“Informality and Social Networking: The ‘Huan Qian’ practice of the Chinese Business Community in Morocco.”
New Article in Economic Anthropology
Doctoral candidate Jason Jie Gao who is our dual grad student in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and Middle Eastern & North African Studies, has just published a new article in Economic Anthropology titled: “Informality and Social Networking: The ‘Huan Qian’ practice of the Chinese Business Community in Morocco.”
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco, Jie’s article examines how Huan Qian—a small-scale informal currency exchange—operates not only as an economic practice but also as a key mechanism for building trust, social networks, and cross-cultural ties between Chinese migrants and local Moroccans. This publication is Jie’s third article from his dissertation project on the Chinese business community in Morocco.
You can read the attached article or access it here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/KM2CEID3VMG5FTJKHBP3?target=10.1002/sea2.70027