Pal Nyiri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86656 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pal Nyiri |
| NOMBRES | Pal |
| APELLIDO | Nyiri |
| FIRMA | NYIRI P |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 277 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
A little bit freer’
This paper draws attention to peripheral destinations of middle-class migration that are gaining prominence as traditional centres lose appeal. Focusing on middle-class Chinese migrants settling in what we call the global periphery, we examine off-centre migration systems that challenge established sending-receiving country configurations. Drawing on fieldwork in Hungary, existing research in Southern Europe and Southeast Asia, and an analysis of…
From Golden Venture to Golden Visas
Since the 1980s, China has become the source of a new type of international migration. In the liberal world of the 1990s, Chinese migrants became the epitome of “flexible citizenship” aimed at maximizing economic advantages. In the postliberal world of which a powerful, affluent, and repressive China is a key player, however, middle-class migrants increasingly leave China to pursue a better life defined in nonmaterial terms such as cultural authe…
From Multicultural Experiment to Performing “China's Story
Adopting a broad understanding of compliance as adherence to norms, this study examines the role of the Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School in Budapest in the propagation of institutional, educational, and civic norms, through an anthropological inquiry into the discourses and practices embraced and enacted by teachers, parents, and students. Set up by bilateral agreement between China and another state, the school we discuss is a unique K‐12 educ…
Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE-CLASS East Asia
This special issue explores the shifting landscape of global middle-class migration within and from East Asia by taking the relationship between mobility, parenting ideals and changing educational desires as its focus. Contributions explore how East Asian middle-class families balance the emergent emphasis on their children's well-being with the demands of global competitiveness as these often-antagonistic desires are projected onto old and new m…
Introduction
This themed section aims to examine the offline implications of a thriving online nationalist culture fostered by various social media platforms. Several studies have concluded that social media have enhanced nationalism, but there is still a significant lacuna in understanding the deep social, political, and cultural transformations produced by online platforms. How is nationalism different in the digital age? How do nationalists harness the tra…
Globalizing Chinese Migration
The “Rise of China” and Chinese in the World
Globalizing Chinese Migration
New Chinese Migrants in Europe
First published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the People’s Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift countries and social roles - from student to trader to worker - if doing so is economically expedient. This makes them the natural beneficiaries and u…
Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order
Reporting for China
While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence and improve its public image. But do these reporters willingly serve formulated agendas or do they follow their own interests? And are they changing Chinese citizens views of the world? Based on interviews a…
South-South? Culture Talk and Labour Relations at a Chinese-owned Factory in Hungary
In 2011, a large Hungarian chemical factory was acquired by a Chinese competitor. The resulting encounter between Chinese managers and Hungarian staff - which took place in the context of a harsh retrenchment that has curtailed the powers of organized labour in Hungary - highlights the inadequacy of dichotomies such as North/South, East/West and socialist/capitalist. As with other corporate acquisitions in Europe, Chinese managers expected to 'le…
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China’s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which various countries mitigate their unequal relationship wit…
Intercultural Communication
The Hofstede factor
In the field of cross-cultural management, Geert Hofstede’s work has had an ‘extraordinary command in shaping both thought and practice’ (Ailon 2008:886). According to Google Scholar, Hofstede has over 100,000 citations, making him one of the most-cited social scientists worldwide. His work, and his landmark book Culture’s Consequences in particular, has greatly influenced how social science scholars – particularly social psychologists and manage…
New Chinese Migration and Capital in Cambodia
While Cambodia's place in the global networks of Chinese migration and capital shares similarities with Eastern Europe and Africa, a combination of factors that form the background to these flows is unique. The Vietnamese withdrawal and the removal of Soviet backing for the Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) government prompted rulers to seek domestic legitimacy and ways to avoid economic collapse. This sparked a resurgence of Chinese ethnicity and th…
Walled’ activism
This article examines China's cyber-activism in relation to the politics of making a transnational, Chinese public sphere in both the virtual world and real-life locations. By conceptualising Chinese cyber-activism as 'walled' activism, this article describes an invisible yet effective 'wall' constructed through hegemonic affective conditioning to separate those who are within the 'wall' from those on the outside. This 'wall' shields particular t…
Books, bodies, and bronzes
