Projects

Current Projects

• ECPO Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)—Creating a Prototype for an Intelligent Archive
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: CCK Foundation
  Project Supervisor: Yu Chien-ming (Dr.), Lien Ling-ling (Dr.) , Hu Hsiao-chen (DR.), Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Sun Liying (M.A.) et al.

• Taiwan Studies Enrichment Program
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2013
  Financed by: Taiwan Ministry of Education 
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Mei Chia-ling (Prof. Dr., Taiwan University)

• Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lectures
  Time Frame: 2007 - 2013
  Financed by: CCK Foundation and Taiwan Culture Office, Berlin 
  Project supervisor:  Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) 
  Co-Directors: Schubert, Gunter (Prof. Dr., Universitä Tübingen); Ash, Robert (Prof. Dr.) & Fell, Dafydd (Dr.) (SOAS, Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Taiwan Studies); Vittinghoff, Natascha (Prof. Dr., University of Edinburgh)

• MC4 Frames: Frames and Framings in Transcultural Interactions
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Joachim Kurtz, Melanie Trede, Hans Harder

• MC5 Global Concepts: Towards a Global History of Concepts
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Joachim Kurtz, Rudolf G. Wagner, Monica Juneja, Dhruv Raina

• MC13 Practices of Argumentation: Practices of Argumentation in Transcultural Perspective
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Joachim Kurtz, Birgit Kellner

• A15: Creating Patriotic Monotheists: a socialisation perspective on Islam and Christianity in Contemporary China
  Time Frame: 2013 - 2016
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Tontini, Roberta (Postdoc)

• Local Change Agents and Public Policy Innovation in Rural China
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Science Council)
  Project supervisor: Goebel, Christian (Dr.)

• Central Propaganda and Local Stability in China
  Time Frame: 2012 - 2013
  Financed by: Crawfoord Foundation
  Project supervisor: Goebel, Christian (Dr.)

• A12: Framing Visions of Self and Other: History, Television and the State in Contemporary China
  Time Frame: 2010 - 2012
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.)

• A8: Teaching Identity: Re-shaping the Citizen in Chinese and Japanese Language History Schoolbooks in Manchuria (1931-1945)
  Time Frame: 2009 - 2012
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Lüdecke, Sarah (M.A.)

• Asian Image and Multimedia Databases 
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2012
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.), Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.), Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.)

• HRA4: QuotationFinder: A Tool for Text Comparison
  Time Frame: 2007 - 2012
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); May, Jennifer; Damn, Marco

• Representations of History in Chinese Film and Television
  Time Frame: 2007 -
  Financed by: Heinz-Götze-Foundation
  Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.)

• Popular Culture Group
  (Research Group made up of PhD Candidates receiving different types of funding) 
  Time Frame: 2005 - 
  Financed by (among others): Supp-Stiftung, Stiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Universität Heidelberg, LEA 
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) 
  Project staff: Jennifer Altehenger, Lucia Banholzer, Nora Frisch, Lena Henningsen, Huang Xuelei, Cora F. Jungbluth, Jennifer May, Sun Liying, Petra Thiel, Chun Chieh, Xiong Jingjing, Annika Joest, Roberta Toniti, Sebastian Gehrig, Huang Xuelei, Nicolas Schillinger, Ulrike Buechsel, Yan Geng, Iwai Wu, Oliver Seibt, Miriam Seeger, Michael Fuhr, Patrick Froehlicher, Ravi Baghel, Sridevi Padmanabhan, Cathrine Bublatzky, Lias Caviglia, Marie Sander, Marina Rudyak, Nan Haifen, Pallavi Mahajan, Oliver Lutz Radtke, Laila Anu Er-Rub, Li Shuang, Sarah Luedecke, Birte Herrmann, Hsin-yi Li, Kai Enzweiler

• D14: Language Flows in Pre-Modern East-Asia: Literary Chinese
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.); Statu, Nicolae Cristian
  Project staff: Gubic, Ivana

• D15: Making Powerful Arguments in Late Imperial China: Shifting Standards pf Validity in Transcultural Perspective
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Hofmann, Martin (Dr.); Kurtz, Joachim (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Steavu, Dominic

• HRA5 Modern Chinese Scientific Terminologies: The distribution of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Joachim Kurtz, Jens Østergaard Petersen, Kaja Müller-Wang, Iwo Amelung

• HRA6: HyperEvaluation
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.); Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.); Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gietz, Peter (M.A.)

• HRA11: Chinese Entertainment Newspapers
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Arnold, Matthias; Yeh, Catherine (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Jiang, Rui
   

Past Projects

• C11: Medicine and Religion in Premodern East Asia
  Time Frame: 2010 - 2012
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim (Prof. Dr.); Fuess, Harald (Ph.D. Harvard)

• HRA8: Chinese Women´s Magazines in the Republican Period
  Time Frame: 2009 - 2011
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.);  Arnold, Matthias; Gietz, Peter

• B16: Parcours Exhibition in Heidelberg: “Becoming Intense – Becoming Animal – Becoming …”
  Time Frame: Nov. 2009 - Feb.2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.)

• B8: Rethinking Gender, Sexuality and the Body in a Transcultural Art World
  Time Frame: 2009 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.); Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Prohl, Inken (Prof. Dr.)

