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Flemming Christiansen

Professor of Chinese Studies

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Areas of Expertise
  • Livelihoods, Social Strata and Classes in China
  • Chinese Rural Development and Urbanisation
  • Identity Politics in China and among Chinese

Other Roles: Editor, "Journal of Current Chinese Affairs"; Member of editorial boards of "China Information", "Journal of Agrarian Change" and "Asian Politics and Policy".

BA, MA Aarhus; PhD Leiden.

Key Publications and Activities

Books and Monographs

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Building Livelihoods: How Chinese Peasants Deal with State Regulation of Opportunity and Risk", in Norman Long, Ye Jingzhong and Wang Yihuan (eds.), Rural Transformations and Development - China in Context. The Everyday Lives of Policies and People. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010, pp. 133-151.
  • "Migrations within China", in Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlin (eds.), Diasporas. Concepts Intersections, Identities. London: Zed Books, 2010, pp. 204-210.
  • "Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing: Engaging China." Historical Materialism. 18(1), 2010, pp. 110-129.
  • "Food Security, Urbanization and Social Stability in China." Journal of Agrarian Change. 9(4), October 2009
  • "改革时期中国的生活机会:生计, 尊重,权利与风险" 中国研究 7-8, 2008, pp. 169-186
  • "Chinese Women in Rural-Urban Transition: surrogate brothers or agents of their own fate?" Journal of Contemporary China, 16, 2007, pp.117-132.
  • "Will WTO Accession Threaten China's Social Stabilty?", in H. Holbig and R. Ash (eds) China's Accession to the World Trade Organisation, Routledge, London, 2002.
  • "Market Transition in China: The Case of the Jiangsu Labour Market, 1978-1990." Modern China, 18:1 (January 1992), 72-93.
  • "The Legacy of the Mock Dual Economy: Chinese Labour in Transition 1978-1992." Economy and Society, 22:4 (November 1993), 411-36.
  • "Social Division and Peasant Mobility in Mainland China: The Implications of the Hu-k'ou System." Issues and Studies, 26:4 (April 1990).
  • "Democratization in China: Structural Constraints" in Geraint Parry and Michael Moran (eds.), Democracy and Democratization. London: Routledge, 1994, 152-173.
  • "Chinese Rural Policy Between Social Change and State Planning." Development Forum (Oslo), no. 1, 1998.

Opinion Pieces and Impact

Associated Websites

Consultancies

  • Surveys of the Chinese market for higher education for the Education Counselling Service and the British Council, 1994, covering Guangdong Province; and 1996, covering Guangdong, Xiamen and Shanghai.

Funded Research Projects

  • The China in the World Post Graduate Research Summer School in Chinese Studies, financed by the Marie Curie programme, 2006-2009 (convening in Nanjing, Leeds, Bristol and Oslo)
  • European Chinese: Chinese Europeans, financed by ESRC 1995-1997.
  • Institutions for Sustainable Development in Ecologically Sensitive Areas in China, financed by DG XII, the European Commission 1993-1995.

 

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