This volume explores music competitions, religious movements, fashion magazines, copyright policy and overseas university campuses, among others, as potential sites for the generation and spread of cosmopolitan ideas, competencies and projects. Our contributors focus on how and when that happens, in what combinations, and what difference it makes when aspects of cosmopolitanism are disseminated at music competitions, UNESCO World Heritage sites, …
Training for transnationalism
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in the mid-2000s, this article discusses the educational strategies and emerging trajectories of Chinese children born or raised locally in Hungary. Born to small entrepreneurs who migrated to Hungary in the 1990s, these children exemplify a second generation issuing from a migration taking place in conditions sharply different from earlier migrant flows to Western Europe, North America and…
The renaissance of concessions
Enclaves of Improvement
The highlands of mainland Southeast Asia have famously been the locus of 'Zomia,' polities resistant to control by lowland nation-states, but this relative resilience has been due to their marginality. However, as even remote borderlands connect to the market economies of what has been labeled the 'Greater Mekong Subregion,' these semi-independent polities are trying to transform themselves from isolated drug enclaves into regional paragons of ec…
Scenic Spots
Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People’s Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is an engaging exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state. Working from within a Chinese cultural …
Seeing Culture Everywhere
Clashing Civilizations
Conclusion
Enclaves of Improvement
The highlands of mainland Southeast Asia have famously been the locus of 'Zomia,' polities resistant to control by lowland nation-states, but this relative resilience has been due to their marginality. However, as even remote borderlands connect to the market economies of what has been labeled the 'Greater Mekong Subregion,' these semi-independent polities are trying to transform themselves from isolated drug enclaves into regional paragons of ec…
Scenic Spots
Preface 1. What's in a Site?: The Making of 2. Two Sites and a Non-Site: Mounts Emei, Jiuzhaigou, and Songpan 3. Making Sense of Scenic Spots 4. Scenic Spots Beyond the Border: Migration, Tourism, and Cultural Authority Notes Bibliography Index
Expatriating is patriotic? The discourse on 'new migrants' in the People's Republic of China and identity construction among recent migrants from the PRC
After 1978, the People's Republic of China (PRC) moved to (re-)legitimise, by both institutional and discursive means, allegiance to China in established overseas Chinese communities. In this article, I attempt to show how it has progressed to the next step: celebrating migration as a patriotic and modern act, and encouraging transnational practices among people who are in the process of leaving China. More specifically, I discuss how the state d…
The Yellow Man's Burden
China's Cosmopolitan Nationalists
In March and April of 2008, cheerful, miniskirted and spiky-haired Chinese student demonstrators filled city streets and university campuses from San Francisco to Sydney, waving red flags and chanting patriotic songs while snapping photos of each other. The students, and graduates, were protesting at Western media coverage of recent rioting in Tibet, and "protecting" the Olympic torch relay from hecklers. When they returned home from the demonstr…
Chinese Migration to Eastern Europe
Most of the work on the early history of Chinese migration to eastern Europe, that is, the first half of the twentieth century, has been written by Russian scholars. Contemporary sources — accounts of Russian travellers and government documents — are overwhelmingly preoccupied with migration to the Russian Asian territories. But the interest in Chinese immigration since the 1990s has resulted in considerable attention being paid to the historical…
Training for transnationalism
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in the mid-2000s, this article discusses the educational strategies and emerging trajectories of Chinese children born or raised locally in Hungary. Born to small entrepreneurs who migrated to Hungary in the 1990s, these children exemplify a second generation issuing from a migration taking place in conditions sharply different from earlier migrant flows to Western Europe, North America and…
Our Common Heritage
UNESCO's World Heritage program, which aims to encourage participation in the preservation of local cultural and natural heritage and international cooperation in conservation, now includes some 830 sites of "outstanding value to humanity." The notion of world heritage has been quickly embraced by the tourism industry, and consequently countries in which commodified tourism was nonexistent 20 years ago are experiencing a tourism boom. Examination…
Moving Targets
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Chinese entrepreneurs in poor countries
The Altai Road
The Altai Republic is a poor mountainous region of Russia squeezed between Kazakstan, China and Mongolia. A project to build a road connecting Russia with China through the Altai has been conceived within a quadripartite regional co-operation project, supported by Western development organizations. Yet while at the Chinese side of the border road construction went ahead, in Russia, a coalition of globally connected ecologists, romantic 'Eurasiani…
China Inside Out
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
The renaissance of concessions
South-South? Culture Talk and Labour Relations at a Chinese-owned Factory in Hungary
In 2011, a large Hungarian chemical factory was acquired by a Chinese competitor. The resulting encounter between Chinese managers and Hungarian staff - which took place in the context of a harsh retrenchment that has curtailed the powers of organized labour in Hungary - highlights the inadequacy of dichotomies such as North/South, East/West and socialist/capitalist. As with other corporate acquisitions in Europe, Chinese managers expected to 'le…
Walled’ activism
This article examines China's cyber-activism in relation to the politics of making a transnational, Chinese public sphere in both the virtual world and real-life locations. By conceptualising Chinese cyber-activism as 'walled' activism, this article describes an invisible yet effective 'wall' constructed through hegemonic affective conditioning to separate those who are within the 'wall' from those on the outside. This 'wall' shields particular t…
Global Modernisers or Local Subalterns? Parallel Perceptions of Chinese Transnationals in Hungary
This paper describes a situation in which an economically successful group of recent migrants (from the People's Republic of China) with strong transnational practices faces a hostile receiving state (Hungary) that makes no attempt to ‘integrate’ migrants and deals with them purely as a matter of restriction and control. This situation has given rise to two parallel but opposing narratives of the social position of the Chinese in Hungary: one pro…
Reorientation
Introduction
This themed section aims to examine the offline implications of a thriving online nationalist culture fostered by various social media platforms. Several studies have concluded that social media have enhanced nationalism, but there is still a significant lacuna in understanding the deep social, political, and cultural transformations produced by online platforms. How is nationalism different in the digital age? How do nationalists harness the tra…
From Starbucks to Carrefour
In the 2000s, China has witnessed a series of consumer boycott campaigns, some of which received nationwide publicity, and one of which, the campaign against the French discounter chain Carrefour in 2008, produced street pickets. The motivation behind these campaigns has been largely nationalistic, as the brands or companies targeted were deemed to offend China. This article sketches the dynamics of consumer boycotts and asks whether, beyond bein…
Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE-CLASS East Asia
This special issue explores the shifting landscape of global middle-class migration within and from East Asia by taking the relationship between mobility, parenting ideals and changing educational desires as its focus. Contributions explore how East Asian middle-class families balance the emergent emphasis on their children's well-being with the demands of global competitiveness as these often-antagonistic desires are projected onto old and new m…
Books, bodies, and bronzes
This volume explores music competitions, religious movements, fashion magazines, copyright policy and overseas university campuses, among others, as potential sites for the generation and spread of cosmopolitan ideas, competencies and projects. Our contributors focus on how and when that happens, in what combinations, and what difference it makes when aspects of cosmopolitanism are disseminated at music competitions, UNESCO World Heritage sites, …
From Multicultural Experiment to Performing “China's Story
Adopting a broad understanding of compliance as adherence to norms, this study examines the role of the Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School in Budapest in the propagation of institutional, educational, and civic norms, through an anthropological inquiry into the discourses and practices embraced and enacted by teachers, parents, and students. Set up by bilateral agreement between China and another state, the school we discuss is a unique K‐12 educ…
The “Rise of China” and Chinese in the World
Displacing Desire
Reorientation
New Chinese Migrants in Europe
The background - migration scene in China and conditions in Hungary at turn of 90s formation of Hungarian Chinese community, 1989-95 the Chinese cannot be a minority - consolidating a community with global disclosure between new migrants and PRC - negotiating power and profit in Chinese organizations conclusion - characteristics of new Chinese migration
Expatriating is patriotic? The discourse on 'new migrants' in the People's Republic of China and identity construction among recent migrants from the PRC
After 1978, the People's Republic of China (PRC) moved to (re-)legitimise, by both institutional and discursive means, allegiance to China in established overseas Chinese communities. In this article, I attempt to show how it has progressed to the next step: celebrating migration as a patriotic and modern act, and encouraging transnational practices among people who are in the process of leaving China. More specifically, I discuss how the state d…
Chinese in Hungary and Their Significant Others
Transnationalism is usually examined in a two-sited framework to the country of origin and the country of residence. The first objective of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness of a multi-sited optics in understanding transnational practices and discourses. Field observations of such practices, together with narratives from novels, soap opera scripts, and media produced by recent Chinese migrants to Hungary, cicumscribe a self-consistent…
Globalizing Chinese Migration
Contents: Preface Introduction: Transnational approaches to reforming migration regimes, Kristof Tamas and Joakim Palme. Part 1 Transnational Trends of Migration and Population: Transnational migration: conceptual and policy challenges, Peggy Levitt The boom and bust of net migration? a 40-year forecast, Bo Malmberg. Part 2 Gains and Drains of Source Countries: An economic view on brain drain, J. P. Sevilla Remittances and labour source countries…
Moving Targets