• B1: Satire - Gauging Cultural Asymmetries: Asian Satire and the Search for Identity in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011 
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Harder, Hans (Prof. Dr.); A'rokay, Judit (Prof. Dr.); Ursinus, Michael (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)

• B2: Creative Dissonances: Creative Dissonances: Music in a Global Context
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011 
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Redepenning, Dorothea (Prof. Dr.)

• B4: Transcultural Visuality Learning Group
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011 
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor:  Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) Sumathi Ramaswamy

• D11: Hidden Grammars of Transculturality - Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power (pilot project)
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011 
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)

• A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937.
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by:  TransCOOP-Programm, Humboldt Foundation
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.);  Judge, Joan (Prof. at York University); Fong, Grace (Prof. at McGill University, Canada) 
  Project staff: Jöst, Annika (M.A.); Sun Liying (M.A.)

• HRA3: Enhancement of Visiual Database - Position of a coordinator for a visiual database
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.); Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Arnold, Matthias; Bertolo, Christoph; Gruening, Simon

• A5: Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conceptions of Government
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Schneidmüller, Bernd (Prof. Dr.)

• A2: Schoolbooks - Cultural Flows in History Education: Shifting Re-creations of European and Asian ‘Others’ in East Asian Schoolbooks
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.)  

• A3: Networking - The Real Fiction of Unreal Equality: Networking the International System
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" 
  Project supervisor: Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Nüsser, Marcus (Prof. Dr.); Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)

• B5: Rise of dan Actors - The Stuff Stars are made of: International Politics, Mass Media and the Rise of dan Actors in the Republican Era (1910s-1930s)
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Yeh, Catherine (Prof. Dr.)

• HRA1: Restructuring the conceptual field: The notion and status of the "political" in the East Asian modernization processes 1850-2007 (pilot project)
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)

• A2: Cultural flows in history education: shifting re-creations of European and Asian "Others" in East Asian schoolbooks
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor:  Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.)

• HRA2: Global Heroes - Archiving Mothers and Fathers of the Nation in Europe and Asia: Developing a Digitized Prototype of Braided Pictorial Histories (pilot project)
  Time Frame: 2008 - 2009
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr., Duke University)

• Rethinking Trends - Transcultural Flows in the Global Popular Sphere
  Time Frame: Sep. 2008 - Nov. 2008
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Henningsen, Lena (M.A.); Gehrig, Sebastian (M.A.); Altehenger, Jennifer (M.A.)
  Project staff: Thiel, Petra (M.A.); Jöst, Annika (M.A.); Sun Liying (M.A.); Jungbluth, Cora (M.A.); May Jennifer (M.A.); Xiong Jingjing (M.A.); Huang Xuelei (M.A.); Frisch, Nora (M.A.); Schneider, Julia (M.A.)

• Erstellung von digitalem Chinesisch-Sprachlehrmaterial (德語地區華語文數位教材暨網路教學發展計畫)
  Time Frame: 2007 - 2010 
  Financed by: Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan) 
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Hsin, Shih-Chang (Prof. Dr.) 
  Project staff: Lin, Xinyu; Lin, Chunping

• Ferner Osten - ganz nah! (Schulprojekt)
  Time Frame: 2006 - 2009
  Financed by: Robert Bosch Stiftung, BMBF 
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Henningsen, Lena (Dr.) 
  Project staff: Müller, Simone, Marschall, Anne, Gao Ming, Wan Li, Sheng Kejia, Nora Frisch, Dirk Wiegand, Nina Lösch, Sven Eigler

• Research Group "Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900: Local, Regional, National, and International Dimensions"
  Time Frame: Oct .2005 - Sep. 2011 
  Projekt Director: Hans Ulrich Vogel 
  Financed by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  Sub-project 5: Military Expenditures and their Economic Impact in Qing China - Part 1: Zuo Zongtang's Western Campaign 1866-1878
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Kaske, Elisabeth
  Sub-project 6: From the Southwestern Mines to the Metropolitan Mints: Technologies, Organization and Representations in State Transports of Qing China
  Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Kim, Nanny (Dr.)

• Online Course: Digital Resources for Chinese Studies
  Time Frame: Jun. 2002 - Jun. 2005
  Financed by: DFG
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.)

• Electronic Index to the leading articles of the early Shenbao (1872-1895)
  Time Frame: Jan. 2002 -
  Financed by: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf  G. (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Janku, Andrea (Dr. des.); Kim, Nanny (Dr.)

• DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
  Time Frame: Aug. 2001 -
  Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
  Projektleiter:: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Lippmann, Sven

• Internet Guide for China Studies
  Time Frame: Nov. 1995 - 
  General Editor: Lecher, Hanno (M.A.)
  Editors: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gieselmann, Martin (M.A.); Kaun, Matthias (M.A.)

• ChinaResource.org
  Time Frame: Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2002
  Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
  Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)
  Project staff: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gross, Jennifer; Lecher, Hanno (M.A.); Sass, Oliver; Schröder, Gesche (M.A.)

• Buddhist Dictionaries, Project RE9.10/08
  Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
  Project supervisor: Harbsmeier, Christoph (Prof. Dr.); Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)

• Sinological Serials in European Libraries
  Financed by: EACS, CCF
  Project staff: Schimmelpfennig, Friederike (M.A.)

• Common People and the Artist 
  Financed by (among others): CCK Foundation, CNRS 2005-2009
  Project supervisor: Henriot, Christian (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr. ); Yeh, Catherine Vance (Prof. Dr.) et al. 
  Project staff: Sun Liying