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Fredrik Fällman
Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages and LiteraturesAbout Fredrik Fällman
Researcher, teacher, Associate Professor of Sinology
Background
After undergraduate studies at Stockholm University, I studied in Beijing (Chinese language) and Wuhan (Modern Chinese history) in the 1990s, and was awarded my PhD in Stockholm in 2004 after defending my dissertation on “cultural Christians” in contemporary China. I have been a visiting researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2003), and at Renmin University of China (2007), also being a Distinguished Adjunct Researcher at the latter 2010-2014. I was co-ordinator at the Nordic Confucius Institute in Stockholm from 2005 to 2006, and Researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities from 2007 to 2011. From 2012 to 2013 I was a Senior Research Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong. Board member at the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong, 2009-2018.
In 2022 I was elected a Member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg.
Teaching
I teach Chinese at all levels, language courses as well as Chinese ancient and modern history, religion, history of ideas, propaganda etc.
Research
I started to take an interest in the role of religion in China during my time as a student in Beijing in the 1990s. Since then I have moved from a historical perspective to focusing on the contemporary situation. I am particularly interested in the faith of Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and other cultural figures.
In recent years I have also become interested in religious and ethnic policies and their implications. The cultural exchange between China and the West is also one of my research interests, especially Christian mission to China and its significance, but also the role of Sinology for the image of China in the West.
Another research interest is propaganda language and the role of nationalism in propaganda, especially recontextualization of certain concepts, but also how propaganda phrases emerge and sometimes change function.
I also lecture outside the university quite often, take part in panel discussions and lead talks on China related issues.
Talk with author Liao Yiwu 5 June 2015 (Gothenburg Public Library)
Panel about Hong Kong 16 February 2022 (Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Swedish PEN)
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序言
Fredrik Fällman
混现代 人文批评 世界关系美学 Mixed-modern, Humanist Criticism, World Relational Aesthetics - 2024 -
混现代 人文批评
世界关系美学
Fredrik Fällman, Changping Zha
2024 -
China with Chinese
characteristics?
Fredrik Fällman
What is China? Observations and perspectives (Torbjörn Loden, ed.) - 2023 -
詮釋的衝突?在當代中國閱讀聖經
Fredrik Fällman
聖書的激盪——在漢語語境中使用聖經 (The Use of the Bible in the Chinese Context) - 2023 -
‘The Old Khanim in Kucha’. Fragments of the Life of Swedish Missionary Lovisa Engvall in Xinjiang
1900–1935.
Fredrik Fällman
Community Still Matters. Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context / edited by Aysima Mirsultan, Eric Schluessel and Eset Sulaiman. - 2022 -
The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, Western China: crossroads of the silk roads
edited by Alison Betts, Marika Vicziany, Peter Weiming Jia and Angelo Andrea Di Castro, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2019, 218 pp., £38.00 (paperback), ISBN:
9781789694062
Fredrik Fällman
Asian Ethnicity - 2021 -
Öst- och
Centralasien
Fredrik Fällman
Svensk mission och kyrkorna som växt fram / Klas Lundström, Kajsa Ahlstrand, Jan-Åke Alvarsson, Göran Janzon (red.) - 2021 -
Reducing the Burden of Religious Activities. On Propaganda, Social Action, and the Role of Christian Churches in Civil
Society.
Fredrik Fällman
Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China / Shun-hing Chan and Jonathan W. Johnson eds. - 2021 -
Maria Lovisa
Engvall
Fredrik Fällman
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2021 -
楊序
Fredrik Fällman
荒原仄徑——1949年前來華傳教士的穆宣足跡 - 2020 -
Uppgiven reaktion mot Kina – kardinal Bos attack väcker
frågor
Fredrik Fällman
Signum - 2020 -
Li Ma and Jin Li, Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China. Studies in Chinese Christianity. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017. 226 pp., paperback, US$27.00, ISBN
9781532634604.
Fredrik Fällman
Ching Feng - 2020 -
Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P. K. Chiu, editors. Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story (Sheng Kung Hui: Historical Studies of Anglican Christianity in China). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. xvi, 274 pp. Hardcover $60,
ISBN
978-988-8455-92-8.
Fredrik Fällman
China Review International - 2020 -
Hilma Kristina
Börjesson
Fredrik Fällman
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2020 -
Både först och sist: Fredrik Coyet som opperhoofd i Dejima och guvernör över
Formosa
Fredrik Fällman
Kawauso: simmandes i språkströmmen / Shimotori, Misuzu och Ivarsson, Fusae (red.) - 2019 -
En ”kinesisk” kristendom? Om anpassning och sinisering av religion i folkrepubliken
Kina.
Fredrik Fällman
Signum - 2019 -
"Two Small Copper Coins" and much more: Chinese Protestant Women and their Contributions to the Church—Cases from Past and
Present
Fredrik Fällman
The Contribution of Chinese Women to the Church / Adamek Piotr, Sonja Huang Meitin (eds.). - 2019 -
Sino-Theology and the Philosophy of History: A Collection of Essays by Liu Xiaofeng. Liu Xiaofeng. Trans. with commentary Leopold Leeb. Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN:
978-90-04-29281-9
Fredrik Fällman
Christianity & Literature - 2018 -
“Two Small Copper Coins” and Much More: Chinese Protestant Women and Their Contributions to the Church – Cases from Past and
Present
Fredrik Fällman
Religions & Christianity in Today’s China - 2018 -
Crossing borders – identities, ideologies and intercultural
communication
Fredrik Fällman
National Image and Intercultural Communication 国家形象与跨文化传播 (Shan Bo & Liu Xinya eds.) - 2017 -
Evangelisierung in der evangelischen Kirche in China - Reflexionen eines westlichen
Sinologen
Fredrik Fällman
China Heute - 2017 -
Public Faith? Five Voices of Chinese Christian
Thought
Fredrik Fällman
Contemporary Chinese thought - 2016 -
Defining the past and shaping the future: reflections on Xinjiang narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui relations, and the perspectives of
research
Fredrik Fällman
Kashgar Revisited : Uyghur studies in memory of ambassador Gunnar Jarring / Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun Sugawara eds. - 2016 -
Christianity. Edited by Zhuo Xinping. Religious Studies in Contemporary China Collection 3. Leiden: Brill,
2013
Fredrik Fällman
Review of Religion and Chinese Society - 2016 -
隐藏的历史——瑞典教会档案的汉语文献、图片和故事
Fredrik Fällman
宗教与历史辑刊 (Journal of the Study on Religion and History) 6-7, 汉语文献与中国基督教研究 (Chinese documents and the History of Research on Christianity in China) - 2016 -
Five Voices of Chinese Christian
Thought
Fredrik Fällman
Contemporary Chinese thought - 2016 -
Evangelisation in the Protestant Church in China – Reflections of a Western
Sinologist
Fredrik Fällman
Religions & Christianity in Today’s China - 2016 -
Small in scale, but large in numbers: Case studies of Swedish missionaries in China and their political, educational and medical
impact
Fredrik Fällman
Western Tides Coming Ashore in a Changing World: Christianity and China’s Passage into Modernity 變局下的西潮:基督教與中國的現代性 - 2015 -
PETER TZE MING NG, Chinese Christianity: An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives. Religion in Chinese Societies, vol.
4
Fredrik Fällman
Journal of Chinese Religions - 2015 -
Enlightened or not? Notes on Liu Xiaofeng and the "Father of the
Nation"
Fredrik Fällman
Orientaliska studier - 2014 -
Foreword to Luo Fei's collection of
writings
Fredrik Fällman
To Start from Art 从艺术出发 (Luo, Fei, författare) - 2014 -
艺术的逻辑:信仰的人文:对十年《人文艺术》的反思
Fredrik Fällman
人文艺术 Humanities Art - 2014 -
Beundrade och föraktade : kineserna med europeiska
ögon
Fredrik Fällman
Samband Historia Tema (Niklas Ericsson red.) - 2013 -
Calvin, Culture and Christ? Developments of faith among Chinese
intellectuals
Fredrik Fällman
Christianity in Contemporary China: Socio-cultural perspectives (Francis Lim Khek Gee ed.) - 2012 -
Hanxue he jinri zhi "baima": shou Gongsun Long de qifa taolun wenhua he jiaoliu (汉学和今日之「白马」:
受公孙龙的启发讨论文化和交流)
Fredrik Fällman
Shijie hanxue 世界汉学 (World Sinology) - 2011