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…
Category: Researchers
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Rebecca E. Karl
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…
Meet Our Researchers: Harlan David Chambers
Harlan Chambers completed his Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at Columbia University in 2022 and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University before joining the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen in 2024. Since June 1, 2024, Mr. Chambers has been working as a…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Merle Schatz
Dr. Merle Schatz (Dr. phil. in Language and Cultural Studies of Central Asia: Mongolian Studies; M.A. in Chinese Studies, Mongolian Studies, and Japanese Studies; Ph.D. candidate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) joined CeMEAS in July 2023. She joined the Göttingen State and University Library in 2020, following her time as an assistant professor…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Xiaoming Fu Ph.D.
Prof. Xiaoming Fu Ph.D. joined the CeMEAS in July 2023. He is a Chair Professor (W3) of Computer Science and head of the Computer Networks Group at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2000, then worked as research scientist at TU Berlin until joining Göttingen in 2002, where he…