Frank Pieke

Current positions

  • Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2022-2023)
  • Adjunct Professor, Modern Chinese Studies, Leiden University and Leiden Asia Centre (2018-2024)

Frank N. Pieke (1957) studied Cultural Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992. After lectureships in Leiden and Oxford, he took up the Chair in Modern China studies at Leiden University in 2010. In Oxford, Pieke set up and directed the University of Oxford’s China Centre. In Leiden, he was co-founder and first executive director of the Leiden Asia Centre. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. Pieke is currently a visiting Research Professor at the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore (2022-2023) and a Adjunct Professor, Modern Chinese Studies, Leiden University and Leiden Asia Centre (2018-2024).

At the Leiden Asia Centre, Pieke’s most recent projects are China’s Influence on the Chinese Diasporas in the Netherlands for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (2020-2021) and together with Nana de Graaf (Free University Amsterdam) the currently ongoing project Chinese-European Business Elites, Enterprises and the Chinese Communist Party, funded by the China Knowledge Network of the Netherlands.

His own current project is entitled The Rise of China and the Consequences of Superpower, which asks how China’s emerging superpower status will change China. His most recent books are The Good Communist (2009) and Knowing China (2016), both published by Cambridge University Press. He just published the edited volume Global East Asia with the University of California Press (2021, with Koichi Iwabuchi).

Research interests

  • Contemporary Chinese politics and society
  • Chinese globalization, international migration and the overseas Chinese

Previous positions

  • Senior Fellow, Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study, Uppsala (2021-2022)
  • Senior Fellow, Mercator Foundation, Germany (2020-2021)
  • Director and CEO, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin (2018-2020) MERICS is the largest and most prominent research centre and thinktank on contemporary China in Europe. As Director and CEO of MERICS my main responsibilities included:
    • General management and overall final responsibility
    • Liaison with the Mercator Foundation and Advisory Board
    • Research strategy
    • Institutional and personnel development
    • Policy advice and briefings (EC, Germany, the Netherlands, UK)
    • Participation in high-level delegations and visits to and from China, including the German President’s state visit to China in December 2018
    • External representation, including media, lectures, courses, conferences and workshops, liaison with government, embassies, other think tanks and universities in Europe, the US, Australia and Asia
  • Professor, Modern Chinese Studies, Leiden University (2010-2018) As Professor in Leiden I have served as:
    • Academic Director (Head of Department), Leiden University Institute of Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Faculty of Humanities (2016-2017)
    • Executive Director, Leiden Asia Centre (2015-2018)
    • Member of the University’s China Strategy Group
    • Coordinator of the University’s concentration area on Asian Modernities and Traditions (2010-2016)
  • University Lecturer of Modern Politics and Society of China and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford (1995-2010) While in Oxford I have served as:
    • Founding Director, China Centre, University of Oxford (2007-2010)
    • Senior Tutor (2000-2002) and Vice-Master (2009-2010), St Cross College
    • Director, British Inter-University China Centre (BICC; 2006-2010)
    • Director, Institute for Chinese Studies (2004-2009)
    • University Assessor (2005-2006)
    • Co-founder and adjunct director, ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS; 2004-2006)
    • Graduate admissions secretary and director of graduate studies, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (1999-2002)
    • Set up and directed the M.Phil. in Modern China Studies (2002-2005)
  • University Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology of Contemporary China, Leiden University (1986-1995) As lecturer in Leiden I served as
    • Member of the Contemporary China Research Centre
    • Student advisor to the BA in Chinese Studies

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)
  • MA (cum laude), Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (1982)
  • BA (cum laude), Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (1979)

