Goethe-Universität
Fachbereich 03 Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Westend Campus, PEG-Gebäude
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail:
C.Maags@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
| VITA | FORSCHUNG | LEHRE | PUBLIKATIONEN | VORTRÄGE |
(zuletzt aktualisiert: Dezember 2023)
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 |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 |
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" |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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/ |
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 |
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 |
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) |