CURRUCULUM VITAÉ 15.8.2017 Personal Details Name PALTEMAA, Veli Lauri Tuomas Contact Information Tel.: (work) +358 29 450 3059 (mobile) +358 (0)40 7407753 E-mail: lauri.paltemaa@utu.fi http://users.utu.fi/laupalt Educational Background: Degrees and Studies Taken VTT (Dr. Social Sciences), 22.3.2006, University of Turku, Contemporary History Thesis Title: In the Vanguard of History -The Beijing Democracy Wall Movement 1978-1981 and Social Mobilisation of Former Red Guard Dissent Grade: Eximia cum laude appropatur VTM (Master of Social Sciences), 1998, University of Turku, Political Science 31.5.1997 MA thesis grade: Magna cum laude Second MA thesis, Contemporary History, grade: Passed Ylioppilas (High school graduate) 1991, Lappeenrannan Lyseo, High School of Lappeenranta, General grading: Laudatur (excellent) Language Skills, native speaker Swedish: good written and oral skill : excellent written and oral skills German: fair written and oral skills Chinese (Mandarin): good reading, fair oral skills Work History 1.1.2015 Professor of East Asian Contemporary History and Politics, Director, the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku 1.8.2013 31.12.2014 Professor ad interim, the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku 01.01.2010 31.7.2013 University Research Fellow (yliopistotutkija), Centre for East Asian Studies, CEAS, University of Turku, Vice-director responsible for administration, budget, personnel and curriculum matters 01.08.2009-1.1.2010 Senior Research Fellow (yliassistentti), Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, vice-director 01.10.2008 31.7.2009 Professor ad interim (vt. professori), Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, director 01.01.2006 31.9.2008 Senior Research Fellow (yliassitentti), Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, vice-director 01.01.2002 31.12.2005, Doctoral Student (tohtorikoulutettava), Graduate School of Contemporary Asian Studies, University of Turku 01.11.2000-31.12.2001 Research Assistant (tutkimusassitentti), University of Turku, Department of Contemporary History, AsiaNet virtual education programme Achievements as Academic Expert 1
Docentship in Chinese Contemporary History (Kiinan oman aikamme historia), University of Turku, Contemporary History 27.1.2012 Supervised PhD theses: 2 completed, 8 under supervision (includes acting as the second supervisor) Licentiate theses: 1 completed MA theses: > 30 completed, under supervision > 20 (January 2017) Major Academic Responsibilities (Memberships of Board, etc.) Member of the Board, Nordic Association of Chinese Studies (NACS) 14.6.2013 2015 Chair, Nordic Association of Chinese Studies (NACS) 17.6.2011 14.6.2013 Chair, University Network for Asian Studies 1.10.2008 31.7.2009, 1.12.2010 - Director, Graduate School of Asian Studies (GSAS) 1.10.2008 31.7.2009 Vice-member, Department Council of the Department of Political Studies 2010 - Member of the Board, Nordic NIAS Council (NNC) 2008- Member of the Board, European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), 2004 2008 Vice Member of the Board, Nordic Association of Chinese Studies (NACS) Board 2003-2007 Member of the Doctoral Education Committee of the University of Turku 2004-2007 PUBLICATIONS 1. Articles in Refereed Scientific Journals China s Changing Disaster Management Regime, China Information, Volume 31, Issue 3, (November 2017) Persistent Questions and Emerging New Trends - Researching Disasters and Disaster Management in China, China Information, special issue on disaster management v31 n3 (November 2017) Juha A. Vuori and Lauri Paltemaa: The Lexicon of Fear: Chinese Internet Control Practice in Sina Weibo Microblog Censorship. Surveillance & Society, vol. 13, no 3/4 (2015), 400-421, on-line journal Lauri Paltemaa: Serve the City! Urban Disaster Governance in Tianjin City 1958-1962". Modern Asian Studies, vol. 49, Issue 4, July 2015, pp 1143-1176 Lauri Paltemaa: The Maoist Urban State and Crisis: Comparing Disaster management in the Great Tianjin Flood in 1963 and the Great Leap Forward Famine. The China Journal, Issue 66, July 2011, pp. 25-51 Lauri Paltemaa and Juha A. Vuori: Regime Transition and the Chinese Politics of Technology From Mass Science to the Controlled Internet. Asian Journal of Political Science 2009 vol. 17, no 1, pp. 1-23 Lauri Paltemaa: The Democracy Wall Movement, Marxist Revisionism, and the Variations on Socialist Democracy. Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 16, No 53, 2007, 601-626 Lauri Paltemaa and Juha A. Vuori: How Cheap Is Talk? A Framework of Identity Frames and Security Discourse for the Analysis of Repression and Legitimization of Social Movements in China. Issues & Studies 42, no. 3 (September 2006), 47-86 2
Lauri Paltemaa: Individual and Collective Identities of the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement Activists, 1978 1981. China Information Vol. 10 No. 3 (2005), 433-487 Lauri Paltemaa: Western Historiography on China and Criticism of Its Euro-Centricity. Berliner China Hefte no. 26 May 2004, 77-89 Juha A. Vuori and Lauri Paltemaa: Kamppailu identiteeteistä - Identiteettiväittämät ja turvallisuusdiskurssi yhteiskunnallisten liikkeiden tukahduttamisessa ja oikeuttamisessa Kiinan kansantasavallassa, [The Struggle over Identities Identity Frames, Security Discourse and Repression and Justification of Social Movements in the People s Republic of China], Politiikka 2007 XLIX (3), 182-193 Kohti demokratiaa? Kiinan poliittisen kehityksen kolme skenaariota, [Towards Democracy? Three Scenarios of Chinese Political Future], Futura 25(3) 2006, 6-18 Vaaralliset bitit Kiinan valvotun internetin yhteiskunnallisesta merkityksestä, [Dangerous Bytes The Social Implications of the Controlled Internet in China], Kosmopolis 35(4), 2005 [Published August 2006], 52-59 Jättiläinen savijaloilla? -Kiinan vakautta koskevan keskustelun tarkastelua [Giant on Clay Feet? -Analysis of the Current Views Concerning the Stability of the Chinese Society], Ajankohta 2004, Helsingin ja Turun yliopistojen Poliittisen historian laitokset, Turku 2004, 109-140 Yhdysvaltojen sodat ismejä vastaan [The US Wars against Isms], (co-written with Juha Vuori) Näkökulma-artikkeli, Kosmopolis vol. 33 No.3, 2003, 75-80 Aasian historian jäljillä -länsimaisen Aasiaan kohdistuvan historiankirjoituksen kompastuskohtia ja uusia alkuja. [In Search of Asian History -Dead Ends and New Beginnings In Western Historiography on Asia], Ajankohta 2003, Helsingin ja Turun yliopistojen Poliittisen historian laitokset, Helsinki 2003, 25 pages A Westerner Writing Asian History -How to Face the Challenges of Ethnocentrism and Dialogue, Ajankohta 2002, Helsingin ja Turun yliopistojen Poliittisen historian laitokset, Turku 2002, 28 pages 2. Articles in Edited Volumes and Refereed Conference Publications Juha A. Vuori and Lauri Paltemaa: Chinese Internet Control over Social Media Discourse, in Chris Shei (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis. Routledge, London 2018 (forthcoming) There Is No Crisis and It Is Going to Go Away Soon, Anyhow Propaganda, Denialism and Revisionism in Debating the Great Leap Forward Famine, in Alan Baumler (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary Chinese History, London: Routledge 2017 (forthcoming) "Famines", in Michael Dillon (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Chinese History. Routledge, London 2017, 152-154 3
These Bytes Can Bite Chinese Politics of Technology and the Controlled Internet, in Jarmo Rinne and Tapio Höyhtiö (eds.): Net working/networking- Politics on the Internet, Tampere University Press, Tampere 2008, 189-204 Human Rights from the Left The Early Chinese Democracy Movement and Reconciling Human Rights with Marxism, in Damien Kingsbury and Leena Avonius, (eds.): Human Rights in Asia -A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2008, 63-82 Looking for the New Perspectives Rethinking the Roots of the Early Post-Mao Chinese Dissidence, in Ville Pernaa (ed.), Ajankohta 2000, Turku 2000, 17 pages Mao s Unfilial Sons Cultural Revolution and the Democratic Critics of the Early Modernisation Period, in Eevamaria Mielonen (ed.): China@com näkökulmia 2000- luvun Aasiaan, Turun Yliopiston Poliittisen historian tutkimuksia 18, Turku 2000, 30 pages Itä-Aasiaa tutkimassa. Teokessa Timo Soikkanen (ed.): Lähihistorian palveluksessa Turun poliittinen historia 50 vuotta. Turku, Poliittisen historian raportteja 10, 2015, 143-155 Kaupunkien ja maaseudun epätasa-arvoinen suhde. Teoksessa Outi Luova (ed.): Kiinan miljoonakaupungit hallinto, liike-elämä ja elinympäristö muutoksessa. Helsinki, Gaudeamus 2010, 51-70 Demokratialiike 1989 tapahtumien jälkeen, [The Democracy Movement after the events in 1989] in Raisa Asikainen, Teemu Naarajärvi and Juha A. Vuori (eds.): Pekingin kevät 1989 Tiananmen ja kiinalaisen aktivismin rajat. Helsinki, Gaudeamus 2009, 179-195 Uudistusajan Kiinan demokratialiike, [The Democracy Movement during the Reform Period] in Raisa Asikainen, Teemu Naarajärvi and Juha A. Vuori (eds.): Pekingin kevät 1989 Tiananmen ja kiinalaisen aktivismin rajat. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2009, 123-132 Kiinan protestiliikehdintä ja yhteiskunnallinen vakaus [Social Protest and Social Stability in China], in Raisa Asikainen & Juha Vuori (eds.): Kiinan yhteiskunta muutoksessa, Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2005, 149-170 Voitto Helander, Soile Kuitunen, and Lauri Paltemaa (eds.): Kansalaisesta aktiiviksi, aktiivista edustajaksi [From a Citizen to a Candidate, from a Candidate a to a Member of the Parliament] Turun yliopiston valtio-opin laitoksen julkaisuja 51. 1997, University of Turku, Turku 3. Monographs Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China: Tianjin 1958-1985. London: Routledge 2016 In the Vanguard of History -the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement 1978-1981 and Social Mobilisation of Former Red Guard Dissent. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B Tom. 288, Humaniora, Turku 2005, 390 pages 4
Lauri Paltemaa and Juha A. Vuori: Kiinan kansantasavallan historia [A History of the People s-republic of China]. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2012, 504 pages 4. Other Scientific Publications Book review: Jeremy Brown, City Versus Countryside in Mao s China Negotiating the Divide, The China Journal 1/2015 Book review: Chen Jie, Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact, China Information vol. 27 no. 2, July 2013 Book review: Kevin O Brien: Popular Protest in China. The China Journal no 62. 2009, 159-161 Conference report: Asian studies at a Turning Point, University of Turku, 6-7 November 2006, Chinese History and Society 2007, Vol. 32, 160-162 Conference report: Contemporary China in Historical Perspective, Turku, 20 June 2005, conference report, (co-written with Outi Luova) Berliner China-Hefte Vol. 29 (2005), 147-149 Lauri Paltemaa: Aasian pelilauta heilahtaa, Ulkopolitiikka 2/2017, 34-39 Book Review on Ezra F. Vogel. 2012. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. in Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 110(2), 2012, 255-256 Book Review on Richard McGregor. 2010. The Party the Secret World of China s Communist Rulers. Politiikka 2/2011 Book review on Frank Dikötter: Mao s Great Famine The History of China s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958 62 and Ralph A Thaxton, jr.: Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China Mao s Great Leap Forward and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village. Historiallinen aikakauskirja 4/2010: 492-494 Book review on Zhao Ziyang, A Prisoner of the State: the Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang; AND Gao Weiqian: Zhou Enlai The Last Perfect Revolutionary A Biography. Historiallinen aikakauskirja 107(4), 2009, 508-510 Book review on Chang Jung and Jon Holliday: Mao the Untold Story. Kiinan lähihistoria uusiksi? [Rewriting the Chinese Contemporary History?], Historiallinen aikakauskirja 105(1) 2007, 121-123 5. Text Books and Other Books Related to Research Lauri Paltemaa: Kiina Muuttuva Jättiläinen, in Silja Keva (ed.): Lohikäärme, Tiikeri and Chrysanthemum. Centre For East Asian Studies: Studies in Contemporary East Asia 1/2011, Turku, pp. 21-94 6. Other Publications 5
Lauri Paltemaa and Nikolay Samoylov: -Russian Co-Operation in East Asian Studies Between the University of Turku and the St. Petersburg State University Perspectives from the Grass-Roots, in Quality Handbook of Higher Education in Finland and Russia. University of Turku, Turku 2009, 236-239 Searching for Virtual Pedagogy," The Open University of Hong Kong, 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning & Distance Education, (co-written with Kari Ristimäki), conference publication on CD-ROM, 2004 Mao Mahdoton mies arvioitavaksi? Kiina Kiina sanoin ja kuvin, 1/2014 Lauri Paltemaa and Antti Leppänen: Itä-Aasian johtajat lujittavat valtaansa, Turun Sanomat 21.1.2014, alio Liu Xiaobon Nobelin rauhanpalkinnon merkitys, Kiina Kiina sanoin ja kuvin, 4/2010: 19-20. Kiina pienin askelin sosialismista markkinatalouteen [China s Gradual Transition from Socialism to Market Ecoomy], Turun Sanomat, 2.1.2009 Demokratialiikkeessä on nyky-kiinan demokratialiikkeen alku [The Democracy Wall Movement Was the Beginning of the Contemporary Chinese Democracy Movement], Kaakkois-suomen Sanomat, 19.1.2006 Mikä Kiinaa Vaivaa? [What Ails China?], Etelä-Saimaa, 26.5.2003 Hongkong - Kiinan sylissä pikkutiikeristä jänikseksi, [Hong Kong From a Little Tiger to a Rabbit in a Stew?], Turun Sanomat, 15.01.2003 Kiinan hallitsijoiden uudet vanhat huolet [The New Old Troubles of Chinese Leaders], Kanava 4-5 / 2002, 283-286 6