Mette Halskov Hansen

Professor - China Studies

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Born 1962 in Copenhagen. Master's degree in Chinese with anthropology and literary science. Studied at Aarhus University, Shandong University, China (1986-1988), School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London (1991). Phd with a thesis about ethnic relations and minority education in China from Aarhus University 1996. Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo 1996-1999. From 2000, associate professor at the Department of East European and Oriental Studies. Professor since 2003, and head of Department of East European and Oriental Studies (2003-2004) and Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (2005-2006). From 2007 to 2010, dean of research at the Faculty of Humanities. Honorary visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011-2012; visiting professor at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 2015; foreign professor at Zhejiang University (2014-2018); international visitor at Stanford University Humanities Center (2019). Major research funding include, for instance, 5-years funding from the Norwegian Research Council for "Airborne: Pollution, Climate Change and New Visions of Sustainability in China" (2014-2019); Scholarship from Centre for Advanced Study (Senter for Grunnforskning) 2016-2017 for the project Airborne; 6-years funding from the Norwegian Research Council for the project "Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise?" (2020-2026). Has spent more than 6 years as student and researcher in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1986.

Tags: Chinese society and politics, Ethnic relations, Environmental Studies

Aunan, Kristin; Hansen, Mette Halskov; Liu, Zhaohui & Wang, Shuxiao (2019). The Hidden Hazard of Household Air Pollution in Rural China. Environmental Science and Policy. ISSN 1462-9011. 93(March), s 27- 33 . doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.004 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
Air pollution in Chinese cities has become a major topic of public debate and political concern. At the same time, few rural areas are subjected to measurements of ambient air quality, and policy documents and media rarely discuss the health and environmental risks caused by household air pollution (HAP) produced by the use of biomass for cooking and heating. Between 2014 and 2017 a cross-disciplinary team carried out a joint study of air quality and perceptions of air pollution in one of China’s richest provinces, Zhejiang. We found that the ambient PM2.5 concentration in the rural villages was similar to that in the urban areas. Moreover, the 24-hour mean personal exposure to particulate pollution (PM2.5) was similar for urban and rural participants in total. However, we found indications of enhanced exposure levels in certain sub-groups, such as biomass users, women, and family cooks. We found that while villagers were strongly concerned about risks of air pollution coming from nearby factories, they were largely unaware of the problem of HAP. In this article, we analyse to what extent HAP contributes to the air pollution exposure in the areas studied, and we discuss possible reasons why it has largely remained a hidden hazard. In the conclusion, we suggest that air pollution in rural areas should receive more attention from media, environmental organizations and policy makers; furthermore, that HAP in particular should be incorporated into air pollution policies to a greater extent, and its contribution to air pollution exposure in rural areas be made more publicly known.
Hu, Ruolan; Wang, Shuxiao; Aunan, Kristin; Zhao, M.J.; Chen, L.; Liu, Zhaohui & Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). Personal exposure to PM2.5 in Chinese rural households in the Yangtze River Delta. Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health. ISSN 0905-6947. 29(3), s 403- 412 . doi: 10.1111/ina.12537 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
High levels of PM2.5 exposure and associated health risks are of great concern in rural China. For this study, we used portable PM2.5 monitors for monitoring concentrations online, recorded personal time‐activity patterns, and analyzed the contribution from different microenvironments in rural areas of the Yangtze River Delta, China. The daily exposure levels of rural participants were 66μg/m3 (SD 40) in winter and 65μg/m3 (SD 16) in summer. Indoor exposure levels were usually higher than outdoor levels. The exposure levels during cooking in rural kitchens were 140μg/m3 (SD 116) in winter and 121μg/m3 (SD 70) in summer, the highest in all microenvironments. Winter and summer values were 252μg/m3 (SD 103) and 204μg/m3 (SD 105), respectively, for rural people using biomass for fuel, much higher than those for rural people using LPG and electricity. By combining PM2.5 concentrations and time spent in different microenvironments, we found that 92% (winter) and 85% (summer) of personal exposure to PM2.5 in rural areas was attributable to indoor microenvironments, of which kitchens accounted for 24% and 27%, respectively. Consequently, more effective policies and measures are needed to replace biomass fuel with LPG or electricity, which would benefit the health of the rural population in China.
