Goethe-Universität

Team

Dr. Christina Maags

Vertretungsprofessorin

Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien

VITA

Beruflicher Werdegang

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang/ Ausbildung

2014- 2017	Promotion in Politikwissenschaft Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Politikwissenschaft (Schwerpunkt: Chinese Heritage Politics)
2016- 2017	Msc Comparative Social Policy University of Oxford Department for Social Policy and Intervention (Schwerpunkt: Altenpflegepolitik in Ostasien)
2010- 2013	MA Modern East Asian Studies Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Schwerpunkt: Chinesische Politik)
2006- 2010	Bachelor in Asienstudien Universität Bonn Institut für Asienwissenschaften (Schwerpunkt: China)

Gaststipendien und Auslandsstudien

Methodenausbildung

Akademische Mitgliedschaften

Services für den Berufsstand

Gutachterin (peer-review)	Oxford Human Welfare Journal; Religions; International Journal of Cultural Policy; China Information; International Journal of Heritage Studies; Modern China; Politics & Policy; Ageing & Society
Externe Prüferin	LSE -PKU Summer School on Chinese Politics
Konferenz Organisatorin	Theorie-Workshop (THEORIE TALK: Vergleichende Kapitalismen, Development und Gender in der Asienforschung), German Association of Asian Studies, Schwerte, Deutschland,18.-20.12.2015 Graduate Conference of the German Association of Asian Studies, Burg Rothenfels am Main, Germany 27/-29/01/2017
Akademische Bloggerin	Barnett House Social Policy Blog (Redakteurin und Mitwirkende) "Stimmen aus China" (Voices from China) (Asia Foundation, Mitwirkung, 2011-2012)

Stipendien und Fördermittel

2022/08	British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (£10,000)
2021/04	University of Sheffield, Faculty Research Application Fellowships (FRAF) (£10,000)
2019/09	SOAS, competitive university-wide research grant “seed corn fund" (£3,500)
2017/06	University of Oxford, Green Templeton College, UK; competitive conference travel grant (£1,000)
2013/07	Hong Kong University (HKU), scholarship for doctoral studies in Modern Chinese Studies a School for Modern Languages and Cultures (2013-2017) (13,600 HK$ per month) (abgelehnt)
2012/06- 2013/03	Freunde und Förderer der Goethe Universität Frankfurt; verschiedene Zuschüsse für Konferenzreisen

Sprachkenntnisse

Soziales Engagement

FORSCHUNG

Forschungsgebiete

LEHRE

Lehrveranstaltungen

Public Policy in China (Frankfurt)
Staat und Politik in China (Frankfurt)
Politische Ökonomie Chinas (Frankfurt)
China’s Cultural Heritage Politics: From Global to Local Level (Frankfurt)
Cultural Politics in Contemporary China (Frankfurt)
International Business in East Asia (Sheffield)
Contemporary Chinese Business and Management (Sheffield)
Political Economy of China (Sheffield)
State and Society in the Chinese Political Process (SOAS London)
China and International Politics (SOAS London)
Chinese Business and Management (Sheffield)
Government and Politics in China (SOAS London)
International Relations in East Asia (SOAS London)

Gastvorlesungen

2020/12 und 2020/02	Imperial College London; “Democratic Centralism in China – An Alternative Form of Governance?"
2020/11	University of Sheffield, School of East Asian Studies (SEAS); "Steering Eldercare Service Development in China"
2020/11	University of Sheffield, Department of Journalism; "US Election - The Chinese Perspective"
2019/11	SOAS, University of London; “Spatial Inequality in China's Political Economy of Elder Care"
2019/04	Australian National University; “Travelling Heritage Narratives – China's Adoption of the 'Heritage under Threat' Narrative"
2019/03	King's College London; “Moving Across Hierarchies and Networks: The Role of Actor Mobility in Chinese Politics"
2018/10	SOAS, University of London; “Long-Term Care Insurance Adoption in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan: How and When Ideas and Institutions Matter"
2017/05	University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar Series; “Analysing State Intervention in Transmission of Cultural Knowledge: The Case of the Chinese ICH Inheritors Program"
2016/03	Australian National University, China in the World Centre and Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies; Member of the round table discussion “Heritage and China"
2016/03	Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Bachelor seminar “Music and Politics", Australia; “Safeguarding Traditional Music through State Programs in East Asia: The Case of the Living Human Treasures System"
2016/03	Australian National University, Lecture Series, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, ANU, Australia; “From Cultural Practitioner to ICH inheritor: Competition and Hierarchies in the Chinese Living Human Treasures System"
2015/05	Universität Köln, East Asian Studies Department, Lecture Series on Cultural Policy in East Asia; “Policy Diffusion in East Asia – The Case of the Chinese 'Living Human Treasures' System"
2014/02	Furman University (USA); Anthropology in China Lecture, “Conducting Research on China's Cultural Heritage Politics"

