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These Days, These Homes is a work in progress film project centered on the lives and homes of two Miao women in 21st century China. As an ethnography, the ethnography behind the film explores domesticity, gender, and development through a portrait of their changing homes across the rural and urban spaces of southwest Guizhou province. As a film, the praxis of documentation, conversation, and composition attempts to harness the potential of the portrait as a mode of critical knowledge-making that recognizes the incompleteness of all representational forms as well as the foundational relationships (and obligations) structuring all ethnographic encounters.

Jenny Chio is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker in the departments of East Asian Languages & Cultures and Anthropology at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA). She researches social transformations and cultural practices in ethnic minority regions of rural southwestern and western China, with a current focus on vernacular video practices, documentary film, and the persistence of the rural in Chinese modernity.

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