Project position

Senior researcher

Reading group

Material culture and cultural anthropology

Research fields

Chinese entrepreneurship in the Russian borderlands, bureaucratic involvement in Sino-Russian cross-border cooperation, and regional development strategies in East Asia

Bio

Sergei Ivanov Ph.D. graduated from the Far Eastern Federal University (Russia, Vladivostok) and obtained his PhD at the Irkutsk State University (Russia, Irkutsk). He began China research at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography FEB RAS and taught a variety of courses on China and East Asia in the university. His research interests cover Chinese entrepreneurship in the Russian borderlands, bureaucratic involvement in Sino-Russian cross-border cooperation, and regional development strategies in East Asia. Sergei joined Sinophone Borderlands at Palacký University in December 2019 to contribute to research on Chinese peasants in Russia’s Far East and Sino-Russian cross-border material culture.

Publication

Zuenko, I, Ivanov, S & Savchenko, A 2019, ‘Chinese Investments in the Russian Far East’, World Economy and International Relations, no. 11, pp. 105-113. (in Russ.)
Ivanov, S, Stavrov, I, Zuenko, I, Risukhina, O & Kondratenko, G 2018, The History of Northeast China XVII–XXI Century. Volume 5. Northeast China during the Revival of Old Industrial Base. IHAE FEB RAS, Vladivostok. (in Russ.)
Ivanov, S 2016, ‘Without Authority, Resources and Aims: How Do Regional  Bureaucracy of the Russian Far East promote economic cooperation with China’, Russia and the Pacific, no. 2. pp. 27-45. (in Russ.)
Ivanov, S 2015 ‘Chinese Capital as a Factor of Ethnicization of Urban and Rural Areas of Primorsky Krai’, Tomsk State University Journal of History, no. 5, pp. 120-127. (in Russ.)
Ivanov, S & Kireev A. 2015 ‘Border and Transborder Policies’, in S Sevastianov, J Laine, & A Kireev (eds.), Introduction to Border Studies, Dalnauka, Vladivostok, pp.155 – 177.
Ivanov, S 2015 ‘Heilongjiang Investments in Russia under Government Incentives’, Far Eastern Affairs, no. 5, pp. 46-58. (in Russ.)
Ivanov, S 2013 ‘Economic and Symbolic Capital at the Border of Globalizing China: the Case of Heilongjiang Province’ in S Sevastianov, P Richardson & A Kireev Borders and Transborder Processes in Eurasia, Dalnauka, Vladivostok, pp. 188 – 203.