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. (2024), The video game Chinese parents and its political potentials. In: Guo L., Eyman D. & Su H. (Eds.), Games and play in Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Seatle: University of Washington Press. 213-232.
- Schneider F.A. (2024), Nationalisms on China’s evolving internet, Communication and the Public : .
- Schneider F.A. (2023), The shape of the Asiascape: ten years of Digital Asia research, Asiascape: Digital Asia 10(1-2): 5-29.
- Schneider F. A. (2023), Reality decoupling: rumours, disinformation, and studying the politics of truth in digital Asia, Asiascape: Digital Asia 10(1/2): 181-207.
- Schneider F.A. (2023), China’s digital nationalism. In: Lu Z. (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. New York/London: Routledge. 167-180.
- Ismangil M.S. & Schneider F.A. (2023), Hong Kong’s Networked Agitprop: Popular Nationalism in the Wake of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protests, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 52(3): 488-517.
- Schneider F.A. (2023), Communication and censorship. In: She C. & Cao Q. (Eds.), Routledge resources online - Chinese studies: Chinese media, communication and technology. London: Routledge.
- Schneider F.A. (2022), Emergent nationalism in China's sociotechnical networks: How technological affordance and complexity amplify digital nationalism, Nations and Nationalism 28(1): 267-285.
- Veere A.P. van der, Schneider F.A. & Lo C.Y. (Eds.) (2022), Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises. Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Kuai J. & Schneider F.A. 9 May 2022, Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic: A Conversation with Florian Schneider. The Nordic Asia Podcast. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies [podcast].
- Schneider F.A. (2022), Review of: Liu J. (2020), Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China . New York: Oxford University Press. The China Quarterly 251: 959-960.
- Schneider F.A. (2022), Political Communication in Xi’s China: Mao and the Cultural Revolution as Analogies for PRC Current Affairs. In: Shih C.Y., Singh S. & Marwah R. (Eds.), Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution, Volume 1: Reinterpreting Ideologies and Ideological Reinterpretations. Singapore: World Scientific. 91–114.
- Schneider F.A. (Ed.) (2021), Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Schneider F.A. (2021), Actors and agency in China's Belt and Road Initiative: an introduction. In: Schneider F.A. (Ed.), Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 11-32.
- Schneider F.A. (2021), COVID-19 nationalism and the visual construction of sovereignty during China’s coronavirus crisis, China Information 35(3): 301-324.
- Schneider F.A. (17 August 2021), China’s Digital Nationalism and Activism: Insights from Florian Schneider Interviewed by Mercy Kuo for Interviews/Society/East Asia [interview].
- Schneider F.A. (2021), China’s viral villages: Digital nationalism and the COVID-19 crisis on online video-sharing platform Bilibili, Communication and the Public 6(1-4): 48-66.
- Barendregt B.A. & Schneider F.A. (2020), Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online, Asiascape: Digital Asia 7(1-2): 5-19.
- Schneider F.A., Veere A.P. van der, Lammertink J.P., Burgers E.M., Sicinski R.G. & Zhang S. (2020), How Asia Confronts COVID-19 through Technology. Leiden: LeidenAsiaCentre.
- Schneider F.A. (2020), COVID-19 Apps in Asia: Risks, Opportunities, and Lessons. In: Schneider F.A. & Creemers R.J.E.H. (Eds.), How Asia Confronts COVID-19 through Technology. Leiden: LeidenAsiaCentre. 51-57.
- Schneider F.A. (2019), Programming China’s Image through the Beijing Olympics: A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwanese Television Broadcasts of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. In: Ikeda K., Woo C.W. & Ren T. (Eds.), Media, Sport, Nationalism. East Asia: Soft Power Projection via the Modern Olympic Games. Berlin: Logos. 227-250.
- Schneider F.A. (2019), Staging China - The Politics of Mass Spectacle. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Schneider F.A. (2019), Digital smartness: rethinking communities and citizenship in the face of ‘smart’ technology, Asiascape: Digital Asia 6(3): 152-159.
- Schneider F.A. (15 July 2019), Audrey Tang Discusses Taiwan’s Digital Politics - An Interview on Participatory Politics, Social Technology, and Digital Democracy after the Sunflower Movement. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2019), The cultural governance of China's mass media events: how the PRC manages discourses in complex media environments. In: Shei C. (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of Chinese discourse analysis. London/New York: Routledge. 458-469.