Consultancies and policy studies

  • Consequences of Decoupling: The Netherlands, Singapore, Germany and Japan Compared, East Asian Institute and Leiden Asia Centre joint project, funded by the Dutch government’s China Knowledge Network the EAI (2023)
  • Chinese influencing in the Netherlands, Leiden Asia Centre project funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and Security (2022-2023)
  • Chinese Influence and Networks among Firms and Business Elites in the Netherlands, Leiden Asian Centre project funded by the Dutch government’s China Knowledge Network (with Naná de Graaff, 2021-2022)
  • China’s Influence on the Chinese Diasporas in the Netherlands, Leiden Asia Centre project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands (2020-2021)
  • At MERICS, external projects and consultancies under my overall supervision included work for the MacArthur Foundation in the US, the Ford Foundation Representative in China, the EC External Action Service, the Dutch Province of Noord-Brabant, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-2020)
  • How Immigration is Shaping Chinese Society, MERICS Monitor (with Björn Ahl, Elena Barabantseva, Michaela Pelican, Tabitha Speelman, Wang Feng and Xiang Biao, 2019)
  • Assessing Europe-China Collaboration in Higher Education and Research. Leiden Asia Centre (with Ingrid d’Hooghe, Annemarie Montulet, Marijn de Wolf, 2018)
  • Assessing China’s Influence in Europe through Investments in Technology and Infrastructure. Four Cases, Leiden Asia Centre (with Matt Ferchen, Frans-Paul van der Putten, Tianmu Hong and Jurriaan de Blécourt, 2018)
  • China, the EU and the Netherlands, Leiden Asia Centre (with Vincent K.L. Chang, 2017)
  • Chinese Companies in the Netherlands, Leiden Asia Centre (with Tianmu Hong and Trevor Stam, 2017)
  • Dutch Higher Education and Chinese Students in the Netherlands, Leiden Asia Centre (with Tianmu Hong and Laurens Steehouder, 2017)
  • Emerging Markets and Migration Policy: China. Report for the Center for Migrations and Citizenship, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), 2014.
  • Chinese Investment Strategies and Migration: Does Diaspora Matter? Report for the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, 2013 (with Tabitha Speelman).
  • Cadre Training and the Party School System in Contemporary China. Report for Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), 2011
  • Organization of seminar series on contemporary China at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2007-2009
  • Review of UK Home Office Country of Origin (COI) Report on China. Advisory Panel on Country Information (APCI), 2007 and 2009
  • Advice on China strategy and organization of a day-long briefing seminar on contemporary China, Kent County Council, 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 Commission’s Poverty Reduction Effectiveness Programme (EC-PREP) (2004, with Nicholas Van Hear and Anna Lindley).
  • 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 t Policy Choices in Asia” (2003, with Huang Ping).
  • Trends in Chinese Migration to Europe: Fujianese Migration in Perspective. IOM Migration Research Series No. 6. Geneva: International Organization for Migration (2002).
  • The Social Position of the Chinese in the Netherlands. Dutch Ministry of Interior Affairs (1987)

Large grants and gifts

  • €1.5 million grants under the joint Europe – China call of ESRC, ANR, DFG and NWO for collaborative research on the Green Economy and Understanding Population Change for a research consortium on Immigration and the Transformation of Chinese Society (2015-2019, lead applicant with Wang Feng, Elena Barabantseva, Wei Shen, Björn Ahl and Xiang Biao)
  • €4.25 million gift from the Vaes-Elias Foundation for the Leiden Asia Centre (with Remco Breuker and Kasia Cwiertka, 2013)
  • £4.9 million grant for the HEFCE/ESRC/AHRC British Inter-University China Centre (principal applicant with Robert Bickers and William Callahan, 2006-2011)
  • £3.4 million for the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS; centre co-applicant; with Steven Vertovec and Stephen Castles, 2003-2008)

Main recent conferences organized

  • CPC Futures. Annual conference of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, 19-21 November 2021
  • India-China Dynamics: Reappraising the Significance for Europe. MERICS conference, 8-9 January 2020 (with Pradeep Taneja)
  • Franco-German Closed-door Workshop: Promoting a European China Policy. MERICS and Institut Montaigne joint conference, Paris, 11-12 April 2019.
  • China in Nederland (China in the Netherlands), Leiden Asia Centre event organized for His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in preparation for the State Visit to the People’s Republic of China, Leiden, 1 October 2015
  • New Authoritarianism: China and Russia Compared. KNAW colloquium, Amsterdam, 27-29 November 2013 (with André Gerrits and Max Bader, 26-29 November 2013)
  • The Global Politics of China, International conference of the British Inter-University China Centre, London and Manchester, 27-29 November 2009 (with Bill Callahan)
  • The People’s Republic ahead of Its 60th Anniversary: Can China Become the Engine for World Economic Growth? Conference organized by the University of Oxford China Centre and Standard Chartered, London, 18 May 2009

