Category: Researchers

Dr. Aviv is interested in Buddhist philosophy and intellectual history. He studies topics of intersections between early Buddhist Philosophy, especially of the Abhidharma and the Yogacara traditions, and contemporary philosophy. His interest includes topics such as philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics and contemplative practices. His intellectual history research focuses on religion in the modern…

Felix Erdt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Previously, he served as a lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, where he completed his PhD with the dissertation titled “Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung. Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan…

Prof. Dr. Zhou Yuefeng holds a Professorship in Chinese History at Sichuan University. He is the author of Alternative New Culture Movement: The Cultural Activities of Liang Qichao’s Circle and the Intellectuals around the May Fourth Movement (Peking University Press, 2023). He has published articles on Modern Chinese intellectual history in  peer-reviewed journals, including Historical…

Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researches Chinese, Japanese and Indian intellectual history.  He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011), The Politics of Time in China and Japan, Routledge, 2022, paperback 2024) and Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the…

Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Hertzer has been contributing to the teaching program of the Department of East Asian Studies for several years. Her regular course on Daoism, offered each summer semester, is firmly integrated into the department’s curriculum. In addition to her teaching, she is currently engaged in a research project exploring Daoist philosophy.…

  Since March 2025 Tong Zhang is a guest researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. He holds a position as Assistant Professor at BI Norwegian Business School. His research spans the sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy of science, and international politics. With a focus on Max Weber’s interpretivist approach, he…

Lei Li holds the Professorship in “Economics and Politics of China” at the Faculties of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Humanities at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Before joining the University of Göttingen in 2024, she served as an Assistant Professor (W1) at the University of Mannheim. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University.…

Tao Zhang has been a Professor of Subject Didactics in the field of Chinese as a Foreign Language (ChaF) at the East Asian Seminar of Georg-August University Göttingen since October 2024. In her research and teaching, she focuses on various aspects of Chinese didactics and cultural mediation in language instruction. Previously, she worked at the universities…

  Li Xuetao is a historian of Chinese history, scholar of religious studies, and Germanist. He studied in Beijing, Marburg, and Bonn, and earned his PhD in Bonn. He is a professor of global history at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Since 2023, he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.…

Prof. Dr. PENG Guoxiang got his Ph.D. from Peking University and is now the Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese philosophy, intellectual history and religions at Zhejiang University. Before moved to Zhejiang University, he was professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. He was visiting professor, scholar and research fellow at various universities and institutions…

Rebecca E. Karl teaches modern history at New York University in New York. She has studied and written widely on modern and contemporary China, social theory, feminism, twentieth-century political economy, and other related arenas. She is the President of the NYU chapter of the Association of American University Professors and works to protect academic freedom and…