Ding Fei
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 630444 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ding Fei |
| PRENOMES | Ding |
| SOBRENOME | Fei |
| ASSINATURA | FEI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5201-723X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Exploring land consolidation solutions towards land use low-carbon transition
Goal-oriented zoning for multifunctional land use
Grounding China’s global engagements
Legal (In)Visibility of Chinese Overseas Labor Migration Under the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper examines Chinese overseas labor migration under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through the lens of legal (in)visibility, i.e., the uneven ways workers, employment relations, and workplace harms become legible or remain opaque within legal systems. While existing research has documented the growth of Chinese labor mobility alongside the rollout of BRI, less is known about how recruitment, overseas management, and dispute resolution …
Industrial parks development in Ethiopia
Financing African urban infrastructure
China has become a major financier of African infrastructure, yet its impacts on urban development remain underexplored. This paper examines the project characteristics, financial arrangements, and planning implications of Chinese-financed infrastructure in six African cities: Addis Ababa, Kinshasa, Lagos, Luanda, Lusaka, and Nairobi. We find that most Chinese commitments are directed toward transportation and social infrastructure, financed prim…
Aesthetic Politics and Elite ‐ Driven Urban Development in African Cities
In this article we examine the politics of urban aesthetics and elite‐driven development in African cities through the case of Beautifying Sheger , a high‐profile riverside redevelopment project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Promoted to create a clean, green and globally competitive capital, the project reflects the new ruling party's urban sociotechnical imaginary. Yet beneath this vision lies a contested terrain shaped by aesthetic governance, spat…
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa
Focusing on speculative urban infrastructure within the context of China–Africa cooperation, the paper investigates the nexus of state-driven infrastructural ambitions, the inherent complexities of project implementation and the varied ways social actors engage with and influence these processes. Through a comparative tracing of three public urban projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it examines how Chinese diplomatic, financial and economic expans…
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality
The surge in Chinese overseas investments has increased the transnational movement of Chinese workers. While much literature explores the interactions between Chinese managers and local workers in host countries, the dynamics between Chinese employers and Chinese workers abroad remain under-examined. This paper employs the conceptual frameworks of flexible sovereignty and contested legality to examine the distinctive norms and practices in labor …
Contained resistance
This paper conceptualises contained resistance through labour lawsuits as a form of constrained labour agency in the context of transnational labour migration. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in labour geography, migration studies, and legal research, it identifies legal action as an underexplored channel through which migrant workers abroad contest corporate power and assert rights claims. Based on content analysis of court rulings invo…
Transnational mobility and precarity in the shadow of pandemics
Through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper examines the conditions of and responses to (im)mobilities and precarity among Chinese migrants in Africa. It emphasizes a relational and relative understanding of mobility–immobility as well as precarity–agency within the broader context of transnational migration. The empirical findings are based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Chinese migrants living in Ethiopia, Zambia, Republ…
China–Africa skills transfer through overseas economic and trade cooperation zones
This paper investigates the employment patterns, training activities, and skills development outcomes of China's Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zones (OETCZs) in Africa. Drawing upon ethnographic field research and a workers' opinion survey in Ethiopia's Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ), it answers two questions: How well has intergovernmental collaboration on OETCZs been translated into training opportunities for local workers? What are lo…
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa
The paper investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship-the overseas business initiatives taken by subsidiaries-under Chinese private investment in Africa. Drawing upon the economic-geographic literature on entrepreneurship, it integrates process- and agency-perspectives to understand the interplay between political-economic contexts, institutional structures, and leadership actions i…
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa
Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa has attracted much discussion on the competitive relations between Chinese companies and their foreign or local counterparts. There is however limited research examining the increasingly competitive relationships among Chinese business actors themselves and the complex implications of their activities for African economic development. Existing studies often either treat Chinese actors as …
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility
The paper unpacks the multi-level efforts to establish, promote and implement China standards in overseas contexts through an examination of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Africa. Drawing upon document analysis of government policies, institutional guidelines and corporate reports from four case companies, as well as field research in Ethiopia, it identifies ways that Chinese corporat…
Chinese in Africa
This paper investigates the expatriation regime and the lived experience of Chinese managers, professionals and contract workers in Africa. Moving beyond taking contemporary Chinese migration to Africa as merely a state project or personal activity, it contributes a synthesised analysis of the forces at state, corporate and societal levels to produce and sustain expatriation. Specifically, I argue that expatriation fulfils multiple objectives of …
Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa
Employing the assemblage perspective, the paper examines the relations of exteriority, heterogeneity and fluidity in the development of global health cooperation ‘with Chinese characteristics’. Through the case of Chinese health engagement in Africa, the paper (1) reviews the shifting imperatives of China’s involvement in global health; (2) identifies the major approaches, institutions and actors in the design and implementation of overseas healt…
Networked Internationalization
Chinese companies have emerged as crucial players in Africa’s infrastructure construction sector. Existing literature largely views Chinese companies as state-orchestrated actors that undertake government-financed projects in Africa. There is insufficient attention to the concurrent internationalization of diverse construction actors, specifically subcontractors, material suppliers, and service providers who often have different ownership status,…
Student returnees from China's Covid-19 epicenter
Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention
Variegated work regimes of Chinese investment in Ethiopia
Chinese Eastern Industrial Zone in Ethiopia
This paper examines China’s engagement with Africa through economic zones (EZs). It moves beyond the conceptualisation of EZs as undifferentiated enclaves of foreign investment to a dynamic perspective on the locally negotiated process of zone development. Such a perspective entails critical unpacking of the specific zone regime to understand the diverse and evolving relationships among different state and non-state actors. Drawing upon empirical…
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia
Despite much scholarly debate on Chinese employment practices in Africa, firm-specific studies on how companies manage expatriate and local employees and the dynamics of power in the process remain scarce, especially in the knowledge-intensive sectors where relatively skilled portion of Chinese and Africans are recruited. The article addresses this weakness through a case study on the employee management strategies of one flagship Chinese telecom…
China’s State-Owned Enterprises
Wendy Leutert’s China’s State-Owned Enterprises takes leadership in China’s public sector, particularly within central SOEs, as the key explanatory variable for understanding variation in SOE refor...
They Eat Our Sweat
They Eat our Sweat offers a compelling ethnographic study of corruption, urban politics, and daily survival strategies in the informal road transport sector of Lagos, Nigeria. Drawing upon extensiv
Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention
Worlding Developmentalism
This paper examines the development of Economic Zones in post-reform China and the recent export of zoning practices as a part of the country's 'going global' strategy. I propose 'worlding developmentalism' to conceptualise the synergy between a polymorphous yet capable state in directing the path of domestic growth and overseas ventures, and a population who actively captures emerging economic opportunities in transnational contexts. The concept…
Chinese Eastern Industrial Zone in Ethiopia
This paper examines China’s engagement with Africa through economic zones (EZs). It moves beyond the conceptualisation of EZs as undifferentiated enclaves of foreign investment to a dynamic perspective on the locally negotiated process of zone development. Such a perspective entails critical unpacking of the specific zone regime to understand the diverse and evolving relationships among different state and non-state actors. Drawing upon empirical…
The compound labor regime of Chinese construction projects in Ethiopia
Variegated work regimes of Chinese investment in Ethiopia
Poverty reduction through photovoltaic-based development intervention in China
Chinese in Africa
This paper investigates the expatriation regime and the lived experience of Chinese managers, professionals and contract workers in Africa. Moving beyond taking contemporary Chinese migration to Africa as merely a state project or personal activity, it contributes a synthesised analysis of the forces at state, corporate and societal levels to produce and sustain expatriation. Specifically, I argue that expatriation fulfils multiple objectives of …
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility
The paper unpacks the multi-level efforts to establish, promote and implement China standards in overseas contexts through an examination of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Africa. Drawing upon document analysis of government policies, institutional guidelines and corporate reports from four case companies, as well as field research in Ethiopia, it identifies ways that Chinese corporat…
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa
Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa has attracted much discussion on the competitive relations between Chinese companies and their foreign or local counterparts. There is however limited research examining the increasingly competitive relationships among Chinese business actors themselves and the complex implications of their activities for African economic development. Existing studies often either treat Chinese actors as …
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa
Focusing on speculative urban infrastructure within the context of China–Africa cooperation, the paper investigates the nexus of state-driven infrastructural ambitions, the inherent complexities of project implementation and the varied ways social actors engage with and influence these processes. Through a comparative tracing of three public urban projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it examines how Chinese diplomatic, financial and economic expans…
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality
The surge in Chinese overseas investments has increased the transnational movement of Chinese workers. While much literature explores the interactions between Chinese managers and local workers in host countries, the dynamics between Chinese employers and Chinese workers abroad remain under-examined. This paper employs the conceptual frameworks of flexible sovereignty and contested legality to examine the distinctive norms and practices in labor …
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia
Despite much scholarly debate on Chinese employment practices in Africa, firm-specific studies on how companies manage expatriate and local employees and the dynamics of power in the process remain scarce, especially in the knowledge-intensive sectors where relatively skilled portion of Chinese and Africans are recruited. The article addresses this weakness through a case study on the employee management strategies of one flagship Chinese telecom…
Negotiating Chineseness
Critical geographic reflection on researcher subjectivity is inadequately practised by scholars studying workplaces, especially those involving emerging powers from the global south. In the context of growing Chinese investment in Africa, this paper reflects on the negotiation of my Chineseness during multi‐sited research on capital–labour and expatriate–local relations in three Chinese companies in Ethiopia. It examines the nexus of identity, po…
Transnational mobility and precarity in the shadow of pandemics
Through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper examines the conditions of and responses to (im)mobilities and precarity among Chinese migrants in Africa. It emphasizes a relational and relative understanding of mobility–immobility as well as precarity–agency within the broader context of transnational migration. The empirical findings are based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Chinese migrants living in Ethiopia, Zambia, Republ…
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa
The paper investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship-the overseas business initiatives taken by subsidiaries-under Chinese private investment in Africa. Drawing upon the economic-geographic literature on entrepreneurship, it integrates process- and agency-perspectives to understand the interplay between political-economic contexts, institutional structures, and leadership actions i…
Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa
Employing the assemblage perspective, the paper examines the relations of exteriority, heterogeneity and fluidity in the development of global health cooperation ‘with Chinese characteristics’. Through the case of Chinese health engagement in Africa, the paper (1) reviews the shifting imperatives of China’s involvement in global health; (2) identifies the major approaches, institutions and actors in the design and implementation of overseas healt…
Sedentarization as Constrained Adaptation
Worlding Developmentalism
This paper examines the development of Economic Zones in post-reform China and the recent export of zoning practices as a part of the country's 'going global' strategy. I propose 'worlding developmentalism' to conceptualise the synergy between a polymorphous yet capable state in directing the path of domestic growth and overseas ventures, and a population who actively captures emerging economic opportunities in transnational contexts. The concept…
Poverty reduction through photovoltaic-based development intervention in China
Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention
Variegated work regimes of Chinese investment in Ethiopia
Chinese Eastern Industrial Zone in Ethiopia
This paper examines China’s engagement with Africa through economic zones (EZs). It moves beyond the conceptualisation of EZs as undifferentiated enclaves of foreign investment to a dynamic perspective on the locally negotiated process of zone development. Such a perspective entails critical unpacking of the specific zone regime to understand the diverse and evolving relationships among different state and non-state actors. Drawing upon empirical…
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia
Despite much scholarly debate on Chinese employment practices in Africa, firm-specific studies on how companies manage expatriate and local employees and the dynamics of power in the process remain scarce, especially in the knowledge-intensive sectors where relatively skilled portion of Chinese and Africans are recruited. The article addresses this weakness through a case study on the employee management strategies of one flagship Chinese telecom…
The compound labor regime of Chinese construction projects in Ethiopia
Negotiating Chineseness
Critical geographic reflection on researcher subjectivity is inadequately practised by scholars studying workplaces, especially those involving emerging powers from the global south. In the context of growing Chinese investment in Africa, this paper reflects on the negotiation of my Chineseness during multi‐sited research on capital–labour and expatriate–local relations in three Chinese companies in Ethiopia. It examines the nexus of identity, po…
