| Education |
1995 D. Phil. Oxford University, UK (Chinese Studies)
1992 Certificate, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Postgraduate Research in Chinese Literature & History)
1991 Diploma, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (Advanced Japanese Language Programme)
1990 Diploma, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (Intermediate Japanese Language Porgramme)
1988 M. Litt., Transfer Examination, Oxford University, UK (Chinese Studies)
1987 Diploma, Fu Jen University, Tapei, ROC (Modern and Classical Chinese Literature & Philosophy)
1987 Certificate, Mandarin Daily News Language Center, Taipei, ROC(Modern and Classcial Chinese Language and Literature)
1986 Diploma, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Modern and Classical Chinese Language & Literature)
1985 Intermediate Examination, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (in Sinology & English Literature)
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| Teaching Activities |
Bachelor-level courses, e.g.:
- Media and Culture in a Globalising China
- Cinema in China
- China’s Culture of Consumption
- Pop Culture in China
- China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture
- Film and Culture in China
- China’s New World Cities: A Cultural Journey
- Modern China in History and Film
Master-level courses:
- Digital Dissent: Internet Authors, Artists and Activists in Twenty-first Century China
- Entrepreneurialism in Chinese Culture
- Women, Gender and Responsibility in China
- China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists
- Transcultural BRICs: Business in China (MBA, co-taught)
- Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries in China
- Generation X and the Chinese City: Transcultural Communication in China’s Emerging World Cities
- 'Superpower China': Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts (co-taught)
- The Chinese Dream: 21st-Century Superpower
- China Invents the Future: The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Social Networks (co-taught)
- Competence in Intercultural Communication (at SGI in Singapore) PhD-level courses, z.B.:
- Transforming China: New Media and Culture between Consumerism and Censorship
- The Organisation of Media, Globalising Markets and Transcultural Communication
- Cultural Studies: Text and New Media in the Digital Age (co-taught) |
| Awards |
2016: University of St.Gallen, Teaching Reduction for Research
2015: ICA Book Prize "Specialist Publication Accolade" for Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China 2015: The Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article, China Information 2014-2016: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant 2015-2016: Chiang Ching-kuo Lecture Series (St.Gallen & Leiden) 2014: University of St.Gallen, Teaching Reduction for Research
2012-2013: University of St.Gallen, Research Committee's Basic Research Fund 2010: University of Nottingham, Learning & Teaching Development Projects
2005-2011: University of Nottingham, Research Grants, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies
2007-2012: Chinese Ministry of Education Grant for a Confucius Institute at the University of Nottingham
2008: Association for Asian Studies, US Panel Organizer Grant
2006: University of Nottingham Research Grant for Chinese cultural studies
2006: Oxford University, Institute of Chinese Studies, Publication Grant
2002-2003: The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
2002: British Academy Travel Grant
2002: British Academy Grant
2002: Universities’ China Committee, London Grant
2002: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant
2002: Durham University, Contemporary China Centre Grant
1997: Shung Ye Foundation Grant
1997: Universities’ China Committee London Grant
1997: Durham University Special Staff Travel Fund
1996: Shung Ye Foundation Grant
1996: Durham University Special Staff Travel Fund
1996: Durham University Department of East Asian Studies Research Fund
1994-1996: Shung Ye Foundation, Taiwan, Grant
1992-1994: German National Scholarship Foundation
1990-1992: Rotary Foundation, Rotary International, Japan Programme Scholarship
1990: St. Hugh's College Oxford University Award
1989-1990: British Academy Major State Studentship
1989-1990: St. Hugh's College Oxford University Cannon Graduate Scholarship
1989: The Oxford Society Award
1987-1990: German National Scholarship Foundation
1986: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Foundation Prize
1985-1986: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship
1983: Baccalaureate (Abitur) Prize for Outstanding Results |
| Additional Information |
EXTERNAL POSITIONS
Research Associate, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, 2007-
Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2007-
Elected Board Member, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2002-06
Webmaster, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2002-04
Council Member, Universities’ China Committee London, 1999-2004
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
1997: Visiting Professor, Zhongshan University, Canton, China
RESEARCH ORGANISATION & COLLABORATION2016: Principal Investigator and Conference Organiser, “The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China’s Avant-garde”, University of St.Gallen, 28/29 July
2013: Panel Organiser, “Transcultural Communication in a Globalizing China.” Conference “The Future of Content Is Context”, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, 25/26 April
2008: Panel Organiser, “Cyberspace, Consumerism and Cultural Creativity in Twenty-First Century China.” 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA
2004: Panel Organiser, “Books, Bodies And Business: Cultural Consumption and Production in Contemporary China in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA
2003: Panel Organiser, “Beyond Gender and Class: Ladies, Lovers, Loyalists and the Search for Gentility.” 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, NY
2002: Panel Organiser, “Women and Publishing in Traditional China.” 14th European Association for Chinese Studies Conference, Moscow
2002: Principal Investigator and Conference Organiser, “Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History,” with Dr. Chloë Starr, Durham University. The results have been published in a refereed book: The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. Edited volume, with Chloë Starr. London: Routledge.
1998: Chair and Co-organiser, International Symposium “The Study of Women in Late Imperial China,” jointly with Prof. Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Leiden University, The Netherlands, sponsored by the International Institute for Asian Studies
1996: Panel Organiser, “Martyr, Saviour and Saint: Women in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction and History.” 48th Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI
1994-1998: Member of the research project on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples, with Professor David Faure, in collaboration with Oxford University and Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, supported by the Shung Ye Foundation, Taipei
PhD SUPERVISION
2017- Arda Leibundgut. “Environmental Activism in China: Chai Jing“. University of St.Gallen.
2016- Dominique Ursprung. “Educational System in China”. University of St.Gallen.
2012-16 Sergio de Eccher. “The Impact of Social Networks in China”. University of St.Gallen.
2011-15 Katrin Müller-Hansen. “Han Han and China’s Education System.” University of St.Gallen.
2011-12 Rebecca Scott. “Children’s Literature in Twentieth-Century China.” University of Nottingham.
2010-11 Tracey Fallon. “Language, Culture and Soft Power in China.” University of Nottingham.
2009-11 Wu Junqing. “Investigating the Traditional Characteristics of Religious Policy in Communist China.” University of Nottingham.
2009-14 Giorgio Strafella. “Intellectual Politics, Literature and Culture: The Intellectual Debate over the Humanistic Spirit (renwen jingshen zhenglun) in China since 1989.” University of Nottingham.
1995-99 Sarah Dauncey. “The Politics of Fashion: Perceptions of Power in Female Dress and Ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenthcentury Chinese Novel Jin Ping Mei.” University of Durham.
LANGUAGES
Fluency in speech and writing in English, German, Chinese, Japanese and French
Reading proficiency in Classical Chinese and Latin
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