CURRENT RESEARCH / RESEARCHINTEREST

Habilitation project: Discourses on the Chinese/Taiwanese Diaspora: From the Invention of the Overseas Chinese to the Taiwanese Compatriots
Modern information technology, Internet in China
Gender-and queer studies
Taiwan studies

EDUCATION

Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany: Ph.D. Chinese Studies/Sinology, June 2002 Dissertation: “Homosexuality and Society in Taiwan: 1945-1995” (in German). Advisor: Mechthild Leutner, (Sinology), Eberhard Sandschneider (Political Science). Magna cum laude
University of Trier, Trier, Germany: Magister (M.A.) Sinology and Economics, August 1994, Thesis: “Liu Xiaobo - an Iconoclast in the Tradition of May Fourth?” (in German) mag.pdf, Sehr gut (“summa cum laude”)

PUBLICATIONS

Monographies and Edited Works

(2009) With Paul Lim (Eds.), European Perspectives on Taiwan (in preparation).
(2009) With G. Schubert (Eds.) Taiwanese Identities. Routledge (forthcoming, under contract).
(2008) With A. Steen (Eds.) Postmodern China ( Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society 34). Münster, Hamburg: LIT.
(2007) With G. Schubert (Eds.). Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives. Hamburg: LIT.
(2006) With S. Thomas (Eds.). Chinese Cyberspaces. London and New York: Routledge.
(2005) With M. Leutner (Eds.). Chinesische Literatur: Zum siebzigsten Geburtstag von Eva Müller [Chinese Literature: On Occasion of the 70th Birthday of Eva Müller]. Münster: LIT.
(June 2003) Homosexualität und Gesellschaft in Taiwan: 1945 bis 1995 [Homosexuality and Society in Taiwan: 1945 to 1995]. Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: LIT (PhD).

Articles in (Referreed) Journals and Book Chapters

(2007/8) Chinese Cyberspaces: Defining the Spatial Component of a “Borderless” Media. In Electronic Journal of Communication (forthcoming).
(2009) From “Overseas Chinese” to “Overseas Taiwanese.” In J. Damm and G. Schubert, Taiwan (in preparation, under contract).
(2008) The Chinese Diasporic Cyberspace: Cultural Essentialism, Nationalism and Hybrid Identities. In J. Damm & A. Steen (Eds.) Postmodern China (Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society 34), 130-148.
(2008) With A. Steen. Postmodern China – An Introduction. In J. Damm and A. Steen (Eds.) Postmodern China ( Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society 34) 3-7.
(2007) “Overseas Chinese” and Taiwan: Unresolved Questions of Identity and Belonging, in J. Damm, G. Schubert (Eds.). Taiwanese Identity in a Regional and Global Perspective. Hamburg: Lit, 79-100.
(2007) The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society. Critical Asian Studies 39:2, 225-246.
2007) “Overseas Chinese” and Taiwan: Unresolved Questions of Identity and Belonging, in: Jens Damm and Gunter Schubert (Eds.). Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives. Berliner Chinahefte/Chinese History and Society 32. (forthcoming).
With S. Thomas (2006) Chinese Cyberspaces: Technological Changes and Political Effects. In J. Damm & S. Thomas (Eds.), Chinese Cyberspaces. London and New York: Routledge, 1-11.
(2006) China’s E-policy: Examples of Local E-government in Guangdong and Fujian. In J. Damm & S. Thomas (Eds.), Chinese Cyperspaces. London and New York: Routledge, 102-131.
(2006) A Transnational Biography: The Voyages of Tan Kah Kee (1874-1961). In M. Leutner, W. Kirby & K. Mühlhahn (Eds.), Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective. Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: LIT, 92-102.
(2005) Academic and Media Discourses on the Chinese Diaspora: Interactions between the People’s Republic of China and Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. CHC Bulletin, 6, 16-18.
(2005) Same Sex Desire and Society in Taiwan, 1970–1987. The China Quarterly, 181, 67-81.
(2005) Contemporary Discourses on Homosexuality in Republican China: a Critical Analysis of Terminology and Research. In M. Leutner & N. Spakowski (Eds.), Women in Republican China. Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: LIT, 282-311.
(2005) Conference Review: “Media in Late Socialist China” Workshop of the Contemporary China Studies Programme, Oxford, Pembroke College, Sept. 1-3, 2004. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 29, 129-133.
(2004) Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution? The Internet in China. China Review, 35-37.
(2004) Internet and the Fragmentated Political Society. IIAS Newsletter, 33, 10-11.
(2004) With E. Sandschneider. Taiwan Country Report 2002-2003. Bertelsmann Transformationsindex 2003.
(2003) Xing/bie, kuer, guaitai - the Influence of US-American Post-Modernist and ‘Queer’- Approaches in Taiwanese ‘Lifestyle’- Publications in the Nineties. In C. Neder & I. Susanne-Schilling (Eds.), Transformation! Innovation? Perspectives on Taiwan Culture. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz, 203-213.
(2003) Zensur im chinesischen Internet [Internet censorship in China]. In B. Führer (Ed.), Zensur: Text und Autorität in China in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz, 222-238.
(2002) Das WWW in China und Taiwan: Effekte der Heterogenisierung und Homogenisierung [The WWW in China and in Taiwan: effects of heterogenization and homogenization]. In G. Schucher (Ed.), Asien und das Internet. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde, 222-237.
(2001) The WorldWideWeb in China and Taiwan: The Effects of Heterogenization and Homogenization in a Glocal Discourse. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 20, 66-78. www1.pdf
homo1.pdf
(2000) Ferdinand Karsch-Haack. In R. Aldrich & G. Wotherspoon (Eds.), Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian World. London and Ney York: Routledge, 238-239.
(2000) ku'er vs tongzhi. Ruhr University Bochum. kuer1.pdf
(1999) Sexualwissenschaftliche Forschungen zu gleichgeschlechtlichen Lebensweisen in der Volksrepublik China [Scientific discourse about human same-sex sexuality in China]. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 16, 96-106.
(1998) Reminiszenz an Ferdinand Karsch-Haack: Der Blick auf fremde Kulturen als Mittel zur Toleranz in der eigenen Gesellschaft [In reminiscence of Ferdinand Karsch-Haack: the view on foreign cultures as tool for tolerance in one's own culture] In U. Ferdinand, A. Pretzel & A. Seeck (Eds.), Verqueere Wissenschaft.
(1998) Life and Death of Love: AIDS in Taiwanese Literature. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 25, 61-73. aids1.pdf , Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: LIT, 281-300.

Book Reviews and Conference Reports

(2008) Taiwan’s Presidential Elections. Workshops and Academic Conferences. In J. Damm & A. Steen (Eds.) Postmodern China (Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society 34) (in print).
(2008) China - East Asia - Media - New Media - Conference 2007, Brisbane, The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative, Industries and Innovation, 5-6 July 2007, Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society, 33, 162-166, 144-147
(2007) With A. Heylen. Conference Report: Fourth European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Conference, Stockholm, 20-22 April 2007, Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society, 32, 162-166.
(2007) Conference Report: Fifth Annual Chinese Internet Conference, College Station, 22-23 May 2007, Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society, 32, 167/169.
(2007) Book Review: Keelung Hong and Stephan O. Murray, Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists’ Collusion with Ethnic Domination, Berliner Chinahefte / Chinese History and Society, 32, 169-171.
(2006) Book Review: Joanna McMillan, Sex, Science and Morality in China, Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 31, 166-168.
(2006) Book Review: Son Hwee Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Ho-mosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. China Review International. [forthcoming]
(2006) Book Review: M. W. Huang, Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China. China Review International. [forthcoming]
(2006) Conference Report: China’s Internet and Chinese Cultures: The Fourth Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference 2006, Singapore, 21-22 July 2006. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 31, 144-148.
(2006) Book Review: C. Hughes, G. Wacker (eds): China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward. Asian Journal of Communication, 16(1), 113-115.
(2005) Book Review: Wang Zhihe (ed.), Houxiandaizhuyi cidian [Encyclopedia of Post-Modernity]. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 140-142.
(2004) Book Review: Tze-lan D. Sang, The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. China Review International, 11(1), 166-168.
(2003) Conference Review: China and the Internet: Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition, 30.5.2003 - 31.5.2003”, University of California, Los Angeles. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 25, 109-112.
(2003) Book Review: F. Martin (ed.), Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan. The China Quarterly, 176, 1116-1118.
(2003) Book Review: R. E. Karl, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 25, 123-124.
(2003) Book Review: Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 25, 123-124.
(2002) Book Review: P. R. Goldin, The Culture of Sex in Ancient China. China Review International, 9(2), 423-426.
(2001) Conference Review: Transformation! -Innovation? Taiwan in her Cultural Dimensions,” Workshop: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, March 2001. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 21.
(2000) Conference Review: 5. Workshop Chinesisch & Computer,” Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Zürich, 9-10 October 1999. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 18.
(2000) Book Review: A. Messner, Medizinische Diskurse zu Irresein in China (1600-1930) Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 20, 142.
(1999) Book Review: H. Martin, C. Hammer (Eds.), Chinawissenschaften: Deutschsprachige Entwicklungen. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 17, 97-100.
(1998) Book Review: H. Evans, Women and Sexuality in China. Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, 14, 1221-1125.

