Dr. Eric Hendriks

Dr. Eric Hendriks, a Dutch sociologist, researches China’s integration into the global order, keenly interested in the ideological tensions involved. He is working on a book about contemporary Chinese world conceptions and how these seek to challenge liberal, Western-centric views of world order. Hendriks has studied at Utrecht, Berkeley, Göttingen, and the University of Chicago, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim, and worked at the University of Bonn and Peking University. Hendriks lived in Beijing for six years, researching the educational linkages between China and the United States. He is also a public intellectual and published over seventy essays for Dutch, German, and English-language media. His writings have appeared in the NRC, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Quillette, Quadrant, and Times Higher Education.