Fuji Lozada's Fieldnotes

Anthropologist at Davidson College

  • About Fuji
    • c.v.
    • Email me
    • Meet with me
  • Teaching
    • Previously Taught Classes
    • Teaching Style
      • Complex social theory can be said in plain English
      • Social/cultural theory should be relevant
      • Methodology is Important
      • Writing is a form of thinking
        • Writing a strong thesis statement
        • Making an Argument
        • Response Papers
      • Doing your own field-based research is the best way to learn about anthropology
    • Davidson in China
  • Research
    • Projects
    • Abstracts
    • My Work as a Wordle
    • Fieldnotes
      • Ghana
      • Cyberia
      • Youtube Worth Watching
  • Hack College
    • Make the digital work for you
    • Stalking your professors using Outlook
    • Read with an agenda
    • Write a research proposal
    • Outline to make research easier
    • Use theory
    • Write a literature review
    • Structure of an abstract
    • Notes on teaching and learning

The Change in the Neighborhood

June 28, 2005 By Fuji


I’m still in Nanjing, getting ready to head out first to Yangzhou to see Patricia and the Grand Canal, and then to Qingdao to visit the Mark Xie, a Davidson alumni who is the headmaster of the Leewen Foreign Language School; every year, we send a number of recent graduates to teach English at the Leewen School, and I look forward to my first visit to Qingdao and the Qingdao Brewery tour!

The picture above is just outside my hotel. Much of Nanjing is under construction, especially this area that is just a block north of a major commercial center, Xinjiekou. With the rapid economic change taking place in littoral cities like Nanjing, new money and investments are pouring in to change the landscape. As a result, old neighborhoods that were like the five-story apartment building in the center of the picture are being replaced by shopping malls and office buildings. My friend Pan Tianshu, a classmate from Harvard’s anthropology department who is now at Georgetown (but will soon be returning to his alma mater Fudan University in Shanghai) did his dissertation fieldwork precisely on a Shanghai community like the one that must have been here before. So while many are winning in the game of global capitalism, some communities are being dispersed to the suburbs further out of the city because of economic growth. Communities can reconstitute themselves in the suburbs, but it will be different. I’d like to come back to Nanjing and see what this area looks like next year, or the following year; I’m sure I won’t recognize the area. Landmarks seem to be changing from day to day.

Filed Under: Anthropology, China


Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. is Associate Dean of Faculty, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Crosland Center for Teaching & Learning. He is a sociocultural anthropologist who has examined contemporary issues in Chinese society ranging from: religion and politics; food, popular culture and globalization; sports and society issues; and the cultural impact of science and technology. more...

Crosland Center for Teaching & Learning
Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28035 USA

office: Little Library 1005
tel. 704-894-2035
erlozada [at] davidson.edu

Make the digital work for you

Essential Tools (mostly free) (Updated, 16 March 2017) Technological literacy (something I really need to define later) is essential to getting things done in today’s mediated world. There are a lot of useful applications out there that will cut back on the tears or punched walls late in the semester. Below are some of the […]

Meet with Me

RSS shanghaiist

  • Travelers from 8 more countries will be quarantined upon arrival in Shanghai
  • Britannica Online Open Day, an Access to an Offer Letter Now

RSS anthro{dendum}

  • An Obituary for Alfred Kroeber (or…Can American Indians Speak?)
  • Anthrodendum, the revival

Men’s Lacrosse at Davidson

The Davidson College Men's Lacrosse team is a member of the Southeastern Lacrosse Conference (SELC) and competes in Division II of the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association.

Tweets by @thefieldworker

Copyright © 2021 Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. · Davidson College