Prof. dr. P.D. Nyiri

Office hours: by appointment (please email) 

Information in Dutch

Website of the department

Promo Master Anthropology

Specialization

Chinese nationalism; Chinese migration and overseas Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia (transnationalism, organisations, politics, religion, gender, representations); tourism in China and Russia; migrants, migration policy and xenophobia in Europe; history of science in the Soviet Union.

Oration:  Foreign concessions: the past and future of a form of shared sovereignty

Teaching in 2011/2012

• Pasts in the Present Part 1 (faculteit Letteren) (BSc CAO 2nd year)
• Chair: Global History from an Anthropological Perspective  

Board Memberships:
Research co-ordinator in Management Team of Department SCA

Links

• China Can't Stop Saying No
• MqVU -- Exporting China’s Development to the World
• Culture Matters  

Publications

Selected Books:

• Seeing Culture Everywhere… from Genocide to Consumer Habits (with Joana Breidenbach). Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, forthcoming.
• Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, forthcoming.
• Maxikulti (with Joana Breidenbach). Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
• Chinese in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, Cultural Authority, and the State. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
• Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (with Frank Pieke, Mette Thunø and Antonella Ceccagno). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Selected Online Articles:

• “Greetings from Cambodia” Emprise Review (2008)
• “The Missing Road: Clashing Visions of Development across the Russian-Chinese Border” Japan Focus(2008) 
• "Scenic spot Europe: Chinese travelers on the Western periphery" EspacesTemps.net (2005)