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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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