The Reconfiguration of Whiteness in China: Privileges, Precariousness, and Racialized Performances

Project Information

CHINAWHITE

Grant agreement ID: 817868

DOI

10.3030/817868

Project closed

EC signature date 29 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Modified bodies, material selves: beauty ideals in post-reform Shanghai

Author(s): Ke Ma
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue 24, 2025, Page(s) 155-157, ISSN 1683-478X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2024.2429279

Beyond Barbie: Representations of whiteness in China’s digital advertising

Author(s): Christina Kefala
Published in: Global Media and China, 2025, ISSN 2059-4364
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20594364241301522

‘I’m Not an Alien. I’m a Digital Ethnographer’: Doing Online Research with China’s Social Media

Author(s): Christina Kefala
Published in: Asiascape: Digital Asia, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 42-52, ISSN 2214-2304
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/22142312-bja10041

End of the China dream? Young Western entrepreneurs’ trajectories of leaving China during Covid-19

Author(s): Christina Kefala, Shanshan Lan
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue 21, 2022, Page(s) 197-210, ISSN 1683-478X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2090053

Contested racial capitals of English teachers in China: reassessing Whiteness by use-value

Author(s): Raviv Litman
Published in: Third World Quarterly, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0143-6597
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2025.2459738

Covid-19 and the Racialisation of Migrants in the Global South

Author(s): Shanshan Lan, Willy Sier, Aldina Camenisch
Published in: New Diversities, Issue 24(1), 2022, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 2199-8116
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Middling whiteness: The shifting positionalities of Europeans in China

Author(s): Aldina Camenisch
Published in: Ethnicities, Issue 22, 2025, Page(s) 128-145, ISSN 1468-7968
Publisher: Sage Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14687968211058014

The foreign bully, the guest and the low-income knowledge worker: performing multiple versions of whiteness in China

Author(s): Shanshan Lan
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Issue 48, 2022, Page(s) 3544-3560, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2021.2021869

Western male vloggers’ self-representations during the covid-19 pandemic

Author(s): Ke Ma
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 211–223, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2090054

Stuck in Wuhan? White mobility capital and the evacuation of mixed-status families after the Covid-19 outbreak

Author(s): Willy Sier
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue 21(12), 2022, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2093770

Between Privileges and Precariousness: Remaking Whiteness in China's Teaching English as a Second Language industry

Author(s): Shanshan Lan
Published in: American Anthropologist, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 118-129, ISSN 0002-7294
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/aman.13657

“Neutral” vs. “pure” accents: the racialization of Filipino and EuroAmerican teachers in China’s online education industry during the covid-19 pandemic

Author(s): Raviv Litman
Published in: Asian Anthropology, 2022, Page(s) 224-237, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Online
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2100069

Between precarious foreignness and praise for China: the citizenship constellations of white Europeans in China during the early Covid-19 pandemic

Author(s): Aldina Camenisch
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue VOL. 21, NO. 3, 2022, Page(s) 184-196, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2099082

Descendants of the dragon: racialized mixed Chineseness in immigrant China

Author(s): Willy Sier, Elena Barabantseva
Published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0141-9870
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2397548

Platform-mediated racialization: A case study of rural Chinese wig sellers and Black clients on Alibaba

Author(s): Shichang Duan, Shanshan Lan
Published in: New Media & Society, 2025, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448251358351

Precarious whiteness in pandemic times in China

Author(s): Shanshan Lan, Willy Sier, Aldina Camenisch
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue 21(2), 2022, Page(s) 161-170, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2099081

The cultural politics of race in Chinese cinema: Nationalism and the changing representation of whiteness in <i>Big Shot’s Funeral</i> and <i>Crazy Alien</i>

Author(s): Ke Ma
Published in: Global Media and China, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2059-4372
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/20594364231194670

Breaking all moulds? Racialized romance between white/yang women and Chinese men

Author(s): Willy Sier
Published in: Identities, Issue 30:6, 2022, Page(s) 861-879, ISSN 1547-3384
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2022.2154013

Book chapters (2)

“Now We Are No Longer Needed!”: How White European Migrants Talk About Race and Covid-19 in China

Author(s): Shanshan Lan
Published in: IMISCOE Research Series, Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia, 2025, Page(s) 57-75
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81545-4_4

Introduction: Researching Race and Migration in a Transnational Context

Author(s): Shanshan Lan, Miloš Debnár
Published in: IMISCOE Research Series, Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia, 2025, Page(s) 1-12
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81545-4_1

Thesis and dissertations (3)

The allure of white bodies: Race, capital, and nationhoon in contemporary China

Author(s): Ke Ma
Published in: 2025
Publisher: 'The Library of the University of Amsterdam

"The brand...? White people..."" Whiteness in the valuation of foreign English teachers in China"

Author(s): Raviv Litman
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Library of the University of Amsterdam

Representation and Performativity of Whiteness in China: The Case of Foreign Digital Entrepreneurs

Author(s): Christina Kefala
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Library of the University of Amsterdam

Monographic books (2)

Contemporary European Emigration - Situating Integration in New Destinations

Author(s): Aldina Camenisch, Brigitte Suter
Published in: European migrants’ contact zones in China, 2020, ISBN 9780429202018
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780429202018

Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia

Author(s): Shanshan Lan,Raviv Litman,Elena Barabantseva
Published in: IMISCOE Research Series, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81545-4

Other (1)

Review of: The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

Author(s): Raviv Litman, Shuling Wang
Published in: Asian Anthropology, Issue Volume 22, 2023 - Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 226-228, ISSN 2168-4227
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Online
DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2023.2208982