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Abstract        

The speaker would introduce her recent book, Finding India in China: Travels to the Lesser Known in this presentation. The book takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through China’s margins. In part an intellectual travelogue, the voyage equally mixes in humorous anecdotes, oddball encounters, and thoughtful reflections on the vastness that is China. With her distinct Indian perspective, the author slices through preconceptions and shibboleths in her interactions with a motley set of characters—from Muslim housewives in Xinjiang to Mongols dressing up for tourism, from academics to party officials to migrant workers.

About the Speaker

Anurag Viswanath is an avid China watcher who has regularly been writing about China for more than a decade, with numerous articles in Bangkok Post, The Nation and Prachatai in Thailand, Far East Economic Review in Hong Kong, as well as Financial Express and Business Standard in India, among others. A Mandarin speaker, she has travelled extensively throughout China. She lived in Shanghai as a researcher at Fudan University for her doctoral dissertation on China’s reforms from Delhi University. An Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi, she presently lives in Singapore.