Frank Nikolaas Pieke Curriculum Vitae - Faculty of Oriental Studies ...

Frank Nikolaas Pieke
Curriculum Vitae
June 2009
Current post
• University Lecturer of Modern Politics and Society of China and Fellow of St
Cross College, University of Oxford (since 1995)
• Director, University of Oxford China Centre (since 2007)
Research profile
Political anthropology; modern Chinese studies; Administrative and political
change in China; Chinese migration and overseas Chinese communities;
Migration policies and development; Rural poverty alleviation
Previous post held
• University Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology of Contemporary China,
Documentation and Research Centre for Contemporary China, Sinological
Institute, University of Leiden, the Netherlands (1986-1995; tenured since 1988)
University education
• Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
• Non-degree programme, Modern Chinese History, Beijing University, (1983)
• Non-degree programme, Modern Chinese, Beijing Language Institute, (1982)
• M.A. (cum laude), Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (1982)
• B.A. (cum laude), Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (1979)
Current project
• Immigrant China (2008-2011)
• British Inter-University China Centre (Director, 2006-2011)
Previous research projects
• Field research project How to Be a Good Communist in Reform-era China: An
Ethnographic Study of Cadre Training (2004-2007)
• Programme Head, research programme Sending Contexts, ESRC Centre on
Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS, 2003-2006)
• Field research project Never a level playing field: Community and connections in
the quest for modernity in rural China (1996-2003)
• Principal Investigator of the research project At the margins of the Chinese world
system: The Fuzhou diaspora in Europe under the ESRC Programme on
Transnational Communities (1999-2001)
• Programme Director, research programme on International Social Organization
in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties in the Twentieth Century,
International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden (with L.M. Douw, 1995-1997)
• Research fellow and project leader (with A.J. Saich) of the documentation and
research project State and Civil Society in China at the International Institute of
Social History, Amsterdam (1991 - 1993)

• Project leader of the project Collection Chinese People's Movement, Spring 1989,
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (1989 - 1990)
• Ph.D. fieldwork in Beijing as affiliated researcher at Institute for Sociology,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (November 1988 - June 1989)
Consultancies
• Review of UK Home Office Country of Origin (COI) Report on China. Advisory
Panel on Country Information (APCI), 2007
• Trafficking and Forced Migration of Chinese in the UK. International Labour
Organization (2005-2006)
• YEDP – Selected National Policies – Summary Analysis and YEDP:
Stakeholder Analysis. Yunnan Environmental Development Programme
(YEDP), Department for International Development and Scott Wilson
Consultancy (2004-2005)
• Informal Remittance Systems. Department for International Development
(DFID), UK and the European Community’s Poverty Reduction Effectiveness
Programme (EC-PREP) (2004, with Nicholas Van Hear and Anna Lindley).
Report online at
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/Informal%20Remittances%20report.sh
tml
• The Contribution of UK-based Diasporas to Development and Poverty
Reduction. Report by the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
(COMPAS) for the Department for International Development (2004, with
Nicholas Van Hear and Steven Vertovec)
• China Migration Country Study. Report for the Department for International
Development under its programme on “Migration, Development & Pro-Poor
Policy Choices in Asia” (2003, with Huang Ping). Report online at
http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Dhaka_CP_3.pdf
• Trends in Chinese Migration to Europe: Fujianese Migration in Perspective. IOM
Migration Research Series No. 6. Geneva: International Organization for
Migration (2002). Report online at
http://www.iom.int//DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATION/EN/mrs_6_2002.pdf
• Vegetable Boom and the Question of Sustainability in Raoyang County, North
China. Wageningen: ICRA (with P. Brandjes, P.B. Chemjong, E. Mulatu, J.S.
Sidhu, Ch. Yongolo, G.M. Zhang and X.J. Zhou, 1994)
• The Social Position of the Chinese in the Netherlands. Dutch Ministry of Interior
Affairs (1987)
Main grants and scholarships
• £4.9 million for the HEFCE/ESRC/AHRC British Inter-university China Centre
(with Robert Bickers and William Callahan, 2006-2011)
• £41,349 from the ESRC for the project How to Be a Good Communist in Reformera
China and the conference Trajectories of Socialism in Contemporary Asia
(2005)
• £2,000 from the British Academy for the conference Trajectories of Socialism in
Contemporary Asia (2004, grant no. BCG-37921)
• £9,462 from the Nuffield Foundation for the project How to Be a Good Communist
in Reform-era China: An Ethnographic Study of Cadre Training (2004)
• £3.4 million for the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS;
centre co-applicant with Steven Vertovec and Stephen Castles, 2003-2008)

• £197,000 grant for the research project At the margins of the Chinese world
system: The Fuzhou diaspora in Europe under the ESRC Programme on
Transnational Communities (1998-2001).
