Koenraad Wellens

• Wellens, Koen (2017). Failed Secularisation, New Nationalism and Governmentality: The Rise of Buddhism in Post-Mao China, In Hanna Havnevik; Ute Hüsken; Marcus Jacobus Teeuwen; Vladimir Tikhonov & Koen Wellens (ed.),  Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World.  Routledge.  ISBN 9781138687844.  Chapter 9.  s 151 - 164
• Wellens, Koen (2017). Resilient cosmologies: water deities and divine agency in post-Mao China. Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology.  ISSN 0066-4677.  27(4), s 365- 381 . doi: 10.1080/00664677.2017.1284042 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Wellens, Koen (2013). The religious history of Muli, In Kurtis R. Schaeffer; Matthew T. Kapstein & Gray Tuttle (ed.),  Sources to Tibetan Tradition.  Columbia University Press.  ISBN 0231135998.  kapittel.  s 605 - 607
• Wellens, Koen (2012). Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic - Origin in Southwest China, In Toni Huber & Stuart Blackburn (ed.),  Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas.  Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 9789004226913.  s 299 - 319
• Wellens, Koen (2009). Negotiable Rights? China's Ethnic Minorities and the Right to Freedom of Religion. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights.  ISSN 1385-4879.  16(3), s 433- 454 . doi: 10.1163/138819009X12474964197755
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Religion, community and anthropological truth in Southwest China. Xinan minzu daxue xuebao.  ISSN 1004-3926.  (8), s 1- 4
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Zaifang Zhongguo xinanbu de naxizu. Xibei minzu yanjiu.  ISSN 1001-5558.  3
• Wellens, Koen (1998). What's in a name? The Premi in Southwest China and the consequences of defining ethnic identity. Nations and Nationalism.  ISSN 1354-5078.  4(1), s 17- 34 Vis sammendrag

  The article discusses the relation between the official state classification of ethnic groups in China and existing ethnic categories. After several rounds of fieldwork in the 1950's and 1960's 56 nationalities were recognised in the whole of China, that is 55 national minorities plus the Han Chinese majority . The official labels resulting from this classification project and the categories they are meant to cover seem in several cases to be at odds with the way the objects of classification perceive of their own ethnic identity. Through popular as well as more serious publications a certain archetypal image of the culture of each nationality is spread throughout China. This, combined with both the apparent need for exoticizing non-Han Chinese culture in a rapidly modernising Chinese society and the absolutist state's ingrown urge to homogenise and control all forms of ethnic expression has provided each nationality with its stereotyped representation. Being a member of a nationality one both has to relate to the nationality label as the official sanctioning of ones local identity and as the emblem of an external definition of this identity. The article explores how the Premi people of Southwest China manage to mediate these two identities.

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• Hansen, Mette Halskov; Thøgersen, Stig & Wellens, Koen (2018). Kina - stat, individ og samfunn (3. utgave). Universitetsforlaget.  ISBN 9788215030760.  264 s.
• Havnevik, Hanna; Hüsken, Ute; Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Tikhonov, Vladimir & Wellens, Koen (ed.) (2017). Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World. Routledge.  ISBN 9781138687844.  302 s. Vis sammendrag

  The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist teachings and practices in conformity with the modern norms of rationality, science, or gender equality. This book advances research on Buddhist modernism by attempting to clarify the highly diverse ways in which Buddhist faith, thought, and practice have developed in the modern age, both in Buddhist heartlands in Asia and in the West. It presents a collection of case studies that, taken together, demonstrate how Buddhist traditions interact with modern phenomena such as colonialism and militarism, the market economy, global interconnectedness, the institutionalization of gender equality, and recent historical events such as de-industrialization and the socio-cultural crisis in post-Soviet Buddhist areas. This volume shows how the (re)invention of traditions constitutes an important pathway in the development of Buddhist modernities and emphasizes the pluralistic diversity of these forms in different settings.

• Wellens, Koen (2010). Freedom of religion or belief in China: Experiences from the Sino-Norwegian human rights dialogue. Unipub forlag.  ISBN 9788274774971.  115 s.
• Wellens, Koen (2010). Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China. University of Washington Press.  ISBN 9780295990699.  288 s.

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• Wellens, Koen (2020, 31. januar). Coronaviruset: Falske bilder florerer.  Dagbladet.
• Wellens, Koen (2019, 15. mai). Et lite stykke kinesisk manipulasjon.  Dagbladet.
• Wellens, Koen (2019, 12. juni). Protester i Hong Kong. [TV].  TV2 Nyhetskanalen.
• Wellens, Koen (2019, 03. oktober). Urix spesial. [TV].  NRK.
• Wellens, Koen (2018). EDUCATING MONKS: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border / By Thomas A. Borchert. Pacific Affairs.  ISSN 0030-851X.  91(3)
• Wellens, Koen (2017, 04. april). Forbyr slør og skjegg: Strammer grepet om muslimsk befolkning.  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2017, 24. oktober). Kinas mektige mann er blitt enda mektigere: - Mye foregår bak lukkede dører.  Dagbladet.
• Wellens, Koen (2017). The New State Religion of the Middle Kingdom? Chinese Mahayana Buddhism under Xi Jinping. Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Wellens, Koen (2017, 05. april). Trump møter Xi i Beijing -- Før gigantmøtet: Året der Kina festet grepet.  Dagbladet.
• Wellens, Koen (2017). War Ceremonies and Boar Hunting in a Tsou Community in Taiwan: Living Indigeneity in Global East Asia. Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Wellens, Koen (2014, 07. oktober). Kina frykter smitteeffekt.  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2013, 18. desember). Kina gir religiøse mer rom.  Vårt land.
• Wellens, Koen (2012). Challenges of bilingual education for ethnic minorities in China.
• Wellens, Koen (2012). Challenging the Universality of Water-deities: Local Cosmology and Natural Resources in South West China.
• Wellens, Koen (2012). PASSAGE TO MANHOOD: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China. Pacific Affairs.  ISSN 0030-851X.  85(1), s 188- 189
• Wellens, Koen (2012, 09. desember). Slik sliter kinesiske arbeidere for å bli ferdig med verdens julegaver. [Internett].  Dagbladet.no.
• Bakke, Cecilie Figenschou & Wellens, Koen (2011). "Menneskerettigheter i Kina: Dialog, samarbeid og veien videre".
• Wellens, Koen (2011, 19. oktober). Den store byvandringen. [Internett].  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2011). Kina i dag: menneskerettigheter, rettsikkerhet og politisk utvikling.
• Wellens, Koen (2011, 26. juni). Kina: Hu Jia løslatt.  Vårt land.
• Wellens, Koen (2011). Minority Rights Discourse and Religious Revival in Southwest China.
• Wellens, Koen (2011, 14. juni). Ofre for kinesisk byggeboom.  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2010, 16. september). Amnesty mener kinesisk politi bruker tortur i avhør. [Internett].  TV2nyhetene.no.
• Wellens, Koen (2010, 01. oktober). Bryr seg ikke.  Bergens tidende.
• Wellens, Koen (2010). Elite histories: How Muli became Tibetan.
• Wellens, Koen (2010). Kina - kinesernes krav og kommunistpartiets legitimitet.
• Wellens, Koen (2010, 01. april). Kinas mange ansikter.  Perspektiv.
• Wellens, Koen (2010). Menneskerettigheter i Kina.
• Wellens, Koen (2010, 10. desember). Nobels fredspris temadag. [Radio].  NRK P2.
• Wellens, Koen (2010, 04. desember). Verdibørsen. [Radio].  NRK.
• Wellens, Koen (2009). Etnische minderheden en godsdienstvrijheid in China.
• Wellens, Koen (2009). Kina: Menneskerettigheter og andre utfordringer.
• Wellens, Koen (2009). Ritual and relatedness in Southwest China: The Premi House.
• Wellens, Koen (2009). Synkretisme: et nyttig begrep?.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Autonomy and minority religion in China.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 19. mars). Dalai Lama ber folket besinne sig.  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 11. mars). Dette er spill for galleriet, sier Rafto-prisvinner Rebiya Kadeer til Dagbladet.no. [Internett].  Dagbladet.no.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 06. august). Dette frykter Kina mest. [Internett].  ABCnyheter.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 05. april). Fengslende meninger.  Nationen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 04. august). Frykter flere terroraksjoner under OL. [Internett].  Dagbladet.no.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 20. mai). Hele Kina i sorg.  Klassekampen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 09. april). I ilden igjen.  Klassekampen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 14. august). Kina langsomt på rett vei.  Klassekampen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 07. april). Kina vil ha PR-hjelp.  VG.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Neither Buddhists nor barbarians: Contesting discourses on the origins of the Xifan in Southwest China.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 16. april). Nyheder: interview om menneskerettigheter i Kina og meningen med boikott. [TV].  TV2.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Nyreligiøsitet i Kina etter Mao.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 08. august). OL kan gjøre millioner stoltere, lykkeligere og friere. [Internett].  Dagbladet.no.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Olympisk stress syndrom.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 06. oktober). P2 Musikkredaksjonen: indlæg om kinesisk forbudt mod fremføring af Mozarts Requiem. [Radio].  P2.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Recent human rights developments in China.
• Wellens, Koen (2008). Religionsfrihet og minoritetsrettigheter i Kina.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 28. mars). Ser på buddhister som en trussel.  Dagsavisen.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 06. mars). Slik er Kina blitt mer åpent.  Vårt land.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 16. april). Tror flere vil komme til.  VG.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 28. mars). Tror ikke OL gir økt ytringsfrihet.  Journalisten.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 13. februar). Varsler nettrevolusjon i Kina.  Aftenposten.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 26. april). Verdibørsen. [Radio].  NRK P2.
• Wellens, Koen (2008, 04. april). Økonomisk misnøye bidro til Tibet-opptøyene.  Uniforum.
• 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), s 286- 287
• Wellens, Koen (2007, 24. september). Det Kina ikke vil snakke om før OL.  Dagbladet.
• Wellens, Koen (2007). Etniske minoriteter og religionspolitikk i Kina.
• Wellens, Koen (2007). Ikke troverdig beskrivelse. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.  s 5 . doi: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/article2158729.ece
• Wellens, Koen (2007). Religion, community and anthropological truth in Southwest China.
• Bakke, Cecilie Figenschou & Wellens, Koen (2006). Dialog med Kina - nytter det?. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Consecrating the Premi house: ritual, community and the state in the borderlands of East Tibet. Acta Humaniora. 269.
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Land and subsistence in Western China: preliminary results from local studies in Guangxi, Yunnan and Sichuan.
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Land rights as human rights in China.
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Minoriteters rettigheter i Kina.
• Wellens, Koen (2006). Skjer det endringer i Kinas praktisering av menneskerettighetene?.
• Wellens, Koen (2005, 13. oktober). Ikkje uproblematisk å kritisera Kina.  Uniforum.
• Wellens, Koen (2005, 17. mars). Nyheter. [Radio].  NRK. Vis sammendrag

