Stig Thøgersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 250875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stig Thøgersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stig |
| FAMILY NAME | Thøgersen |
| SIGNATURE | THØGERSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Training Farmers or Educating Citizens
Jørgen Delman’s Ph.D. thesis “Agricultural Extension in Renshou County, China” (1991) was the result of his return to academia in the late 1980s after he worked for three years at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN in China. It is a detailed study of the complex rural bureaucracy promoting agricultural innovation and change and reflects a deep understanding of how things worked on the ground in those relatively early years of market-…
Chinese Students in Europe: Policies, Experiences and Prospects
The paper briefly outlines the history of Chinese educational migration to the West and discusses some of the policies and socioeconomic trends that have made China the largest source of international students today. It then presents findings from studies of Chinese students’ experiences in Europe, which indicate that personal development and time for reflection is becoming part of what some middle class students and their parents expect from the…
Chinese Overseas Students’ Integration and Engagement in Host Societies (中国留学生在当地社会的融入与参与)
Chinese transnational students and the global education hierarchy
Recent years have seen a tremendous increase in transnational education mobility. The two trends of international integration and marketisation of higher education have made for a situation in which increasing numbers of aspiring young people worldwide seize the opportunity to study abroad as part of their higher education. No other nation sends more students abroad than China. In 2014, 459,800 students left the country to study abroad (Ministry …
I will Change Things in my Own Small Way”: Chinese Overseas Students, “Western” Values, and Institutional Reform
The article is based on a longitudinal study of Chinese college students who studied abroad as part of their BA programme in Preschool Education. It first examines the Chinese discourse on preschool education in order to understand the current situation in the students’ professional field. The main section then discusses students’ attitudes to what they perceived to be key values and principles in early childhood education in the West: freedom, i…
The Anthropology of Chinese Transnational Educational Migration
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2015: Going Out: The Lives of Chinese Students
Chinese students' great expectations: Prospective pre-school teachers on the move
The article focuses on Chinese students' hopes and expectations before leaving to study abroad. The national political environment for their decision to go abroad is shaped by an official narrative of China's transition to a more creative and innovative economy. Students draw on this narrative to interpret their own educational histories and prior experiences, while at the same time making use of imaginaries of 'Western' education to redefine the…
Giving the People a Voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These practices stabilize and strengthen authoritarian rule, leading to deliberative authoritarianism, an advanced form of consultative authoritarianism. This paper discusses two experiments—deliberative …
Revisiting a Dramatic Triangle: The State, Villagers, and Social Activists in Chinese Rural Reconstruction Projects
As part of the movement to “construct a new socialist countryside”, Chinese officials and social activists are experimenting with transforming rural social and economic relations. They often draw on discourses dating back to the Rural Reconstruction Movement of the 1920s and 1930s, which saw urban intellectuals making similar efforts to modernize the villages and their inhabitants. This paper analyses the different types of relationships between …
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America . Bamo Ayi , Stevan Harrell , Ma Lunzy , Bamo Qubumo
He Is He, and I Am I: Individual and Collective among China's Rural Elderly
China's rural elderly strongly feel the tension between the life patterns they had expected to follow and the risks and possibilities presented by a more dynamic and individualised society. This paper discusses how the elderly react to the rapid changes in intergenerational relations. The focus is on their strategies towards the two most common types of living arrangements during old age: maintaining an independent household, and living with a so…
The Importance of the Colour of the Cat: Ideology and Rationality in Chinese Rural Education after Mao
It does not matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it is able to catch mice". This much quoted phrase of Deng Xiaoping's has become the symbol of the rational and pragmatic attitude of the Chinese leadership after the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the "gang of four". During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, educational policy was presented in the media as the scene of constant class struggle between the proletarian and th…
Consultative Elections of Chinese Township Leaders: The Case of an Experiment in Ya'an, Sichuan
The article presents observations from a 2006 township election experiment in Ya'an Municipality, Sichuan Province. Gradual institutionalization of elections to Chinese village committees has for two decades fascinated those interested in social and political development in rural China. Elections at the next level-the townships-were seen by many, in China and outside, as a natural next step. For this reason, the election of a township mayor in Bu…
Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China
For more than a decade, O'Brien and Li have published widely on such crucial aspects of Chinese grassroots rural politics as village elections, political attitudes and trust, popular resistance, and conflicts between farmers and local officials.In this book they summarize their rich empirical observations and interpret them in the light of larger theories of contentious politics.The result of this encounter between high theory and Chinese rural l…