• US$10,000 grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International
Scholarly Exchange for the Postgraduate EACS seminar on Fieldwork research
methods in contemporary Chinese society (with S. Thøgersen, September 2000).
• £7,500 pump-priming grant from the Research and Equipment Committee of the
General Board of the University of Oxford and £1,000 from the Astor Travel Fund
of the University of Oxford for the project Never a Level Playing field: Community
and Connections in the Quest for Modernity in China (1997-1999).
• Grants from the International Institute for Asian Studies for the postdoctoral
research project International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia:
Qiaoxiang Ties in the Twentieth Century (with L.M. Douw, 1995-1999). In total,
the IIAS allocated funds to the project for one three-year postdoc, two senior
visiting scholars, three international conferences and research expenses.
• French franc FF90,000 (£8,000) grant from the European Science Foundation for
the workshop Chinese Internal Migration and Chinese Emigration to Europe
Compared held in Oxford in July 1996 (with Hein Mallee, 1995).
• Dutch guilder ƒ18,000 (£5,000) grant from the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences
for the Research Project Local elites and the Changing Face of Rural China
(1995-1998).
• A total of Dutch guilder ƒ298,000 (£85,000) in grants from the Dutch Ministry of
Education & Science for the projects Collection Chinese People's Movement,
Spring 1989, and State and Civil Society in China, both at the International
Institute of Social History (the latter with with A.J. Saich, 1989-1993).
• Dutch guilder ƒ190,000 (£54,000) grant from the Dutch Ministry of Home Affairs
for the project The Position of the Chinese in The Netherlands, Sinological
Institute (with E.B. Vermeer, 1986-1987).
• US$3,000 graduate student Fulbright scholarship (1984).
Fieldwork
Fieldwork in Beijing and Yunnan is currently taking place for my project How to
be a Good Communist in Reform-era China and is carried out in cooperation
with the Yunnan Party School and the National School of Administration in
Beijing. My previous fieldwork experience encompasses both research in the
Netherlands on the overseas Chinese (1980-1 and 1987), and more than twenty
fieldtrips to China. My first research in China consisted of 10 months doctoral
fieldwork in Beijing in 1988 and 1989, followed in 1994 by a three-month rural
assessment project in Raoyang county, Hebei province. Since then, I have
chosen for a different fieldwork strategy of shorter (two to three weeks), more
frequent trips, revisiting the same site three or four times in the course of
several years. The two main sites thus investigated are Xuanwei municipality
(county) in Yunnan province (1998, 1999, 2000) and Taicang municipality
(county) in Jiangsu province (1996, 1998, 2001). Further fieldwork trips were
undertaken to sites in Shanxi province (1996 and 1998) and Beijing (1996). In
the course this fieldwork, I have collected the empirical data for the research
project Never a level playing field: Community and connections in the quest for
modernity in rural China. The field research took place in the context of two
long-term co-operations. The first is with the Institute of Sociology of the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which also acted as host to my doctoral
fieldwork in 1988 and 1989. The second is a tripartite cooperation between

Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Aarhus University in Denmark, and
Oxford, which enables European researchers to conduct first-hand fieldwork in
Xuanwei municipality.
Current editorial positions
• Editor of book series Oxford China Studies, Brill Academic Press (with. G.
Dudbridge)
• Founding member of the editorial board of China Information (since 1987)
• Member of the editorial board of The China Quarterly (since 2002)
Conferences and workshops organized
• The People’s Republic ahead of Its 60 th Anniversary: Can China Become the
Engine for World Economic Growth? Conference organized by the University of
Oxford China Centre and Standard Chartered Bank, London, 18 May 2009
• Reinventing the Chinese Party-State: Reflections on the Social Transformation
in China. Conference organized by BICC (Pieke), Department of Sociology,
Shenyang Normal University (Liu Ping) and the Department of Sociology,
Peking University (Xie Zhongli), in Shenyang, China, 5-7 December 2008
• Reinventing the State: Government and Governance in Contemporary China.
Panel at the 107 th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, 19-23 November 2008 (with Lisa Hoffman)
• The Ethnography of Ideology in Contemporary China. Panel at the 105 th
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, November
15-19, 2006 (with Andrew Kipnis)
• Conference on Trajectories of Socialism in Contemporary Asia, Oxford, 30 June –
1 July 2005
• Trajectories of Socialism in Contemporary Asia. Panel at the 102d American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 19-23, 2003
• Postgraduate European Association of Chinese Studies seminar on Fieldwork
Research Methods in Contemporary Chinese Society, Oxford, 18-21 September
2000 (with S. Thøgersen)
• British-Nordic postgraduate student workshop Modern Chinese Society, Oxford,
8-11 April 1999 (with B. Bakken)
• European Science Foundation workshop European Chinese and Chinese
Domestic Migrants, Oxford, 3-5 July 1996 (with H. Mallee)
• International conference Chinese Rural Collectives and Voluntary Organizations:
Between State Organization and Private Interest, Documentation Centre for
Contemporary China, Leiden, 9-13 January 1995 (with E.B. Vermeer)
• Postgraduate ERASMUS seminar Opposition and Protest in Chinese Culture,
Copenhagen, 30 August - 3 September, 1993 (with K.E. Brødsgaard and A.J.
Saich)
• Postgraduate ERASMUS seminar Social Science Field Work in the People's
Republic of China, Leiden, 22-29 June 1991 (with E. Croll and S. Thøgersen)
Administrative experience
• Director, China Centre, University of Oxford (since 2007)
• Director, British Inter-University China Centre (2006-2011)
• Director, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford (2004-2009)
• University Assessor, University of Oxford (2005-2006)
• Adjunct Director, ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS,
2004-2006)

• Course Director, M.Phil. in Modern Chinese Studies, The Oriental Institute,
University of Oxford (2001-2006)
• Senior Tutor, St Cross College, University of Oxford (2000-2002)
• Admissions Secretary and Director of Graduate Studies, Institute of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (1999-2003)
• Academic Reviewer for Anthropology and Sociology, Quality Assurance Agency
for Higher Education (QAA) (2001-2003)
• Member Executive Council, Universities’ China Committee in London (UCCL)
(2002-2003)
• Member, Sociology, History, Anthropology and Resources (SHAR) Research
College of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2000-2002)
• British Association of Chinese Studies, Member of Council (1997-2000)
• Committee member, ERASMUS programme for Chinese Studies (1991-1993)
• Student advisor, Sinological Institute, University of Leiden (1991-1993)
Membership of professional organizations
American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Association
of Social Anthropologists, British Association of Chinese Studies, European
Association of Social Anthropologists, European Association of Chinese Studies,
Royal Anthropological Institute
Languages
Dutch, English, Mandarin Chinese, German, French
Books
5/ Market Leninism: Cadre Training, Party Schools and the Chinese Communist
Party. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2009)
4/ Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe. Stanford: Stanford
University Press (first author with Pál Nyíri, Mette Thunø and Antonella
Ceccagno, 2004)
3/ The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform
and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing. London: Kegan Paul International
(1996)
2/ Helan Huaren de shehui diwei (The social position of the Dutch Chinese).
Translation by Zhuang Guotu of De positie van de Chinezen in Nederland
(Sinological Institute: Leiden, 1988). Taibei: Institute of Modern History (1992)
1/ Op het scherp van de snede: achtergronden en ontwikkeling van de
volksbeweging in China, Beijing - voorjaar 1989 (On the knife's edge:
backgrounds and development of the people's movement in China, Beijing -
Spring 1989). Kampen: Kok Agora (under the pseudonym Frank Niming, 1990)
Edited volumes
7/ The Anthropology of Contemporary China. Special issue of Social Anthropology
19(1) (forthcoming 2009)
6/ New Chinese Diasporas. Special issue of Population, Space and Place 13(2)
(2007; with Janett Salaff)
5/ The People’s Republic of China. 2 vols. The International Library of Social
Change. Aldershot: Ashgate (2002)
4/ Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives. Richmond, Surrey:
Curzon Press (with Hein Mallee, 1999)
3/ The Chinese in Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan (with G. Benton, 1998)

2/ Chinese Rural Collectives and Voluntary Organizations: Between State
Organization and Private Interest. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe (with E.B. Vermeer
and W.L. Chong, 1998)
1/ Inventory of the Collection Chinese People's Movement, Spring 1989 at the
International Institute of Social History. Volume I: Documents; Volume II:
Audiovisual Materials, Objects and Newspapers; Volume III: Further Documents.
Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG (with Fons Lamboo (Vols. I and II) and Agnes
Ee Hong Khoo and Hudi Tashin (Vol. III), 1990, 1991 and 1995. The documents
described in Volume I of the inventory have been published on microfiche by Inter
Documentation Company, Ltd, Leiden (1994). Online at
http://www.iisg.nl/collections/tiananmen/
Peer-reviewed articles
16/ Legality and Labour: Migration and Employment of Chinese Migrants in the
United Kingdom, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China. Critique
internationale (first author with Xiang Biao; forthcoming in French, 2009)
15/ “Cadre Training, Party Schools and the Transition to Neo-Socialism in
Contemporary China” In Frank N. Pieke, ed. The Anthropology of Contemporary
China. Special issue of Social Anthropology 17(1): 25-39 (2009)
14/ “Beyond Control? The Mechanics and Dynamics of ‘Informal’ Remittances
between Europe and Africa.” Global Networks 7(3): 348-366 (2007; first author,
with Nicholas Van Hear and Anna Lindley)
13/ “Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order”. In Frank N. Pieke
and Janet Salaff, eds. “New Chinese Diasporas.” Special issue of Population,
Space and Place 13(2): 81-94 (2007). Translated in Chinese, French and
Spanish.
