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 University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. Before coming to Göttingen, she held an interim professorship at the University of Heidelberg.

Rudolph’s research interests lie in the transcultural exchange of knowledge and skills, education thought, as well as network approaches to social and political history, with a focus on twentieth-century China. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Sinology as well as Asian and Transcultural Studies.

In her current project, she explores the development of intersecting academic and political networks of Chinese scientists and experts since the Republican period in their national and international dimensions. It combines the study of archival and contemporary sources with theories and digital tools from the field of historical network analysis.

Publications

Germany and Vocational Education in Republican China – Traveling Texts, Touring Skills (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies). Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94934-1

Henrike Rudolph und Chen Song: Journal of Historical Network Research (Special Issue on Chinese Historical Networks), Vol. 5, Nr.1 (2021), 317 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v5i1

„Introduction.“ Journal of Historical Network Research (Special Issue on Chinese Historical Networks), Vol. 5, Nr.1 (2021): iii-xxxii. https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v5i1.131

Matthias Arnold und Henrike Rudolph. „Network Data in the Early Chinese Periodicals Online Database (ECPO).” Journal of Historical Network Research (Special Issue on Chinese Historical Networks) Vol. 5, Nr. 1 (2021): 288-302. https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v5i1.118

„Structures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of the Collective Biographies of Women Activists in Twentieth-Century China,” in Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China: The Formation and Transformation of Elites in Modern China, hrsg. von Christian Henriot, Sun Huei-min und Cécile Armand, 113-144. Brill, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520479_006

„Staging Legitimacy: The Prelude to the First Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference as Political Mythmaking,” in Planting Parliaments in Eurasia: Lineages, Concepts, and Mythologies, hrsg. von Ivan Sablin und Egas Moniz Bandeira, 282-310. Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158608 „Raising Children, Educating Citizens: Chinese Readings of the German Pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner in the 20th Century,” in Sino-German Relations, 1890-1950, hrsg. von Joanne Miyang Cho, 157-87. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73391-9_7

„Xin nüxing he xiandai yixue: ‘Deguo xing’ zai minguo shiqi Shanghai sili zhuchan xuexiao de meili” 新女性和现代医学: “德国性” 在民国时期上海私立助产学校的魅力 (New Women and Modern Medicine: The Allure of ‘Germanness’ at Private Midwifery Schools in Republican Shanghai). Yiliao shehuishi yanjiu 医疗社会史研究 (Journal of the Social History of Medicine and Health) Vol. 4, Nr. 2 (2019): 134-149. https://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-JSMM201902007.htm

„Über Grenzen und Grauzonen des Fragens hinweg: Ein Denkanstoß zu globalen Solidaritätsnetzwerken in den Geisteswissenschaften,” in Die Frage in den Geisteswissenschaften – Herausforderungen, Praktiken und Reflexionen, hrsg. von Katrin Drews et al. 175-94. Frank & Timme, 2019.