This page presents current and recent research projects conducted by members of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS). The projects reflect the centre’s interdisciplinary approach and engage with political, social, cultural, and historical dynamics in East Asia. Together, they highlight CeMEAS members’ ongoing research interests, collaborations, and contributions to the field.
Ongoing
2025-2029: Aktionsforschung zur Integration mobiler und intelligenter Sprachlernanwendungen in den chinesischen Sprachunterricht an Hochschulen mittels Blended Learning – AI-MS
Tao Zhang (University of Göttingen)
Steffi Robak (Universität Hannover)
2023-2025: Study of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in mid-20th Century Southeast Asia
Cao Yin (Tsinghua University)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
2023-2025: Research on Muslim Sectarianism and Modern China
Mohammed Alsudairi (ANU Canberra)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
June 2022 – ongoing: China’s BRIdge to Europe: Belarus at Stake
Maryia Danilovich (University of Göttingen)
April 2021 – October 2025 Sustainable Food Systems
Xiaohua Yu (University of Göttingen)
Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen)
2021 – 2025: China in Africa: Exploring the Consequences for Economic and Social Development
Andreas Fuchs,
Lennart Kaplan,
Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen)
Partners: Kiel Institute for the World Economy
2020-2025: World-Making from Global Perspectives: A Dialogue with China
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
Elena Meyer-Clement (FU Berlin)
Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg)
2018-2025 Modern Chinese & Global History
Wang Hui (Anneliese Maier Award)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
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2023 Global Value Chains: Maurer, A. et al., Parlatrade Consortium
Peter-Tobias Stoll (University of Göttingen)
2023 Extraterritorial Sanctions: Stoll et al., Parlatrade Consortium
Peter-Tobias Stoll (University of Göttingen)
October 2023 – April 2024 China Travel Scholarship of the Max Weber Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
2023-2024 Stance Analysis towards COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake via Interaction Graph Learning
Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen)
2021 – 2025 Double Degree Program Göttingen-Nanjing (Chinese Law and Comparative Law): Integrierte internationale Studiengänge mit Doppelabschluss
Rüdiger Krause (University of Göttingen)
July 2022 – September 2024: Double Degree Program Göttingen-Nanjing (Global Business): Integrierte internationale Studiengänge mit Doppelabschluss.
Fabian J. Froese (University of Göttingen)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen),
Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg),
Elena Meyer-Clement (University of Copenhagen)
2019-2022: Remeasuring China. The Complex Contexts of Chinese Weights and Length Measurements Reforms (ca. 1927-1937)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
2015–2022: Empirical Analyses of Emerging Donors in Development Cooperation
Axel Dreher,
Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen)
11.2018– 10.2023: COSAFE – Cooperative Connected Intelligent Vehicles for Safe and Efficient Road Transport
Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen)
2018-2022: Modern Chinese & Global History (Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis Prof Wang Hui/ Tsinghua University
Wang Hui (Global and Transregional Studies Platform, University of Göttingen),
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
2019-2021: From I Ging to I Ching: A Study of the Wilhelm/Baynes Translation of the Book of Changes (Kooperation mit City Univ. Hong Kong)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen),
Tze-ki Hon (University of Illinois Chicago)
2019-2021: The New Silk Road. Implications for Higher Education and Research Cooperation between China and Europe (Research network with Harvard/Utrecht/Oxford/Shanghai Jiaotong)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen),
Marijk van der Wende (Utrecht University),
William C. Kirby (Harvard University)
Sarah Eaton (Humboldt University Berlin),
Genia Kostka (Free University of Berlin)
2018-2021: Cosmopolitanism in Europe and China
Zhang Chunjie (University of California, Davis)
2019-2020: Japan & Global History
Selcuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University)
2017-2019: Inter-Asia Research Group
Dominic Sachsenmaier,
Srirupa Roy (University of Göttingen)
2017-2019: K.I.T.F.E.M. (Knowledge and Innovation in to and from Emerging Markets)
Fabian Froese,
Sebastian Störmer (University of Göttingen)
2015-2017: New Religiosities in Turkey: Reenchantment in a Secularized Muslim Country? (Neoreligitur)
Katja Triplett (University of Göttingen)
2017: Neue Kooperationsformen zwischen Schulen und Unternehmen im chinesischen Berufsbildungswesen
Armin Müller (University of Göttingen)
2017: Clio Stranded: World History in Twentieth-Century China
Fan Xin (University of Cambridge),
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
2016: The haiku Between East–East & West: An Inquiry into the Entangled History of a Buddhistic Poetic Genre in Modern Turkey
Katja Triplett (University of Göttingen),
Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford)
2013-2017: CETREN – Transregional Research Network
Srirupa Roy,
Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen)