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 and Adjunct Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University, as well as a Leiden Asia Centre researcher. Pieke also regularly contributes opinion pieces to various Dutch and international media outlets.

At the Leiden Asia Centre, Pieke has contributed to projects on China’s Influence on the Chinese Diasporas in the Netherlands for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and on Chinese-European Business Elites, Enterprises and the Chinese Communist Party together with Naná de Graaf (Free University Amsterdam).

Research interests

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

Books

• Nederland door Chinese ogen (The Netherlands through Chinese Eyes). Amsterdam: Balans (with Garrie van Pinxteren, 2017)
• 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)
• 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)