Cheryl Mei-ting Schmitz received her PhD in Anthropology in 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2017 to 2019, she was a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai, and from 2019 to 2020, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the East China Normal University Research Institute of Anthropology, with support from the Luce/American Council of Learned Societies China Studies Program.
At the MPIWG, Cheryl was a member of the Lise Meitner Research Group "China in the Global System of Science." Her research project, Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion, followed the rapid development of African Studies in China in relation to contemporary geopolitics and shifting values in Chinese social sciences. Her publications on connections between China and the African continent have appeared in American Anthropologist, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and the Made in China Journal.
Projects
Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion
Observations Series
Selected Publications
Schmitz, Cheryl Mei-ting (2023). “Review of: Bunkenborg, Mikkel, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen: Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2022.” The Developing…
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Große-Bley, Jelena, Cheryl Mei-ting Schmitz, Fiona Anne Bewley, and Susan Greenhalgh (2023). China’s Nexus of State, Business, and Science: An Interview with Susan Greenhalgh. Observations 11. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science…
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Schmitz, Cheryl Mei-ting and Sarah Hanisch (2022). “Interview with Dr. Sarah Hanisch: A Gendered and Generational Approach to Migration and Social Mobility between Lesotho and Fuqing.” Ethnologie Chinas (blog), August 29, 2022. https:/…
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Schmitz, Cheryl Mei-ting (2022). “Review of: Driessen, Miriam: Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 2019.” Cahiers d’études africaines 245–246: 394–397. https://doi.org/10.4000…
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Schmitz, Cheryl Mei-ting (2014). “Significant Others: Security and Suspicion in Chinese-Angolan Encounters.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43 (1): 41–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261404300103.
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Schmitz, Cheryl Mei-ting (2021). “Review of: Wu, Di: Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia. London: Routledge 2021.” The China Quarterly 247: 923–924. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000655.
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Past Events
Colloquium
Open Science in University–Industry Research Collaboration in China: State of Affairs at the Policy-Level and Preliminary Evidence From the Field
MOREColloquium
Rethinking Internationalization of Higher Education in Light of the Transition from Innovation Systems to Innovation Ecosystems
MOREColloquium
China’s Digital Endeavour: Current Trends and Theoretical Issues
MOREWorkshop
Global Interference? Science and Foreign Policy Interactions in China
MOREResearch Workshop
Two Seed Stories: Integration of Climate Change into Chinese Social Science of Agriculture
MOREResearch Workshop
The Development of China’s English-Language Scientific Journals
MOREResearch Workshop
China’s Regime of Data
MOREResearch Workshop
AI Ethics Made in China: Moral Order and Work Culture in the Tech Industry
MOREResearch Workshop
Seeing Red: Theorizing the Intersection between Scientific Infrastructure and Geopolitics
MOREResearch Workshop
CRISPR/Cas9 to "Improve Population Quality"
MOREResearch Workshop
People, Policy & Practice of Europe-China Research Collaboration after 1978
MOREResearch Workshop
Secure the Scientist: Scientific Labour against the Backdrop of Great Power Competition
MOREResearch Workshop
The Study of African Studies in China: Some Methodological Challenges
MOREResearch Workshop
Technocracy 3.0? Science-Policy Interrelations in the PR China, 1949-2021
MORELaunch Event
Research Circuit: LMRG "China in the Global System of Science"
MOREPresentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Colloquium of the Regional Group China(s), German Anthropological Association (DGSKA)
Institute of Chinese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Annual Conference of the Working Group on Social Science Research in China (ASC), German Association of Asian Studies, Berlin
African Studies Lecture Series, Tsinghua University Institute for International and Area Studies
CA/AC Online Mini-Symposium
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association