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Mette Halskov Hansen

Professor - East Asia Studies
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Email m.h.hansen@ikos.uio.no
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Visiting address Øst-Asia P. A. Munchs hus 3. og 4. etasje Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 OSLO
Postal address IKOS East-Asia P.B. 1010 Blindern N-0315 OSLO

 Academic Interests

My research is in the field of modern Chinese society and politics, more specifically: education and youth, processes of individualization, ethnic minorities, and Chinese migrations to minority areas. My research is based on fieldwork mainly in the provinces of Yunnan, Gansu, Zhejiang, and Fujian. I am currently working on a project about rural education, cultures of learning, and processes of individualization in the Chinese state school.

 

Teaching


Asian and African Studies 
Chinese society and politics


Higher education and employment history

Since 2003: Professor of China studies, UiO

2007-10: Pro-dean for research and research education, Faculty of Humanities
2005-06: Head of Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO
2003-04: Head of Deparment of East European and Oriental Studies, UiO
2000-03: Associate Professor, IØO, UiO
1996-2000: Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO
1996: Phd, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

I have spent more than six years in China, first as a student in Shandong from 1986-88, and since then in relation with fieldwork in different areas of the country. From 2011-12, I was honorary visiting professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
 

 

Tags: China, Chinese, Education, Ethnic relations, Society and politics

Publications

Books:

(2010, with Rune Svarverud, eds.): iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
(2008, with Stig Thøgersen): Kina - individ og samfunn. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.                                                                                                                                                            (2005): Frontier People: Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China. London: Hurst & Co. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.                                                                        (1999): Lessons in Being Chinese: State Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Selected articles:

(2012): "Learning Individualism: Confucius, Hesse, and Pep-rallies in the Rural Chinese School" in The China Quarterly.

(2012): "Learning to Organize and be Organized: Student Cadres in a Chinese Rural Boarding School" in Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen (eds.), Organizing Rural China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

(2008): with Cuiming Pang): "Me and My Family: Perceptions of Individual and Collective Among Young Rural Chinese" in European Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 7:1.
(2007): "Organising the Old: Senior Authority and the Political Significance of a Rural Chinese "Non-Governmental Organisation" in Modern Asian Studies, vol 42:5.
(2006): “In the Footsteps of the Communist Party: Dilemmas and Strategies” in Stig Thøgersen and Maria Heimer (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in China. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
 

 

  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2012). Learning individualism: Confucius, Hesse, and pep-rallies in the rural Chinese school. China Quarterly.  ISSN 0009-4439.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov & Pang, Cuiming (2010). Idealizing individual choice: Work, love and family in the eyes of young rural Chinese, In Mette Halskov Hansen & Rune Svarverud (ed.),  iChina: The rise of the individual in modern Chinese society.  NIAS Press.  ISBN 978-87-7694-053-9.  kapitel 1.  s 39 - 65
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008). Organising, the old: Senior authority and the political significance of a rural Chinese 'non-governmental organisation'. Modern Asian Studies.  ISSN 0026-749X.  42(5), s 1057- 1078 . doi: 10.1017/S0026749X07002946
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov & Cuiming, Pang (2008). Me and My Family: Perceptions of Individual and Collective among Young Rural Chinese. European Journal of East Asian Studies.  ISSN 1568-0584.  7(1), s 75- 99 . doi: 10.1163/156805808X333929
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2006). In The Footsteps of the Communist Party: Dilemmas and Strategies, In Maria Heimer & Stig Thøgersen (ed.),  Doing Fieldwork in China.  NIAS Press.  ISBN 8791114977.  kapittel.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2004). The Challenge of Sipsong Panna in the Southwest: Development, Resources, and Power in a Multiethnic China, In Morris Rossabi (ed.),  Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers.  University of Washington Press.  ISBN 0-295-98390-6.  chap. 2.  s 53 - 84
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2002). Ethnic Conflict and Accomodation in China: A Local Perspective, In Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard & Bertel Heurlin (ed.),  China's Place in Global Geopolitics.  Routledge.  ISBN 0-7007-1532-0.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2001). Ethnic Minority Girls on Chinese School Benches: Gender Perspectives on Minority Education, In Glen Petersen; Ruth Hayhoe & Yonglin Lu (ed.),  Education, Culture and Identity in Twentieth Century China.  The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). Teaching backwardness or equality? Chinese state education among the Tai in Sipsong Panna., In Gerard Postiglione (ed.),  Education of Chinese minorities..  Garland Press, New York.  ISBN 0-8153-2223-2.  s 243 - 281
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). The call of Mao or money? Discourses on resettlement among Han Chinese migrants on China's Southwestern borders.. China quarterly.  ISSN 0305-7410.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1998). Fostering Love of Learning: Naxi Responses to Ethnic Images in Chinese State Education, In Kjeld-Erik Broedsgaard & David Strand (ed.),  Reconstructing Twentieth Century China: State Control, Civil Society and National Identity.  Clarendon Press, Oxford.  ISBN 0-19-829311-9.  s 280 - 309
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). Kinas etniske minoriteter og Kommunistpartiets minoritetspolitikk, I: Jo Inge Bekkevold & Torstein Hjellum (red.),  Den kinesiske utfordringen.  Tano Aschehoug, Oslo.  ISBN 82-518-3617-4.  s 114 - 128
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1994). We are all Naxi in our Hearts": Ethnic Consciousness among Intellectual Naxi in Southwest China, In Søren Clausen; Roy Stars & Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg (ed.),  Cultural Encounters: China, Japan and the West..  Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

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  • Svarverud, Rune & Hansen, Mette Halskov (red.) (2011). “自我中国”--现代中国社会中个体的崛起 (iChina - The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society). Shanghai Translation Publishing House.  ISBN 9787532755394.  298 s.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov & Svarverud, Rune (ed.) (2010). iChina: The rise of the individual in modern Chinese society. NIAS Press.  ISBN 978-87-7694-053-9.  293 s.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov & Thøgersen, Stig (2008). Kina - individ og samfunn. Universitetsforlaget.  ISBN 978-82-15-01200-1.  238 s.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2005). Frontier People: Han Settlers In Minority Areas of China. University of British Columbia Press.  ISBN 0774811781.  267 s.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). Lessons in being Chinese: Minority education and ethnic identity in Southwest China.. University of Washington Press.  ISBN 0-295-97788-4.  248 s.

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  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2011). Book review of "Identity and Schooling Among the Naxi: Becoming Chinese with Naxi Identity" and "Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School: Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration". China Journal.  ISSN 1324-9347.  (65), s 237- 240
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2011). Book review of: Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming, eds., Governance of Life in the Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. Asian Anthropology.  ISSN 1683-478X.  10, s 169- 172
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2011). Book review of: Identity and Schooling Among the Naxi: Becoming Chinese with Naxi Identity. China Journal.  ISSN 1324-9347.  65, s 237- 240
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2011, 16. oktober). Kinas personlige problem.  Aftenposten.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2011, 10. mars). Sensur og selvsensur i Kina. [Radio].  RadioRakel.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 23. mars). Dagsnytt 18, Google ut av Kina. [TV].  Nrk 1 Radio og Nrk 2 TV.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 10. desember). Dagsnytt 18, fredsprisen 2010. [TV].  Nrk2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 10. desember). Friheter styrkes i Kina.  Klassekampen.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010). Governing rural youth: Space, time, and student associations in the Chinese high school.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 10. desember). Her og nå. [Radio].  Nrk P2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 07. desember). Nobel peace price. [Internett].  Voice of America.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2010, 10. desember). P2 temadag Kina. [Radio].  Nrk P2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009, 01. oktober). Dagsnytt 18: Kina 60 år. [Radio].  NRK1 + NRK2 (TV).
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009). Organizing Chinese youth: Fieldwork from a rural middle school.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009). Recent trends in Chinese rural education: The disturbing rural-urban disparities and the measures to meet them.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009). Recent trends in Chinese rural education: the rural-urban disparities and the measures to meet them.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009). Teaching political practice in the PRC: A view from below.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2009, 01. oktober). URIX, feiring av Kinas 60 år. [TV].  NRK2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 04. mars). Dagsnytt 18 om den kinesiske folkekongres' møde 2008. [Radio].  NRK P2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 04. august). Dagsnytt 18, NRK P1 (konflikt uigurer og kinesiske myndigheter). [Radio].  NRK P1 og NRK2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 18. mars). Dagsnytt 18, Nrk2 (Kinas myndigheter og Dalai Lama). [Radio].  Nrk P2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 16. mars). Dagsrevyen Nrk1 (Kinas reaksjoner på demonstrasjoner i Tibet). [TV].  Nrk1.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 15. mars). Dagsrevyen Nrk1 (om Kinas reaksjoner på demonstrasjoner i Tibet). [TV].  Nrk1.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 19. november). Den økonomiske situasjon i Kina, Dagsnytt 18. [Radio].  Nrk P2 og TV NRK2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 01. august). Intervju i forbindelse med artiklen "I bokform til Beijing". Artikel i tidsskriftet Ny Tid.  Ny Tid.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 08. august). Kina-forskere i Lund, Sveriges radio P1. [Radio].  P1, Sveriges Radio.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008). Me - and my family: Perceptions of individual and collective among young, rural Chinese.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008). The Chinese Individual: Experiences and Results from a Cross-disciplinary Research Collective.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 15. mars). Ukeslutt NRK P1 (om Kinas reaksjon på demonstrasjoner i Tibet). [Radio].  Nrk P1.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2008, 15. mars). Verden på lørdag, NRK2 (om Kinas reaksjon på demonstrasjoner i Tibet). [Radio].  NRK2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2007, 15. mars). Dagbladet, Folkekongressen Kina.  Dagbladet.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2007). Go West: Chinese migration to minority areas.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2007, 16. mars). "Kinesiske bønder på krigsstien".  Dagbladeet.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2007, 13. mars). Verden i dag, NRK P2. [Radio].  Nrk P2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2006). Forholdet mellem individets rettigheder og de kollektive forpligtigelser i Kina.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2006, 02. mars). Intervju om den nasjonale folkekongress i Kina. [TV].  NRK, URIX.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2006, 28. november). Verden i Dag, NRK 1, radio, om barfodsadvokater i Kina. [Radio].
