Person

Liu, Jifeng

1984

Jifeng Liu is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Xiamen University in China and was previously Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany, where he still is a research partner. He received his PhD from Leiden University. Currently, he is working on the National Social Science Fund project – Ethnic and Cultural Identities of Chinese Christians in Southeast Asia in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative. As a sociologist, his research revolves around the interplay of ethnicity, religion and politics, in particular migration and religion, overseas Chinese, religious and ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia.