use yourself as a method

Two generations of scholars, spanning Beijing, Oxford, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, completed this conversation in three years. Starting from Professor Xiang Biao's personal experience, he pursues a series of questions beyond himself, which involves thinking about the changes in Chinese society over the past half century, knowledge community, globalization and populism, and anthropological methodology. This book provides a record of the dialogue, and also provides a way to examine the problem and practice thinking—how to position yourself in the tide of self-inundation, and how to creatively build the small world around you in the era of globalization. How does the world, in a society trapped in thought, answer grand propositions.