as resisting or negotiating with an interventionist state in order to survive or protect its autonomy. This article, however, shows how it enters the state sphere and imbues the presumed state agents. By exploring folk beliefs and practices in a state-run orphanage (such as philanthropists' activities, which they related to accumulation of karmic merits, childcare workers' discourses, …
The ‘Inferior’ Talk Back
Rural migrants in Chinese cities are often stigmatized as ‘low-suzhi’ population and marginalized in urban social hierarchy. Existing scholarship has demonstrated how urbanities used suzhi discourse to justify their exploitation of migrants while maintaining class distinctions, and how migrants embraced urban lifestyles to improve their suzhi. Yet, this literature rarely addresses resistance of the ‘inferior’. By looking at the social interaction…
Buying Power
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Moral diversification and moral agency
Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of morality. By examining the divergent ethical trajectories of Chinese e-commerce traders in their business encounters, this study identifies more complicated moral states in these business people, who join a newly emerging industry but are und…
The Art of Performing Affectation
Professional training in self-branding in Western societies usually emphasises the need for authentic self-representation and individual uniqueness. This study explores an equivalent practice in contemporary China called zhuangbi. Although it also invokes a sense of self-enterprise, this practice is openly presented as including pretence or exaggeration, which is why I translate it as “performing affectation”. Chinese e-traders are categorised by…
Ethnographic Imagination as an Interpretative Approach to the World of Infants and Children with Developmental Disabilities
Reflections on children's agency have become popular in anthropological and sociological studies of childhood. Scholars tended to treat children as independent and active social members, rather than individuals still undergoing maturity. To guarantee their right to information and participation, researchers have constantly refined their methods in hopes of involving children in research projects as much as possible and empowering their voices. Ye…
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has been widely criticised in the anthropological literature. While acknowledging its negative impacts, this study argues that the adoption of neoliberal mechanisms and ethos may contribute to the betterment of individual wellbeing in certain circumstances. Drawing from a group of Chinese rural migrant e-commerce traders’ entrepreneurial experiences, this study finds that they have acquired material benefits, techno-cultural capital…
Where you live determines how you are treated”
Amid global attention on the growth of China’s e-commerce economy, prior research has focused more on demonstrating the digital dividends created by this new economy than on addressing the social inequalities that arise. One presumption in particular is that e-commerce economy will leverage the deterritorializing effects of digital technologies to create more equal opportunities for consumers in remote areas. Based on fieldwork with e-traders in …
The Global Imperative
Globalisation has allegedly been in decline for the last decade, and fears of its imminent end have been further heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews with cross-border e-commerce merchants, local foreign trade officials, and e-commerce platform agents in the Chinese city of Yiwu, this article shows how a group of globalists think about and respond to deglobalisation. It argues that heavy involvement in…
Refashioning “the world's capital of small commodities”
The life and death of Taobao villages
Political science (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · China (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)