Qualifizierung in der Lehre

Begutachtung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten

Administrative Aufgaben in der Lehre

PUBLIKATIONEN

Monographien und Herausgeberschaften (mit Begutachtungsverfahren)

Beiträge zu wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften (mit Begutachtungsverfahren)

2023	“State Institutions as Building Blocks of China's Infrastructures of Memory – The Case of Intangible Heritage", Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52(2), 163-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026221145950
2022	“Marketization, Privatization and Commodification - China's Urban Political Economy of Elder Care", Modern China. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004221117773
2021	“ICH, the Market, and the State: Self-enterprising Cultural Practitioners in China" (mit Philipp Demgenski), submitted to Chinese-language Journal “Cultural Heritage" (文化遗产).
2021	“Common, Luxury and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage Markets in China", China Perspectives, https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/12184.
2020	“Hybridization in China's Elder Care Provision", Social Policy and Administration, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/spol.12616
2020	“Long-Term Care Insurance Adoption in East Asia: Politics, Ideas and Institutions", Politics & Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12339
2019	“When East meets West: Comparing UNESCO's Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems in Europe and Asia" (mit Ioan Trifu), Politics & Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12296
2019	“Struggles of Recognition: Adverse Effects of China's Living Human Treasures Program", International Journal of Heritage Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1542330
2018	“Disseminating the Policy Narrative of 'Heritage under Threat' in China", International Journal of Cultural Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1500559
2016	“Replicating Elite-Dominance in Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding: The Role of Local Government–Scholar Networks in China", International Journal of Cultural Property, 23: 71- 97.
2014	“Enhancing China's National Image through Culture Festivals: A Case Study of China Culture Years in Europe", Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 7 (1): 33-55.

Beiträge zu Sammelwerken (mit Begutachtungsverfahren)

2021	“Chinese Cultural Heritage Politics", in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies, accepted for publication, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Chinese-Studies/Shei-Wei/p/book/9780367181390
2018	“Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency", in Chinese Cultural Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations, Amsterdam University Press.
2018	“Creating a Race to the Top: Hierarchies and Competition within the Chinese ICH Transmitters System", in Chinese Cultural Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations, Amsterdam University Press.
2018	“Protecting the Weak? Tracing UNESCO's Influence on Intangible Cultural Heritage Regimes in Japan and China" (mit Ioan Trifu), in Protecting the Weak in East Asia. Framing, Mobilisation, Institutionalisation. Routledge
2018	“Cultural Contestation in China: Ethnicity, Identity and the State”, in Cultural Contestation: Heritage, Ethnicity and the Role of Government, Palgrave Macmillan.

Derzeit unter Begutachtung

Buch-Rezensionen

2023	“Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi, by Victor Shih, The Journal of Development Studies, 2023, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2023.2196164
2022	“Workers and Change in China. Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness," by Manfred Elfstrom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, China Information, 2022.
2019	“Lost and Found: The 'Missing Girls' in Rural China". By John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Perspectives on Politics, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759271900355
2019	“Popular Protest in China" by Teresa Wright, The Political Quarterly, 2019, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-923X.12764
2018	“Financing Healthcare in China: Towards Universal Health Insurance” by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk, The China Quarterly, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018001108

