PhD students

1. Name: Weng, Haifeng

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: November 2023

4. Topic of Dissertation: The Formation of Linear Time and Senses of Time during Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1874–1923

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)

6. Former Experience:

• Bachelor’s in Journalism with a Minor in International Politics, Fudan University (2020)

• Master’s in Modern Sinology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2023)

• Since 2023: Assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies and the Center for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

7. Research Focus: Intellectual History, Conceptual History, Intercultural Philosophy, Formation of Linear Time

8. Email Address: haifeng.weng@uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Zhao, Xiaoyang

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: December 2022

4. Topic of Dissertation: Leisure Culture of People’s Summer Life in China from the Late Qing to the 1930s

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen)

6. Former Experience:

• 2017: Bachelor’s in “Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages,” Shanghai International Studies University

• 2020–present: Graduate Assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• Involved in the joint project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” in Germany

7. Research Focus: Leisure Culture, Conceptual History, Material Culture Studies

8. Email Address: xiaoyang.zhao@uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Zhu, Ziyi

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: August 2022

4. Topic of Dissertation: Buddhist Notions of Happiness in Modern China

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Eyal Aviv (The George Washington University), Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)

6. Former Experience:

• Bachelor’s in Global Civilization History, Northeast Normal University (China)

• Master’s in Modern Sinology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• Research Assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (during the final year of master’s studies)

• Since March 1, 2024: Research Associate at the Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

7. Research Focus: Intellectual History, Conceptual History, Buddhism, Modern Intellectual History of China

8. Email Address: ziyi.zhu@uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Wu, Xin

2. University Awarding MA Degree: University of Bayreuth and Shanghai International Studies University

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: September 2021

4. Topic of Dissertation: Dialogic World Literature: Approaching “Global Literary Space” and Discovering the “Elements of Welt-literature”

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Matthias Freise (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Song Binghui (Shanghai International Studies University)

6. Former Experience:

• 2017–2020: Master’s student in Intercultural Anglophone Studies and Comparative Literature and English Language, Shanghai International Studies University and University of Bayreuth (dual degree)

• 2022–2024: Joint training program between Shanghai International Studies University and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• Since August 2024: Research Assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

7. Research Focus: Chinese-foreign literary relations, world literature

8. Email Address: xin.wu@uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Weis, Andreas Günter

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: January 2019

4. Topic of Dissertation: The Sino-German Dimensions of China’s ‘Third Party’ between the Early 1920s and the World War II Era

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Wang Hui (Tsinghua University)

6. Former Experience:

• B.A. in Modern Sinology

• M.A. in East Asian Studies / Modern Sinology with a thesis on colonial monument research

• Study stays in Braunschweig, Sheffield, Cape Town, Taipei, Beijing, and Göttingen

7. Research Focus: Founding history of the Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng Línshí Xíngdòng Wěiyuánhuì, transnational Sino-German connections, perceptions of China and the world, colonial history, cultural and political history of the 1920s

8. Email Address: andreas.weis@uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Jin, Yan

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Fudan University, China

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: October 2017

4. Topic of Dissertation: The global dimension of the young Chinese intellectuals in early 20th century

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen)

6. Former Experience:

• Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the History Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (16 years)

• Director for Student Affairs, History Department, Fudan University

• Assistant Director, Fudan Asia Study Center

• Coordinator, Global History Program, Fudan University

• Visiting Professor at various universities outside China, including the University of Vienna (Austria), Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany), and Leipzig University (Germany)

7. Research Focus:

Modern Chinese intellectual history, the history of Shanghai, Christian education in modern China, Chinese national identity in modern times, and global entanglements of modern Chinese intellectuals

8. Email Address: yan.jin@phil.uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Fang, Ruobing

2. University Awarding MA Degree: Dual MSc awarded by Peking University and London School of Economics and Political Science

3. Beginning of PhD Studies: August 2017

4. Topic of Dissertation: Lives and Choices of Chinese Western-Educated Returnees, 1937–1949

5. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen)

6. Former Experience: Studied International Relations as an undergraduate at Peking University

7. Research Focus: Chinese Intellectual History, Sino-Japanese Relations, History of Chinese Students Overseas

8. Email Address: ruobing.fang@stud.uni-goettingen.de

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1. Name: Diao, Shan
2. Topic of Dissertation: Concepts of Science in Lebensphilosophie in 1920s China
3. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Xuetao Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University)
4. Date of Graduation: 11.11 2024
5. Email Address: shan.diao@uni-goettingen.de

1. Name: Felix Erdt
2. Title of Dissertation: "The Chinese Classics in Times of Historicization: Three Scholars from Sichuan and Their Encounter with Modernity” (original title in German: Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung: Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan und ihre Begegnung mit der Moderne)
3. Supervisors: Prof. Axel Schneider (Göttingen University); Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University)
4. Date of Graduation: 04.03.2024
5. Email address: felix.erdt@gmx.net
6. Current position and workplace: Teaching assignment for the WS 24/25 at the Department of East Asian Studies, Goettingen

1. Name: Li, Can
2. Title of Dissertation: Remeasuring China: the Global and Local Dimensions of Nanjing Metrological Reform (1927-1937)
3. Supervisors: Pro.Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University), Pro. Q. Edward Wang (Rowan University)
4. Date of Graduation: 2022 November 25th
5. Email address: lican1124@gmail.com
6. Current position and workplace: Post-Doc at Sichuan Universtiy, History Department

1. Name:Carolin Kautz
2. Title of Dissertation: The Ties that Bind: Party Social Identity and the Relevance of Ideology for the Chinese Communist Party
3. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton (formerly affiliated with the University of Göttingen, currently at Humboldt University of Berlin); Dr. Ling Li, (University of Vienna).
4. Date of Graduation: 28.06.2022

1. Name: Ni, Lingling
2. Title of Dissertation: • En: Retention and Development of Elements of Pre-modern Written Language in Modern Chinese Written Language • De: Beibehaltung und Entwicklung von Elementen der vormodernen Schriftsprache in der modernen chinesischen Schriftsprache
3. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (Universität Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Shih-Chang Hsin (National Tsing Hua University), Prof. Dr. Yongyi Wu (East China Normal University)
4. Date of Graduation: May 12th, 2022
5. Email Address: lingling.ni@phil.uni-goettingen.de
6. Current Position and Workplace: Lecturer of Chinese, Head of the Language Programme & Study Advisor Chinese as a Foreign Language/ MoE, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

1. Name: Peng, Qinqin
2. Title of Dissertation: Between Faith and Truth: The Historiography of Buddhism in Modern China (1902-1965)
3. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (Universität Göttingen), Prof. Dr. John Kieschnick (Stanford University)
4. Date of Graduation: 17.11.2021
5. Email Address: tsintsinpeng@gmail.com
6. Current Position and Workplace: Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr Universität Bochum

1. Name: Jiang, Lili
2. Title of Dissertation: Closer to the Self while Far from Home: A Longitudinal Study about Chinese Students’ Experiences in Germany
3. Supervisors:Prof. Dr Axel Schneider (Göttingen University), Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal)
4. Date of Graduation: 18.06.2021
5. Email address:ljiang1120@gmail.com
6. Current position and workplace:  China competence coordinator, International House, Technische Universität Braunschweig

1. Name:Julia C. Schneider
2. Title of Dissertation: “Ethnicity and Sinicization: The Theory of Assimilative Power in the Making of the Chinese Nation-State (1900-1920s)”
3. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ann Heirman (Ghent University.), Prof. Dr. Eric Vanhaute (Ghent University.), Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (Göttingen University)
4. Date of Graduation: February 2^nd, 2013
5. Email address:julia.schneider@ucc.ie
6. Current position and workplace: Professor, University of Hamburg
7. Former Position:
   1.  Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin) from 2014 until 2019 at University of Göttingen;
   2.  Senior Lecturer, University College Cork