Angela Man Xu

My research examines the transnational cultural processes that constitute global markets and reshape social identities, boundaries and hierarchies. I combine ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviewing, and critical discourse analysis to connect everyday transnational encounters with the broader institutions and discourses that structure them. As an analyst of global China, I uncover the cultural work individuals do to build China's global markets and transform social relations in the Chinese society and diasporic communities.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Studies at American University of Sharjah. I acquired a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto, a MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Lund University in Sweden and a B.A. in Persian Language and Literature from Peking University in China. My work is supported by the doctoral fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and appears in the Sociological Review, Current Sociology and the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas.

Sociologist

(she/her)