Beschreibung
Twenty years ago, foreign researchers were just (or to be more exact:
again) beginning to venture into China for fieldwork. Today, „the field“
itself has become mobile, ephemeral and virtual as more research focuses
on human mobility and communication. This issue of the Berliner
China-Hefte takes a look at some of the trends and problems of fieldwork
in and about China today, touching on issues that range from Internet
research to sexual harassment in the field, foreign investors in China and
Chinese tourists abroad as research subjects, and the role of social and
poverty assessment in development.
