Dr Karsten GIESE

    Designation: Senior Research Fellow, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

    Resume: Karsten GIESE is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg, Germany, and editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. He holds a PhD in Modern China Studies and his research interests include socio-economic change in Greater China, Chinese domestic and international migration, and overseas Chinese studies. From 2011-13 he conducted the research project “Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa”. He recently started the follow-up project “West African Traders as Translators between Chinese and African Modernities”. In July 2013 he was elected as Executive Member of the Managing Board of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA).