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Wellens, Koen & Hansen, Mette Halskov
(2023).
Spiritually Inspired Environmental Movements in Asia: Local Practices, Universal Potential? .
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Wellens, Koenraad
(2022).
Hva bør Norge gjøre med sitt forhold til Kina?
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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Hvis Kina vil gjøre seg fortjent til den status og respekt de ønsker i verden, er en imponerende økonomi og et sterkt militærvesen ikke tilstrekkelig. Myndighetene kan oppnå mer ved å være åpne for kritikk og diskusjon om brudd på menneskerettigheter. Isteden følger de impulsen til å ta offerrollen og reagere med fornærmelse eller fornektelse. Men flere land må være villige til å ta risikoen det er å være tydeligere i dialogen med Kina. Er Norge ett av dem?
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Wellens, Koen & Hansen, Mette Halskov
(2022).
Hva bør Norge gjøre med sitt forhold til Kina?
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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Wellens, Koen
(2021).
Fra bakland til brennpunkt: Undertrykkelsen av uigurene har på få år blitt kime til en storpolitisk, internasjonal strid.
[Newspaper].
Klassekampen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2020).
Indigeneity and environmental resource management in Taiwan: what can we learn from Tsou boar hunting?
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Wellens, Koen
(2019).
Protester i Hong Kong.
[TV].
TV2 Nyhetskanalen.
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Kaland, Ole Johannes; Adiljan, Abdurihim; Wellens, Koen & Folkvord, Gerald
(2018).
Re-education. Surveillance, repression and forced assimilation of minorities in today’s China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2018).
EDUCATING MONKS: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border / By Thomas A. Borchert.
Pacific Affairs.
ISSN 0030-851X.
91(3).
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Wellens, Koen
(2017).
The New State Religion of the Middle Kingdom? Chinese Mahayana Buddhism under Xi Jinping.
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During the more tolerant years of its rule, the Chinese Communist Party considered religion to be an outdated social phenomenon that would naturally disappear when people became more prosperous and better educated. In radical periods, political impatience led to temples and churches being destroyed, monasteries emptied and clergy mistreated. To understand the increasingly positive assessment of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism by the Chinese political leadership in recent years we might have to look beyond Communist secularist doctrine and obtain clues from both China’s imperial past and its present nationalist aspirations.
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Wellens, Koen
(2017).
War Ceremonies and Boar Hunting in a Tsou Community in Taiwan: Living Indigeneity in Global East Asia.
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How can small indigenous communities be resilient as culturally distinct entities in a globalised modern nation-state? Today Taiwan constitutes an economically advanced, democratic state with rather well developed institutional protection of the rights of its indigenous people. After several centuries with different regimes of assimilationist policies, today sixteen tribes are recognised by the state as indigenous people. Some 530,000 people or 2.3% of Taiwan’s population claim Austronesian ancestry and have now been granted opportunities to express, revive or even reinvent what they consider to be their indigenous culture. This research project studies how members of one such community belonging to the Tsou tribe are living, expressing and negotiating divergence from the majority Han Chinese culture. Conceptualising indigeneity as a fluid and dynamic form of interaction between Tsou people and the state, the majority Taiwanese as well as between each other, the project is mainly focusing on three arenas of indigeneity: the annual public performance of the Mayasvi or War Ceremony, the practice of hunting and conflicts related to hunting rights, and local initiatives at language revival through singing.
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Wellens, Koen
(2012).
Challenging the Universality of Water-deities: Local Cosmology and Natural Resources in South West China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2012).
Challenges of bilingual education for ethnic minorities in China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2012).
PASSAGE TO MANHOOD: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China.
Pacific Affairs.
ISSN 0030-851X.
85(1),
p. 188–189.
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Wellens, Koen
(2011).
Kina i dag: menneskerettigheter, rettsikkerhet og politisk utvikling.
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Wellens, Koen
(2011).
Den store byvandringen.
[Internet].
Dagsavisen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2011).
Minority Rights Discourse and Religious Revival in Southwest China.
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Bakke, Cecilie Figenschou & Wellens, Koen
(2011).
"Menneskerettigheter i Kina: Dialog, samarbeid og veien videre".
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Wellens, Koen
(2011).
