"Everyone knows issue ... sometimes too painful to look at...as academic, not terrifying if can describe, analyse and manage it.

 

 

"Everyone knows where the
issue is, but they are reluctant to look at it. Sometimes it is too
painful to look at, or they don't have a way," he tells the BBC over tea
in Singapore.

"But as an academic, it is not terrifying if you can describe it – that's how you analyse and manage it."

anthropologist. Professor Biao Xiang