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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Liebe KollegInnen und Kollegen,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>sehr gerne möchten wir Sie zu folgendem Vortrag einladen:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Dr. Anna Boermel (King’s College London)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Selling and buying fresh vegetables in Beijing: Food, space and well-being in a Chinese megacity</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>25.11.2013, Sin 2, 12.15-13.45 Uhr</span></u><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This paper seeks to examine the complex relationships between urban society and the urban environment by analysing the quotidian retail and consumption of fresh vegetables in Beijing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Food retail in cities is a prime example of the interdependence between the urban and the rural, as it sheds light on the movement of people, rural migrants whose labour is absolutely critical to the food supply chain, and material goods, i.e. fresh food. Since the beginning of the reform era in the late 1970s Beijing’s population has greatly increased. As the city has grown, urban food security has emerged as a critical development issue. More outlets for food sales have been set up and rural-urban and transnational linkages to bring increasing quantities of food to Beijing consumers have been enhanced. In addition to quantity, quality has also become a source of great concern to many Beijing residents in the wake of numerous food safety scandals. Based on extensive anthropological field research, this paper analyses the panoply of retail spaces that dot the urban landscape: large outdoor morning markets, local and foreign supermarkets, an occasional farmers’ market, and two organic farms on the outskirts of the city. The paper not only shows that concerns about price, quality, food safety and accessibility as well as factors such as age, gender, and class shape the complex relationships between urban consumers and the urban environment in this rapidly changing mega-city but also raises wider questions about space, well-being and transnational links. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>Short bio:<br>Dr. Anna Boermel holds degrees in Chinese Studies (BA) and Social Anthropology (MPhil and DPhil) from the University of Oxford. Before joining King’s College London she was Departmental Lecturer in the Politics and Society of Modern China at the University of Oxford and Research and Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Society at the University of Cambridge. She has spent over three years conducting research in urban China. Her research interests include demographic change, governance and environment and health in urban China. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mit den besten Grüßen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Martina Eory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>