Professor Delia Davin

Acting Director, National Institute of Chinese Studies

Acting Director of Research (Social Change and Transition in East Asia Cluster)

Honorary fellow

1972 PhD, Leeds; 1968 BA (Chinese Studies), Leeds.

Current Research Interests

Social and economic development of China, gender issues, population control and rural-urban migration in China, life and legacy of Mao Zedong.

Major Publications

Books

Internal migration in Contemporary China, London: Macmillan: 1999.

Mao Zedong, A Life, Sutton, 1997, reprint The History Press, 2009.

Chinese Lives: an Oral History of Contemporary China, (co-editor with W. Jenner) New York: Pantheon; London: Macmillan, 1988.

China's One Child Family Policy, London: Macmillan, 1985 ((co-editor with E. Croll and P. Kane).

Book chapters

'Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless' in Greg Benton and Lin Chun (eds) 'Was Mao really a monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" .London: Routledge June 2009.

'Marriage Migration in China: The enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms' in Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi (eds) Marriage migration and gender. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.

'Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless' in Greg Benton (ed) Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution. London: Routledge, 2007.

'Women and Migration in Contemporary China', China Report 41:1 2005, New Delhi: Sage.

'The impact of export-oriented manufacturing on the welfare entitlements of Chinese women workers' in Shahra Razavi, Ruth Pearson and Caroline Danloy eds, Globalisation, Export-oriented Employment and Social Policy: Gendered Connections, UNISD/London:Palgrave, 2004.

'Country maids in the city: Domestic Service as an Agent of Modernity in China' in Françoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca (eds), Politics in China: Moving Frontiers, London: Palgrave 2002.

'Chinese Women: Media Concerns and Politics of Reform' in Afshar.H. ed Women and Politics in the Third World. London: Routledge, 1996.

'Population Policy and Reform: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China' in Shirin Rai et al (eds). Women in the Face of Change: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. London: Routledge, 1992.

Articles in reference books

'China's One-Child Policy' in Vandana Desai and Rob Potter (eds) The Arnold Companion to Development Studies , Edward Arnold, 2000

'Gladys Yang', in B. Harrison (ed) Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

'Marriage Law in contemporary China' and 'Gender Issues in contemporary China' in Das Grosse China-Lexikon , Stefan Freidrich and Hans-Wilm Schutte (eds), Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgellschaft and Primus Verlag, 2003

Translations

My 1997 book, Mao Zedong, has been translated into Polish and Norwegian.

My Chinese to English translation of the essay 'Remembering Yang Bi' by Yang Jiang appeared in Zhu Hong (ed) A Frolic in the Snow , Shenyang , China :Liaoning Educational Press, China , 2002

Consultancies

Hong Kong Council for Academic Awards.

Funded research projects

Impact of rural-urban migration on the sending areas in China.

Conferences and other activities

Panel discussant for a panel on Women in Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China at the March 2003 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York.

Gave a paper at a meeting on 'Mao Zedong studies and the work of Professor Stuart Schram' at Harvard University in December 2003.

Plenary Speaker on Gender and Migration in China at a conference on Women and Migration at the University of Delhi in December 2003.

Sept 2002 Member of British Academy delegation that visited the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the Shanghai Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Sinica and the National Science Council in Taiwan.

2004-2006 Chairman of Universities' China Committee in London

Past Postgraduate research supervision

Professor Davin has supervised doctoral students on the following subjects:

• Internal migration in China
• Fertility and economic development in China.
• Disability in China.
• China's Grain Policy.
• Gender Issues in China.
• Agricultural Policy in Ningxia Province after the Reforms.
• Women's Reproductive Health in Yunnan Province.
• Gender and Sexuality in China.
• Western discourse on foreign direct investment in China
• Early Chinese cinema