Networked Internationalization
Chinese companies have emerged as crucial players in Africa’s infrastructure construction sector. Existing literature largely views Chinese companies as state-orchestrated actors that undertake government-financed projects in Africa. There is insufficient attention to the concurrent internationalization of diverse construction actors, specifically subcontractors, material suppliers, and service providers who often have different ownership status,…
Student returnees from China's Covid-19 epicenter
Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa
Employing the assemblage perspective, the paper examines the relations of exteriority, heterogeneity and fluidity in the development of global health cooperation ‘with Chinese characteristics’. Through the case of Chinese health engagement in Africa, the paper (1) reviews the shifting imperatives of China’s involvement in global health; (2) identifies the major approaches, institutions and actors in the design and implementation of overseas healt…
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa
Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa has attracted much discussion on the competitive relations between Chinese companies and their foreign or local counterparts. There is however limited research examining the increasingly competitive relationships among Chinese business actors themselves and the complex implications of their activities for African economic development. Existing studies often either treat Chinese actors as …
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility
The paper unpacks the multi-level efforts to establish, promote and implement China standards in overseas contexts through an examination of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Africa. Drawing upon document analysis of government policies, institutional guidelines and corporate reports from four case companies, as well as field research in Ethiopia, it identifies ways that Chinese corporat…
Chinese in Africa
This paper investigates the expatriation regime and the lived experience of Chinese managers, professionals and contract workers in Africa. Moving beyond taking contemporary Chinese migration to Africa as merely a state project or personal activity, it contributes a synthesised analysis of the forces at state, corporate and societal levels to produce and sustain expatriation. Specifically, I argue that expatriation fulfils multiple objectives of …
China’s State-Owned Enterprises
Wendy Leutert’s China’s State-Owned Enterprises takes leadership in China’s public sector, particularly within central SOEs, as the key explanatory variable for understanding variation in SOE refor...
China–Africa skills transfer through overseas economic and trade cooperation zones
This paper investigates the employment patterns, training activities, and skills development outcomes of China's Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zones (OETCZs) in Africa. Drawing upon ethnographic field research and a workers' opinion survey in Ethiopia's Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ), it answers two questions: How well has intergovernmental collaboration on OETCZs been translated into training opportunities for local workers? What are lo…
They Eat Our Sweat
They Eat our Sweat offers a compelling ethnographic study of corruption, urban politics, and daily survival strategies in the informal road transport sector of Lagos, Nigeria. Drawing upon extensiv
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa
The paper investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship-the overseas business initiatives taken by subsidiaries-under Chinese private investment in Africa. Drawing upon the economic-geographic literature on entrepreneurship, it integrates process- and agency-perspectives to understand the interplay between political-economic contexts, institutional structures, and leadership actions i…
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality
The surge in Chinese overseas investments has increased the transnational movement of Chinese workers. While much literature explores the interactions between Chinese managers and local workers in host countries, the dynamics between Chinese employers and Chinese workers abroad remain under-examined. This paper employs the conceptual frameworks of flexible sovereignty and contested legality to examine the distinctive norms and practices in labor …
Contained resistance
This paper conceptualises contained resistance through labour lawsuits as a form of constrained labour agency in the context of transnational labour migration. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in labour geography, migration studies, and legal research, it identifies legal action as an underexplored channel through which migrant workers abroad contest corporate power and assert rights claims. Based on content analysis of court rulings invo…
Transnational mobility and precarity in the shadow of pandemics
Through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper examines the conditions of and responses to (im)mobilities and precarity among Chinese migrants in Africa. It emphasizes a relational and relative understanding of mobility–immobility as well as precarity–agency within the broader context of transnational migration. The empirical findings are based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Chinese migrants living in Ethiopia, Zambia, Republ…
Exploring land consolidation solutions towards land use low-carbon transition
Goal-oriented zoning for multifunctional land use
Grounding China’s global engagements
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