Biography
Jenny W. Tang is the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Student in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia and a member of King’s College. Based on 13 months of ethnographic research in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 2022–23, her thesis project examines the emergence of ‘contemporary art’ in post-socialist Mongolia and the critical and aesthetic currents forming in tandem with this emergence. Her research interests span broadly across the study of Mongolia and Inner Asia, anthropology and the arts, and questions of post-socialism and postcoloniality in Asia.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Jenny had worked in public policy research and with arts organisations in Hong Kong. She read Human, Social, and Political Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2017–20, and had formerly trained professionally in classical ballet.
Research
Anthropology of Mongolia; Inter-Asia Studies; urban ethnography; contemporary art; dance; development; political economy; anthropological theory.
Publications
Conference paper
2022. ‘Thinking through dance: Hong Kong beyond its geopolitical entrapment’. Paper presented at the Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2022: Hong Kong Studies as Praxis.
