Ethnographic Fieldwork in China with Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez

19/11/2025 50 min

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Episode Synopsis

For over a year, Oxford PhD candidate Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez lived in Qingtian (青田), a small county in southern Zhejiang with unusually strong ties to Europe. Her ethnographic research on return migration offers a rare window into how people navigate life between two regions that are deeply connected.Learn about their search for a unique sense of identity and the challenges of returning to a China that has transformed dramatically from the one they once knew.

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