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Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard

Kjeld Erik Brdsgaard
Professor , Ph.D.
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard

Asia Research Centre

Porcelænshaven 22, 3.
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

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E-mail: keb.int@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Institut for International Økonomi og Virksomhedsledelse

My current research is mainly focused on the following three areas:

1. China and the Global Economy: An analysis of China's integration into the global economy. Focuses on three aspects: (1) The domestic economic and political aspects of China's integration into the world economy; (2) social and environmental implications of the Chinese transition process, including stakeholder interests and CSR practices; and (3) China's regional and global position in terms of trade and investment and the competitiveness of its large corporations.

2. State, Party and Public Management in China: Focuses on the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Governing China and how the CCP has been able to revitalise itself by strengthening its organisational machine and by reaching out to new social strata, in particular the new rising class of private businessmen. Investigates the organisational procedures and capacity of the cadre corps in managing state, society and business in China and discusses recent changes in the personnel systems that the CCP controls through the mechanisms of bianzhi and nomenklatura.

3. State, Society and Business in Hainan: A book length study of the economic and political reform changes in Hainan special economic zone. Focuses on the reform experiment of "small government big society" and the likely implications for central-provincial as well as provincial-local relations. Provides an in-depth study of the formation and development of the largest Chinese special economic zone.

Newspapers, Radio and TV

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard has published around two hundred essays and Op-Eds in leading Danish newspapers. He is regularly invited to comment on Chinese and East Asian Affairs on Danish National Radio and TV news broadcast and in international news media.

Primary research areas

  • China and the global economy
  • Trends and policy options in the Chinese political and economic transition process
  • Business environment and political governance in modern China with a focus on the Chinese Communist Party’s role
  • State-society-business relations in Hainan, China’s largest special economic zone
  • China-Europe relations

Administrative functions

Director of Asia Research Centre


Selected publications

Books and monographs

Hainan: State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province (London: Routledge, 2008)

China and Denmark: Relations since 1674 (with Mads Kirkebæk) (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2000)

Kina efter Deng (China After Deng) (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1997)

Kina - et marked for danske virksomheder? (China – a Market for Danish Companies) (with Mads Dall and Verner Worm) (Copenhagen: Industriens Forlag, 1994).

Edited works

The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (with Zheng Yongnian) (London: Routledge, 2006).

Jeg skal til Kina (København: Jepsen & Co., 2006)

Bringing the Party Back In: The Role of the CCP in Governing China (with Zheng Yongnian) (Singapore: Far Eastern Universities Press 2004).

China’s Place in Global Geopolitics: Domestic, Regional and International Challenges (with Bertel Heurlin) (London: Routledge 2002 ).

State Capacity in East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam (with Susan Young) (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000).

Book chapters and scholarly articles

“Foreign Direct Investment in China: Origin, Distribution, and Impact on the Economy,” in Verner Worm (ed.), China: Business Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy (Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2008).

“China Studies in Europe,” in David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider and Zhou Hong (eds.), China-Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies & Prospects (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 35-64.

“Managing China’s Civil Servants,” in Wang Gungwu and John Wong (eds.), Interpreting China’s Development (Singapore: World Scientific, 2007), pp. 48-49.

”Party Organization, Public Administration and Governing Capacity in China – Why Big Government?, ECAN Policy Briefing Paper (Brussels, December 2006)

“The Fifth Plenary Session: A Note on Recent Policy Initiatives and China’s 11th Five-Year Plan”, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, No. 22 (2006).

“Bianzhi and Cadre Management in China: The Case of Yangpu, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), in T he Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 103-121.

”Jiang Finally Steps Down: A Note on Military Personnel Changes and the CCP’s Governing Capacity,” The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, No. 19 (2004), pp. 82-88.

“The Role of the Communist Party in China’s Leadership Transition,” R evista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos, No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 105-130.

“Management of Party Cadres in China,” in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), Bringing the Party Back In: How China is Governed (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004), pp. 57-95.

“Sino-US Relations After September 11: Background and Prospects” with Nis Høyrup Christensen),” Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos, No. 4 (Autumn 2003), pp. 27-46.

“The 10th National People’s Congress in China: A Note on State Personnel Changes and Economic Change,” The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, No. 17, pp. 78-86

”Bringing the Party Back" In: Parti, kadremanagement og nomenklatura-system i Kina”, Politologiske Studier, 6. årg. (2003), Nr. 2, pp. 58-70.

“China’s Cadres and Cadre Management System”, in Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian (eds), Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era (Singapore: Singapore University Press), pp. 209-231.

"Institutional Reform and the Bianzhi System in China," The China Quarterly, No. 170 (June 2002), pp. 361-386.

"The 16th Party Congress in China: A Note on Personnel Changes," The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, No. 16 (2002), pp. 138-150.



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