Monographie / Book

Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s), (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

• Award, “Outstanding Publication of Young Scientists”, Foundation Council, Göttingen University (2017).
• Reviewed by Wu Guo, in Monumenta Serica1 (2018), p. 245-248.
• Reviewed by Tuba Yalinkilic, in History of Humanities2 (2019), p. 510-511.
• Selected for an episode of the “New Books in Chinese Studies” podcast of the New Books Network by Julia Keblinska (2023).

 

Herausgeberschaften / Edited Volumes

Transnational East Asian Studies, ed. with K. Cawley. Liverpool: (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023). DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv30c9f9s.

• Reviewed by Tianyun Hua, in Asian Ethnicity online (2023), p. 1-3.

Political Strategies of Identity-Building in Non-Han Empires in China, ed. with Francesca Fiaschetti (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014).

 

Artikel / Articles (peer-reviewed)

“Southern Tungusic Origin Myths in Chinese and Manchu Sources”. Medieval Worlds 24 (2026):221-52. DOI: medievalworlds_no24_2026s221.

“Crunching Numbers in Ming Times: What Population Censuses Can Tell about Chinese Migration towards the South”. Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 6.2 (2025): 101-39. DOI: 10.25365/jeacs.2025.6.2.schneider.

“Curing the Vices of Gambling: Bilingual Manchu-Chinese Textbooks for Banner Education”. Co-author Katja Pessl. Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies 19 (2023), p. 1-39. DOI: 10.3998/saksaha.4212.

“Non-Chinese Peoples in Chinese Republican Historiography: Beasts, Non-historic Peoples, Homines Sacri”. Journal of Asian History 56.1/2 (2022), p. 231-68. DOI: 10.13173/JAH/2022/1-2/10.

“When the World Shrinks: Chinese Concepts of Culture, Identity and History in the Early Twentieth Century”. Global Intellectual History 7.2 (2022 [online 2020]): 242-64. DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2020.1738655.

“Creating a Community of Praxis: Integrating Global Citizenship and Development Education across Campus at University College Cork”. Main author Gertrude Cotter. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning 14.2 (2022), p. 1-12. DOI: 10.14324/IJDEGL.14.2.01.

“A Non-Western Colonial Power? The Qing Empire in Postcolonial Discourse”. Journal of Asian History 54.2 (2020), p. 311-341. DOI: 10.13173/jasiahist.54.2.0311.

“The Jin Revisited: New Assessment of Jurchen Emperors”. Journal of Song Yuan Studies 41 (2011), p. 343-404. DOI: 10.1353/sys.2011.0030.

 

Sonderbände / Special Issues

Chinese Borders: A Transcultural Historical Perspective, theme issue of the Irish Journal of Asian Studies 6 (2020).

Manchu in Transregional History, ed. with Katja Pessl, special issue of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies 15 (2018).

Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China, ed. with Francesca Fiaschetti and Angela Schottenhammer, special issue of Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World 5 (2012).

 

Andere Herausgeberschaften / Other editorial Roles

Co-editor of book series, with Milinda Banerjee and Simon Yarrow Transregional Practices of Power (Berlin: De Gruyter).

Member of Editorial Board, Chinese Culture book series (Singapore: Springer).

 

Buchkapitel / Book Chapters

“Conceptualizations of ‘Black Men’, Slavery, and Segregation in America in Late Imperial Chinese Thinking”, in China and Global History: Entangled Histories and Historiographies Since the Late Qing (1840s–Present), ed. by Sabine Hinrichs, Sebestyén Hompot, and Tanja Kotik (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2026).

Accepted. “The Qianlong Emperor”, in The Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought, ed. by Richard Bellamy et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

“The Development of Chinese Nationalism in Late Qing Times”, in The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia, ed. by Zhouxiang Lu, 108-121 (London: Routledge, 2023).

“Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing Empire”, in Transnational East Asia, ed. by Kevin Cawley and Julia C. Schneider, 79-93 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023).

“Missionizing, Civilizing, and Nationizing: Linked Concepts of Compelled Change”, in New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies, ed. by Cheng-tian Kuo, 89-115 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).

“Foreign Conquest Dynasties in Chinese Textbooks of the 1920s: The Search for a National Identity”, in Zhishi yu rentong: Xiandai xuezhe lun jiaoyu ji jiaokeshu 知識與認同：現代學者論教育與教科書 (Knowledge and identity: the scholarly discussion of education and textbooks in modernity), ed. by Lee Fan 李帆, Hon Tze-ki 韓子奇, and Au Chi Kin 區志堅, 372-389 (Hongkong: Zhonghwa Book Company, 2017).

“Early Chinese Nationalism: The Origins under Manchu Rule”, in Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power: Nationalism and Historical Consciousness in World Politics, ed. by Bart Dessein, 7-29 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

“Sinicization and Nativistic Movement? The Middle Jurchen Jin Period (1123–1189)”, in Political Strategies of Identity-Building in Non-Han Empires in China, ed. by Francesca Fiaschetti and Julia Schneider, 59-71, in Asiatische Forschungen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014).

“Yòng Xià biàn Yí 用夏變夷 im Kontext von Nationalismus und Historiographie”, in Tradition? Variation? Plagiat? Motive und ihre Adaption in China, ed. by Lena Henningsen and Martin Hofmann, 113-128, in Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012).

 

Wissenschaftliche Rezensionen / Academic Reviews

Review of In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. In China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 2 (2020): 336-8.

Review of Changing Referents: Learning across Space and Time in China and the West. By Leigh Jenco. In Berliner China-Hefte = Chinese History and Society 50 (2018): 151-2.

