Dr. Yonghui Hu joined the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as a guest reseacher since October 2021. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy Department at Nanjing University in June 2013, majoring in Chinese Philosophy. He is a philosophy associate professor at Nanjing University since 2016. He teaches History of Chinese Buddhism, Philosophy of Tao…
Category: Former Researchers
Meet Our Researchers: Yingjie Fan
Ms Fan obtained her Ph.D. in the Sichuan University in China in June 2017, majoring in Chinese legal history. Her research focuses on Local System and Grassroots Social Governance in China. The topic of her dissertation is the Practice of the New County System in Rongxian County, Sichuan in the Republic of China (1939-1949). Ms Fan…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Mengshu Zhan
Ms Mengshu Zhan joined the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups” in Göttingen University since June 2021 and her topic in this project is Conceptions of World Order from Chinese and African Scholars. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Center for Global Study at Bonn University in Germany in May 2021, majoring…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Chong Myong Im
Professor Im joined CeMEAS as a guest researcher in March 2021 and is a history professor at Chonnam National University since 2006. He teaches Contemporary History of Korea, the Modern History of Korean Art and the Modern History of Korean Historiography among others. From 2012 to 2013, he was invited as a Fulbright scholar by…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Zhang Chunjie
Chunjie Zhang is working on the project, World as Method: Cosmopolitan Thinking in German and Chinese Modernist Cultures, that seeks to compare cosmopolitan thinking in German and Chinese discourses in the first half of the twentieth century. In the current theoretical debates on cosmopolitanism, scholars point out that it is not necessarily always the national…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen
Professor Hsiung Ping-chen received her Ph.D. in History from Brown University and her S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from Harvard University. She is Professor of History and Director of the Taiwan Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest lies in the area of women’s and children’s health.…
Meet Our Researchers: Benjamin Creutzfeldt (Ph.D.) 01.2021-10.2022
Benjamin Creutzfeldt joined our Centre in January 2021 and was a visiting fellow at CeMEAS since April 2021. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Studies from Externado University…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam
Liza Wing Man Kam was research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Goettingen. She joined the university as assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies since 2016. She was research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in 2017-2019. Prior to that she…
Daniel Fuchs, Department of Sociology, 09.2018 - 09.2019
Daniel Fuchs was a research and teaching fellow at the Department of Sociology/Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. Upon finishing his undergraduate and graduate studies of Political Science and Chinese Studies in Vienna and Tianjin, Mr. Fuchs worked as a research assistant at University of Vienna and taught at the…
Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer, Guest Reseacher, 05.2017- 04.2019
Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. med. Hertzer supported the teaching within the Department for East Asian Studies for some years. She usually offered a “Daoismus” course each Summer semester which is integrated in the teaching program. Main research interests: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Philosophical Practice, Yijing, Daoism Monographs: Das alte und das neue Yijing: Text…
Dr. Katja Triplett, Guest Researcher, 01.2016 - 09.2018
Katja Triplett holds a doctorate in the Study of Religions, Japanese Linguistics and Anthropology from Marburg University, and was affiliated at CeMEAS until 2018. From 2012 – 2016 she was professor for the Study of Religions at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen. From 2007 – 2012 she held the rank of…
Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton, CeMEAS Director, 09.2014 - 09.2019
Sarah Eaton holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Toronto (2011). Prior to arriving at Göttingen, she was an Associate Professor of Chinese Political Economy (2013-2014) at the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo (2012-2013) and…