Services to the profession and society

  • China lunchtime briefing for the Dutch Prime Minister Rutte and Cabinet, 15 June 2020
  • Expert witness at the Foreign Policy Committee of the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer, 2019); Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (2015); Committee for Human Rights and the Foreign Policy Committee of the German Parliament (Bundestag, both 2019)
  • Delegation member, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s state visit to the People’s Republic of China, 4-10 December 2018
  • Frequent speaker or guest lecturer at ministries of foreign affairs, economic affairs, infrastructure, interior affairs, social affairs in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK
  • Member, Humanities and Social Sciences Panel (HSS), Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee Hong Kong (UGC, ongoing since 2012)
  • Founding member of the editorial board of China Information (since 1987)
  • Member of the editorial board of The China Quarterly (2002-2012)

Media

  • Opinion pieces for South China Morning Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Diplomat, War on the Rocks, Volkskrant, NRC
  • Page-length interviews with Volkskrant (2016), Het Financieele Dagblad (2019)
  • TV and radio: Interviews with Nieuwsuur, EenVandaag, NOS Journaal, RTL Nieuws, CCTV, BBC World News, Sky News, BBC Radio 1, BBC World Service, NOS Radio 1, VPRO Bureau Buitenland, BNR Nieuwsradio
  • Frequent requests for background or quotes from media (newspapers, magazines, TV, radio) in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan and the US

Languages

Dutch, English, Mandarin Chinese, German, French (reading only)

Personal

Nationality: Dutch

Place and date of birth: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 September 1957

Marital status: Married with two children

Publications

Research monographs

  1. Superpower China. Manuscript submitted for review to Oxford University Press
  2. Knowing China: A Twenty-first-Century Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016)
  3. The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today’s China. 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)
  5. The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People’s Movement in Beijing. London: Kegan Paul International (1996)

Other books

  1. Nederland door Chinese ogen (The Netherlands through Chinese Eyes). Amsterdam: Balans (with Garrie van Pinxteren, 2017)
  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). Taipei: Institute of Modern History (1992)
  3. 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 and journal special issues

  1. CPC Futures: Ideology, Organization and Legitimacy, special issue of China: An International Journal 21(2) (with Lance Liangping Gore, 2023)
  2. CPC Futures: The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Next Decade. Singapore: East Asian Institute (with Bert Hofman, 2022)
  3. Global East Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press (with Koichi Iwabuchi, 2021).
  4. Old and New Diversities in Contemporary China. Special issue of Modern China 38(1) (with Elena Barabantseva, 2012)
  5. Reinventing the Local Party-State: Between Budgetary Squeeze and Reform. Special section in The China Quarterly 200, pp. 929-994 (2009).
  6. The Anthropology of Contemporary China. Special issue of Social Anthropology 17(1) (2009)
  7. New Chinese Diasporas. Special issue of Population, Space and Place 13(2) (with Janet Salaff, 2007)
  8. The People’s Republic of China. 2 vols. Aldershot: Ashgate (2002)
  9. Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press (with Hein Mallee, 1999)
  10. The Chinese in Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan (with G. Benton, 1998)
  11. 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)
  12. 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). URL http://www.iisg.nl/collections/tiananmen/

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. “The Chinese Communist Party as a Global Force.” In Jérôme Doyon and Chloé Froissart (eds), The Chinese Communist Party at 100, special issue of Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 51(3): 456–475 (2022). A slightly expanded version will be published in Chloé Froissart and Jérôme Doyon (eds), The Chinese Communist Party at 100 Years. Canberra: ANU Press (forthcoming)
  2. “State-Led Globalization, or How Hard Is China’s Soft Power?” In Frank N. Pieke and Koichi Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-first Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 294-309 (with Ingrid d’Hooghe, 2021)
  3. “Introduction: The Many Faces of Global East Asia”. In Frank N. Pieke and Koichi Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-first Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-13 (with Koichi Iwabuchi, 2021)
  4. “Party Spirit: Producing a Communist Civil Religion in Contemporary China.”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(4): 709-729 (2018)
  5. “Europe’s Engagement with China: Shifting Chinese Views of the EU and the EU-China Relationship.” Asia Europe Journal 16(1): 317-331 (with Vincent K.L. Chang, 2018)
  6. “Anthropology, China, and the Chinese Century.” Annual Review of Anthropology 43: 123-138 (2014)
  7. “The Communist Party and Social Management in China.” China Information 26(2): 149-165 (2012)
  8. “Immigrant China”. In Frank N. Pieke and Elena Barabantseva (eds), Old and New Diversities in Contemporary China. Special issue of Modern China 38(1): 40-77 (2012)
  9. “Marketization, Centralization and Globalization of Cadre Training in Contemporary China.” In Frank N. Pieke (ed.), Local Government in Contemporary China, special section in China Quarterly 200: 953-971 (December 2009)
  10. “Les Chinois au Royaume-Uni, ou l’illusion de l’immigration choisie” (The Chinese in the UK, or the illusion of managed migration). Critique internationale 45: 97-117 (first author with Xiang Biao; October-December 2009). English version: Frank N. Pieke and Xiang Biao, “Legality and Labor: Chinese Migratory Workers in Britain.” Encounters 3 (2010): 15-38
  11. “Cadre Training, Party Schools and the Transition to Neo-Socialism in Contemporary China.” Social Anthropology 17(1): 25-39 (2009)
  12. “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.” Population, Space and Place 13(2): 81-94 (2007). Translated into Chinese, French and Spanish
  14. “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). Translated into Chinese in 2013
  15. “Transnational Villages in Fujian: Local Reasons for Migration to Europe.” International Migration Review 39(3): 485-514 (with Mette Thunø, 2004)
  16. “The Genealogical Mentality in Modern China.” Journal of Asian Studies 62(1): 101-128 (2003)
  17. “Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(3): 494-518 (1995). Translated into Chinese.
  18. “The Use of Making History: Chinese Traditions of Protest.” Issues & Studies 30(1):13-36 (1994)
  19. “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)
  20. “Chinese Educational Achievement and ‘Folk Theories of Success’.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 22(2): 162-180 (1991)
  21. “De Chinezen in het Nederlandse onderwijs” (Dutch education and the overseas Chinese). Migrantenstudies 5(2): 2-17 (1989)
  22. “The Social Position of the Dutch Chinese: An Outline.” China Information 3(2): 12-23 (1988)
  23. “Four Models of China’s Overseas Chinese Policies.” China Information 2(1): 8-16 (1987)
  24. “Social Science Fieldwork in the PRC: Implications of the Mosher Affair.” China Information 1(3): 32-37 (1987)
  25. “De Chinese gemeenschap in verstarring” (The Chinese community in stagnation). Sociologische Gids 31(3): 427-441 (1984)

