Dr Rachel Murphy, BA (Murdoch), PhD (Cambridge), University Lecturer in the Sociology of China and Faculty Fellow (elected 2007). Dr Murphy is Director of the Asian Studies Centre at St Antony's College. Her research has examined transformations in China's rural hinterlands occurring as a result of the rapid incorporation of rural people into the inter-related processes of industrialisation, urbanisation, modernization (especially through the state projects of education and population regulation), marketisation and the expansion of communications technologies. Over the past twelve years, to understand these transformations, she has conducted in-depth longitudinal ethnographic observation, extensive interviews and small-scale localized surveys in China's interior rice belt. Her books include How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China (Cambridge University Press 2002; published in Chinese by Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2008), Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins edited with VL Fong (Routledge 2006), Labour Migration and Social Development in China (ed.) (Routledge, 2008), Media, Identity and Struggle in 21st Century China edited with V.L.Fong (Routledge, 2009) and Education and Development in China edited with D. Johnson (Elsevier, 2010). Her articles have appeared in China Quarterly, Critical Asian Studies, IOM Migration Research Series, Journal of Peasant Studies, Population and Development Review and edited volumes. She has recently started a project with Professor Ran Tao of Renmin University , supported by a British Academy Career Development Grant, which looks at the children of labour migrants in China. She serves on the executive committee of the China Quarterly editorial board and the China Panel of the British Academy. |
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