My PhD thesis, conducted between 2015 and 2020 at Oxford and the Australian National Univesrity, draws on a case study of entrepreneurship in contemporary rural China to address questions relating to social mobility, social differentiation, perceptions of social fairness and legitimacy, and the formation of collective identities in a context of rapid socio-economic change.
My first masters' thesis (2011), published by the Parisian publishing house L’Harmattan (see here), analysed how French observers used their own intellectual framework to make sense of the Chinese Cultural Revolution that was taking place before their eyes.
My second masters’ thesis (2013) analysed how different groups of people (migrants workers, migrant bosses, and locals) perceived each other, and how a sense of “otherness” arose from shared life in a Beijing suburb.
My recent article about poverty alleviation policies in China, published by China Perspectives, explores how poverty alleviation programs shape the distribution of power and resources in rural China. Read More
My PhD thesis draws on a case study of entrepreneurship in contemporary rural China to address questions relating to social mobility, social differentiation, perceptions of social fairness and legitimacy, and the formation of collective identities in a context of rapid socio-economic change. Read More
My master's thesis, based on a research conducted in 2012-2013, analyses the appropriation of residential space in places of cohabitation between local populations and rural migrants. Read More
My master's thesis, based on a research conducted in 2010-2011, investigates China's Cultural Revolution under the French Eyes, especially Diplomats and Travellers in China from 1965 to 1971. Read More