Professor Pál Nyíri
Mid-Career Fellow 2013-14, Small Group Project 2015-16
The World Seen From China: How the Emerging Circuit of Chinese Foreign Correspondents Shapes China's View of the World
The proposed research is an ethnographic study of foreign correspondents who work for major Chinese media: the national television CCTV, the official English-language newspaper China Daily, and the highbrow weekly and online newsmagazine Caijing/Caixin. The study will focus on London and Johannesburg, where the main European and African offices, respectively, of the three companies are located.
More informationComparative Studies of Labour Relations in Chinese-Invested Enterprises Overseas
The worldwide expansion of investment from the PRC has attracted widespread attention. But there are very few ethnographic, ground-up studies of how the takeover of existing companies by Chinese management or the setting up of new ones with Chinese management and local staff affects labour relations, management norms, the lives of staff, and interactions with surrounding society. Existing literature tends to be divided between those who accuse China of resource grabbing and disregard for labour rights and the environment, and those who point to the benefits of infrastructure construction and job creation. Both of these literatures tend to be ideologically inflected and largely treat "China" as a unitary actor working towards a shared goal and/or promoting a specific "model." This approach overestimates the impact of Chinese investment on macropolitical systems and underestimates their effect on local life-worlds and aspirations. Additionally, almost all existing studies focus on Africa.
More informationResearch outcomes
Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
South–South? Culture Talk and Labour Relations at a Chinese‐owned Factory in Hungary. Development and Change, 48(4), 775-800.
Biography
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