Frank N. Pieke

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Frank Nikolaas Pieke (born September 23, 1957 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch sinologist and anthropologist and was director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin from August 2018 to January 2020 .

Life

Frank N. Pieke studied cultural anthropology, history of modern China and Chinese studies at the University of Amsterdam , Beijing University and the University of California at Berkeley . In 1992 he received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Berkeley.

From 1995 to 2010 Pieke taught Politics and Society of Modern China at St Cross College at Oxford University . From 2007 to 2010 Pieke was founding director of the Oxford China Center. In 2010 he was appointed to a professorship at the Chair of Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University. From 2016 to 2017 he was the scientific director of the Institute for Regional Studies at the University of Leiden and from 2013 to 2018 he was the director of the LeidenAsiaCentre.

On May 24, 2018, Stiftung Mercator announced that Pieke would be the new director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies. He took over the position on August 1, 2018. Under Pieke's leadership, MERICS initiated a Europeanization of the institute's agenda. Pieke headed the institute until January 2020.

Research priorities

  • The transformation of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Immigrant Groups in the PRC and the Change in Chinese Society
  • The Strategic and Political Influence of Chinese Direct Investment in Europe
  • Education and innovation cooperation between China and Europe

Fonts (selection)

  • Knowing China. A Twenty-First Century Guide . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107587618 .
  • The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-1107547698 .
  • Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe , Stanford University Press, Stanford 2004, ISBN 978-0804749947 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank N. Pieke - CV. Universiteit Leiden, January 2016, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Frank N. Pieke - CV. National University of Singapore, August 20, 2013, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frank N. Pieke. Universiteit Leiden, accessed on September 11, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Frank N. Pieke and Mikko Huotari new managing directors of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). Stiftung Mercator, May 24, 2018, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The way to a European understanding of China. Mercator Institute for China Studies, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Press release: Change in the management at MERICS | Mercator Institute for China Studies. Mercator Institute for China Studies, January 22, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pieke, Frank N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieke, Frank Nikolaas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sinologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam