Curriculum Vitae
Education
1998-2003
D. Phil in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Thesis Global Body Shopping.
1990-1998
BA and MA in Sociology, Beijing University, China.
1984-1990
Wenzhou Middle School, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Employment
2020-
Director, Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany.
2010-2021
University Lecturer, subsequently Professor, of Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.
2005-2010
Research Council United Kingdom Academic Fellow, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford.
2003-2004
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute and Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, National University of Singapore.
2002
Research Officer, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
Teaching (selected)
2022 June-November
Social art and social repair, online seminar with participants in the Seeing the First 500 Meters workshop, Guangzhou, China.
2010-
Numerous classes on migration and social change at University of Oxford, University of Hong Kong, Rikkyo University (Japan), Beijing University (China), National University of Singapore, University of Tübingen, University of Bielefeld.
2009-2019
Course director, MSc Migration Studies, University of Oxford.
2005-
Numerous short training seminars, including those organized by the International Labour Organization, Chinese State Council Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations on behalf of French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance, Google Inc., Central European University, University of Zurich, Tallinn University, German National Academic Foundation and Stiftung Mercator in cooperation with German Federal Foreign Office.
Service (selected)
2023-
Member of advisory board, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
2023
Member of editorial committee, 当代青年研究 [Contemporary Youth Studies]
2022
Co-organizer and tutor, social art workshop Seeing the First 500 Meters (June-November), China
2022
Jury, Sixth Tone nonfiction writing contest, organized by The Paper (China)
2022
Academic Advisor and Jury
“Wild Land” award for best research on digitalization and society, organized by Tencent Academy and The Paper (China)
2021-2022
Expert guest and jury member, Driving the Human art festival, Germany
2020-2021
Curator and editor, Oxford Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
2019-
Editorial board member, Chinese Sociological Review
2019-
Editorial board member 《社会学评论》(Sociology Review)
2019-
Scientific committee member, PARISS: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences
2019-
Editorial board member, 海外华人研究 (Chinese Overseas Review)
2019-2021
Standing review board member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (for Humanities and Social Sciences)
2018-
Executive board member, China Quarterly
2017-
Editorial board member, Anthropological Theory
2017-
Editorial board member, International Migration Review
2017-
Editorial board member, The Journal of Chinese Sociology
2017-
Editorial board member, Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China, Routledge
2016-
Editorial board member, book series New Mobilities in Asia, Amsterdam University Press
2016-
Editorial board member, Pacific Affairs
2015-
Editorial board member, book series Routledge Series of Asian Migration
2015-
Editorial board member,《开放时代》(Open Times)
2014-
Associate editor, ARI-Springer Asia Series
2014-
Editorial board member, Anti-Trafficking Review
2014-
Advisory committee member, Hong Kong Advanced Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
2014-
Advisory board member, Migration Studies
2014-2016
Editorial advisory board member, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia
2014
Expert contributor on international labour recruitment, International Labour Organization
2013
Consultant, Gender Dimension of International Migration, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
2013
Expert contributor, Asia-Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the United Nations General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
2009-2012
Anthony Leeds Prize selection committee member, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2007-2010
Fellow, US-China Young Leaders Forum, National Committee on United States–China Relations
2007
Expert contributor, UNICEF Regional Consultation on Children and Migration
2006-2007
National Advisory Group Member on Overseas Employment, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, China
2005
Consultant on Labour Emigration Management Systems of China and Mongolia, International Organization for Migration and the Government of the Republic of Korea
2004
Scientific advisory board member, World Congress on Human Movements and Immigration (Barcelona)
2003-2005
Consultant on Promoting Knowledge Transfer through Diaspora Networks, Asian Development Bank
1994-1995
Founding member, Loving Heart Association in Jingwen Market, Beijing (a rural-urban migrants’ self-governance association)