Aunan, Kristin; Hansen, Mette Halskov & Wang, Shuxiao (2018). Introduction: Air Pollution in China. The China Quarterly. ISSN 0305-7410. 234, s 279- 298 . doi: 10.1017/S0305741017001369 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
This introduction provides an overview and analysis of key scientific data regarding air pollution in China. It constitutes a reference for understanding how policymakers, media and population in China make sense of and deal with air pollution, as discussed in the other articles of the section. We summarize the major characteristics and trends regarding air pollution in China, including its main sources and composition, levels of population exposure across the country, attributable mortality, and mitigation efforts. We also compare current levels of air pollution in China with other parts of the world and in a historical perspective. While the situation remains dire in many regions, particularly the Northeast, we conclude that there are signs of relief, or at least a halt to the increase in ambient air pollution levels. At the same time, critical issues regarding unequal levels of exposure remain, and health damaging levels of air pollution in cities will undoubtedly remain high for a long time to come. The rural population residing in areas close to industry and polluted cities and still depending on solid household fuels will likely be the worst off when it comes to air pollution exposure.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2018). China's Education System: Loved and Hated, In Weiping Wu & Mark W. Frazier (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1-4739-4894-5. kapitel 51. s 1093 - 1112 Full text in Research Archive.
Hansen, Mette Halskov; Li, Hongtao & Svarverud, Rune (2018). Ecological civilization: Interpreting the Chinese past, projecting the global future. Global Environmental Change. ISSN 0959-3780. 53(November), s 195- 203 . doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.014 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
Ecological civilization (shengtai wenming) has been written into China’s constitution as the ideological framework for the country’s environmental policies, laws and education. It is also increasingly presented not only as a response to environmental degradation in China, but as a vision for our global future. In this article, scholars from the disciplines of media science, anthropology and sinology analyse media representations of eco-civilization in order to explore which values and visions this highly profiled state project actually entails. The article argues that eco-civilization is best understood as a sociotechnical imaginary in which cultural and moral virtues constitute key components that are inseparable from the more well-known technological, judicial, and political goals. The imaginary of eco-civilization seeks to construct a sense of cultural and national continuity, and to place China at the center of the world by invoking its civilization’s more than 2000 years of traditional philosophical heritage as a part of the solution for the planet’s future. It is constructed as a new kind of Communist Party led utopia in which market economy and consumption continue to grow, and where technology and science have solved the basic problems of pollution and environmental degradation.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Liu, Zhaohui (2018). Air Pollution and Grassroots Echoes of “Ecological Civilization” in Rural China. The China Quarterly. ISSN 0305-7410. 234(June), s 320- 339 . doi: 10.1017/S0305741017001394 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
This article places the study of rural environmental activism in the wider context of the Chinese government's promotion of Ecological Civilization (shengtai wenming 生态文明). Ecological Civilization is, we argue, a top-down imaginary of China's future that opens up space for environmental agency while setting authoritative standards for how to frame protests in a logic of science and social stability. The article compares how residents in a small cluster of villages in Zhejiang province dealt with different sources of air pollution over a span of ten years: how, when and why they chose to negotiate with local officials and industrial managers to prevent or reduce air pollution, and what the outcome was. We found that in addition to a consciousness of the right to protest, villagers had come to regard the ability to evoke science in negotiations with officials and industrial managers as crucial for success. We suggest that the forms of environmental activism we observed were in effect “containable protests” that befit the state-initiated national imaginary of an ecologically civilized world.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Ahlers, Anna Lisa (2017). Air Pollution: How Will China Win its Self-Declared War Against it?, In Eva Sternfeld (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy in China. Routledge. ISBN 1138831115. kapittel. Full text in Research Archive.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2015). European Kids in Western China: Gender, Education and Cultural Relativism, In Candice Cornet & Tami Blumenfeld (ed.), Doing Fieldwork in China With Kids: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic. NIAS Press. ISBN 8776941698. chapter 1.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Pang, Cuiming (2014). Idealising individual choice: work, love, and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese, In David Scharff & Sverre Varvin (ed.), Psychoanalysis in China. Karnac Books. ISBN 1780490836. Chapter One. s 3 - 21