12/ “Contours of an Anthropology of the Chinese State: Political Structure, Agency
and Economic Development in Rural China.” Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 10(3): 517-538 (2004)
11/ “Transnational Villages in Fujian: Local Reasons for Migration to Europe.”
International Migration Review 39(3): 485-514 (2004; second author, with Mette
Thunø).
10/ “The Genealogical Mentality in Modern China.” The Journal of Asian Studies
62(1): 101-128 (2003)
9/ “Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(3): 494-518 (1995). Translated in
Chinese.
8/ “The Use of Making History: Chinese Traditions of Protest.” Issues & Studies
30(1):13-36 (1994)
7/ “Immigration et entreprenariat: les Chinois aux Pays-Bas” (Immigration and
entrepreneurship: the Chinese in the Netherlands). Revue Européenne des
Migrations Internationales 8(3): 33-50 (1992)
6/ “Chinese Educational Achievement and ‘Folk Theories of Success’.”
Anthropology and Education Quarterly 22(2): 162-180 (1991)
5/ “De Chinezen in het Nederlandse onderwijs” (Dutch education and the overseas
Chinese). Migrantenstudies 5(2): 2-17 (1989)
4/ “The Social Position of the Dutch Chinese: An Outline.” China Information 3(2):
12-23 (1988)
3/ “Four Models of China's Overseas Chinese Policies.” China Information 2(1): 8-
16 (1987)

2/ “Social Science Fieldwork in the PRC: Implications of the Mosher Affair.” China
Information 1(3): 32-37 (1987)
1/ “De Chinese gemeenschap in verstarring” (The Chinese community in
stagnation). Sociologische Gids 31(3): 427-441 (1984)
Other articles
27/ “Introduction: A Chinese Century in Anthropology?” In Frank N. Pieke, ed. The
Anthropology of Contemporary China. Special issue of Social Anthropology 17(1):
1-8 (2009)
26/ “Migration in China.” In Tasneem Siddiqui, ed. Migration and Development: Pro-
Poor Policy Choices. Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 2005, pp. 109-156
(with Huang Ping).
25/ “Beyond Orthodoxy: Social and Cultural Anthropology in the People’s Republic of
China.” In Jan van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari and Syed Farid Alatas, eds, Asian
Anthropology. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. 59-79.
24/ “The Politics of Rural Land Use Planning in China.” In Peter Ho, ed.
Developmental Dilemmas: Land Reform and Institutional Change in China.
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, 89-117. An earlier version was published as
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper no. 40, 2002.
23/ “Longer Contemplation.” In Xin Liu, ed. New Reflections on the Anthropological
Studies of (greater) China. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of
California, 2004, pp. 153-177.
22/ “Introduction.” In The People’s Republic of China, edited by Frank N. Pieke.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 1-10
21/ “Serendipity: Reflections on Fieldwork in China.” In Anthropologists in a Wider
World, edited by Paul Dresch, Wendy James and David Parkin. Oxford:
Berghahn Books, 2000, pp. 129-150
20/ ”Introduction: Chinese Migrations Compared.” In Internal and International
Migration: Chinese Perspectives, edited by Frank N. Pieke and Hein Mallee.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999, pp. 1-26
19/ “The Chinese in the Netherlands.” In Encyclopaedia of the Chinese Overseas,
edited by Lynn Pan. Singapore: Archipelago Press and Landmark Books, 1998,
pp. 322-327. Translated as Peng Ke, Helan. In Haiwai Huaren Baike Quanshu,
edited by Pan Lin. Hong Kong: Sanlian Shudian, 1998, pp. 322-327
18/ “The 1989 Chinese People’s Movement in Beijing.” In Student Protest: The
Sixties and After, edited by Gerard J. De Groot. London: Addison Wesley
Longman, pp. 248-263 (1998)
17/ “Integration or Segregation: The Dutch and the South African Chinese
Compared.” In The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, edited by Elizabeth
Sinn. Aberdeen, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998, pp. 115-38 (with
K.L. Harris)
16/ “Networks, Groups, and the State in the Rural Economy of Raoyang County,
Hebei Province.” Cooperative and Collective in China’s Rural Development:
Between State and Private Interests, edited by E.B. Vermeer, F.N. Pieke, and
W.L. Chong. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 256-272 (1998)
15/ “The Chinese in the Netherlands.” The Chinese in Europe, edited by G. Benton
and F.N. Pieke. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 125-167 (1998, first author with
Gregor Benton)
14/ “Introduction.” In The Chinese in Europe, edited by G. Benton and F.N. Pieke.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 1-17 (1998). Translated in Chinese.

13/ “Accidental Anthropology: Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement.” In
Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival, edited by
C. Nordstrom and A. Robben. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 62-79
(1995)
12/ “Hervormingen en de Chinese maatschappij: levensvatbaar model of vlees noch
vis?” (Reforms and Chinese society: viable model or failed compromise?).
Ontwikkeling van onderop: zelforganisatie in de Derde Wereld, edited by J.P. de
Groot. Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij, pp. 75-89 (1993)
11/ “The 1989 People's Movement: Dramatization and Ritualization of Political
Action.” In Norms and Their Popularization in Chinese Culture, edited by Chun-
Chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher. Leiden: Brill (1993), pp. 401-416. Reprinted in
China's Modernisation: Westernisation and Acculturation, edited by K.W. Radtke
& T. Saich. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 163-175 (1993)
10/ “Images of Protest and the Use of Urban Space in China's Tradition of Protest.” In
Urban Symbolism, edited by P. Nas. Leiden: Brill, pp. 153-171 (1993)
9/ “Chinese Languages in The Netherlands.” In Minority Languages in The
Netherlands, edited by G. Extra & L. Verhoeven. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger,
pp. 279-299 (with M.E. van den Berg, 1993)
8/ “L'arte della protesta” (The art of protest). In "Se io fossi il governo": Documenti
del movimento democratico cinese 1989. Fondazione Feltrinelli Quaderni 43: 29-
64. Milan: FrancoAngeli (under the pseudonym Frank Niming, 1993)
7/ “De Chinezen” (The Chinese). In Talen in Nederland: een beschrijving van de
taalsituatie van negen etnische groepen, edited by J.J. de Ruijter. Groningen:
Wolters-Noordhoff, pp. 43-69 (with M.E. van den Berg, 1991)
6/ “Learning How to Protest.” In The Chinese People's Movement: Perspectives on
Spring 1989, edited by Tony Saich. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, pp. 83-105 (under the
pseudonym Frank Niming, 1990)
5/ “Het Plein van de Hemelse Vrede, 4 juni 1989: twee documenten” (The Square of
Heavenly Peace, 4 June 1989: two documents). In Hemelse Vrede: De lente van
Peking. Amsterdam: Balans, pp. 115-124 (under the pseudonym Frank Niming,
1989)
4/ “De kunst van het protesteren” (The art of protest). In Hemelse Vrede: De lente
van Peking. Amsterdam: Balans, pp. 58-76 (under the pseudonym Frank Niming,
1989)
3/ “Observations during the People's Movement in Beijing, Spring 1989.” In Tony
Saich & Frank Pieke, The Chinese People's Movement Spring 1989; Some Initial
Impressions. Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, pp. 12-20
(1989)
2/ “De restaurants” (The restaurants). In De Chinezen, edited by G. Benton and H.
Vermeulen. Muiderberg: Couthino, pp. 67-76 (1987)
1/ “De politiek van China ten aanzien van de overzeese Chinezen (China's overseas
Chinese policies). In De Chinezen, edited by G. Benton and H. Vermeulen.
Muiderberg: Couthino, pp. 34-39 (1987)
Other publications
14/ Legality and Labour: Chinese Migration, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK
and China. BICC working paper no. 4, (2007, with Xiang Biao)
13/ “Market Leninism: party schools and cadre training in contemporary China.” BICC
working paper no. 3, 2007.
12/ “Les migrations chinoises contemporaines: nouveaux régimes et nouvelles
activités en Europe”. In Laurance Roulleau-Berger, ed. Nouvelles migrations

chinoises et travail en Europe. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, pp. 19-
44 (2007). French translation of “Community and Identity in the New Chinese
Migration Order”. In Frank N. Pieke and Janet Salaff, eds. Migration and Subethnicity
in the Chinese Diaspora. Special issue of Population, Space and Place
(2007)
11/ “Xin huaren yimin tixi zhi shequ yu rentong”. In Qiao xing tian xia: Qingtian
Huaqiao wenhua yanjiu. Beijing: Dazhong wenyi chubanshe, 2006, pp. 315-226.
Chinese translation of “Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration
Order”. In Frank N. Pieke and Janet Salaff, eds. Migration and Sub-ethnicity in
the Chinese Diaspora. Special issue of Population, Space and Place (2007)
10/ “Cummunidad e identidad en el nuevo orden migratorio chino” (Community and
identity in the new Chinese migration order). In Joaquín Beltrán Antolín, ed. “Las
diasporas de Asia Oriental en Europa Occidental”. Special issue of Documentos
CIDOB 13: 69-99 (2006). Spanish translation of “Community and Identity in the
New Chinese Migration Order”. In Frank N. Pieke and Janet Salaff, eds. Migration
and Sub-ethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora. Special issue of Population, Space
and Place (2007)
9/ Recent Trends in Chinese Migration to Europe: Fujianese Migration in
Perspective. IOM Migration Research Series No. 6. Geneva: International
Organization for Migration (2002)
8/ “Global Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe.” China Review Spring 2003: 17-
20.
7/ “Bentuhua: Zhongguo renleixue zhuiqiu xin de guanlian yu pingdeng de celüe”
(Indigenization: a strategy for the pursuit of a new relevance and equality of
Chinese anthropology). Guangxi Minzu Xueyuan Xuebao 21(4): 4-9 (1999).
Reprinted in Xu Jieshun, ed. Bentuhua: renleixue de da qushi (Indigenization: the
dominant trend in anthropology). Nanning: Guangxi Minzu Chubanshe, 2001, pp.
12-25
6/ “Guanliao tixi, pengyou yu jinqian: Zhongguo ziben shehuizhuyi de chengzhang.”
Guowai Shehuixue 77-78: 99-112 (1998). Translation by Xia Chunlin of
Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(3): 494-518 (1995)
5/ “Ouzhou Huaqiao Huaren Gaikuang” (The situation of the overseas Chinese in
Europe). Huaqiao Huaren Lishi Yanjiu 1997(2): 25-35. Translation by Li
Minghuan of “Introduction.” In The Chinese in Europe, edited by G. Benton and
F.N. Pieke. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 1-17 (1998)
4/ “The Chinese in the Netherlands.” Leeds East Asia Papers (1995, with G.
Benton)
3/ “Weifelende opstandelingen: sociale wetenschappers en de volksbeweging in
Beijing” (Hesitant rebels: social scientists and the people's movement in Beijing).
Sociodrome 1989(4): 2-5
2/ “Chinese Anthropology and History.” Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 21:
171-176 (1989)
1/ “Social Science Fieldwork in the PRC: A Short Bibliography.” China Information
2(1): 52-55 (1987)
Conference papers and invited lectures
56/ Reinventing governance in China: rationalities, strategies and practices. Panel
at the 105th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, Frank Pieke and Lisa Hoffman, November 2008

55/ Market Leninism: Party Schools and Cadre Training in Contemporary China.
Universities Service Centre for China Studies, 9 November 2007.
54/ “Chinese illegal and unskilled immigration: a win-win migration?” Paper
presented at Le développement par l’exil?, Centre d’Etudes et de Researches
Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po and CNRS, Paris, 12 October 2007.
53/ Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Deng Xiaoping Theory (Deng Xiaoping
Lilun Yanjiu Zhongxin), Peking University, 23 April 2007, on “Recent trends in
international migration from China to Europe”
52/ Three invited guest lectures at the Institute of International Issues (Guoji Wenti
Yanjiusuo), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 18, 19 and 25 April 2007, on “The
development of Chinese studies in Europe and the US”, “Recent trends in
international migration from China to Europe”, and “Personal views on cadre
training in China”
51/ “The changing mode of reproduction of the Chinese party-state: party schools
and cadre training in contemporary China”. Paper at present at the East Asia
Seminar, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, 5 March 2007.
50/ “The changing mode of reproduction of the Chinese party-state: party schools
and cadre training in contemporary China”. Paper presented at The
Ethnography of Ideology in Contemporary China, panel at the 105 th American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 15-19, 2006
49/ “Why demonising snakeheads doesn’t help: on hapless cockle-pickers, evil
gangmasters and responsible government.” Commonwealth History Workshop
Empire and Migration, Friday 14 May 2004, Modern History Faculty, University of
Oxford
48/ “Chinese Globalization and Migration to Europe.” Paper presented at the
Research Seminar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of
California at San Diego, 9 March 2004
47/ “Contours of an Anthropology of the Chinese State: Administration and
Entrepreneurship in Rural Yunnan.” Paper at the Decennial Conference of the
Association of Social Anthropologists, Manchester, 14-18 July 2003
46/ “The Genealogical Mentality in Modern China.” Paper presented at the
Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 8-12 April
2002 and at the panel Inventing Tradition in the Diaspora at “Writing the Past”,
71 st Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research,
School of Advanced Study, University of London, 3-5 July 2002.
45/ “Fujianese Migration to the UK: Implications for Policy Making.” Paper presented
at the IPPR seminar on Low-Skilled Labour Migration, London 15 March 2002.
44/ “China and Anthropology.” Paper presented at the workshop Anthropology in and
of China: a cross-generation conversation. Annual Symposium, Center for
Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 8-9 March 2002
43/ “The Politics of Rural Land Use Planning in China.” Paper presented at the Max
Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 1 March 2002
42/ “The Fujianese in Europe: How Manageable Can Chinese Immigration Be?”
Paper presented at the London Chinese Studies Seminar, 6 December 2001.
41/ “Conceptualizing Migration and Globalization in a Chinese World.” Paper
presented at the panel “Transnational Communities: Tracing New Migration
Systems and Networks” at the Sixth Metropolis Conference, Rotterdam, 26-30
November 2001
40/ “Land, Modernization and Politics in Rural China: Views from the Field.” Paper at
the panel “Rural Land in China: Land Rights and Sustainable Use”, Second
International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Berlin, 9-12 August 2001

39/ “Chinese International Migration to Europe: Lessons for the Management of
Chinese Internal Migration?” Paper presented at the International Forum on Rural
Labor Mobility in China, Beijing, 3-5 July 2001
38/ “What is New in Chinese Migration, and How Should Policy Makers Deal with It?
The Example of Fujianese Migrants in Europe.” Paper presented at the panel
“Transnationalism and Migration: What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Policy
Relevant?” at the Fifth International Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, 13-17
November 2000
37/ “Configurations of the Chinese Countryside: Hongqiao Administrative Village,
Xuanwei, Yunnan in Perspective.” Paper presented at the panel “Natural
Resources, Networks and Nightclubs: The Role of Local Elites in Deepening
Reform”, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, California 9-
12 March 2000
36/ “A Chinese World?” Paper prepared for the 2000 International Anthropological
Conference on 21 st Century Human Existence and Issues of Development and
the Sixth National Symposium of the Chinese Anthropological Society, Xiamen,
Fujian, China, 18 – 23 July 2000
34/ “ Indigenizing or localizing Chinese anthropology: a strategy for greater relevance
and equality?” Paper for presentation at the International symposium on the
nativization of anthropology, Nanning, People’s Republic of China, 8-12
September 1999.
33/ “Aspects of belonging in a global migration configuration”. Paper presented at the
workshop “The anthropology of separation and belonging in China”, Department
of Anthropology, London School of Economics, 15-16 May 1999.
32/ “The overseas Chinese and the world system: new configurations of an ‘old’
diaspora”. Lecture at the ‘Transnational communities seminar’, Oxford, 22
October 1998.
31/ “The place of anthropology in the People’s Republic of China”. Lecture given
during the lecture series “The 21st century: Cultural awareness and cross-cultural
dialogue” organized for the Centenary celebration of Peking University, Beijing,
15 - 28 June 1998.
30/ “At the margins of the Chinese world system: The Fuzhou diaspora in Europe”.
Paper presented at the conference on “Transnational Communities”, Manchester,
16-18 May 1998.
29/ “Rural Elites near Shanghai: Taicang in the 1990s.” Paper presented at the
SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies seminar series on “Current Issues in Chinese
Studies”, SOAS 28 April 1998.
28/ “The Chinese People’s Movement Observed.” Lecture given at the Institute of
East Asian Studies, Aarhus University, 29 October 1997.
27/ “Chinese Migration: Lessons and Implications.” Lecture given at the Centre of
Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, 27 October 1997.
26/ “The Chinese in Europe: An Overview.” Paper presented at the Workshop on
International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties
during the Twentieth Century, Leiden, 28-29 August 1997.
25/ “Is There Room for Cultural Anthropology in the People's Republic in China?”
Paper presented at the international workshop Indigenous and Indigenized
Anthropology in Asia, Leiden, 1-3 May 1997.
24/ “Minority Politics and Overseas Chinese in the Netherlands.” Paper presented at
the panel on Chinese Immigration and Local Institutions: Three Contrasting
Experiences: Hungary, the Netherlands and Italy. Florence, 11 and 12 April 1997.

23/ “Exploring China’s Countryside.” Lecture at the Work in Progress Seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 22 January
1997.
22/ “Local Socialism in China after the Cold War.” Lecture at the the Seminar Series
Communism after the Cold War, Exeter College, Oxford, 6 February 1996.
21/ “Community, Friends and the State: Capital Socialism in China’s Cities and
Countryside.” Lecture at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen,
December 1995.
20/ “Networks, Markets and Development in Raoyang County, China.” Lecture at the
Friday Seminar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of
Oxford, October 1995
19/ “Community, Friends and the State: Capital Socialism in China’s Cities and
Countryside.” Lecture at the London China Seminar, SOAS, 9 March 1995.
