Florian Schneider
Professor Modern China
- Name
- Prof.dr. F.A. Schneider
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2544
- f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7490-2187
Florian Schneider's research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is also managing editor of the academic journal ‘Asiascape: Digital Asia’
More information about Florian Schneider
Asiascape: Digital Asia
News
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China as a laboratory for the rest of the world -
New professor Florian Schneider: ‘Chinese citizens are more perturbed by climate change than many in America or Europa’ -
NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students -
All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up -
Education Festival presents the future of teaching -
Florian Schneider on China’s digital nationalism -
Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics -
‘Fantasies about coronavirus are more contagious than the disease itself’ -
Florian Schneider on the success of his 'role-playing' teaching -
Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year -
Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize -
‘My students don't stop at a six!'
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Who is the best lecturer in 2017? -
“It gets a lot of positive response” -
Veni grants for 6 young researchers of Humanities
PhD candidates
Fields of interest
Politics and Economics of Modern China, Chinese Media, China in International Relations, (Visual) Political Communication in China, Traditional Chinese Political Thought.
Supervision
I supervise MA theses on issues related to politics, international affairs, and media in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, though I also welcome projects that deal with politics and political communication in the East Asian region more generally. My PhD supervision focuses primarily on the digital politics of East Asia, with a special focus on China.
Research
Florian Schneider's research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy.
Florian’s most recent work focused on the political contents of mainland Chinese films and popular Chinese television series, including their production process, censorship, broadcasting, and audience reception. Methodologically his work has combined critical discourse analysis, semiotics, and iconography, as well as the analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews.
A current project deals with staged mass-media events in mainland China, such as the Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in 2008, the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 2009, and the Shanghai Expo in 2010. The project explores how the Chinese leadership makes use of such events to promote a national identity and legitimize its own rule. A primary question in this regard is how concepts of tradition and of modernization (or progress) feature into such events, and what impact they have on the interaction between China and other actors in the international community.
Professor Modern China
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Schneider F.A. (6 May 2024). Feeling the nudge: political communication and governance in digital China. Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Schneider F.A., Voo J. & Creemers R.J.E.H. (2020), Managing Corona Narratives in China and the US. Interviewed by . [interview].
- Schneider F.A. (19 January 2015), China ziet digitale informatie als uitzonderlijk gevaarlijk. Interviewed by Speelman Tabitha for Trouw, Nieuws buitenland. [interview].
- Schneider F.A. (8 December 2013), Disputes in the China Seas. Interviewed by Philips Keri for Radio National Rear Vision (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). [interview].
- Schneider F.A. (29 November 2013), China Air Defence Dispute - BBC World Service, World Have Your Say. Interviewed by McGovern Nuala for BBC (World Service). [interview].
- Academic Director
- Managing Editor of journal Asiascape: Digital Asia