Biao Xiang - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• D. Phil in Social Anthropology (1998 - 2003), University of Oxford
  
• BA and MA in Sociology (1990 - 1998), Beijing University

Employment

• Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany (2020- )
  
• Research Council UK Academic Fellow (2005-2010), University Lecturer (2010-2015), Professor of Social Anthropology (2015- 2021), University of Oxford

Editorial/advisory Board membership

China Quarterly, Anthropological Theory, International Migration Review, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Pacific Affairs; Journal of Chinese Sociology; Chinese Sociological Review; The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Book series New Mobilities in Asia (Amsterdam University Press); Routledge Series of Asian Migration

• Academic Committee, Tsinghua University Advanced Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (2019)
  
• Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Advanced Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
  
• US-China Young Leaders Forum, US National Committee on US–China Relations (2007 - 2010)
  
• Advisory Group on Overseas Employment, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, China (2006 - 2007)
  
• Scientific Advisory Board, World Congress on Human Movements and Immigration (Barcelona 2004)

Selected lectures

• 2024 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture, “Neijuan: Ambition and Exhaustion among Chinese Youth”, Rochester University, USA
  
• 2024 Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung, “The structure of freedom and the structure of responsibility” University of Heidelberg
  
• 2023 Great Minds lecture series, “Inside China”, Korea Educational Broadcasting System
  
• 2021 Hung Lecture, “Reproduction-driven labour migration from China” (University of Victoria, Canada)
  
• 2018 Gordon White Lecture, Sussex University
  
• 2015 Wertheim Lecture, University of Amsterdam and International Institute for Asian Studies
  
• Lectures on migration, development and wellbeing at various United Nations agencies

Exhibitions

• Social Art workshop and exhibition "Seeing the first 500 metres", 2022-2023, China, part of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2022. co-organizer with Jason Ho and Zhipeng Duan.
  
• Re-mind the ‘Nearby’: Migrant women in Halle (Saale) exhibition at Halle Stadtmuseum and online https://remindthenearby.eth.mpg.de/en, concept leader and contributor

Media interviews and citations (excluding Chinese media, 2024 only)

The Guardian; Neue Züricher Zeitung; Khabarhub; Equal Times; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Financial Times; Weltspiegel Doku; Asia Insight; BBC; Table.Briefings; NRC; L’Express; Süddeutsche Zeitung

Full list of media coverage after 2020