Ofre for kinesisk byggeboom.
[Newspaper].
Dagsavisen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Nobels fredspris temadag.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Verdibørsen.
[Radio].
NRK.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Kinas mange ansikter.
[Newspaper].
Perspektiv.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Bryr seg ikke.
[Newspaper].
Bergens tidende.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Elite histories: How Muli became Tibetan.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Menneskerettigheter i Kina.
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Wellens, Koen
(2010).
Kina - kinesernes krav og kommunistpartiets legitimitet.
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Wellens, Koen
(2009).
Synkretisme: et nyttig begrep?
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Wellens, Koen
(2009).
Ritual and relatedness in Southwest China: The Premi House.
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Wellens, Koen
(2009).
Etnische minderheden en godsdienstvrijheid in China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2009).
Kina: Menneskerettigheter og andre utfordringer.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Verdibørsen.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
P2 Musikkredaksjonen: indlæg om kinesisk forbudt mod fremføring af Mozarts Requiem.
[Radio].
P2.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Kina langsomt på rett vei.
[Newspaper].
Klassekampen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Slik er Kina blitt mer åpent.
[Newspaper].
Vårt land.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Dalai Lama ber folket besinne sig.
[Newspaper].
Dagsavisen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Ser på buddhister som en trussel.
[Newspaper].
Dagsavisen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Fengslende meninger.
[Newspaper].
Nationen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Kina vil ha PR-hjelp.
[Newspaper].
VG.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
I ilden igjen.
[Newspaper].
Klassekampen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Nyheder: interview om menneskerettigheter i Kina og meningen med boikott.
[TV].
TV2.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Hele Kina i sorg.
[Newspaper].
Klassekampen.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Neither Buddhists nor barbarians: Contesting discourses on the origins of the Xifan in Southwest China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Autonomy and minority religion in China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Olympisk stress syndrom.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Religionsfrihet og minoritetsrettigheter i Kina.
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Wellens, Koen
(2008).
Nyreligiøsitet i Kina etter Mao.
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Wellens, Koen
(2007).
Book review: Ethnic distinctions, local meanings: negotiating cultural identities in China. By Mary Rack.
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde.
ISSN 0257-9774.
102(1),
p. 286–287.
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Wellens, Koen
(2007).
Det Kina ikke vil snakke om før OL.
[Newspaper].
Dagbladet.
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Wellens, Koen
(2007).
Religion, community and anthropological truth in Southwest China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2007).
Etniske minoriteter og religionspolitikk i Kina.
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Wellens, Koen
(2006).
Skjer det endringer i Kinas praktisering av menneskerettighetene?
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Wellens, Koen
(2006).
Land and subsistence in Western China: preliminary results from local studies in Guangxi, Yunnan and Sichuan.
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Wellens, Koen
(2006).
Land rights as human rights in China.
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Wellens, Koen
(2006).
Minoriteters rettigheter i Kina.
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Wellens, Koen
(2005).
Nyheter.
[Radio].
NRK.
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Interview om Rebiya Kadeers løslatelse
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Wellens, Koen
(2005).
Ikkje uproblematisk å kritisera Kina.
[Newspaper].
Uniforum.
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Wellens, Koen
(2004).
Buddhism and local ritual practice.
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Wellens, Koen
(2004).
Religion, kinship and politics on Tibet's eastern frontier.
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Wellens, Koen
(2003).
Revisiting the Na of Southwest China.
Asian Ethnicity.
ISSN 1463-1369.
4(1).
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Review article of Cai Hua's book "A society without fathers or
husbands: the Na of China".
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Wellens, Koen
(2003).
Book review: Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell.
Pacific Affairs.
ISSN 0030-851X.
76(1).
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Wellens, Koen
(2003).
Book review: The Kam People of China: turning nineteen. By Norman D. Geary, e.a.
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde.
ISSN 0257-9774.
98(2),
p. 555–556.
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Wellens, Koen
(2003).
Religionsfrihed og etniske minoriteter i Kina.
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Wellens, Koen
(2002).
Premi.
In Ember, Carol R; Ember, Melvin & Skoggard, Ian (Ed.),
Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement.
Macmillan Reference USA, New York.
ISSN 0-02-865671-7.
p. 277–280.
