Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Pauline Harlay
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Qualifications
- BA (Oxford), MPhil (Cambridge)
- Email address
- 677271@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Tea, Taste and Traders: Cultural Mediators and the Reinvention of the Chinese ‘Traditional’ Beverage (working title)
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Elizabeth Hull & Dr Jakob Klein
Biography
Contact Pauline on teaching matters on ph42@soas.ac.uk
My BA and MPhil dissertations, for which I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Taiwan, focused on the link between the reintroduction of a ‘traditional’ aboriginal festival in rural Taiwan and the region’s indigenous rights movement. Following the completion of my MPhil, I worked for Taiwanese tea specialist Tseng Yuhui in Paris. This experience with a renowned ‘master’ developed my technical knowledge of tea, which helped me frame my PhD project on tea culture. During the years I spent away from academia, I also worked as a Mandarin to French translator: among other works, I translated a novel and a short story by Chinese author Liu Cixin, to be published next year. My PhD is funded by ESRC.
