Damn I thought it was a done deal, I even had chats with the folks at the research institute who would’ve offered the funding, and they were very optimistic. I was pretty much already expecting the next 4 years of my life to be done doing that.
Feeling kind of neutral about it tho. Maybe emotions will come later.
And this is the university where I am friends with a tenured professor, who was also pushing my application forward. If I apply to other places i’m certainly not gonna have that for any other applications. I don’t even know what other programs to apply to.
Gotta say I’m not really aware of what the political food geography field looks like in China, but I can’t imagine there’s a lot of interest there in understanding how rural and indigenous peoples in the global south use the taste of food as a tool of resistance.
From what I know, China is interested in attracting STEM researchers, mostly. Social sciences seem (understandably) pretty saturated with local scholars studying the huge diversity within the PRC.
Where the hell is the National Endowment for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?