Dr Ivan Franceschini
Areas of expertise
- Studies Of Asian Society 169903
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
- Labour Law 180118
- Law And Society 180119
- Social Change 160805
Research interests
- Labour rights and the ideology of labour reform in China
- Labour activism and class formation
- Chinese and global civil society
- Chinese modern history
- Labour policies and worker activism in Cambodia
Biography
Ivan Franceschini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, and at the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU. A graduate of Venice University, from 2006 to 2015 he lived in China, where he worked as a journalist and as a consultant in the field of development cooperation. His research focuses on labour and civil society in China and Cambodia, but he is also interested in Chinese modern history and literature, as well as literary translation. He has published several books related to China, on topics ranging from human trafficking to digital activism, from labour struggles to civil society. He is also the co-director of the documentaries Dreamwork China (2011) and Boramey: Ghosts in the Factory (forthcoming in 2020). Currently, he is researching the social impact of China's presence in Cambodia. He is the founder and co-editor in chief of the open access quarterly Made in China Journal.
Publications
- Franceschini, I 2020, 'As far apart as earth and sky: a survey of Chinese and Cambodian construction workers in Sihanoukville', Critical Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 512-529.
- Franceschini, I & Lin, K 2019, 'Labour NGOs in China: From Legal Mobilisation to Collective Struggle (and Back?)', China Perspectives, no. 1, pp. 75-84.
- Franceschini, I & Sorace, C 2019, 'In the Name of the Working Class: Narratives of Labour Activism in Contemporary China', Pacific Affairs, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 643-664.
- Franceschini, I 2020, 'At the Roots of Labor Activism: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers in Comparative Perspective', Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 144-167.
- Sorace, C, Franceschini, I & Loubere, N, eds, 2019, Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, ANU Press & Verso Books, London and Canberra.
- Franceschini, I & Loubere, N, eds, 2019, Made in China Yearbook 2018: Dog Days, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Franceschini, I & Lin, K 2019, 'A 'Pessoptimistic' View of Chinese Labour NGOs', in Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2018: Dog Days, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 60-63.
- Franceschini, I 2019, 'The Last Days of Shi Yang', in Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2018: Dog Days, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 281-285.
- Franceschini, I 2019, 'Calling the Tunes in Cambodia [IN PRESS]', in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Paul Farrelly & Sharon Strange (eds.), China Story Yearbook 2018: Power, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 85-89.
- Franceschini, I & Bellomo, V 2019, 'Tra sindacato e società civile: Le libertà sindacali nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese" [Between trade union and civil society: Union freedom in the People's Republic of China]', Diritti Lavori Mercati, pp. 347-362.
- Franceschini, I & Loubere, N, eds, 2018, Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Franceschini, I & Nesossi, E 2018, 'State Repression of Chinese Labour NGOs: A Chilling Effect?', The China Journal, vol. 80, pp. 111-129.
- Franceschini, I & Loubere, N 2018, 'Changing Frontiers and Invisible Politics in Northeast Asia: A Conversation with Tessa Morris-Suzuki', Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol. 27, June 2018, pp. 136-154.
- Franceschini, I 2018, 'Outsourcing Exploitation: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers Compared', in Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 84-89.
- Franceschini, I 2018, 'Resurrecting the Dead', in Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 230-233.
- Franceschini, I 2018, 'Slaving Away', in Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 138-143.
- Nesossi, E & Franceschini, I 2018, 'Human Rights in the Age of Prosperity', in Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin (eds.), The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity, ANU Press, Acton, Australia, pp. 256-269.
- Franceschini, I 2018, 'Hegemonic Transformation: The State, Laws, and Labour Relations in Post-Socialist China (BOOK REVIEW)', The China Journal, vol. 81, pp. 172-174.
- Franceschini, I, Loubere, N & Lin, K, eds, 2017, Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Franceschini, I 2017, 'Revisiting Chinese Labour NGOs: Some Grounds for Hope?', in Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 46-49.
- Franceschini, I 2017, 'Chinese Workers and the Law: Misplaced Trust?' in Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 84-87.
- Franceschini, I & Nesossi, E 2017, 'The New Foreign NGOs Management Law in China: A Compendium', in Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 60-67.
- Franceschini, I 2017, 'The Cow and the Goat Descend the Mountain: Fighting Modernity with Poems', in Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, and Nicholas Loubere (eds.), Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 132-135.
- Franceschini, I 2017, 'Meet the State Security: Labour Activists and their Controllers', in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, and Luigi Tomba (eds.), China Story Yearbook 2016: Control, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 65-72.
- Loubere, N & Franceschini, I 2017, 'Beyond the Great Paywall: A Lesson from the Cambridge University Press China Incident', Made in China Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 64-66.
- Franceschini, I 2017, 'China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China (BOOK REVIEW)', The China Journal, vol. 78, pp. 193-194.
- Franceschini, I 2016, Lavoro e diritti in Cina: Politiche sul lavoro e attivismo operaio nella fabbrica del mondo (Labour and rights in China: Labour politics and worker activism in the world factory), Societa Editrice Il Mulino, Bologna.
- Franceschini, I, Siu, K & Chan, A 2016, 'The "Rights Awakening" of Chinese Migrant Workers: Beyond the Generational Perspective', Critical Asian Studies, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 422-442.
- Li Gui (Translated and Edited by Ivan Franceschini) 2015, 'Tra i ribelli Taiping (Among the Taiping Rebels),' O Barra O Edizioni, Milan.
- Franceschini, I 2015, 'Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance (BOOK REVIEW)', The China Quarterly, vol. 222, pp. 554-555pp.
- Lu Xun (Translated and Edited by Ivan Franceschini) 2014, 'Fuga sulla luna e altre antiche storie rinarrate (Flight to the Moon and Other Ancient Stories Retold),' O Barra O Edizioni, Milan.
- Franceschini, I 2014, 'Labour NGOs in China: A Real Force for Political Change?', The China Quarterly, vol. 218, no. 1, pp. 474-492.
- Franceschini, I 2014, 'China as the Workshop of the World (BOOK REVIEW)', The China Journal, vol. 71, pp. 212-214pp.
- Franceschini, I & Negro, G 2014, 'The "Jasmine Revolution" in China: The Limits of the Cyber-utopia', Postcolonial Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 23-35.
- Franceschini, I 2012, Cina.net: Post dalla Cina del nuovo millennio (China.net: Dispatches from China in the New Millennium), Edizioni O Barra O, Milan, Italy.
- Cavalieri, R & Franceschini, I, eds, 2010, Germogli di società civile in Cina (Blossoms of Civil Society in China), Francesco Brioschi Editore, Milan, Italy.
- Franceschini, I 2009, Cronache dalle fornaci cinesi (Chronicles from the Chinese Kilns), Cafoscarina, Venice, Italy.