PRESENTATIONS

(2008) Das Internet und China und gesellschaftliche Implikationen. BMW-Stiftung. Berlin (Juli).
(2008) Governance in Late Imperial China. Methodological Considerations. Workshop. University of Turku (June).2008) Homosexualität in China am Beispiel des Films Lanyu. Universität. Bonn (Juni 2008).
(2007) Participation at the workshop “Decolonization and Citizenship in Pacific Asia: The Making and Remaking of Chinese Cultural Canons,” University of Leiden
(2007) Panel organizer at the ICAS conference in Kuala Lumpur: “Overseas Chinese:” China, Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora (August)
(2007) Panel organizer at the Chinese Media Conference, Brisbane (Queensland University of Technology): Citizenship, Communication, and Consumer Culture: The Changing Political Economy of the Chinese Internet (July)
(2007) Chinesische Migration und Weltgeschichte. Luxembourg (June)
(2007) Chinese Cyberspaces: Defining the Spatial Component of a ‘Borderless’ Media. College Station (A&M University) (May)
(2007) China’s E-policy: Surfing the Net or Serving the People? Local E-government in Fujian and Guangdong. SOAS. London (April)
(2007) Discourses on China’s Internet. University of Westminster. Chinese Media Centre. (April)
(2007) Taiwan und China im Pazifik. Pazifik Netzwerk. Kassel.
(2006) “華僑、新移民與台僑：兩岸與新加坡的政府與傳媒有關Chinese diaspora的論述” [Overseas Chinese, new migrants and overseas Taiwanese: official and media discourses on the Chinese diaspora on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in Singapore]. Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
(2006) “華僑民族主義與陳嘉庚” [The Nationalism of Chinese Overseas and Tan Kah Kee] Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
(2006) “China’s Internet and the Creation of Public Spaces: Examples from BBSs and Interviews”. 4th Annual Chinese Internet Conference, Singapore.
(2005) “The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society.” School of Information and Communication, NTU, Singapore.
(2004) “The Internet and Civil Society in China.” Workshop: Media, Citizenship and Struggle in China, Pembroke College, Oxford.
(2004) “The Internet in China.” Annual Meeting European Association of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg.
(2004) “Localization and Globalization: A Critical Evaluation of Western Discourses on the Impact of the Internet in China”. Workshop China’s Interactions with the World – Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization at the Peking University (organized by: Peking University, Harvard University, Freie Universität Berlin).
(2004) “Discourses of Chineseness and their Influences on Diasporic Chinese Identities in a Glocalizing World”Finnish – German Workshop: “Modern Sinology,” University of Turku.
(2003) “Sinisierung und der Umgang mit dem ‚Fremden’: Chinas Nationenbildung von der Mingzeit bis zur Republik“ [Sinification and the dealing with ‘others’: China’s nation-building from the Ming dynasty to the Republic]. Katholischer Akademischer Auslandsdienst (KAAD), Berlin.
(2003) “The Use of the Internet in Taiwan’s Mayoral Election Campaign.” International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), August 2003, Singapore.
(2003) Panel participation: “The Internet in China: Breaching Disciplinary Borders in Academic Research”. Annual Meeting International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego.
(2003) “China’s E-Policy: Examples of Local E-Government in Guangdong and Fujian”. China and the Internet: Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition, University of California, Los Angeles.
(2002) “Does a Specific Chinese Tongzhi Exist?”. Annual Meeting EACS, Moscow.
(2002) “Discourses of Homosexuality in Republican China.” Women in Republican China (1911-1949), International Symposium, Freie Universität Berlin.
(2001) “The WorldWideWeb in China and Taiwan. The Effects of Heterogenization and Homogenization in a Glocal Discourse.” China’s Interactions with the World – Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization, Workshop Freie Universität Berlin.
(2001) Poster presentation: “Internet in China.” Annual Meeting AAS, Washington DC.
(2001) “Das WWW in China und Taiwan: Effekte der Heterogenisierung und Homogenisierung“ [WWW in China and in Taiwan: effects of heterogenization and homogenization]. Asien und das Internet (Asia and the Internet), Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA), Berlin.
(2001): “Xing/bie, kuer, guaitai - the Influence of US-American Post-Modernist and ‘Queer’- Approaches in Taiwanese ‘Life’- Publications in the Nineties”. Workshop Transformation! -Innovation? Taiwan in her Cultural Dimensions Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

ACADEMIC SOJOURNS

3 August 2008 - 31 March 2009:
National Central University, The Humanities Center of National Central University, C2-210
No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, Room 1216, 130 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
(2008) Taiwan / Presidential Elections, National Chengchi University
(2007) Brisbane, QUT, Taiwan / National Universitz
(2006) July - September, Visiting fellow, Central University, Taiwan
(2005) March/April Visiting fellow, NTU, School of Communication and Information, SIRC, Singapore
(2002) February - March, DFG-project, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou

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CURRENT RESEARCH / RESEARCHINTEREST

EDUCATION

PUBLICATIONS

Monographies and Edited Works

Articles in (Referreed) Journals and Book Chapters

Other Articles

Book Reviews and Conference Reports

PRESENTATIONS

ACADEMIC SOJOURNS