Disciplinary history serves as an essential foundation for scientific research, as it embodies the ideologies and orientations of academic communities. However, the current World Anthropological history predominantly focuses on perspectives from the North and the West, thus neglecting the need for a multi-centered development of Anthropology in diverse contexts. In this context, China's overseas ethnography - a new track amongst Chinese and World Anthropology - provides a unique lens to observe interactions between the 'Chinese experience and global vision'. This is due to its isomorphic relationships with Chinese social sciences and global knowledge networks and its role as a reflective prism that reveals the intersection between 'knowledge production and identity construction.' This paper centers on the knowledge genealogy of China’s overseas ethnography, reflecting on the changes and transformations the field has undergone over the past two decades. As an ethnographic presentation of specific practices in academic history, it investigates the role of personal initiative, cross-border dialogue, and communal interaction in influencing these changes. Using network analysis and examining the communicative practices associated with China's overseas ethnography, this study draws connections between Chinese Anthropology and global Anthropologies,explores the reasons and impetus for such structures and transformations, provides a new perspective on the discourse dynamics between Northern, Southern academia and the global knowledge community.
