I was born in Luleå in northern Sweden in 1960 and grew up in Sundsvall, a big industrial town on the Botnic Gulf. I went to the universities in Uppsala and Stockholm, where I studied Japanese language and political science, before going off to the US to do a PhD in political science at Yale University. Over the years I have also lived in Japan, Italy and Thailand and England. From the spring of 2007 I'm a professor at the National Jiaotong University, Xinzhu, Taiwan. I'm married to Diane Pranzo and we have four daughters: Saga Maria, 14 years old, Beata Amanda, 12, Yrsa Johanna, 9, Rima Birgitta, 6.

Location

Shanghai, PRC

Disciplines

• History
• Area Studies
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies
• Economics
• Political Science
• Sociology

Affiliation

SJTU, Shanghai, China

Website

http://www.ringmar.net/joomla/