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2005, 18. mars). Dagsnytt 18. [Radio].  Nrk.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2005). Forbudte avsløringer om Kinas bønder. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2005). Senior Authority and Processes of Individualisation In Rural China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2005). Under kinesisk herredømme..
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2004, 19. juni). Verden på Lørdag i NRK P2, 19.juni. Tema: Den økonomiske vækst i Kina. [Radio].  NRK P2, Verden på lørdag.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2004, 26. februar). interview om kinesiske migranter.  Norsk Telegram Byrå.
  • NRK, P2 & Hansen, Mette Halskov (2004, 06. februar). Værdibørsen - bør vi frykte den nye økonomiske stormakten Kina. [Radio].  Nrk 2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2003). "Book review: Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China by Robyn Iredale, Naran Bilik, Wang Su, Fei Guo, Caroline Hoy". China Information.  16(2)
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2003). "Chinese Colonisation Viewed From China�s Border Areas".
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2003). "Chinese Migration to Tibet".
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2003). "In The Footsteps of the Chinese Communist Party: Fieldwork Experiences in Rural China".
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2002). "Book review: Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: How Minority Students in Southwest China Contstruct Identities by MaryJo Benton Lee".. China Journal.  ISSN 1324-9347.  (48)
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2001). Frontier People, or What Happens in the Encounter Between Han Chinese Settlers and Ethnic Minorities in the Southwestern Border Areas of China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2001). Killing a Dog to Save a Tree: Environmental Policies and Their Social Impacts in a Minority Area in the Southwest of China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2001). Modernisering på Kinesisk.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000). Chinese Minority Education: State Policy, International Organisations and Local Responses. NIAS-nytt - Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies.  ISSN 0904-4337.  (4), s 12- 16
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000). Discourses on Migrants and Migrants' Identities: Chinese Colonisers on China's Borders.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000). "Han and Tibetan Cultural Elites: Does Ethnicity Make a Difference?"..
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000). Migrants in Power? Chinese Colonizers Between Communism and Globalization.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000, 23. oktober). NRK 2, udenriksnyheter om Kina, Korea og Tibet. [Radio].  Oslo : NRK 2.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (2000). "National Identity and Ethnic Groups in China".
  • Eifring, Halvor Bøyesen & Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). Kinesiske tegn i Norge? Ivar Aasen og Mao Zedong.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). Book review: Education in Tibet: Policy And Practice Since 1950 by Catriona Bass. China Journal.  ISSN 1324-9347.  (42), s 184- 185
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999, 19. november). Han Chinese Resettlement in Chinese Minority Areas Since the 1950s: Two Case Studies. [Radio].  World Bank, Washington D.C. : World Bank.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1999). The Role of the Chinese State in Shaping Ethnic Identities.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1998). From Migrant to Native: Second Generation Han in Minority Areas in China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1998). Migrants in power or the power of representation: Chinese colonisers in China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). Ethnic Minority Girls on Chinese School Benches: Double Handicap or Great Opportunity?.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). Kongen hos kinesiske minoriteter. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). Learning to be Chinese: Minority education and ethnic identity among three ethnic groups in China.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). Minoriteter og norsk eksotisme. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1997). The Chinese Boarding School - an Exercise in Cultural Control?.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1996). Patriotic/Nationalist Education of National Minorities - Doomed to Failure?.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov (1996). Policy versus Practice in Chinese Minority Education.
  • Hansen, Mette Halskov & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (1996). Weak? Strong? Civil? Embedded? New perspectives on state-society relations in the non-Western world.

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