
Jelena Große-Bley
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2020-Sep 2025)
Jelena Grosse-Bley holds an MA in Modern East Asian Studies from Georg August University of Göttingen and an MSc in Environmental Management from The University of Hong Kong. Before joining the China Studies Institute at Free University of Berlin in 2018 as a lecturer and research affiliate, she spent a number of years studying and working in various locations across Greater China, including two years at Peking University, Beijing. She started pursuing her PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin as part of the IRI THESys Graduate Program in 2020. Her project is concerned with the local environmental knowledge of farmers in climate change-affected areas in the People’s Republic of China. She seeks to understand the role local farmers’ knowledge plays in "elite" discourses as well as in agricultural practice around questions of climate change adaptation. At the MPIWG, she is a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Research Group China in the Global System of Science.
Projekte
Selected Publications
Große-Bley, Jelena (2022). “Perspectives on Crop Seeds in the Wake of China’s Modern Seed Industry.” Sino-German Agricultural and Food Update 17 (2021/22) (January): 3–7. https://www.dcz-china.org/newsletter-archive.html.
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Große-Bley, Jelena (2022). “Local Meteorological Services in the Mao and Reform-Era in China.” Observations 8. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3481149.
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Kaufmann, Lena (2021). Interview with Dr. Lena Kaufmann: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Farmland and Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China Interview by Jelena Große-Bley. Ethnologie Chinas. August 25, 2021.
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Marinaccio , Julia, and Jelena Große-Bley (2021). “Grassroots Cadres as Trainers.” In Marinaccio, Julia: Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China, 122–144. München: Oekom.
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