Mei-Ling Chien is a Professor of Anthropology at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan. Her fields of specialty include kinship, gender, linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology and the anthropology of emotions among the Miao (Hmub/Hmong) in Southwest China, and among the Hakka in South China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. She is the author of Sentiment and Marriage among the Hmub in Eastern Guizhou (2009), Narratives of Hmub Village Life in Eastern Guizhou: Emotions, Language and Everyday Life (2022), the co-editor of The Hakka: Formation and Transformation (2010), Global Hakka Studies: Practice and Development (2021), and One Hundred Years of Traveling To and Fro: The Japanese Scholars and Their Field Trips to the Hakka Areas (2021) and also the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

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