Anja Senz

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Anja-Désirée Senz is a German political scientist and sinologist . Her main focus is on the economy, politics, the environment, social development and the fight against corruption in China and East Asia . In 2014 she was appointed professor for contemporary China research at the Institute for Sinology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

After graduating from high school, Anja Senz studied political science , media sociology and ethnology at the University of Trier . She completed her training as a fellow of the studienstiftung and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou with the study of Chinese language and Chinese history. In her master's thesis written at the University of Trier, Anja Senz dealt with the subject of corruption in Hong Kong .

After completing her studies, she initially continued her research work as a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen , focusing on the situation of national minorities in China , among other things . She later worked at the same university as a research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences and as a research fellow at the Institute for East Asian Studies. Together with Thomas Heberer , she conceived and accompanied the scientific exhibition in Duisburg in 2006, The Yi: yesterday and today - China's people of the great, cool mountains.

In 2010 she presented her doctorate at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the subject of institutional change and decision-making structures in rural China, for which she won several times - as the best social science dissertation from the University of Duisburg-Essen and the dissertation prize from the Institute for Cultural Studies Essen (research college of the University Alliance Metropole Ruhr) - was awarded.

From 2009 to 2014 she was managing director of the Confucius Institute Metropole Ruhr at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In August 2014, Anja Senz was appointed professor for contemporary China research at the Institute for Sinology at Heidelberg University. In June 2019, the Senate of the Ruprecht-Karls-University elected her as Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching.

Anja Senz gives regular lectures at home and abroad and publishes monographs , magazine articles and essays in daily newspapers on cultural, economic and trade policy in China and East Asia and was among other things a guest in the Phoenix Roundtable in 2012 as an expert . She regularly does field research in China and other Asian countries.

Publications (selection)

  • Corruption in Hong Kong: an analysis of the connection between a change of sovereignty and the development of corruption (1999 Master's thesis at the University of Trier, published in 2003 in the communications of the Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg)
  • From Ashima to Yi-Rap: the representation of national minorities in the Chinese media using the example of the Yi nationality , with Yi Zhu (2001)
  • The Depiction of National Minorities in Chinese Media - a Case Study on the Yi Minorit y (2001), with Yi Zhu
  • Choosing between Right and Duty: Results of an East Asian Studies excursion to Sichuan Province, PR China (2004)
  • Field research in Asia, experiences and results from the perspective of political science research in East Asia , with Thomas Heberer (2004)
  • The Yi: yesterday and today - China's people of the great cool mountains , with Thomas Heberer (2006)
  • The role of China in international politics , with Thomas Heberer (2006)
  • Regional expertise - destabilization and conflict potential of forecast environmental changes in China by 2020/2050, external expertise for the WBGU main report "World in Transition: Security Risk Climate Change" , with Thomas Heberer (2008)
  • Task Force: Development Policy and Strategies in East Asia using the Example of Chinese Environmental Policy , with Thomas Heberer (2009)
  • Green Governance - One Solution for Two Problems? Climate Change and Economic Shocks: Risk Perceptions and Coping Strategies in China, India and Bangladesh , with Dieter Reinhardt (2010)
  • Who makes decisions in China's villages? Institutional Change and Decision-Making Structures in Rural China (2010), Dissertation
  • The PRC in competition with the USA: Changes in Sino-American relations under Obama? , with Thomas Heberer (2012)
  • How can the cooperation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with China and the NRW partner provinces be deepened? , with Thomas Heberer (2013)
  • Task force: connecting India, China and Southeast Asia: new socio-economic developments , with Dieter Reinhardt (2014)
  • Is China Failing? Risks, uncertainties and prospects (2016)
  • The BCIM Economic Corridor and Chinese Investments in Myanmar (2017)
  • Between destroyed environment and ecological laboratory: Perspectives of a socio-ecological transformation in China (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Institute for Sinology - Staff - Prof. Dr. Anja Senz - Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Anja D. Senz. University of Duisburg - Essen, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Team of the Confucius Institute Metropole Ruhr eV Accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Senate of Heidelberg University elects four new prorectors - Heidelberg University. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Anja-Désirée Senz - Lectures. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ PHOENIX round of October 2, 2012: The overwhelmed world power? - China between aggressiveness and diplomacy - Moderation: Pinar Atalay. ARD, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Heberer, Anja Senz: Development Cooperation: Why China Still Needs Our Help . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 2, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Departure in the villages. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Senz, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senz, Anja-Désirée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, sinologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century