prof. dr. P.D. Nyiri

Office hours:by appointment (please email) 

Research interests

• 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

Teaching

• History of 20^th-century China
• History of migrations
• Anthropological approaches to global history

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.Seattleand 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)  
• “Xenophobia in Hungary: a regional comparison. Systemic sources and possible solutions” Working paper, Central European University Center for Policy Studies (2003)

Other Activities

• Oration Extraterritoriality

Links

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