Zeitungsartikel

2023	“China's population decline is a result of decades of botched family planning measures and will have global implications", The Conversation, 19. Januar 2023, https://theconversation.com/chinas-population-decline-is-a-result-of-decades-of-botched-family-planning-measures-and-will-have-global-implications-198017
2019	“The Great Firewall of China”, Fair Observer, 23. September 2019, https://www.fairobserver.com/region/asia_pacific/great-firewall-china-censorship-chinese-news-today-vpn-china-38018/

Erwähnungen in den Medien

2023	“How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history", The Economist, 21. September 2023, https://www.economist.com/china/2023/09/21/how-china-uses-unesco-to-rewrite-history
2020	“Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia", BBC, 8. März 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51705199
2020	“Coronavirus exposes the divide between China's rich and poor”, Deutsche Welle, 25. Februar 2020, https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-exposes-the-divide-between-chinas-rich-and-poor/a-52526369

Social Media, Akademische Blogs und Podcasts

2017/10	“China's Long-term Care System: Policy Innovation or Negative Example?", Barnett House Blog, Oxford University.
2017/09	“Finding unity in diversity within China's long-term care system", Social Care Work Research Unit Blog “Social Care Workforce", King's College London.
2017/05	“Female Cultural Practitioners: The Gender Question in Safeguarding Traditional Culture", International Organization of Folk Art (IOV) Magazine.
2017/02	“Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century", Barnett House Blog, Oxford University.
2012/08	“Regenfälle fluten die Vororte von Beijing – Die Kritik gegen die Stadtregierung wächst" (Rain floods suburbs in China - The criticism against the municipal government is growing), 31.08.2012
2012/08	“Wu Ying und der private Finanzsektor in China – Korruption oder fehlerhaftes Rechtssystem?“ (Wu Ying and the private financial sector - Corruption or malfunctioning legal system?), 06.08.2012
2012/08	“Popularität von 'Roten Liedern' steigt rasant in chinesischer Gesellschaft" (Popularity of “red songs" is strongly increasing in Chinese society), 05.08.2012
2012/06	“Dämme in China – von Flutkontrolle zu Wegen aus der Wasserknappheit" (Dams in China - From controlling floods to solutions against water shortages), 18.06.2012
2011/12	“Parlamentswahlen provozieren Massenproteste in Russland – Reaktionen chinesischer Blogger” (Parliamentary elections provoke mass protests in Russia - Chinese bloggers' reactions), 28.12.2011

VORTRÄGE

Vorträge auf wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen, Seminaren und Workshops

