François Gipouloux is Director of Research (Emeritus) at the CNRS and holds a doctorate and a HDR (Habilitation to Supervise Research) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His research focuses on urbanisation in China, and a long-term comparison of the dynamics of capitalism in Europe and Asia. He coordinated the research project…
Category: Researchers
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Ying ZHOU (Winter Semester of 2025-26)
Dr. Ying Zhou obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen and is trained in both Educational Studies and China Studies. She is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Education, Xiamen University. Her research interests include progressivism and education in East Asia, the history of educational psychology and measurement, and the history of…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Felix Erdt (07/2025-12/2026)
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Zhou Yuefeng (Summer Semester of 2025)
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Viren Murthy (Summer Semester of 2025)
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer (05/2025-04/2027)
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.…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Henrike Rudolph (Since October 2020)
Since October 2020, Henrike Rudolph is an assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. Trained in Sinology and Political Science, she completed her Ph.D. at Hamburg University and Fudan University, Shanghai, in 2017. Rudolph worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Contemporary Chinese Studies at Friedrich-Alexander…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Tong Zhang (Summer Semester of 2025)
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Lei Li (Since October 2024)
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.…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Tao Zhang (Since October 2024)
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Li Xuetao (Summer Semester 2024)
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.…
Meet Our Researchers: Peng Guoxiang (Summer Semester 2024)
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…