Doing Fieldwork in China
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
Parasites or Civilisers: The Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in Rural Areas
The Communist Party of China is fighting hard to redefine its basis of legitimacy and give village and township cadres and ordinary Party members a sense of purpose and direction. It is trying to redefine itself as an elite party whose cadres are better educated, more cultured and civilised, and have better organisational abilities than the rest of the rural population; but these views are being seriously challenged by the peasants. This paper is…
Competing Chinese views on the historical role of the Russians in Harbin
Cultural Life and Cultural Control in Rural China: Where is the Party
The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95 . Glen Peterson
Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. Suzanne Pepper
The Opening of the Chinese Mind: Democratic Changes in China Since 1978. Jing Lin
Chinese Higher Education: A Decade of Reform and Development 1978-1988. Ruiqing Du
New Reflections in the Mirror: Local Chinese Gazetteers (Difangzhi) in the 1980s
Børge Bakken: Kunnskap og moral. Om utdanningreform i dagens Kina (Knowledge and Moral: On Education Reform in China Today)
Secondary Education in China After Mao: Reform and Social Conflict
Giving the People a Voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These practices stabilize and strengthen authoritarian rule, leading to deliberative authoritarianism, an advanced form of consultative authoritarianism. This paper discusses two experiments—deliberative …
The Anthropology of Chinese Transnational Educational Migration
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2015: Going Out: The Lives of Chinese Students
Revisiting a Dramatic Triangle: The State, Villagers, and Social Activists in Chinese Rural Reconstruction Projects
As part of the movement to “construct a new socialist countryside”, Chinese officials and social activists are experimenting with transforming rural social and economic relations. They often draw on discourses dating back to the Rural Reconstruction Movement of the 1920s and 1930s, which saw urban intellectuals making similar efforts to modernize the villages and their inhabitants. This paper analyses the different types of relationships between …
He Is He, and I Am I: Individual and Collective among China's Rural Elderly
China's rural elderly strongly feel the tension between the life patterns they had expected to follow and the risks and possibilities presented by a more dynamic and individualised society. This paper discusses how the elderly react to the rapid changes in intergenerational relations. The focus is on their strategies towards the two most common types of living arrangements during old age: maintaining an independent household, and living with a so…
Secondary Education in China After Mao: Reform and Social Conflict
Parasites or Civilisers: The Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in Rural Areas
The Communist Party of China is fighting hard to redefine its basis of legitimacy and give village and township cadres and ordinary Party members a sense of purpose and direction. It is trying to redefine itself as an elite party whose cadres are better educated, more cultured and civilised, and have better organisational abilities than the rest of the rural population; but these views are being seriously challenged by the peasants. This paper is…
Chinese Students in Europe: Policies, Experiences and Prospects
The paper briefly outlines the history of Chinese educational migration to the West and discusses some of the policies and socioeconomic trends that have made China the largest source of international students today. It then presents findings from studies of Chinese students’ experiences in Europe, which indicate that personal development and time for reflection is becoming part of what some middle class students and their parents expect from the…
Cultural Life and Cultural Control in Rural China: Where is the Party
Consultative Elections of Chinese Township Leaders: The Case of an Experiment in Ya'an, Sichuan
The article presents observations from a 2006 township election experiment in Ya'an Municipality, Sichuan Province. Gradual institutionalization of elections to Chinese village committees has for two decades fascinated those interested in social and political development in rural China. Elections at the next level-the townships-were seen by many, in China and outside, as a natural next step. For this reason, the election of a township mayor in Bu…
I will Change Things in my Own Small Way”: Chinese Overseas Students, “Western” Values, and Institutional Reform
The article is based on a longitudinal study of Chinese college students who studied abroad as part of their BA programme in Preschool Education. It first examines the Chinese discourse on preschool education in order to understand the current situation in the students’ professional field. The main section then discusses students’ attitudes to what they perceived to be key values and principles in early childhood education in the West: freedom, i…
Through the Sheep's Intestines--Selection and Elitism in Chinese Schools
Børge Bakken: Kunnskap og moral. Om utdanningreform i dagens Kina (Knowledge and Moral: On Education Reform in China Today)
Secondary Education in China After Mao: Reform and Social Conflict
New Reflections in the Mirror: Local Chinese Gazetteers (Difangzhi) in the 1980s
Chinese Higher Education: A Decade of Reform and Development 1978-1988. Ruiqing Du
The Opening of the Chinese Mind: Democratic Changes in China Since 1978. Jing Lin
Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. Suzanne Pepper
The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95 . Glen Peterson
Cultural Life and Cultural Control in Rural China: Where is the Party
Competing Chinese views on the historical role of the Russians in Harbin
Parasites or Civilisers: The Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in Rural Areas
