Mingyuan Zhang | Writing Against 'Mask Culture'
Channel: Human Stories
Date: 2021-07-26

Mingyuan Zhang from the University of Oslo speaks about the cultural meanings of pandemic face masks and "mask culture."

Dr. Mingyuan Zhang is a sociocultural anthropologist by training. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in November 2018. Her doctoral research focuses on how the meaning of “being Chinese” is culturally constructed in northern Madagascar, and the social implications of Chinese-led development projects in the same region. Prior to joining Helsam, she was a writing fellow at the Centre for Ethnography at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough. She has also taught at the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At UiO, she is part of the research project entitled “From Asia to Africa: Antibiotic Trajectories across the Indian Ocean.” She speaks and writes Mandarin Chinese and English fluently, and has a working knowledge of French and the dialect of Malagasy spoken in northern Madagascar. 

►For more info on Dr. Zhang's work visit: https://uio.academia.edu/MingyuanZhang

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