Miao Tian

Research Interests

Industrial Sociology, Labor Relations, Global Production Network, Production Regimes in the Automotive Industry

Biography

Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication at Northwest University in China. Master’s degree in Political Science at Sun Yat-sen University. Between 2013 and 2019, doctoral researcher in the Institute for Social Research. Since July 2025, work as researcher in the research project Battery Manufacturing in East Asia and Europe.

Publications (selection)

Kluge, René and Tian, Miao 2025: Marxismus in China: Staatsideologie und aktivistischer Marxismus im Kontext aktueller Arbeitskämpfe in Doris Maja Krüger (Hg.), Karl Marx in der Geschichte Entstehung und Rezeption der Marx'schen Kritik, 161-182, Transcript.

Tian, Miao 2021: Workers’ Protest in the Automotive Industry in China, Studienreihe, Zivilgesellschaftliche Bewegungen-Institutionaliserte Politik Nr. 42/41.

Tian, Miao 2019: Legal Resistance with Collective Mobilisation - Patterns of Chinese Labour Protest in the 2010s. Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. 35. 63-85.

Lüthje, Boy and Tian, Miao 2015: China’s Automotive Industry: Structural Impediments To Socio-economic Rebalancing. Int. J. Automotive Technology and Management, Vol. 15, No. 3.

Battery Manufacturing in East Asia and Europe – Networks and Regimes of Labour and Production

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IFS-CUT 9862-01
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Research Associate
Contact Address

Senckenberganlage 26

60325 Frankfurt am Main

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E-Mail
tian@em.uni-frankfurt.de