Biography


Anders Hansson 韩安德

Chief Editor of MRI Publications
Macau Ricci Institute


Anders Hansson studied Chinese at the University of Stockholm and later also in Hong Kong. He holds an M.A. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a Ph. D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. He worked as translator/cultural attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Peking 1971–73 and as a ‘foreign expert’ in Peking in the early 1980s. In the 1990s he taught Chinese language and culture at the University of Edinburgh and he was editor of the translation journal Renditions published at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 2007-09. His main research interest has been Ming and Qing dynasty social history. His publications include Chinese Outcasts: Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China (1996) and he is been the coeditor of the volumes The Chinese at Play: Festivals, Games and Leisure and Chinese Concepts of Privacy (both 2002). He has also written on Chinese popular music from a social and political perspective.

 

  


Publications of the Institute