Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (* 1955 ) is a German sinologist.

Life

From 1973 to 1975 she studied Sinology , Japanology and Political Science at the University of Bonn , from 1975 to 1977 Chinese Language ( University of Beijing Language and Culture ) and Philosophy ( University of Beijing ), 1977 Sinology, Japanology and Political Science in Bonn and 1978 Chinese History, Chinese language and literature as well as political science at the Ruhr University Bochum . After graduating as Dr. phil. in Bochum 1982 she was a postdoc at the Faculty of East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1982 to 1989 . After her habilitation in 1989 at the Faculty of East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, she was Professor of Modern Sinology at the University of Heidelberg from 1989 to 2002 . Since 2002 she has been Professor of Sinology at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna .

Her husband is Wolfgang Schwiedrzik . Her main areas of research are Chinese historiography and biography of the 20th century, Chinese history of the 20th century, contemporary Chinese discourse on the memory of the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution, and contemporary Chinese politics, especially state society, and relations with the central periphery in the policy areas public health, minority issues, urbanization and the environment, and the history of East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fonts (selection)

• Party historiography in the PRC. Types, methods, topics and functions . Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02292-2 .
• with Li Zhenyi: The Bridge. Chinese for easy reading comprehension . Beijing 1994, ISBN 7-5619-0338-3 .
• as editor with Dagmar Hauff: Rural Enterprises in the People's Republic of China . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-09635-5 .
• Broken Narratives. Post-Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia . Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27723-6 .

Web links

• univie.ac.at