The Communist Party of China is fighting hard to redefine its basis of legitimacy and give village and township cadres and ordinary Party members a sense of purpose and direction. It is trying to redefine itself as an elite party whose cadres are better educated, more cultured and civilised, and have better organisational abilities than the rest of the rural population; but these views are being seriously challenged by the peasants. This paper is…
Doing Fieldwork in China
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
Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China
For more than a decade, O'Brien and Li have published widely on such crucial aspects of Chinese grassroots rural politics as village elections, political attitudes and trust, popular resistance, and conflicts between farmers and local officials.In this book they summarize their rich empirical observations and interpret them in the light of larger theories of contentious politics.The result of this encounter between high theory and Chinese rural l…
He Is He, and I Am I: Individual and Collective among China's Rural Elderly
China's rural elderly strongly feel the tension between the life patterns they had expected to follow and the risks and possibilities presented by a more dynamic and individualised society. This paper discusses how the elderly react to the rapid changes in intergenerational relations. The focus is on their strategies towards the two most common types of living arrangements during old age: maintaining an independent household, and living with a so…
The Importance of the Colour of the Cat: Ideology and Rationality in Chinese Rural Education after Mao
It does not matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it is able to catch mice". This much quoted phrase of Deng Xiaoping's has become the symbol of the rational and pragmatic attitude of the Chinese leadership after the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the "gang of four". During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, educational policy was presented in the media as the scene of constant class struggle between the proletarian and th…
Consultative Elections of Chinese Township Leaders: The Case of an Experiment in Ya'an, Sichuan
The article presents observations from a 2006 township election experiment in Ya'an Municipality, Sichuan Province. Gradual institutionalization of elections to Chinese village committees has for two decades fascinated those interested in social and political development in rural China. Elections at the next level-the townships-were seen by many, in China and outside, as a natural next step. For this reason, the election of a township mayor in Bu…
Revisiting a Dramatic Triangle: The State, Villagers, and Social Activists in Chinese Rural Reconstruction Projects
As part of the movement to “construct a new socialist countryside”, Chinese officials and social activists are experimenting with transforming rural social and economic relations. They often draw on discourses dating back to the Rural Reconstruction Movement of the 1920s and 1930s, which saw urban intellectuals making similar efforts to modernize the villages and their inhabitants. This paper analyses the different types of relationships between …
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America . Bamo Ayi , Stevan Harrell , Ma Lunzy , Bamo Qubumo
Giving the People a Voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These practices stabilize and strengthen authoritarian rule, leading to deliberative authoritarianism, an advanced form of consultative authoritarianism. This paper discusses two experiments—deliberative …
Chinese students' great expectations: Prospective pre-school teachers on the move
The article focuses on Chinese students' hopes and expectations before leaving to study abroad. The national political environment for their decision to go abroad is shaped by an official narrative of China's transition to a more creative and innovative economy. Students draw on this narrative to interpret their own educational histories and prior experiences, while at the same time making use of imaginaries of 'Western' education to redefine the…
Chinese transnational students and the global education hierarchy
Recent years have seen a tremendous increase in transnational education mobility. The two trends of international integration and marketisation of higher education have made for a situation in which increasing numbers of aspiring young people worldwide seize the opportunity to study abroad as part of their higher education. No other nation sends more students abroad than China. In 2014, 459,800 students left the country to study abroad (Ministry …
I will Change Things in my Own Small Way”: Chinese Overseas Students, “Western” Values, and Institutional Reform
The article is based on a longitudinal study of Chinese college students who studied abroad as part of their BA programme in Preschool Education. It first examines the Chinese discourse on preschool education in order to understand the current situation in the students’ professional field. The main section then discusses students’ attitudes to what they perceived to be key values and principles in early childhood education in the West: freedom, i…
The Anthropology of Chinese Transnational Educational Migration
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2015: Going Out: The Lives of Chinese Students
Chinese Students in Europe: Policies, Experiences and Prospects
The paper briefly outlines the history of Chinese educational migration to the West and discusses some of the policies and socioeconomic trends that have made China the largest source of international students today. It then presents findings from studies of Chinese students’ experiences in Europe, which indicate that personal development and time for reflection is becoming part of what some middle class students and their parents expect from the…
Chinese Overseas Students’ Integration and Engagement in Host Societies (中国留学生在当地社会的融入与参与)
Political science (24 works) · China (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Media studies (8 works)