2022/03	Conference for the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), University of Hawai'i, USA “Accessing Care Services across China's Rural Urban Divide: An Analysis of Nanjing, China"
2021/11	Conference of the Working Group of Social Science Research on China, German Association for Asian Studies (ASC) “Elder care service development across China's urban-rural divide – The case of Hangzhou"
2020/08	Conference of the Association of Cultural Heritage Studies (ACHS), UCL, UK "Common, Luxury and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Markets in China" AND "Translating Value - The Politics of Localising “Intangible Heritage" in China"
2020/01	BISA Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group “Translation in World Politics" Conference, SOAS, University of London, UK “Doing Things with Global Words – The Strategic Translation of UNESCO Concepts in China"
2019/04	German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) Conference, Würzburg “Between Commerce and Community: Elder Care Services in Urban China"
2018/09	LSE Workshop “Government Contracting of Welfare Services to NGOs in China" “Contracting elder care services and the private sector"
2018/09	Conference of the Association of Cultural Heritage Studies (ACHS), Hangzhou, VR China “Mobilizing for ICH safeguarding: The political and social indigenization of UNESCO norms in China" AND “Enhanced Agency or Exploitation? Ambiguous Effects of the Chinese ICH Inheritors Program"
2018/03	Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Washington DC, USA “Moving from Outside to Within: An Analysis of Non-State Actor Political Participation in Chinese Governance Dynamics"
2017/07	12th Interpretive Policy Analysis International Conference, Leicester, UK Organization of Panel: “Rethinking Cultural Policy: Power, Politics and Public Contestation"; Talk: “Can cultural policy enhance non-state actors' agency in authoritarian China? The case of the ICH Inheritors Program"
2017/06	3rd International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapur “Facing the Ageing Crisis: A Comparison of Financing Systems for Long-term Care Provision in East Asia"; AND “Implementing the UNESCO Living Human Treasure System in China: A Comparative Analysis"
2016/10	Protecting the Weak: Concepts and East Asian Evidence, gemeinsam organisiert von der Goethe Universität Frankfurt und der Lingnan University, HK “Local appropriation of international norms in East Asia: The case of cultural heritage" (mit Ioan Trifu)
2016/07	11th Interpretive Policy Analysis 11th International Conference, Hull, UK “Disseminating Narratives of 'Threatened Traditional Culture' in Chinese Policy-Making"
2016/06	Conference of the Association of Cultural Heritage Studies (ACHS), Montreal, Kanada “Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO's Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems" (mit Ioan Trifu) UND “Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse (mit Yujie Zhu)
2015/07	10. Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference, Lille, Frankreich "Becoming a gatekeeper of the past: Analyzing the role of policy networks in Chinese cultural heritage politics“
2015/06	Conference “Cultural Heritage in China: Contested Understandings, Images and Practices“, Lund University, Schweden “China's Living Human Treasures Policy: A success story in ICH protection?"
2015/01	Graduate Conference of the German Association for Asian Studies, Burg Rothenfels, Deutschland “Chinas 'Living Human Treasures': Eine vergleichende Untersuchung von immateriellem Kulturerbe-Schutz auf Lokaler Ebene"
2014/12	Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), ANU, Canberra, Australien “Protecting the Weak? A Comparative Analysis of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China and Japan" (mit Ioan Trifu)
2014/07	XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan “Promoting intangible cultural heritage protection through research" (mit Heike Holbig)
2013/03	Graduate Conference for East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Kanada “Inventing a socialist tradition– Promoting socialist traditions for political instrumentalization"
2013/03	Graduate Research Conference (PSGSO), University of South Carolina, USA “Inventing a socialist tradition– Promoting socialist traditions for political instrumentalization"
2013/02	12th East-West Graduate Student Conference‏, University of Hawai'i, USA “Inventing a socialist tradition– Promoting socialist traditions for political instrumentalization"
2012/09	New York Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY University, USA “Inventing a socialist tradition– Promoting socialist traditions for political instrumentalization"
2012/06	Inaugural Conference of the Association of Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Schweden “Framing Intangible Cultural Heritage in China" (mit Heike Holbig)

seit 2023/04	Vertretungsprofessorin Goethe Universität Frankfurt Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien (Schwerpunkt: Chinese Heritage Politics)
Seit 2020/01	Lecturer in Chinese Studies University of Sheffield School of East Asian Studies
2017/09- 2020/03	Lecturer in Chinese Politics SOAS, University of London Institut für Politikwissenschaft
2013/04- 2017/03	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitern und Doktorandin Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Politikwissenschaft

2016/ 02-03	Australian National University, Canberra, Australien; Gaststipendium
2008/09- 2009/08	Zhejiang Universität, Hangzhou, China; Einjähriges Chinesisch-Sprachprogramm

2018	Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) (2-week Summer School, Syracuse University, USA)
2016	Principles & Practice of Comparative Research (Postgraduate Kurs, University of Oxford)
2016	Qualitative Research Methods (Postgraduate Kurs, University of Oxford)
2016	Quantitative Research Methods (Postgraduate Kurs, University of Oxford)
2013	Empirical Research Methods (Postgraduate Kurs, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

seit 2022	Faculty Early Career Researcher Representative, Sheffield
seit 2020	Abteilungsleiterin der One University, SEAS, Sheffield
2020-2022	Prüfungsbeauftragte, SEAS, Sheffield
2018-2022	Leiterin des SOAS Studiengangs “Msc Politics of China"

2020	Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past. London: Routledge (Hrsg. zusammen mit Yujie Zhu).
2018	Chinese Cultural Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations. Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press (Hrsg. zusammen mit Marina Svensson).