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Annika Pissin
Annika Pissin is a Post-doctoral fellow at the centre since April 2010. Her research focuses on the UN concept of human security in relation to children in China, and deals with questions concerning risk and the changing perception of danger in relation to the upbringing of children. Annika’s scholarly background is Chinese history, history of childhood and anthropology, therefore she is particularly interested in questions of traditions – or their invention – in contemporary practices of child raising. She ties social practices around Chinese children and childhood to the social, economic and political changes in general, and to the changes of the structure of the Chinese family during the past 100 years in particular, and investigates contemporary Chinese childhood within ‘the condition of postmodernity’.
Curriculum Vitae
Annika studied Chinese history and Anthropology in Heidelberg, Tainan and Leiden and graduated in Leiden with an MA thesis about demonic birds and women in China. While working on her PhD research between 2004 and 2009 about the concept of children in medieval China within the framework of historical anthropology she taught numerous classes in the Chinese History section at Leiden University.
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