Current Research Projects

Institutions

• AREA Ruhr Graduiertenkolleg Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Communities


• Center for the Studies of Chinese Culture


• Jean Monnet Centre for EU-China Connectivity


• Jean Monnet Chair


• Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature


• Richard-Wilhelm-Übersetzungszentrum


• Siebold-Archiv

Current Research Projects

• Beyond Self-Cultivation: Moments of Transcendence in Ego-Documents of Korean Confucian Provenance


• Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies: Historical Semantics of Asymmetrical Dependency in Early China (ca. 1200 to 200 B.C.E)


• BuddhistRoad: Dynamics in Buddhist Networks in Eastern Central Asia, 6th to 14th Centuries


• Dealing with a resurgent China (DWARC)
• Early Knowledge of the Japanese and other East Asian Languages and Writing Systems in the West, as well as the History of East Asian Collections


• An Enquiry into the Development of the Dzogchen Tradition in the Commentaries of the Tibetan Scholar Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (10th Century)


• Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000: China, Japan, Taiwan


• Hanmun Lab: Center for the Study of Premodern Korean Writing Systems and Texts (Beginn 2023)


• History of the Japanese Language(s) and Writing System(s), from their Earliest Attested Forms to the Present Day


• Der Hwaŏm- und Samnon-Buddhismus der koreanischen Halbinsel im ostasiatischen Kontext


• Language Contacts within East Asia as well as between East Asia and the West and their Textual Witnesses


• Literarische und pragmatische Dimensionen der buddhistischen Kommentarliteratur


• Meritokratie und Dynastizität in China


• Metaphors and their Semantic Field in Texts of the "Experience Institution" Genres of Tibetan Buddhism


• Religiöse Austausch- und Transferprozesse


• Taiwan als Pionier


• Typology & History of Writing Systems and the Interplay of Language and Writing


• Unternehmensnahe Innovation in und mit China - Handlungsoptionen für deutsche und europäische Entscheider in einem dynamischen Umfeld


• Wuliao jiazhi zeli 物料價值則例 Databases: Prices and Wages in Public Construction in the Qing Dynasty (1769)

Publications of the Faculty of East Asian Studies

• Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung / Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies
• Veröffentlichungen des Ostasieninstituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

• Caspari, Anna M.A., "From Consultative Authoritarianism to Xi Jinping's China - Political Opportunities for China's Civil Society in Environmentalism and LGBT Activism".


• Chun, Jihoon M.A., "'Cherishing the Small, Serving the Great' [字小事大] Collapsed upon 'Public Law of All Nations' [萬國公法]: Ching-Chosŏn [淸-朝鮮] Union of Upper State and Subject State During 1882-1895".


• Cuffe, James M.B.S., Hdip, "Communications Technology and Social Change in Modern China".


• Doege, Felix M.A., "Financial Market Governance of Cryptocurrencies in Japan".


• Dreher, Aline M.A., "Archäologie und Politik im japanischen Kolonialreich, 1895-1931".


• Gündogan, Ilker M.A., "The Politics of Football in the People's Republic of China: Institutional Change and Politics Steering Under the Leadership of XI Jinping, 2012 - 2021".


• He, Fei M.A., "The resumption of trade relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China 1949-1976".


• Hwang, Sunghye M.A.,“Huayan Textual Imagery and Meditation: An Image Schema Analysis of Hwaŏm Ilsŭng Pŏpkyedo and Haein Sammaenon“.


• Huber, Isabell M.A., "Textgeschichte und Philosophie des Guiguzi".


• Kim, Minjee M.A., "EU-Asia Connectivity: Asian Actorness and Bilateral Relationships".


• Kim, Youlim M.A., "Construction and Transformation of Social Discourse on Unmarried Mothers in South Korea".


• Kim, Youngdon M.A., "A Study on Hyegyun's Mirŭkkyŏng yuŭi and its Place within East Asian Buddhism".


• Kleine Stegemann, Gwendolin M.A., "Entwicklung und Relevanz einiger Reue-Ritualtexte der Huayan-Strömung (華嚴宗) von der Tang-Zeit bis in die Yuan-Zeit".


• Köllner, Daniel M.A., "International Trade and Sectoral Income Equality in East Asia: Role Theoretical Comparative Analysis of Regional, Interregional and Global Trade Patterns.


• Küppers, Elsa M.A., "Vastness, Awe, and Aelf-concepts in Travel Writing from Chosŏn Korea".


• Li, Yuqiao M.A., "The European Union’s Role in the Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China: the case of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)".


• Mai, Duong Thi Thuy M.A., "China's Changing Policies in Global Climate Governance and the Role of the EU".


• Mühl, Jürgen M.A., "Konzept und Entwicklung des geistigen Eigentums in Nordkorea".


• Mularzyk, Christian M.A., "Erfahrene oder erzwungene coincidentia oppositorum: Hybride Ansätze im vormodernen Korea am Beispiel des Buddho-Konfuzianers Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493)".


• Neutzler, Sophie M.A., "Western Sciences in Japanese Translation: Terminology and Translation Strategies in the Jesuit Compendia".


• Paschke, Marc M.A., "The Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) of Korea and Japan during the Colonial Period (1910-1945)".


• Paulo Noguera, Mireia M.A., "'Data security' as part of global data rulemaking: A Comparison of the European Union's and the People's Republic of China's Roles and Strategies".


• Podzierski, Andre M.A., "The Diversity of Sino-Japanese Glossing and Translation Practices (kanbun kundoku) in the Early Modern Period: A Contrastive Analysis of the Major Traditions".


• Rau, Anna-Maria M.A., "Modern Chinese Music and the Nation".


• Schwerbrock, Julia M.A., "Competing for Power - A Comparative Study of the EU's and China's Foreign Policy Approaches towards Tanzania".


• Schnelle, Diana M.A., "Japan's State- and Marketcraft in Domestic and International Energy Policy".


• Setzer, Morgaine M.A., "Populäre Geschichtsschreibung des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel von Takai Ranzan".


• Stierand, Gunhild M.A., "Japanbilder und -stereotypen in Kim In-gyoms Iltong changyuga".


• Tang Qing LLM, "The Changing Cross-Strait Relations: An Institutionalist View".


• Tiganj, Julia, "Die Auswirkungen der industriepolitischen Beziehungen zwischen der EU und China auf die Integration technischer Innovationen".


• Top, Makbule M.A., "Governance of Orphan Drugs in China: A Comparative Study into the Roles of Health Politics and Legislation on Research, Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Disease".


• Urbanek, Mareike M.A., "The dynamics of political communication in the Chosŏn dynasty. A discourse analysis of collective petitions and processes of communication through court records and related materials".


• Weber, Sabine M.A., "Technology and Innovation in Yu Wanchun's (1793?-1849) Novel Quell the Bandits(Dangkou zhi, 1853)".


• Wilke, Tobias M.A., "One Who Loves Others: The Semantic Field of Love in Ancient Chinese Texts".


• Wollnik, Daniel M.A., "Das Ministerium für Kommunikation (Teishinsho) im Japan der Kriegszeit - Struktur, Ideologie und Macht (1931-1945)".


• Wu, Kuan-wei M.A., "In Meditation of a Small State: Joshua Wen-Kwei Liao and his Reflection on Statehood".