Pál Nyíri

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.

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Comparative Studies of Labour Relations in Chinese-Invested Enterprises Overseas

We plan to create the foundations for comparative research on how growing investment from mainland China in industrial and agricultural production facilities abroad, particularly in poor regions such as Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, affects labour relations, management practices, and ideas of desirable labour standards.

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Research outcomes

Nyíri, P. (2017).

Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Nyíri, P., & Xu, X. (2017).

South–South? Culture Talk and Labour Relations at a Chinese‐owned Factory in Hungary. Development and Change, 48(4), 775-800.

Areas of interest

Global History Anthropology China East Asia Nationalism Immigration Eastern Europe

Cohort

MCF1 FG1

Biography

Pál Nyíri is Professor at the Institute of Global Studies, Budapest University of Economics (Corvinus), and Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main research area is the international mobility of the Chinese middle class. He is also interested in Chinese nationalism, the politics of immigration in Eastern Europe, and comparative approaches to Eastern Europe and China.

Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26