
Jesper Willaing ZeuthenAalborg University · Department of Politics and Society
Jesper Willaing Zeuthen
PhD
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Western governments frequently perceive Chinese investors in natural resources as driven by strategic state interests to a much larger extent than investors from Western countries, who supposedly operate according to market economic norms without states pulling them in particular directions. This article studies a potential Chinese investment in mi...
This paper argues that new interpretations of “eating bitterness”
(, chiku) have firmly entered the landscape of China’s
social organisation. Whereas the bitterness eaten by heroic types in
China’s revolutionary past was directed towards serving others, now
the aim of eating bitterness is self-awareness. Furthermore, bitterness-
eating, which onc...
In both the academic debate as well as in Chinese politics urban–rural difference is a frequently used categorisation. Policies addressing previous neglect of rural China have been the official top-priority of China's current leadership since it came to power in 2003–2004. This article argues that we need to nuance the distinct dichotomy between ur...
The book is open access, please find the chapter here: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/44558g945?locale=en#/6/26[Jacobsen_Greenland-0013]!/4/2[ch06]/2[header0601]/2/2[p175]/1:0
This article studies the making of a small fragment of China's social credit system by focusing on the evolution of digital mediation in the market for domestic service. We study the ongoing development and reconfiguration of various forms of digital mediation in the domestic service labour market from early local digital blacklisting attempts to t...
China’s state driven urbanization and the revenues earned through conversion of land from rural (legally non-commodified) to urban (legally commodified) status have been studied intensively. What makes this new urban land valuable is less discussed in the context of financializaton. Through a study of bond financing in one of China’s “national leve...
Forced and semi-forced resettlement is a re-occurring feature in both China and India where the establishment of infrastructure and urban zones have caused large-scale resettlement (Mertha 2008; Levien 2018; Pils 2016). This chapter studies the procedures of Forced and semi-forced resettlement in order to understand the logic of compensation and wh...
This article examines how zoning – awarding exceptional status to selected sites – has been used as a governance tool to regulate access to land made available through land-use changes on the outskirts of Chengdu between 2007 and 2018. By studying these claims to exceptional status and the implementation of associated policies at the local level, t...
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This article contributes to the academic debate on China’s growing interests in the Arctic and enriches our understanding of the various economic and political factors influencing Chinese investment decisions in the mineral sector. The article studies Chinese interests in two Arctic advanced mineral exploration projects – the Citronen Fjord zinc pr...
Chinese investment plans in Greenland have been viewed by various Greenlandic governments with high hopes while their Danish counterparts have been much more reluctant and fearful of what some sort of orchestrated Chinese intervention would mean for the autonomous and supposedly less experienced part of the Danish Kingdom. Despite expectations, act...
This paper argues that new interpretations of “eating bitterness” ([Formula: see text], chiku) have firmly entered the landscape of China's social organisation. Whereas the bitterness eaten by heroic types in China's revolutionary past was directed towards serving others, now the aim of eating bitterness is self-awareness. Furthermore, bitterness-e...
Både i Kinas politik og i studier af Kina opfattes by og land som synonyme med rig og fattig. Selvom der er statistisk belæg for dette, er der dog tale om en grel forenkling, der kan betyde, at forsøg på at nedbringe ulighed kan få den modsatte effekt.