In the future China anthro will be increasingly done in Chinese, by Chinese colleagues. for the past 5 years it’s been very hard to plan long-term fieldwork in China, and because the first fieldwork is so crucially important, our non-Chinese PhD students are not currently specialising in China.
Meantime in the mainland, anthro is in high demand in public debates, and the publication field in Chinese has expanded. It is in the interests (and sometimes required) of mainland colleagues to direct their energies there.
There is already a silo effect (has been for 60 years at least) in that anthropology and China (including Taiwan) anthropology have been separate since the 1960s. Thus English-language China anthropology will only read itself.
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