- Schneider F.A. (2018), Mediated Massacre: Digital Nationalism and History Discourse on China's Web, Journal of Asian Studies 77(2): 429-452.
- Faust M., Schneider F.A., Herdin T., Ji D., Negro G., Zhou T., Vargas Façanha M.A. & Oliveira Nascimento A.K. de (2018), BRICS as formation to study visual online communication? : A dialogue on historical origins, perspectives on theory and future directions, China Media Research 14(2): 85-97.
- Schneider F.A. (2018), China's Digital Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Schneider F.A. (2017), China’s ‘Big V’ Bloggers: How Celebrities Intervene in Digital Sino-Japanese Relations, Celebrity Studies 8(2): 331-336.
- Schneider F.A. (2017), Review of: DeLisle Jacques, Goldstein Avery & Yang Guobin (2016), The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Asiascape: Digital Asia 4(1-2): 147-157.
- Schneider F.A. (2016), The Cultural Governance of Mass Media in Contemporary China. In: Keane M. (Ed.), The Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in China. Handbook of Research on Contemporary China. Cheltenham & Northampton (MA): Edward Elgar. 189-206.
- Schneider F.A. (3 June 2016), Studying Digital China’s Networks and Media Objects. Studying Digital China’s Networks and Media Objects. Nottingham: China Policy Institute. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2016), China’s ‘info-web’: How Beijing governs online political communication about Japan, New Media & Society 18(11): 2664-2684.
- Schneider F.A. (2015), Searching for ‘Digital Asia’ in its Networks: Where the Spatial Turn Meets the Digital Turn, Asiascape: Digital Asia 2(1-2): 57-92.
- Schneider F.A. (26 January 2015), Who Shapes International Politics? Thoughts on the Conference "Informal Political Actors in East Asia, Russia and the Arab World" at Sheffield University. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: PoliticsEastAsia.com. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (12 January 2015), What to Show on Your Slides ...and How to "Snazze" up Your Slides with Prezi. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: PoliticsEastAsia.com. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. & Goto-Jones C.S. (2015), Where Is Digital Asia? Introduction to the Second Special Issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia, Asiascape: Digital Asia 2(1-2): 5-10.
- Schneider F.A. (2015), Review of: Hoofd I.M., Ambiguities of Activism – Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed. Asiascape: Digital Asia 2(3): 308-311.
- Schneider F.A. (2014), Reconceptualising World Order: Chinese Political Thought and Its cChallenge to International Relations Theory, Review of International Studies 40(4): 683-703.
- Schneider F.A. (2014), It's a small world after all? Simulating the future world order at the Shanghai Expo. In: Cao Q., Tian H.L. & Chilton P. (Eds.), Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 97-120.
- Schneider F.A. & Hwang Y. (2014), China’s Road to Revival: “Writing” the PRC’s Struggles for Modernisation. In: Cao Q., Tian H. & Chilton P. (Eds.), Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China. U.S.: John Benjamins. 145–170.
- Schneider F.A. (Ed.) (2014), . Asiascape: Digital Asia.
- Schneider F.A. (18 February 2014), What’s in a Methodology? The Difference between Method, Methodology, and Theory... and How to Get the Balance Right. PoliticsEastAsia.com. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (22 December 2014), The Politics of Digital Tools - What Decides How We Use Digital Media Technologies? . PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: PoliticsEastAsia.com. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2014) Blocked on Weibo – What Gets Supressed on China’s Version of Twitter (and Why), by Jason Ng (2013). Review of: Ng Jason Q. (2013), Blocked on Weibo – What Gets Supressed on China’s Version of Twitter (and Why). New York & London: The New Press. Asiascape: Digital Asia 1(3): 223-228.
- Schneider F.A. (26 May 2014), Are scholars too slow for Asia? What Academics and Bloggers Can Learn from Each Other. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2014) Book Review "Digital Methods" by Richard Rogers (2013). Review of: Rogers Richard (2013), Digital Methods. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press. Asiascape: Digital Asia 1(1-2): 127-130.
- Schneider F.A. (1 December 2014), Five Ways to Do a Good Presentation ...and Why Reading Your Paper Out Loud Is Not One of Them. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: PoliticsEastAsia.com. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. & Goto-Jones C.S. (2014), Revisiting the Emancipatory Potential of Digital Media in Asia – Introduction to the Inaugural Issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia, Asiascape: Digital Asia 1(1-2): 3-13.
- Schneider F.A. & Huang Y. (2014), The Sichuan Earthquake and the Heavenly Mandate: Legitimizing Chinese Rule through Disaster Discourse, Journal of Contemporary China 23(88): 636-656.
- Schneider F.A., PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [web article].
- Schneider F.A. (29 July 2013), An Introduction to Visual Communication Analysis - How to Analyze the Political Meanings of Pictures and Moving Images. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (3 June 2013), Studying the Patterns of Mass Communication - Why Media Content Still Matters. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (20 May 2013), Discourse Analysis and Foreign Languages - The Challenge of Working with East Asian Scripts. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (11 November 2013), The Mass-Media Logic behind China’s Internet Controls - How the Chinese Government Is Applying 20th Century Thinking to 21st Century Technology. China Policy Institute Blog. Nottingham: The University of Nottingham. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (13 May 2013), How to Do a Discourse Analysis - A Toolbox for Analysing Political Texts. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (4 November 2013), Why Digital Humanities? Art and Critical Thinking Can Start at the Code. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (6 May 2013), Getting the Hang of Discourse Theory - An Introduction to the Field. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (5 May 2013), The Challenge of Studying Digital Asia - An Introduction to Asiascape: Digital Asia. Asiascape.org. Leiden: Asiascape.org. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (17 June 2013), Political Communication at the Shanghai Expo - Why Theories of Domination and Resistance Do Not Tell the Whole Story of How Mass-Media Events Work. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (28 October 2013), Thoughts on the Fourth International Conference on Multicultural Discourse - Is Discourse Analysis a "Western" Project?. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. & Glenn R.A. (15 July 2013), International Politics and China’s Foreign Policy - An Interview with Russ Glenn. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (23 September 2013), What North Korea Has to Do with the 2013 German Election - And Do Germans Who Refuse to Vote Support Kim Jong-Un?. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (6 May 2013), Video Introduction to Discourse Analysis. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Youtube. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (1 July 2013), A Rough Guide to the Theory of Semiotics - How Communication Works as a Series of Signs. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (6 May 2013), Setting up a Discourse Analysis - Tips and Tricks on How to Create a Professional Discourse Analysis Project. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2013), The Futurities and Utopias of the Shanghai World Exposition - A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Expo 2010 Theme Pavilions, Asiascape Occasional Papers (7): 1-17.
- Schneider F.A. (17 September 2013), Making Sense of the Recent Chinese Propaganda Campaigns - Does the Visual Rhetoric Mean that Mao Is Back?. PoliticsEastAsia.com. Leiden: Florian Schneider. [blog entry].
- Schneider F.A. (2012), Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
- Schneider F.A. (2011) Book Review: Multifaceted identity of interethnic young people – chameleon identities. Review of: (2010), Multifaceted identity of interethnic young people – chameleon identities. Farnham & Burlington: Ashgate. Asian Ethnicity iFirst: 1-3.
- Hwang Yih-Jye & Schneider F.A. (2011), Performance, Meaning, and Ideology in the Making of Legitimacy: The Celebrations of the People’s Republic of China’s Sixty-Year Anniversary, The China Review 11(1): 27-56.
- Schneider F.A. (16 April 2009), Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (Dissertatie, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield). Sheffield. Supervisor(s): Chen L. & Dobson H.
- Schneider F.A. (2009) Book Review: Ying ZHU, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market. Review of: (2008), Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market no. 2. London & New York: Routledge. China Information 23: 348-349.
- Schneider F.A. (2006), Konstruktion einer Krise: Wertesysteme und Identitäten im aktuellen koreanischen Nuklearkonflik. In: Schottenhammer A. (Ed.), China’s Eintritt in die Weltpolitik – Außenpolitisches Handeln am Beispiel Europas, Koreas, und des Nahen Ostens. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde. 77-108.
- Academic Director
- Managing Editor of journal Asiascape: Digital Asia