B.A. in Italian, University of International Business and Economics, 2004
M.A. in European Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University, 2007
Home town: Jiangsu, China
Email: graziadeng’at’gmail.com

My areas of interest are economic anthropology, space and urbanity, transnational migration, globalization and nationalism, ethnicity and identity, gender and family.

I  did my PhD project on Chinese-owned coffee bars in Italy. By studying everyday socio-cultural interactions between ethnic groups in urban public spaces, I am investigating the family entrepreneurship and ethnicity of Chinese immigrants in Italy.

Anthropological training provides me new perspectives to understand different peoples and diversified cultural realities. It offers me a chance to discover a new world that I have never experienced before.