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Wellens, Koen
(2002).
Un exercice maoïste en représentation des élites: L'établissement de la région tibétaine autonome de Muli.
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Wellens, Koen
(2001).
Book review: Naxi and Moso ethnography: kin, rites, pictographes, by Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu (eds.).
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde.
ISSN 0257-9774.
96(1),
p. 290–292.
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Wellens, Koen
(2001).
Zhongguo Xinan diqu de minzu shibie he difang zizhi zhidu: Muli zangzu zizhixian de qingkuang (Ethnic classification and the local autonomy system in Southwest China: the case of Muli Tibetan Autonomous County).
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The aim of this paper is to illustrate how ethnic classification and
the related state policy of establishing autonomous nationality regions
have contributed to shape the direction in which the Premi reproduce
and develop what they perceive as central elements of their own
distinct culture. This paper builds on comparative fieldwork in Premi
regions with different administrative regimes and where the Premi have
been given different nationality status: Muli Tibetan Autonomous County
in Sichuan and Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan. By contrasting
the case of the Premi in Muli with that of the Premi in Ninglang, I
will try to demonstrate how in the case of Muli the result of ethnic
classification by the state and the related establishment of an
autonomous county, although at first glance constituting a flagrant
inconsistency with so-called ?scientific criteria? of classification,
was very much a continuation of existing local ways of understanding
identity. At least, it reflected the understanding of a section of the
concerned population at that time: i.e. the local political and
religious elite. Today, then, we can observe how those decisions taken
fifty years ago provide frames for reproducing and developing cultural
diversity within a modernizing Chinese society.
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Wellens, Koen
(2000).
Zhongguo Xinan diqu zongjiao yu zhongzu (Ethnicity and religion in Southwest China).
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Wellens, Koen
(2000).
The Anji in Yiji: The survival of local religious beliefs among ethnic minorities on Tibet's Eastern frontier.
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Several different ethnic groups inhabit Northwest Yunnan and Southwest Sichuan which constitute the south-eastern border region of ethnic Tibet. Some of them, like the Premi in Yunnan, are today recognised by the Chinese state as separate national minorities. Others, like the Ersu or the Premi in Sichuan, have officially been classified as Tibetans.
While sharing aspects of Tibetan culture related to Buddhism there do exist several clear ethnic markers distinguishing these groups from the Tibetans and from each other. It is possible to discern different ethnic groups each having its own distinct language, concepts of common descent, local identity and, surprisingly enough, a set of religious practices and beliefs which cannot be directly related to Buddhism. In one Premi village one can find a lama educated in a monastery in Tibet as well as a hangui, a religious specialist only found in Premi villages.
Today Buddhism is again flourishing in this region and many monasteries are being rebuilt. Once again people send their sons to the monasteries. At the same time, in Sichuan, where the Premi are classified as Tibetans and under strong influence of Buddhism the hangui religion manages to survive and thrive as well, precisely through its co-existence with Buddhism and simultaneously functioning as an ethnic marker for the Premi vis-à-vis the surrounding Tibetans.
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Wellens, Koenraad
(1999).
A Premi djè, of het belang van etnische status in China.
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Wellens, Koen
(1999).
Religionsfrihed i Kina: konflikter og problemer med hensyn til folkereligion og etniske minoriteter.
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Wellens, Koen
(1998).
Etniske minoriteter i Kina: eller historien om en asiatisk imperialisme.
Dyade.
ISSN 0332-5792.
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p. 52–63.
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Artiklens fortæller hvordan områdene i Folkerepublikken Kina som i dag
er befolket af etniske minoriteter blev indlemmet i Kina. Artiklen
fokuserer på konsekvenserne dette har haft for disse folk, især i
forhold til Kinas nuværende minoritetspolitik.
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Wellens, Koenraad
(1996).
In search of the hangui: religion and ethnic identity among the Premi in Southwest China.
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This paper presents an analysis of the role of religion in the formation of ethnic identity among the Premi and their neighbours, in the light of Chinese policies on religion and ethnic minorities.
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Wellens, Koen
(2006).
Consecrating the Premi house: ritual, community and the state in the borderlands of East Tibet.
Unipub forlag.
ISSN 0806-3222.
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