18/ “Minority Status or Invisibility: The Predicament of the Dutch Chinese.” Paper at
the workshop Chinese Communities in Europe. Arche de la Fraternité, Paris, 20-
21 January 1995
17/ “The Growth of Capital Socialism in Raoyang County, Hebei Province.” Paper at
the International Conference on Chinese Rural Collectives and Voluntary
Organizations: Between State Organization and Private Interest. Documentation
Centre for Contemporary China, University of Leiden, 9-13 January 1995
16/ “Integration or Segregation: The Dutch and South African Chinese Compared.”
Paper prepared for the second ISSCO conference at the University of Hong
Kong, 18 - 21 December 1994 (with Karen Harris)
15/ “The Culture of Migration and the Catering Trade of the Dutch Overseas
Chinese.” Paper presented at the Conference on Chinese Ethnic Economy since
World War II, Shantou University, Shantou, PRC, 29 November - 1 December
1993
14/ “Civil Society or Capital Socialism?” Lecture at the East Asian Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 March 1993
13/ “Transitory Stage or Capital Socialism? China in the 1980s and 1990s.” Paper
presented at the workshop on Civil Society and Democracy: African and
International Perspectives, organized by the Institut Gorée, Gorée, Senegal, 15 -
17 March 1993
12/ “Unexpected Anthropology: Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement.”
Paper presented at the panel Dangerous Anthropologies, American
Anthropological Association meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2 - 6 December 1992
11/ “The Roots of Disenchantment: The Moral Crisis of Chinese Society under
Reform.” Paper presented at the American Council of Learned Societies
Conference on Political Consequences of Departures from Central Planning,
Arden, New York, USA, 25 - 30 August 1992
10/ “Images of Protest and the Use of Urban Space in China's Tradition of Protest.”
Paper presented at the symposium Urban Images: Cities and Symbols. Symbols
and Cities, organized by the Centre of non-Western Studies, Leiden, the
Netherlands, 6 - 9 January 1992
9/ “Staat, markt en kontakten in Beijing” (State, Market, and Connections in Beijing).
Lecture at the Staff Seminar of International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1 October 1991
8/ “Anthropological Field Work in China: Methodological Considerations and
Practical Constraints.” Paper presented at the International Conference on
Sociological Research in China, organized by the Institute of Sociology, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC, 23 - 27 July 1991

7/ “The 1989 People's Movement: Dramatization and Ritualization of Political
Action.” Paper presented at the symposium Norms and Their Popularization in
Chinese Culture, organized by the Sinological Institute, Leiden, the Netherlands,
8 - 12 July 1991
6/ “Collecting Documents about the Chinese People's Movement 1989 at the
International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam.” Paper presented at the
XXXIInd Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Leiden, the
Netherlands, 27 - 30 August 1990
5/ “Massacre of Tian'anmen: Results and Considerations One Year After.” Lecture
at the Sinological Seminar, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, July
1990
4/ “A Ritualised Rebellion: Beijing Spring 1989.” Paper presented at the Xth KOTA
Conference Ritual & Politics in Asia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14 - 15 June
1990
3/ “Observaties tijdens de Chinese Volksbeweging in Beijing, voorjaar 1989”
(Observations during the Chinese People's Movement in Beijing, Spring 1989).
Lecture at the Symposium on the Chinese People's Movement, organized by the
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 1989
2/ “The Dutch Chinese: Progress or Stagnation?” Paper presented at the
International Conference on The Chinese Abroad: Social and Economic Changes
since the Second World War, Xiamen, PRC, April 25 - 28, 1989
1/ “Onderzoek naar de Chinezen in Nederland” (Research of the Chinese in the
Netherlands). Lecture at the Anthropological Sociological Centre, University of
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1988
Book reviews
A total of 27 book reviews published in Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 572 (2000); American Anthropologist 104, 1 (2002);
Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 30 (1993); The Bulletin of SOAS 62, 1
(1999); Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 142, 1 (1986); China nu 15,
4 and 15, 2 (1990); The China Quarterly 144 (1995), 145 (1996), 148 (1996) and
163 (2000); Copenhagen Papers in East and Southeast Asian Studies 7 (1992);
Development and Change 22, 2 (1991); Immigrants & Minorities 19, 1 (2000);
International Migration Review 36, 4 (2002); Journal of Communist Studies 10, 1
(1994); Journal of Development Studies 36, 3 (2000); Journal of the Economic
and Social History of the Orient 35 (1992) and 37 (1994); Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 3, 1 (1997) and 7, 3 (2001); Journal of the Royal Society
for Asian Affairs (forthcoming); Pacific Affairs 64, 1 (1991), 66, 1 (1993) and 70, 1
(1997); Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 48, 4 (2006); Wordt Vervolgd 29, 4 (1996).