Dr. Dennis Krämer has been a member of CeMEAS since August 2023. Since April 2022, he has held an interim professorship at the Institute for Sports Science at Georg-August-University Göttingen. His research interests focus on the social meaning of digital technologies in crisis situations and the treatment of intersex and transgender people in fields such…
Category: Former Researchers
Meet Our Researchers: Yonghui Hu

Dr. Yonghui Hu joined the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as a guest reseacher since October 2021. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy Department at Nanjing University in June 2013, majoring in Chinese Philosophy. He is a philosophy associate professor at Nanjing University since 2016. He teaches History of Chinese Buddhism, Philosophy of Tao…
Meet Our Researchers: Yingjie Fan

Ms Fan obtained her Ph.D. in the Sichuan University in China in June 2017, majoring in Chinese legal history. Her research focuses on Local System and Grassroots Social Governance in China. The topic of her dissertation is the Practice of the New County System in Rongxian County, Sichuan in the Republic of China (1939-1949). Ms Fan…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Mengshu Zhan

Ms Mengshu Zhan joined the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups” in Göttingen University since June 2021 and her topic in this project is Conceptions of World Order from Chinese and African Scholars. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Center for Global Study at Bonn University in Germany in May 2021, majoring…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Chong Myong Im

Professor Im joined CeMEAS as a guest researcher in March 2021 and is a history professor at Chonnam National University since 2006. He teaches Contemporary History of Korea, the Modern History of Korean Art and the Modern History of Korean Historiography among others. From 2012 to 2013, he was invited as a Fulbright scholar by…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Zhang Chunjie

Chunjie Zhang is working on the project, World as Method: Cosmopolitan Thinking in German and Chinese Modernist Cultures, that seeks to compare cosmopolitan thinking in German and Chinese discourses in the first half of the twentieth century. In the current theoretical debates on cosmopolitanism, scholars point out that it is not necessarily always the national…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen received her Ph.D. in History from Brown University and her S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from Harvard University. She is Professor of History and Director of the Taiwan Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest lies in the area of women’s and children’s health.…
Meet Our Researchers: Benjamin Creutzfeldt (Ph.D.) 01.2021-10.2022

Benjamin Creutzfeldt joined our Centre in January 2021 and was a visiting fellow at CeMEAS since April 2021. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Studies from Externado University…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam

Liza Wing Man Kam was research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Goettingen. She joined the university as assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies since 2016. She was research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in 2017-2019. Prior to that she…
Meet Our Researchers: Feicheng Wang

Feicheng Wang joined the University of Göttingen as a postdoctoral research fellow in August 2017. He studied for a PhD from the University of Nottingham (UK and China campuses) and received his doctoral degree in Economics in 2017. Before that, he attended a postgraduate programme at Xiamen University and did his undergraduate study at Beijing…
Daniel Fuchs, Department of Sociology, 09.2018 - 09.2019

Daniel Fuchs was a research and teaching fellow at the Department of Sociology/Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. Upon finishing his undergraduate and graduate studies of Political Science and Chinese Studies in Vienna and Tianjin, Mr. Fuchs worked as a research assistant at University of Vienna and taught at the…
Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer, Guest Reseacher, 05.2017- 04.2019

Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. med. Hertzer supported the teaching within the Department for East Asian Studies for some years. She usually offered a “Daoismus” course each Summer semester which is integrated in the teaching program. Main research interests: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Philosophical Practice, Yijing, Daoism Monographs: Das alte und das neue Yijing: Text…