  Interview om Rebiya Kadeers løslatelse

• Wellens, Koen (2004). Buddhism and local ritual practice.
• Wellens, Koen (2004). Religion, kinship and politics on Tibet's eastern frontier.
• Lothe, Egil; Arnesen, Knut Espen & Wellens, Koen (2003). Report from a visit to China by a delegation from the Oslo Coalition: 15. - 30. November 2002.
• Wellens, Koen (2003). Book review: Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell. Pacific Affairs.  ISSN 0030-851X.  76(1)
• Wellens, Koen (2003). Religionsfrihed og etniske minoriteter i Kina.
• Wellens, Koen (2003). Revisiting the Na of Southwest China. Asian Ethnicity.  ISSN 1463-1369.  4(1) Vis sammendrag

  Review article of Cai Hua's book "A society without fathers or husbands: the Na of China".

• 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), s 555- 556
• Wellens, Koen (2002). Premi, In Carol R Ember; Melvin Ember & Ian Skoggard (ed.),  Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement.  Macmillan Reference USA, New York.  ISBN 0-02-865671-7.  Premi.  s 277 - 280
• Wellens, Koen (2002). Un exercice maoïste en représentation des élites: L'établissement de la région tibétaine autonome de Muli.
• 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), s 290- 292
• 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). Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Wellens, Koen (2000). The Anji in Yiji: The survival of local religious beliefs among ethnic minorities on Tibet's Eastern frontier. Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Wellens, Koen (2000). Zhongguo Xinan diqu zongjiao yu zhongzu (Ethnicity and religion in Southwest China).
• Wellens, Koen (1999). Religionsfrihed i Kina: konflikter og problemer med hensyn til folkereligion og etniske minoriteter.
• Wellens, Koenraad (1999). A Premi djè, of het belang van etnische status in China.
• Wellens, Koen (1998). Etniske minoriteter i Kina: eller historien om en asiatisk imperialisme. Dyade.  ISSN 0332-5792.  1, s 52- 63 Vis sammendrag

  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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