Insights – University of Copenhagen

UCPH Research on China

This is list of all of our publications, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and more.

Ekstern Podcast: Arven efter Tiananmen-massakren

Kina har i de seneste uger været genstand for omfattende protester i flere af landets storbyer. Tusindvis har demonstreret imod kommunistpartiets strenge Covid-restriktioner.

ThinkChina Video: A World Safe for Autocracy?

ThinkChina Video lecture by Professor Jessica Chen Weiss on what China wants and where the U.S.-China tensions are headed.

Blog Post: Kinesisk science fiction - nye perspektiver på menneske, videnskab og samfund

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, adjunkt i Kinastudier på Københavns Universitet, belyser i dette blogindlæg science fiction i Kina.

ThinkChina Video: Agricultural and Rural Transformations in China

PhD Lena Kaufmann discusses the development of China’s rural heartlands and the urban-rural linkages.

Op-ed: Ro på – atomkrigen er nok ikke lige om hjørnet

Kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin: Putin truer med atomkrig. Kina truer med krig, hvis Taiwan erklærer sig uafhængig. Det kan føre til atomkrig, men den kommer nok alligevel ikke. Medmindre ...

ThinkChina Analysis: Nancy Pelosi’s besøg ryster forhold mellem USA og Kina

Camilla T. N. Sørensen analyserer i denne udgivelse Nancy Pelosi’s besøg til Taiwan i august.

ThinkChina Policy Brief: Xi Jinping’s Moment of Glory - Winner Takes All

ThinkChina Policy Brief by professor emeritus Jørgen Delman, about the 20th party congress and the new members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

Blog Post: What We Have Learned From the 20th Party Congress

What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress? ThinkChina sat down with two China experts from UCPH to find out.

ThinkChina Video: The New Normal in the Taiwan Strait

In this talk, Camilla T. N. Sørensen will give an assessment of the security situation and the evolving military balance in the Taiwan Strait and discuss how to avoid a military conflict in the Taiwan.

ThinkChina Podcast: The 20th Party Congress

Coordinator of ThinkChina, Casper Wichmann interviews Jørgen Delman, professor emeritus of China Studies, University of Copenhagen, about the forthcoming 20th Party Congress.

Kronik: Kina og USA's globale sikkherhedsinitiativ: hvem vinder?

Kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin omhandlende Kina og USA's aktuelle, globale sikkerhedsinitiativer.

ThinkChina Analysis: Development, Debt, and Distress

What can the situation in Sri Lanka tell us about China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI)? Read PhD student Tabita Rosendahl's analysis on the topic in this ThinkChina Analysis.

ThinkChina Video: China’s Foreign Policy Contradictions

Watch the ChinaTalks lecture where Tim Rühlig presents his book on Chinese foreign policy.

ThinkChina Analysis: Implementation Variations Under Authoritarianism: An Exploratory Analysis of Social Policy Reformulation

Yi Ma and Chunrong Liu investigate provincial differences in policy reformulation in China.

Laurits Andersen - The Long Farewell 1912-1928

A blogpost series about the Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) who lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry.…

Ekstern Podcast: Ny undersøgelse tyder på voksende nationalisme i den kinesiske middelklasse

Casper Wichmann er gæst hos P1 Orientering og diskuterer en ny undersøgelse der tyder på en voksende nationalisme i den kinesiske middelklasse. Lyt til programmet her.

Laurits Andersen - Making BAT great 1903-1911

A blog post series about the Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) who lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry…

ThinkChina Student Insights: China’s Changing FDI Policy

This article investigates how the policy environment on FDI has been shifting in the past few years, potentially benefitting foreign companies.

Laurits Andersen - the Bonsack Years 1890-1902

The Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry. This blog post series will…

Laurits Andersen - Birth of an Entrepreneur

A blog post series about the Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) who lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry…

ThinkChina Analysis: Taiwanproblemet og Ukrainekrigen hænger sammen

Asien er nøglen til, at USA kan forblive den ledende supermagt. Kina ønsket et samlet Kina, men tør Kina gå i krig af frygt for, hvilke globale konsekvenser det vil få?

ThinkChina Analysis: The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, tracks the spectacular rise and fall of Wu Manyou, one of the earliest labour heroes.

Blog Post: The Anaconda in the Chandelier

The Anaconda in the Chandelier. A review of Isaac Stone Fish’s book America 2nd: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger. By Jonas Haarder

Ekstern Podcast: Rusland og Kina vil styrke Ikke-Vesten

Camilla Nørup Sørensen, lektor på Forsvarsakademiet og Casper Wichmann, daglig leder af tænketanken ThinkChina, diskuterer Kinas tætte alliance med Rusland og ser nærmere på forholdet mellem de to lande.

ThinkChina Video: Virker den vestlige økonomiske model i Asien?

Se eller gense Jørgen Ørstrøm Møllers forelæsning om den vestlige økonomiske model i den asiatiske kontekst.

