On Jan 17, 2025 the ChinaWhite project successfully hosted an International workshop, “ Coupling across Boundaries: Race, Migration and Chinese/Foreign Relationships.” This workshop is organized by Shanshan Lan, Willy Sier and Elena Barabantseva. The location is Uva anthropology common room REC B 5.12.
Schedule
9.30-10.30 Walk in, Coffee, introduction
10.30-12.30 Chair: Willy Sier
Panel one: Reframing Chinese/foreign relations in the context of China’s economic rise
Investors and Return Migrants: How China’s Economic Rise is Transforming Cross-Border Marriages and Migration Patterns (Monica Liu, University of St. Thomas)
Leveraging Westernized Chinese Masculinities in Hong Kong’s Transnational Dating Fields (Gabriella Angelini, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“She is a good wife as long as she is not in China.”: Return migration and changing gender dynamics among Chinese/white couples in China (Shanshan Lan, University of Amsterdam)
International marriage, sovereignty, and racial capitalism in globalising China (Elena Barabantseva, University of Manchester)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Chair: Shanshan Lan
Panel two: Negotiating intersectional power relations in cross-border intimacies
“Our Remarkable Marriage”: Race and Borders in Marriages between African asylum-seekers and Hong Kong women (Sealing Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Boundary bricoleurs: the management of variegated differences among Sino-Congolese couples residing in Congo (DRC) (Cai Chen, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).
Love Across the Divide: Chinese-Taiwanese Couples Studying in Europe (Yu-chin Tseng, University of Tübingen, Germany)
3.00- 3.30pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.30-5.00pm: Chair: Elena Barabantseva
Panel three: New trends in cross-boundary queer relations
Racialized Queer Desires: Reconfiguring Homomasculinities in Globalizing China (Benson Zhou, NYU Shanghai)
Western dreams in crisis? Rise of inter-Asian gay orientations (Hazuki Kaneko, Hong Kong University)