Podcast Episodes featuring James Farrer

International Migrants in China's Global City, with James Farrer

Carnegie Council Podcasts - July 09, 2019 17:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Is China becoming an immigrant society? Why do foreigners move to the country? What can we learn by studying Shanghai's international community? James Farrer, a professor at Tokyo's Sophia University, has interviewed over 400 migrants to China looking to answer these questions. He and Senior Fel...

International Migrants in China's Global City, with James Farrer

Carnegie Council Podcasts - July 09, 2019 17:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 57 ratings
Is China becoming an immigrant society? Why do foreigners move to the country? What can we learn by studying Shanghai's international community? James Farrer, a professor at Tokyo's Sophia University, has interviewed over 400 migrants to China looking to answer these questions. He and Senior Fel...

James Farrer and Andrew D. Field, “Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

New Books Network - December 30, 2015 11:28 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
James Farrer and Andrew D. Field bring their respective areas of sociological and historical expertise to a new study of cosmopolitan nightlife in modern Shanghai. The fruit of two decades of collaborative work, the co-authored Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City (Univers...