ThinkChina Analysis: Leading with Hearts and Mind: Emotion Contagion in China's Online Activism

Who are the prominent actors leading the diffusion of emotional messages in China’s online activism? What roles do they play in this process in an emotion-discouraging context?

Understanding China From Afar: Reflections on the Development and Status of China Studies in Denmark

This publishing project is the result of consultations between the two Danish editors, Professor Jørgen Delman from China Studies at University of Copenhagen and Professor Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg from China Studies at…

ThinkChina Analysis: Global City Agency and Multilevel Governance in China

Over the past few decades, cities have become increasingly active in global climate governance. This article examines how the Chinese Party-state’s institutions and governing instruments shape cities’ global agency and…

Law and Regulatory Policy

ThinkChina Video: New Danish Foreign Investment Screening Regime

Watch or re-watch the ChinaTalks lecture covering what kind of transactions that are now restricted and who will be considered foreigners under the Danish legislation on foreign investment screening.

ThinkChina Analysis: Danish-Chinese Knowledge Collaboration at a Critical Juncture

This analysis gives a deeper insight into collaboration with Chinese scientists, researchers and universities. It explores the increase in bilateral collaboration and publications done in recent years and display threat…

ThinkChina Video: US-Chinese Strategic Competition and the Consequences for Europe

Watch or re-watch the ChinaTalks lecture with Liselotte Odgaard on the US-Chinese Strategic Competition and the Consequences for Europe.

ThinkChina Student Insights: Luxury Consumption and Identity Creation in the Chinese Middle Class

This Student Insights investigates the complex link between the rising demand in luxury consumption between the Chinese middle class and the influence it has in identity creation.

External podcast: Verden Kalder - Hvem Holder Kina Med?

For bare få måneder siden kaldte Kinas præsident Xi og Ruslands præsident Putin deres venskab for ”grænseløst”, men er venskabet lige så varmt, nu hvor Putin har invaderet Ukraine?

Blog Post: The Epic Fairy-Tale Narrative of the Communist Party of China

Narratives are an integrated part of society. This blogpost explains how the newest resolution of the Communist Party of China narrates China’s contemporary history with the CPC as the main protagonist.

Technology and Digital

ThinkChina Analysis: Privacy Lost; Appropriating Surveillance Technology in China’s Fight Against COVID-19

Jun Liu and Hui Zhao analyze the lack of domestic public resistance in China about technology-related privacy risks during the pandemic.

External podcast: China's Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Has Putin's invasion of Ukraine put China in an uncomfortable situation? ThinkChina general manager, Casper Wichmann, discusses this with Insightview.eu

ThinkChina Policy Brief: US-Chinese strategic competition and the consequences for Europe

In this ThinkChina Policy Brief, Liselotte Odgaard investigates the strategic competition between the United States and China and analyses the implications for Europe.

ThinkChina Analysis: The Rise of Smart Courts in China; Opportunities and Challenges to the Judiciary in a Digital Age

Associate Professor Wen Xiang, UCPH, and Junlin Peng investigates the progress made so far with regard to digitalization of courts in China, and analyzes the opportunities and challenges during the digitalized process o…

External podcast: Xi Jinping in a Year of Destiny

Professor emeritus Jørgen Delman, China studies, UCPH, on Xi Jinping in a year of destiny, isolation, foreign policy ambitions, Taiwan - and why Ukraine is closely followed in Beijing.

External Podcast: Hvordan kolliderer sport, politik og covid-19 ved vinter-OL i Beijing?

Mikkel Bunkenborg, lektor i Kinastudier på Københavns Universitet, gæstede i fredags 4. Division på P1, hvor han gav sit besyv på hvordan sport, politik og covid-19 interagerer ved vinter-OL i Beijing.

Paneldebat Dansk Industri: Kinas nye Norm

Daglig leder af ThinkChina, Casper Wichmann, deltog i en paneldebat hos Dansk Industri om Danmarks fortsatte samarbejde med Kina.

External podcast: Xi Jinpings plads i historien

Professor emeritus, Jørgen Delman, diskuterer, hvad Xi Jinping egentlig udrettet i løbet af sine ni år på magten? Og vil han lykkes med at skabe et eftermæle, som overgår selveste Mao?

ThinkChina Analysis: More Than Plain Text; Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media

Jun Liu and Jingyi Zhao critically review censorship studies and presents one of the first studies on censorship of both plain text and multimedia content on the Chinese social media

ThinkChina Analysis: Afkobling fra Kina er gift for Danmark [Danish]

Bertel Heurlin undersøger betydningen af afkoblingen mellem Kina og Vesten.

ThinkChina Analysis: Spinning China's Communist Party History in favour of Xi Jinping

[Politics] Jørgen Delman, professor emeritus, PhD, China Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, gives his analysis of the recent sixth plenum of China's Communist Party.

ThinkChina Policy Brief: 100 years with China’s Communist Party

This policy brief by Jørgen Delman looks at the Communist Party of China that celebrated its 100th anniversary on July 1st, 2021, and has been ruling the People’s Republic of Chinas for more than 70 years.

ThinkChina Student Thesis: The Long Umbilical Cord

This paper explores how China blurs the lines between ethnicity and citizenship.

