This cluster of research delves into the transnational livelihood of African migrants in China and examine how people from diametrically different cultural backgrounds live together and form economic relationships.
I treat marketplace as a sociological site where boundary-crossing relationships and new sociality are formed.
This cluster of research examines the political and institutional processes of marketplace platformization as well as the impact of platformization on the day-to-day business life of micro-entrepreneurs between China and Africa.
I suggest seeing platformization as an embedded process constrained by existing social and political structures and tensions.
This research discusses China's marketization from a grassroots perspective. It shows how markets are formed through a social-movement-like process where different stakeholders voice their conceptualization and normative arguments of the "market".