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TAP Team @RUB


Hsu Yu-Yin

Christine Moll-Murata

Julia Zachulski

Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈, Ph.D.

Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈 received her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore with the FASS Scholarship in Buddhist Studies. She earned her M.A. in Sinology from the National Yunlin University of Technology and Science in Taiwan and her second M.A. in Chinese studies from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Hsu specializes in modern Chinese Buddhism, with particular emphasis on its ritual practices, transnational networks, and printing communications. Her latest book, “The Development and Transformation of Humanistic Buddhism in Singapore,” supported by the Research Scholarship on Humanistic Buddhism in East Asia/Southeast Asia from the Center for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was published in March 2021.
Her most recent research has been on the history of education and training in colonial Taiwan, with an explicit focus on medical education and print workers. The main aim of this project is to explore innovations and changes in the vocational education system in Taiwan through in-depth discussions of historical materials.

Selected Publications

  • Xinjiapo renjian Fojiao de qichengzhuanhe 新加坡人間佛教的起承轉合 (The Development and Transformation of Humanistic Buddhism in Singapore). Hong Kong: Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism 2021.
  • “Xing zhou Mituo xuexiao de zai di guanhuai yu haiwai lianxi” 星洲彌陀學校的在地關懷與海外聯繫 (Local concerns and overseas contacts of Singapore Mee Toh School), in Chen Jian-Huang 陳劍煌 (ed.),  Shenru yuanqi ji zhong fabao: Renjian Fojiao zai Dongya yu Dongnanya de shijian (xia) 深入緣起 集眾法寶:人間佛教在東亞與東南亞的實踐(下) (Deep Into Dependent Origination, Gather All Dharma-Treasure: The Practice of Humanistic Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia). Hong Kong: Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism 2020, 1355–1371.
  • “Lianchi zuo hui: Baizu nüxing song jing zuzhi de yiyi, qiyuan ji ge'an guancha” 蓮池做會:白族女性誦經組織的意義,起源及個案觀察 (Meeting in Lotus Pond – The Significance, Origin and Case Study of Bai Women’s Recitation Organization), in Shih Guojing 釋果鏡 / Liao Chao-heng 廖肇亨 (eds.), Wujin deng: Han chuan Fojiao qingnian xuezhe luntan lunwen ji 無盡燈:漢傳佛教青年學者論壇論文集 (Infinite Light: Proceedings of Young Scholars’ Chinese Buddhism Forum). New Taipei City: Dharma Drum Mountain 2018, 399–430.

Ph.D. Thesis

  • Qi xin · zhi yan · shuxie — Qing dai xiu Jingjushi de zongjiao tiyan 起信·徵驗·書寫—清代修淨居士的宗教體驗 (Conversion, Verification, and Writing: The Religious Experience of the Pure Land Buddhists During the Qing Dynasty) 2018.
    Open access: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/156077.

Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata

Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata is Chair Professor for History of China and Director of the Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is co-applicant of the “Taiwan als Pionier” project and hosts TAP’s Bochum postdoc research project. Her research interests include the local history and historiography of China, the social and economic history of China and East Asia, the labor history of China, Japan, and Taiwan, and the history of crafts and industry in China, Northeast Asia, and Taiwan. At present, she is working as Vice Dean of the Faculty of East Asian Studies of the Ruhr University Bochum, and she is the Vice Chairperson of the German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS).

Julia Zachulski

Julia Zachulski is currently finishing her B.A. in Sinology and Korean Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. During her studies, she was particularly interested in the role of women in ancient China and the history of Taiwan - especially the time during and after the Japanese rule. Since April 2023, Ms. Zachulski has been working as a freelance translator for Chinese-German translations and started working as a student assistant at the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Department of Chinese History) in September 2023 to support the TAP project in Bochum.


Associated Researchers

Chen Kuan-fei

Chien Hung-yi

Chen Kuan-fei 陳冠妃, Ph.D.

Chen Kuan-fei 陳冠妃, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at National Taiwan University. She earned her doctorate in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018 with a dissertation on the rise and development of Tainan as an urban center. Her research is about the socio-economic history of Taiwan, especially the transformation of power structures and economic interactions in urban society. She is also interested in the relationship between people and cultural heritage. She participated in the project application phase of TAP in late 2019 and early 2020 and is an associated researcher of the group.

Selected Publications

  • “Modernizing Chiayi: The Development of the Lumber Industry, 1914–1945,” in Taiwan: Melting Pot and Innovation Hub: Collected Essays by the Project Group TAP (Taiwan als Pionier). Bochum: Research Unit for Taiwanese Culture and Literature 2022, 15–23.

Ph.D. Thesis

  • You Relanzhe shi dao Taiwan fucheng – Tainan chengshi xingtai de yanbian yu chengshi shehui de xingcheng 由熱蘭遮市到臺灣府城 –– 台南城市形態的演變與城市社會的形成(1624–1860)(From Stadt Zeelandia to Taiwan-fu: The Transformation of Urban Form and Society in Tainan, 1624–1860). Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2017.

For the entire record, see personal pages on the website of National Taiwan University here.

Chien Hung-yi 簡宏逸, Ph.D.

Chien Hung-yi 簡宏逸, Ph.D., joined TAP in the application phase in the summer of 2020. She was the first leader of the Bochum section of TAP and worked here from February to July 2022, when she took up a tenure-track position at the History Department of the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. She designed the Bochum sub-project, “Erziehung als Motor der Moderne in Taiwan” (Education as the Motor of Modernity in Taiwan), studying the modern education system in Taiwan and its contribution to the island nation’s modernization. Dr. Chien graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and the National Taipei University of Education. While in Bochum, Dr. Chien and Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn initiated the debate on Taiwan studies as part of sinology. Dr. Chien remains connected to Bochum as an associated researcher of TAP.

Selected Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

  • Qiaoyu de jieli: Ouzhou yu Dongya jian de minzuzhi zhishi shouji, zhengli, zaixiangyu 巧遇的接力:歐洲與東亞間的民族誌知識收集、整理、再相遇 (Unintended Relay: A History of Collecting, Organizing, and Reencountering Ethnographical Knowledge Between Europe and East Asia). Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature 2017.

For the entire record, see personal pages on the website of National Cheng Kung University here.


Former Assistants

Tamina Renner

Tamina Renner, B.A.

Tamina Renner holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sinology and German studies from the Ruhr University Bochum. During her Bachelor studies, she worked as a German teacher at Wuhan Business University, P.R. China, for two semesters and completed a semester abroad at the Department of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (funded by DAAD PROMOS scholarship). For her Bachelor’s thesis, she worked on the relationship between democratization and women’s rights in Taiwan politics. She is currently studying for a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since September 2021, Ms. Renner has been a research assistant in the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Section History of China), and since February 2022, she has been entrusted with supporting the TAP project in Bochum.