ThinkChina Analysis: USA og Kina; Kampen om menneskerettighederne [Danish]

Bertel Heurlin undersøger de menneskerettighedsproblematikker der udfoldes i rivaliseringen mellem USA og Kina.

External Podcast: Fire fremtrædende aktivister anholdt i Hongkong

Mai Corlin Frederiksen, postdoc i Kinastudier på Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier ved KU, fortæller i P1 Orientering om anholdelserne af fire fremtrædende i aktivister i Hongkong.

ThinkChina Analysis: Kold krig eller kold fred? [Danish]

Professor Bertel Heurlin undersøger forholdet mellem USA og Kina, og de mekanismer der er med til at bevare freden under den stadig heftigere amerikansk- kinesiske rivalisering.

Op-ed: Battle of the BRI's

How the West plans to challenge China’s rise through infrastructure, and why it might not succeed.

External podcast: Who is next in Beijing's crackdown on the corporate sector?

ThinkChina coordinator, Casper Wichmann, discusses what is behind Beijing's campaign against domestic tech companies, which has spread from Alibaba to all tech companies - and subsequently to educational companies.

External Podcast: The Party that was not meant to be

Professor emeritus Jørgen Delman discusses the past and the future of the Communist Party.

Blog Post: Mit liv med Kina - På sporet af et rastløst Kinas store forandringer [Del 4]

I anden afdeling af sin artikel om sit liv med Kina sætter professor Jørgen Delman fokus på perioden efter 1989 og tilbagevending til forskningen.

Blog Post: ThinkChina Student Forum Læseklub - 20 brudstykker af en hungrende ungdom [Danish]

ThinkChina Student Forum læseklub 2021-1: 20 brudstykker af en hungrende ungdom

Blog Post: Mit liv med Kina - På sporet af et rastløst Kinas store forandringer [Del 3]

I anden afdeling af sin artikel om sit liv med Kina sætter professor Jørgen Delman fokus på perioden efter 1989.

ThinkChina Analysis: To Kinafortællinger; Det rige Kina og det sårbare Kina [Danish]

Analyse af Professor Bertel Heurlin om de to modsatte fortællinger om Kina: Den første fortælling er, at Kina meget snart overhaler USA økonomisk. Den anden indeholder fundamentale problemer, som det kinesiske styre…

ThinkChina Policy Brief: Clash of Local Titans - Lawsuits between Procuratorial Organs and Environmental Bureaus in China

In this ThinkChina.dk Policy Brief, Yi Ma and Wen Xiang give an introduction to a new form of police-patrol in China’s environmental governance, the Environmental Administrative Public Interest Litigation (EAPIL).

External Podcast: What a failed EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment could mean for European companies in China

The situation for European companies in China has turned significantly more complicated after the EU-China investment deal has been put on hold by Brussels.

Blog Post: WeChats røde konvolutter - Social kapital, symbolsk magt og gaveudveksling [Danish]

Hvad er hongbaos og hvilken betydning har de som gaveudveksling i Kina på medieplatformen WeChat?

Slides from Webinar: China's 14th Five-Year Plan

Slides from Webinar with Professor Emeritus, Jørgen Delman, on China’s 14th Five-Year Plan.

Blog Post: Mit liv med Kina - I clinch med et rastløst Kina [Del 2]

I denne blogserie fortæller professor emeritus, Jørgen Delman, om sit arbejde med og i Kina, og hvad han har lært af det.

Blog Post: Mit liv med Kina - I clinch med et rastløst Kina [Del 1]

I denne blogserie fortæller professor emeritus, Jørgen Delman, om sit arbejde med og i Kina, og hvad han har lært af det.

China's annual NPC meeting in the shadows of the Communist Party's 100th anniversary

An analysis of the 2021 National People's Congress in China by professor emeritus Jørgen Delman, China studies, University of Copenhagen.

ThinkChina Analysis: Drop pessimismen - USA vinder over Kina [Danish]

Bertel Heurlin undersøger i hvor høj grad USA’s rolle i verden er udfordret af den rivaliserende stormagt, Kina.

ThinkChina Student Thesis: Approaching Svalbard - An Examination of Chinese Interests in the Far North

How increased Chinese interests in the Arctic region affects the governance of Svalbard and how Chinese conduct can help us better understand Chinese motives within the Arctic realm.

Blog Post: Xi Jinping calls out President Biden at World Economic Forum

A quick analysis and reaction to the Special Address by Xi Jinping at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2021.

ThinkChina Analysis: Fører et stadigt stærkere kinesisk militær til krig? [Danish]

I Kina fremhæver PLA sin evne til at kæmpe og vinde krige, men samtidig underspiller Kina også sin militære styrke, og understreger, at PLA stadig er langt bagud i forhold til verdens førende militære magter.

ThinkChina Analysis: Diplomacy of indignation

In Chinese foreign diplomacy, emotions sometimes run high, fueled by a mixture of anger and humiliation to produce what we may call a “diplomacy of indignation”.