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This week, Hour of History sits down with Mingyuan Zhang  an anthropologist at the University of Western Ontario. Mingyuan lived in Madagascar to study the Chinese community and understand how "being Chinese" is culturally and socially constructed between Mandarin-speaking Chinese and Malagasy people.

Some Highlights:

Chinese-owned sugar plantations

Global connections between Chinese and Malagasy businessmen

Learning languages globally

Antsiranana

Approaches to ethnographic fieldwork

The Confucius Institute

Growing business in Africa

International Trade

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh  also available for download as an audiobook

Mingyuan: Anxious Wealth by John Osburg and Made in Madagascar by Andrew Walsh

 

https://youtu.be/LaOFFC4sg0Y