LiAnne Yu

LiAnne Yu is a Hakka-Fukienese-Taiwanese American, raised in San Francisco and now living on the Big Island of Hawaii. She always wanted to be an anthropologist and as a kid, idolized Margaret Mead. As her third grade teacher once told her, anthropologists get to travel, poke their noses into closets, listen to grannies gossip on the front porch, and call that a good day’s work. Her research has given her the opportunity to hang out with all kinds of communities, including Snapchat-obsessed teens, south Chicago boys with basketball dreams, Chinese senior citizens taking naps in IKEA, and fishermen living out on the Louisiana bayou. She’s written about climate change and clean energy entrepreneurialism for Hawaii Business Magazine and her book, Consumption in China, was published by Polity Press in 2014.