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2013). Learning Individualism: Hesse, Confucius, and Pep-Rallies in a Chinese Rural High School. The China Quarterly. ISSN 0305-7410. (213), s 60- 77 . doi: 10.1017/S0305741013000015
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Woronov, T.E. (2013). Demanding and resisting vocational education: a comparative study of schools in rural and urban China. Comparative Education. ISSN 0305-0068. 49(2), s 242- 259 . doi: 10.1080/03050068.2012.733848 Show summary
The Chinese government is pouring resources into building vocational education at all levels of the Chinese educational system. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three vocational secondary schools in 2007–2012, this article compares rural and urban schools to highlight the persistent urban–rural divide in implementing vocational education, and to understand popular resistance to vocational education and its effects on students and families. Through observations of classroom practice and interviews with students, parents, teachers, and administrators, the authors investigate the paradox of why vocational education is growing rapidly in China, even though parents and students have deeply-held objections to this form of schooling.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2012). Learning to Organize and to be Organized: Student Cadres in a Chinese Rural Boarding School, In Ane Bislev & Stig Thøgersen (ed.), Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-7009-0. article. s 125 - 139
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2012). Recent Trends in Chinese Rural Education: The Disturbing Rural-Urban Disparities and the Measures to Meet Them, In Eric Florence & Pierre Defraigne (ed.), Towards a New Development Paradigm in Twenty-First Century China Economy, Society and Politics. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-53212-9. chapter 10. s 165 - 178
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 Show summary
This article argues that villagers' weakened trust in local governments has caused the officials to develop new strategies to cooperate with people and groups who enjoy traditional forms of authority. More specifically, the article shows how the officially established Old People' Associations in some areas have gained political influence far beyond what their official status as an “NGO” (minjian zuzhzi) would warrant. Villages of Fujian have a long history of being organised around patrilinear lineage organisations, and especially the older men still enjoys authority among the population. Local authorities, as well as business people, are therefore actively trying to engage and mobilise this traditional senior authority for their own political and economic purposes, thereby creating new relations of local power.
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. Show summary
Summary of book: Doing fieldwork inside the PRC is an eye-opening but sometimes also deeply frustrating experience. Fieldwork-based studies form the foundation for our understanding of Chinese politics and society, but there are conspicuously few detailed descriptions in the China literature of how people actually do their fieldwork, and of the problems they encounter. This lack of public methodological debate not only undermines academic standards of openness: it also stalls constructive discussion on coping strategies to shared problems, and it leaves graduate students going to the field for the first time with a feeling of being the only ones to encounter difficulties. In this volume scholars from around the world reflect on their own fieldwork practice in order to give practical advice and discuss more general theoretical points. The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines such as political science, anthropology, economics, media studies, history, cultural geography and sinology. The book also contains an extensive bibliography. This work is of relevance to post graduate students from the social sciences and humanities who plan to do fieldwork in China; to experienced scholars who are new to the China field; and to experienced China scholars with an interest in methodological issues.
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.

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Hansen, Mette Halskov; Svarverud, Rune & Ahlers, Anna Lisa (2020). The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution. Association for Asian Studies. ISBN 9780924304927. 184 s. Show summary
The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the authors’ fieldwork, interviews and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses and forms of engagement in Chinese society. The three authors, from the disciplines of anthropology, China studies and political science, identify traceable incidents of smog and air pollution that have been communicated in different media and came to impact society in various ways. This also informs a discussion of what it takes to transform people’s experiences of health and environmentally related risks of pollution into broader forms of socio-political agency.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Liu, Zhaohui (red.) (2018). 仰望窗外的天空--中外科学家对话空气环境与治理 (A Window on the Sky - Chinese and Foreign Scholar Discuss the Atmospheric Environment and Governance). Zhejiang University Press. ISBN 978-7-308-18125-9. 193 s.
