Both China and Africa have experienced colonialism and have shown mutual sympathy and support in history. From early rejection of anthropology to later reflection, criticism, and collaboration, scholars have taken courageous steps to participate in the global anthropological dialogue. This panel will discuss how the Chinese and African academia have accommodated local knowledges for more inclusive museum studies, media arts, and film studies. The convenors draw on their Qinghai Museums teams to discuss their respective projects for publication of school-based textbooks; the transnational cooperation in medical research, multicultural review and exhibition hall layout, and the construction of women's anthropology; Case-studies from China: Roads and efforts to build anthropology and museums. We invite other scholars from Africa and further afield to discuss building an anthropology, from negative spaces, that serves the people, by drawing on case studies. 1) Legacies: limitation of ethnographic description of Malinowski, Edmund Leach, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Lewis Henry Morgan, Claude Levi-Strauss, Marshall Sahlins; Gender/cultural studies, Critical Race Studies; anthropologists work with scientific authority, reasons for terminating and resuming the discipline; 2) The anthropology for the contemporary world: the exchange of theories and methods between disciplines, interdisciplinary ideas and methods; blurred boundaries between disciplines; the field study and the manufacture of truth; excellent curriculum design; project funding agencies; promoting funding policies that support transnational partnerships and cooperate; basic/transnational studies, searching for real history, studies of historical figures and places, the expansion of traditional fields of study; anthropological ancient texts/traditions recorded in the literary, social, and humanities disciplines; changes in basic concepts, fields and themes, The funding agencies and production of anthropological knowledge; transition to the emerging future of transnational and global research. Langagues: English, Yi and Han Chinese, French