Dr Christina Maags

School of East Asian Studies

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies

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Dr Christina Maags
School of East Asian Studies
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Profile

Dr Maags joined SEAS in 2020 after working as Lecturer in Chinese Politics at SOAS (2017-2020).

She completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Frankfurt, Germany (2017) and studied in Oxford, Frankfurt and Bonn. In addition, she has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (2016).

Qualifications

BA Asian Studies (Bonn); MA East Asian Studies (Frankfurt); Msc Comparative Social Policy (Oxford); PhD Political Science (Frankfurt)

Research interests

Christina's research interests include political economy, multi-level governance and local policy implementation in the People’s Republic of China. Using these analytical frameworks as a lens, she has particularly conducted research on cultural heritage politics and the politics of demographic ageing in contemporary China.

Publications

Books

  • Maags C & Zhu Y (2020) Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past. Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Svensson M (2018) Chinese Cultural Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations. Amsterdam University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Maags C (2023) . Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Demgenski P (2021) 中国非物质文化遗产与市场: 自我经营的非遗传承人. 文化遗产. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2020) . Social Policy & Administration. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2020) . International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(3), 273-290. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2020) . Politics & Policy, 48(1), 69-106. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2019) . Perspectives on Politics, 17(4), 1227-1229. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2019) . International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25(8), 780-795. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Trifu I (2019) . Politics & Policy, 47(2), 326-380. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Holbig H (2016) . International Journal of Cultural Property, 23(1), 71-97. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2014) . Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(1), 33-55. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C () Common, Luxury and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage Markets in China. China Perspectives. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C () Marketization of Eldercare in Urban China: Processes, Effects and Implications. Modern China. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Alpermann B & Maags C (2024) , Complexity Thinking and China’s Demography Within and Beyond Mainland China (pp. 27-63). Springer Nature Singapore RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2021) Cultural heritage politics in China In Shei C (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies (pp. 177-177). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2018) Cultural Contestation in China: Ethnicity, Identity and the State In Rodenberg J & Wagenaar P (Ed.), Cultural Contestation: Heritage, Ethnicity and the Role of Government RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2018) , Chinese Heritage in the Making (pp. 121-144). Amsterdam University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Svensson M (2018) Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency In Maags C & Svensson M (Ed.), Chinese Heritage in the Making Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C & Trifu I (2018) Protecting the Weak? Tracing UNESCO’s Influence on Intangible Cultural Heritage Regimes in Japan and China In Amelung I, Baelz M, Holbig H, Matthias S & Storz C (Ed.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia. Framing, Mobilisation, Institutionalisation RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2018) , CHINESE HERITAGE IN THE MAKING: EXPERIENCES, NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTESTATIONS (pp. 121-144). RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Maags C (2023) . The Journal of Development Studies, 59(7), 1117-1118. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2022) . China Information, 36(1), 145-147. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2019) “Popular Protest in China” (Teresa Wright). The Political Quarterly, 90(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maags C (2018) Financing Healthcare in China: Towards Universal Health Insurance Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk London and New York: Routledge, 2017 xii + 137 pp. ?90.00 ISBN 978-1-138-84439-1. The China Quarterly, 235. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Dr Maags is currently working on two major research projects:

Political Economy of Elder Care in China

This project examines the development of elder care services across China. It compares how differences in multi-level governance across space result in diverging approaches to elder care service development in urban and rural areas and by extension diversity in local elder care service industries.

Intangible Heritage, the Market & the Stat

This project examines the political economy underlying the marketization of intangible cultural heritage in the tourism and creative industries in China, particularly focusing on how these affect cultural practitioners.

In her research, Dr Maags pays particular attention to interactions and interdependencies across global, national and local scales.

Teaching interests

Dr Maags believes that teaching courses means to take students on a “journey”. Throughout the course students are familiarised with different issues and perspectives which need to be critically engaged and discussed.

Her teaching therefore focuses on letting students interact with the course topic in various ways so as to get different experiences in relation to the topic of the course.

 To do so, Dr Maags includes a variety of sources (reading materials, films/documentaries, online talks, policies and laws) and types of exercises in her teaching so as to keep students interested and engaged throughout the journey.

Teaching activities

For academic year 2021/22 I am teaching the following modules:

  • EAS1000 Exploring East Asia
  • EAS6143 Political Economy of China
  • EAS680 State and Economy in Contemporary China