MPhil GAS Course Director, Departmental Lecturer, GAS and Contemporary China Studies Programm
chigusa.yamaura@area.ox.ac.uk
Chigusa Yamaura is sociocultural anthropologist and currently a Departmental Lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford. She is the author of Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China (Cornell University Press 2020). Her work addresses a broad array of topics, including gender, marriage, cross-border marriage, family, life course expectations, motherhood, reproduction, childcare, and fertility as well as migration, colonial memory, and transnationalism in East Asia. Her current research examines shifting conceptions of motherhood against the backdrop of demographic change in Japan. Her most recent publication is "The cultural politics of childcare provision in the era of a shrinking Japan." Critical Asian Studies 52, no. 2 (2020): 248-269 and “An Imagined Shrinking Community: Japanese Nationalism and the Chronology of the Future” (Japanese Studies 2024).
More information can be found on Chigua's profile page on the OSGA website.