Non-peer reviewed publications

  1. “Introduction: Ideology, Organisational Power and the Naturalisation of the Rule of the Communist Party of China.” In Frank N. Pieke and Lance L.P. Gore (eds), CPC Futures: Ideology, Organization and Legitimacy, special issue of China: An International Journal 21(2) (2023)
  2. The Global Presence of the Communist Party of China: Overseas Party Building. East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 1693. Singapore: East Asian Institute (2023)
  3. The Global Presence of the Communist Party of China: United Front Work. East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 1692. Singapore: East Asian Institute (2023)
  4. The Global Presence of the Communist Party of China: External Work. East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 1691. Singapore: East Asian Institute (2023)
  5. The 20th Party Congress, Party Building and the New Regulations for Promotion and Demotion of Leading Cadres. East Asian Institute background brief no. 1680 (2022, with Zhou Na and Shan Wei)
  6. New Regulations Further Politicise China’s Cadre Corps. East Asian Institute commentary no. 59 (2022, with Zhou Na and Shan Wei)
  7. “The CPC’s Global Power.” In Frank N. Pieke and Bert Hofman (eds), CPC Futures: The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Next Decade. Singapore: East Asian Institute, pp. 86-94 (2022)
  8. “Introduction.” In Frank N. Pieke and Bert Hofman (eds), CPC Futures: The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Next Decade. Singapore: East Asian Institute, pp. 1-6 (with Bert Hofman, 2022)
  9. Chinese Influence and Networks among Firms and Business Elites in the Netherlands. Leiden: Leiden Asia Centre (with Nána de Graaff, 2022)
  10. The Chinese Communist Party at 100: What’s Next? East Asian Institute commentary no. 31 (2021, with Bert Hofman)
  11. China’s Influence and the Chinese Community in the Netherlands. Leiden: Leiden Asia Centre (2021)
  12. Pandemic Politics and the China-US Conflict. Halle: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2020)
  13. China through European Eyes. New Delhi: Institute for Chinese Studies occasional paper (2020)
  14. How Immigration is Shaping Chinese Society. MERICS Monitor (with Björn Ahl, Elena Barabantseva, Michaela Pelican, Tabitha Speelman, Wang Feng and Xiang Biao, 2019)
  15. Assessing Europe-China Collaboration in Higher Education and Research. Leiden Asia Centre (with Ingrid d’Hooghe, Annemarie Montulet, Marijn de Wolf, 2018)
  16. Assessing China’s Influence in Europe through Investments in Technology and Infrastructure. Four Cases. Leiden Asia Centre (with Matt Ferchen, Frans-Paul van der Putten, Tianmu Hong and Jurriaan de Blécourt, 2018)
  17. China, the EU and the Netherlands. Leiden Asia Centre (with Vincent K.L. Chang, 2017)
  18. Chinese Companies in the Netherlands. Leiden Asia Centre (with Tianmu Hong and Trevor Stam, 2017)
  19. Dutch Higher Education and Chinese Students in the Netherlands. Leiden Asia Centre research report (with Tianmu Hong and Laurens Steehouder, 2017)
  20. “La Chine: un nouveau pays d’immigration? (China: a new immigrant country?)” Les grands dossiers de diplomatie no. 31, pp. 93-95 (2016)
  21. “Migration and China in the Chinese Century”. In Zhou Yongming (ed.) Zhongguo renleixue (Chinese anthropology). Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuaguan (Commercial Press), pp. 97-137 (2015)
  22. “Asia: Sociocultural Aspects, China”. In James D. Wright (editor-in-chief) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol. 2. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 65-70 (2015)
  23. “Chinese Investment Strategies and Migration: Does Diaspora Matter?” In Marco Sanfilippo and Agnieszka Weinar (eds.) Chinese Migration and Economic Relations with Europe: The Silk Road Revisited. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 12-32 (With Tabitha Speelman; 2015)
  24. “Cadre Training and the Party School System in Contemporary China”. In Kerry Brown (ed.), The EU-China Relationship: European Perspectives. A Manual for Policy Makers. London: Imperial College Press, pp. 82-87 (2015)
  25. “Contemporary China Studies in the Netherlands”. In Wilt Idema (ed.), Chinese Studies in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future. Leiden: Brill, pp. 159-190 (2013)
  26. “Immigrant China”. In Rosemary Foot, ed. China across the Divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 97-121 (2013)
  27. “Antropologie en de Chinese eeuw” (Anthropology and the Chinese century). Inaugural Lecture on the acceptance of the position as Professor of Modern China Studies at Leiden University, 2 March 2012. Leiden (2012)
  28. “New and Old Diversities in Contemporary China: Editors’ Introduction.” In Frank N. Pieke and Elena Barabantseva (eds.), Old and New Diversities in Contemporary China. Special issue of Modern China 38(1): 3-9 (2012)
  29. “Migration Journeys and Working Conditions of Chinese Irregular Immigrants in the United Kingdom”. In Gao Yun, ed. Concealed Chains: Labour Exploitation and Chinese Migrants in Europe. Geneva: International Labour Office, 2010, pp. 139-168
  30. “Legality and Labour: Migration and Employment of Chinese Migrants in the United Kingdom, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China”, Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 1(1): 11-45 (with Xiang Biao, 2009)
  31. “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)
  32. “China Labor Migration: Some Policy Issues”. Social Sciences in China 26(3): 112-124 (2005, with Huang Ping)
  33. “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).
  34. “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.
  35. “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.
  36. “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.
  37. Recent Trends in Chinese Migration to Europe: Fujianese Migration in Perspective. IOM Migration Research Series No. 6. Geneva: International Organization for Migration (2002)
  38. “Introduction.” In The People’s Republic of China, edited by Frank N. Pieke. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 1-10
  39. “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
  40. “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
  41. “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
  42. “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
  43. “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)
  44. “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)
  45. “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)
  46. “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). Translated in Chinese.
  47. “Introduction.” In The Chinese in Europe, edited by G. Benton and F.N. Pieke. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 1-17 (1998). Translated in Chinese.
  48. “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)
  49. “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)
  50. “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)
  51. “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)
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