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East Asian Studies
Staff profile

Flemming Christiansen
BA, MA Aarhus, PhD Leiden
Professor of Chinese Studies
Director, National Institute of Chinese Studies
Director, White Rose East Asia Centre
Director, Institute for Research on Contemporary China
Deputy Director, Centre for Chinese Business and Development

Tel: 0113 343 3410
Fax: 0113 343 6741
Email: f.christiansen@leeds.ac.uk
Web: www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/%7Echifc/teaching.html

linkCurrent Research Interests
linkMajor Publications
linkConsultancies
linkFunded research projects
linkUndergraduate teaching
linkPostgraduate teaching
linkPostgraduate research supervision
linkDepartmental responsibilities

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Current Research Interests

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

Major Publications

Books

  • The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia (co-authored with Ulf Hedetoft) Ashgate, London, 2004.
  • Chinatown, Europe.Identity of the European Chinese Towards the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
    London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Village Inc.: Chinese Rural Society in the 1990s.
    Richmond, Richmond Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998 (co-authored with Zhang Junzuo).
  • Chinese Politics and Society.
    Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall, 1996 (co-authored with Shirin Rai).

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "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.

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.

Undergraduate teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate research supervision

  • Various topics relating to social and political issues in China.

Departmental and University responsibilities

  • Director National Institute for Chinese Studies, White Rose East Asia Centre
  • Director, Institute of Research on Contemporary China (IRCC)
  • Deputy Director, Centre for Chinese Business and Development (CCBD)
  • Library Liaison Officer (Chinese)
  • Member of DEAS Steering Committee
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