Hansen, Mette Halskov; Thøgersen, Stig & Wellens, Koen (2018). Kina - stat, individ og samfunn (3. utgave). Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215030760. 264 s.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2015). Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural High School. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295994086. 240 s.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Thøgersen, Stig (2013). Kina: Stat, samfunn og individ. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-02234-5. 260 s.
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. Show summary
Chinese migration to Tibet and other border areas � now within the People�s Republic of China � has long been a politically sensitive issue. As part of an ongoing process of internal colonization, migrations to minority areas have been, with few exceptions, directly organized by the government or driven by economic motives. Dramatic demographic and economic changes, often spearheaded not by local inhabitants but by Han Chinese immigrants, have been the result. Frontier People shows how the Han themselves have been directly involved in the process of transformation within these areas where they have settled. Their perceptions of the minority natives, their �old home,� other immigrants, and their own role in the areas are examined in relation to the official discourse on the migrations. This study contests conventional ways of presenting Han immigrants in minority areas as a homogeneous group of colonizers with shared identification, equal class status, and access to power. Based on extensive fieldwork in two local areas, Frontier People demonstrates that the category of �Han immigrants� is profoundly fragmented in terms of generation, ethnic identification, migration history, class, and economic activity. In this respect, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on colonization from the varying perspectives of the colonizers � a diverse group of people with equally diverse perceptions of the colonial project in which they play an integral part. This incisive volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students of anthropology, Asian studies, history, and immigration studies

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Hansen, Mette Halskov (2020, 28. januar). Forsker om Kinas håndtering av Wuhan-viruset: – Et stort sosialt eksperiment å stenge så mange millioner mennesker inne. [Internett]. Forskning.no.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2020, 29. januar). Kinas respons på Corona virus (intervju i Klassekampen). Aftenposten.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2020, 29. januar). Kinas respons på Corona virus (intervju i Klassekampen). [Internett]. Dagsavisen.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2020, 29. januar). Kinas respons på Corona virus (intervju i Klassekampen). Klasssekampen.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2020, 12. februar). Nyhetene - om Wuhan og Corona virus. [TV]. TV2.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 20. november). Hong Kongs lokal valg - TV2 nyheter. [TV]. TV2.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 25. november). Hong Kongs lokal valg og lejre i Xinjiang, TV2 Nyheter. [TV]. TV2.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 25. november). Hong Kongs lokalvalg. Klasssekampen.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 25. november). Hong Kongs lokalvalg. Aftenposten.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 20. november). Hong Kongs lokal-valg, VG BLOGG. [Radio]. VG.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). Imagining Eco-Civilization and Protesting Air Pollution in China.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). Kina - vår verden.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). Luftforurensning som game changer i Kina.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). Miljø i grisens år.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019). The hidden hazards of air pollution in China: The gender and class of household air pollution.
Schmitt, Edwin & Hansen, Mette Halskov (2019, 20. mai). Solar Energy in China. [Internett]. Sci-Tech Asia.
Hansen, Mette Halskov; Aunan, Kristin; Liu, Zhaohui & Wang, Shuxiao (2017). The Hidden Hazard of Household Air Pollution (HAP) in China.
Hansen, Mette Halskov & Ahlers, Anna Lisa (2016). Kinas luftforurensning – kimen til sosial og politisk forandring?. Energi og Klima : Norsk klimastiftelses nettmagasin.
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2013). Chinese modernity and the individual psyche. The China Quarterly. ISSN 0305-7410. (216), s 1075- 1076 . doi: 10.1017/S0305741013001239
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2013). Review of Andrew Kipnis (ed.): Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. The China Quarterly. ISSN 0305-7410. 216(December), s 1075- 1076
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2012). Book review: Kipnis, Andrew B. Governing educational desire: culture, politics, and schooling in China.London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2011. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. (18), s 479- 480
Hansen, Mette Halskov (2012). Review of Andrew Kipnis: Governing educational desire: culture, politics, and schooling in China. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 18(2), s 479- 480 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_13.x
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". The 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. The 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. ISSN 0920-203X. 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". The China Journal. ISSN 1324-9347. (48)