Review of Rethinking the Decline of China’s Qing Dynasty: Imperial Activism and Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel McMahon. In Berliner China-Hefte = Chinese History and Society 49 (2017): 144-6.

Review of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928. By Xiaoqun Xu. In The Chinese Historical Review 23.2 (2016): 166-9.

 

Andere Rezensionen / Other Reviews

“Lernen, die Freiheit wertzuschätzen: Nichts ist gut in Xinjiang – Beklemmende Notizen eines Uiguren.” Review of In Erwartung meiner nächtlichen Verhaftung: Uigurische Notizen. By Tahis Hamut Izgil. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 April 2024, “Politik”, 6.

“Repression geht weiter: Lange nichts gehört aus Xinjiang: Die Lage der turksprachigen Einwohner ist so schlecht wie eh und je.” Review of Der Hightech-Gulag: Chinas Verbrechen gegen die Uiguren. By Mathias Bölinger. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 April 2023, “Literatur”, 23.

“Keine ‘innere Angelegenheit’: Zeugenaussagen über Chinas Unterdrückungspolitik gegen Uiguren und Kasachen in Xinjiang.” Review of Ein Volk verschwindet: Wie wir China beim Völkermord an den Uiguren zuschauen. By Philipp Matteis. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 April 2022, “Das politische Buch”, 6.

“Unermüdlich für Tibet: Eine Biographie über den Dalai Lama und den Konflikt mit China.” Review of Dalai Lama. Eine illustrierte Biographie. By Tenzin Geychu Tethong. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 August 2021, “Das politische Buch”, 6.

“Muttersprache verboten: Ein Erfahrungsbericht über die Behandlung von Minderheiten in der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang.” Review of Die Kronzeugin. By Sayragul Sauytbay. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 August 2020, “Das politische Buch”, 6.

Completed Projects:

Liu Shuai, “The Translation, Dissemination, and Influence of Late Qing Prose in the Anglophone World”, UCC, co-supervised by Dr. Helena Buffery, viva voce examination March 2026

Ongoing Projects (in alphabetical order):

Sabine Hinrichs, “From ‘Outside of Civilisation’ to Becoming Part of the Nation: The Mongol Yuan Dynasty in Modern Chinese Historiography (1900-1949)”, University of Vienna, lead supervisor Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Liu Yunqiao, “Hidden Childhoods:  Chinese Children’s Life in late Imperial and Republican Times (1900-1950)”, Heidelberg University, co-supervised by Dr. Lena Henningsen

Julia Pirgmann, “Die Evolution des Zhongtong (中統) in der Nanjing-Dekade (1927-1937): Organisationswandel, duale Steuerungsarchitektur und der Belastungstest in der Schlacht um Shanghai (1937)”, Universität Hamburg

Sebas Rümke, “‘The World’ in Chinese World Historical Writing”, Universität Hamburg, lead supervisor Prof. Markus Friedrich

Zan Luyan, “Wife, Maidservant, Prostitute: Trafficking of Lower-Class Women in Shanghai during Republican Times (1912-1949)”, UCC, co-supervised by Dr. Kate Hodgson

Screening of “All Static and Noise” (Documentary, 2023) and discussion with Jewher Ilham, co-producer and human rights activist (co-organised with Amnesty International Hamburg), Universität Hamburg / Abaton, April 2024

International Workshop (co-organised with Jennifer Keating, UCD), “Eurasian Zones of Contact”, UCD, May 2024

Screening of “All Static and Noise” (Documentary, 2023) and discussion with Jewher Ilham, co-producer and human rights activist, and Janice Englehart, producer, UCC, April 2024

International Workshop (co-organised with Ady van den Stock, UGhent & Leigh Jenco, LSE), “The Other in Chinese History and Thought: Territory, Race, Culture, Philosophy, Religion”, UGhent, LSE, and UCC (online), November 2021

Event Series on academic freedom and human rights abuses in China, 2020–2021:

“When Silence Is Not Golden: The Costs of China’s Sanctions of European Researchers”, speakers: Björn Jerdén, Mareike Ohlberg, Joanne Smith Finley, and Adrian Zenz, webinar (co-organised with Alex Dukalskis, UCD, and Scholars at Risk Ireland), UCC, May 2021

Mareike Ohlberg, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Attempt to Control Academic Debates on a Global Scale”, Lecture (co-organised with Lena Henningsen, UFreiburg), UCC, May 2021

Jewher Ilham, political activist of Uyghur human rights, “The Path to Survival: The Uyghur Struggle”, Lecture (co-organised with Scholars at Risk Ireland and Gert Hoffmann, UCC), UCC, April 2021

Alex Dukalskis, “Authoritarian Image Management in Contemporary China and North Korea”, Lecture (co-organised with Katja Pessl, Univ. Göttingen), March 2021

David O’Brien, “How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of interment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, lecture (co-organised with Katja Pessl, Univ. Göttingen), December 2020

International Symposium (with Katja Pessl), “Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians”, Univ. Göttingen, September 2017

International Workshop (with Katja Pessl), “Manchu Language Intensive Course for Post-Graduates”, Univ. Göttingen, February 2015

International Workshop (with Francesca Fiaschetti), “Political Strategies of Identity Building in China: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China”, LMU München, June 2012

International Conference (with Milinda Banerjee et al.), “Nationizing the Dynasty – Dynastizing the Nation”, University of California Los Angeles, March 3012

International Workshop (with Francesca Fiaschetti), “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China”, UGhent, June 2011