This paper addresses the question of proselytism as an active practice of shaping other people’s identities. Specifically, it looks at the identity discourse promoted by ethnic Chinese evangelicals and compares it to that of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Both Christian churches proselytise among contemporary transnational migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Europe, each making use of a sophisticated organisation adapted to the transnatio…
Moving Targets
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Chinese Migration to Eastern Europe
Most of the work on the early history of Chinese migration to eastern Europe, that is, the first half of the twentieth century, has been written by Russian scholars. Contemporary sources — accounts of Russian travellers and government documents — are overwhelmingly preoccupied with migration to the Russian Asian territories. But the interest in Chinese immigration since the 1990s has resulted in considerable attention being paid to the historical…
China Inside Out
China Inside Out
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
Global Modernisers or Local Subalterns? Parallel Perceptions of Chinese Transnationals in Hungary
This paper describes a situation in which an economically successful group of recent migrants (from the People's Republic of China) with strong transnational practices faces a hostile receiving state (Hungary) that makes no attempt to ‘integrate’ migrants and deals with them purely as a matter of restriction and control. This situation has given rise to two parallel but opposing narratives of the social position of the Chinese in Hungary: one pro…
Scenic Spots
Preface 1. What's in a Site?: The Making of 2. Two Sites and a Non-Site: Mounts Emei, Jiuzhaigou, and Songpan 3. Making Sense of Scenic Spots 4. Scenic Spots Beyond the Border: Migration, Tourism, and Cultural Authority Notes Bibliography Index
The Nation‐State, Public Education, and the Logic of Migration
Public education remains the nation‐state's foremost instrument of forging citizens. But the emergence of ‘international education’, a system explicitly based on the ideology of globality and outside the purview of national curricula, provides a way to circumvent the citizen‐making machine. This article, based on fieldwork among Chinese secondary school students in Hungary, considers the interaction between ‘international education’ and transnati…
The Yellow Man's Burden
Nouvelles migrations chinoises et travail en Europe
L'intensification des mouvements migratoires Est-Ouest modifie en profondeur l'Europe économique. Parmi ceux-ci, l'importance croissante des déplacements de populations chinoises (qu'elles soient très qualifiées ou qu'elles le soient peu) redessine le marché du travail européen et trace les contours d'espaces économiques et sociaux inédits. Ces "nouvelles migrations" révèlent le processus de mondialisation "par le bas" et "par le haut", portées p…
Displacing Desire
Media and the Chinese Diaspora
Our Common Heritage
UNESCO's World Heritage program, which aims to encourage participation in the preservation of local cultural and natural heritage and international cooperation in conservation, now includes some 830 sites of "outstanding value to humanity." The notion of world heritage has been quickly embraced by the tourism industry, and consequently countries in which commodified tourism was nonexistent 20 years ago are experiencing a tourism boom. Examination…
Between encouragement and control
As late as the mid-1990s, the issue of whether China should support or discourage domestic tourism was contentious within government circles. Its opponents argued that tourism bred immoral behavior, wasted resources and distracted the population from productive activities. The precipitous decision, in 1998, to designate tourism a ‘new key growth area of the national economy’ and, in the following year, to create three weeks of public holidays, gi…
China and the Developing World
The Altai Road
The Altai Republic is a poor mountainous region of Russia squeezed between Kazakstan, China and Mongolia. A project to build a road connecting Russia with China through the Altai has been conceived within a quadripartite regional co-operation project, supported by Western development organizations. Yet while at the Chinese side of the border road construction went ahead, in Russia, a coalition of globally connected ecologists, romantic 'Eurasiani…
The Missing Road
In 2004, we visited the Altai Republic, a remote mountainous region in Southern Siberia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. For some time, the republic had been supposedly involved in an international collaboration called "Altai: Our Common Home," supported by the German government. The project focused on economic development, tourism, and - somewhat contradictorily - environmental protection. One of the plan's central elements was a r…
Cultural mobility
In the latter half of the twentieth century many in the social sciences and humanities gleefully proclaimed the demise of a set of traditional assumptions about cultural identity. Notions of wholeness, teleological development, evolutionary progress, and ethnic authenticity were said to have been dismantled forever. A few lamented their passing, but most scholars energetically grappled with brave new theories of hybridity, network theory, and the…
Cultural Mobility
Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of huma…
From Starbucks to Carrefour
In the 2000s, China has witnessed a series of consumer boycott campaigns, some of which received nationwide publicity, and one of which, the campaign against the French discounter chain Carrefour in 2008, produced street pickets. The motivation behind these campaigns has been largely nationalistic, as the brands or companies targeted were deemed to offend China. This article sketches the dynamics of consumer boycotts and asks whether, beyond bein…
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