Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz

Biography

Cecilia Milwertz works as senior researcher at NIAS. With communication studies scholar Professor Bu Wei from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences she is developing a research project on linkages and inseparabilities between workers in the PRC and consumers in urban China as well as in the Nordic countries. Together with philosopher/sociologist Wang Fengxian, the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences she has for many years, and is still, engaged in studying relations of NGOs in the PRC with domestic party-state institutions and foreign development aid entities. Their book on non-governmental organizing in the PRC was published by China Social Sciences Press in December 2014. Her more than twenty years of research on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has included a study of the population control policy as viewed from the perspective of one-child mothers, work on the first bottom up women’s organizations in Beijing and on non-governmental gender and development organizing in three PRC provinces. She applies a hybrid and always inductive approach to studying China based on a humanities and social sciences educational background in China studies and cultural sociology and a lot of borrowing and inspiration from anthropology, gender studies and other fields.

Research Interest

Encounters between Asia and the Nordic countries/Europe, gender, non-governmental organizing, People’s Republic of China.