Mingming Wang

Wang Mingming is a leading Chinese anthropologist, Professor of anthropology at Peking University, and Distinguished Professor at Huaqiao University. His research covers the space-times of ritual, urban and rural ethnography, historical anthropology, Chinese perspectives of the West, ethnicity, and comparative civilizations. He has authored many books, including The Historical Dilemma of the “Sinicization” of Western Learning, The Intermediary Circle: The “Tibetan-Yi Corridor” and the Reconceptualization of Anthropology, Empire and Local Worlds, Life Histories and Anthropology, Beyond the “New Warring States”: Wu Wenzao and Fei Xiaotong’s Theories of the Chinese Nation, Suprasocietal Systems: Civilization and China, and The City of Zaitun: Locality and the World in Coastal China.