#  James L. Watson 

Faculty Associate (emeritus). 

John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** China and Hong Kong; globalism; diasporas; migration; food systems; and post-Socialist and late-Communist cultures.



 

 

 





 

 

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