Professor Flemming Christiansen

Director of the National Institute of Chinese Studies (NICS);
Director of Research (Social Change and Transition in East Asia cluster)

(on Sabbatical 2009-10)

1990 PhD, Leiden; 1980 MA (Chinese Studies), Aarhus (DK); 1977 BA (Chinese Studies), Aarhus (DK); 1975 BA (German), Aarhus (DK).

Research interest

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

Selected publications

Chinatown, Europe. An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s . RoutledgeCurzon 2003

The Politics of Multiple Belonging. Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia. Ashgate, 2004

Remaking Peasant China. Problems of Rural Development and Institutions at the Start of the 1990s . Aarhus University Press, 1990

Village Inc.: Chinese Rural Society in the 1990s . Richmond : Curzon, 1998, xv, 277 pp

Chinese Politics and Society. An Introduction. Prentice Hall and Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996

'Democratization in China : Structural Constraints.' In: Geraint Parry and Michael Moran, eds., Democracy and Democratization. Routledge, 1994

'Creative Borrowing. How the Chinese Appropriated Dualism and Transmuted It.' In Clausen et al., eds., Cultural Encounters: China, Japan, and the West. Aarhus University Press, 1995.

'Chinese Labour in Transition 1978-92: A Case of Institutional Evolution.' In Rodgers et al. eds., The Institutional Approach to Labour and Devel­opment. Frank Cass, 1996

'The Transition from the Public to the Private: Different Strategies for the Labour Market in the Transforming Chinese and Hungarian Economies.' In Rodgers et al. eds., The Institutional Approach to Labour and Development . Frank Cass, 1996

'The Internationalization of Chinese Development Policy.' In Gummett, ed., Glob­alization and Public Policy . Edward Elgar, 1996

'Chinese Identity in Europe.' In Benton and Pieke, eds., The Chinese in Europe . Macmillan Press, 1998