Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈, Ph.D.
Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈 received her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore with the FASS Scholarship in Buddhist Studies. She earned her M.A. in Sinology from the National Yunlin University of Technology and Science in Taiwan and her second M.A. in Chinese studies from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Hsu specializes in modern Chinese Buddhism, with particular emphasis on its ritual practices, transnational networks, and printing communications. Her latest book, “The Development and Transformation of Humanistic Buddhism in Singapore,” supported by the Research Scholarship on Humanistic Buddhism in East Asia/Southeast Asia from the Center for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was published in March 2021.
Her most current research has concerned the history of education and vocational training in twentieth-century Taiwan, explicitly focusing on the development of print media and the agricultural revolution. The main target of this project is to explore innovative actions and changes in the vocational training system in Taiwan during the last century through profound observations of printing industries and agricultural policies individually.
TAP related Publications
Lecture Recordings
Selected other Publications
Ph.D. Thesis
Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata
Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata is Chair Professor for History of China and Director of the Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is co-applicant of the “Taiwan als Pionier” project and hosts TAP’s Bochum postdoc research project. Her research interests include the local history and historiography of China, the social and economic history of China and East Asia, the labor history of China, Japan, and Taiwan, and the history of crafts and industry in China, Northeast Asia, and Taiwan. At present, she is working as Vice Dean of the Faculty of East Asian Studies of the Ruhr University Bochum, and she is the Vice Chairperson of the German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS).
TAP related Publications
Lecture Recordings
Chen Kuan-fei 陳冠妃, Ph.D.
Chen Kuan-fei 陳冠妃, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at National Taiwan University. She earned her doctorate in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018 with a dissertation on the rise and development of Tainan as an urban center. Her research is about the socio-economic history of Taiwan, especially the transformation of power structures and economic interactions in urban society. She is also interested in the relationship between people and cultural heritage. She participated in the project application phase of TAP in late 2019 and early 2020 and is an associated researcher of the group.
Selected Publications
Ph.D. Thesis
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Chien Hung-yi 簡宏逸, Ph.D.
Chien Hung-yi 簡宏逸, Ph.D., joined TAP in the application phase in the summer of 2020. She was the first leader of the Bochum section of TAP and worked here from February to July 2022, when she took up a tenure-track position at the History Department of the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. She designed the Bochum sub-project, “Erziehung als Motor der Moderne in Taiwan” (Education as the Motor of Modernity in Taiwan), studying the modern education system in Taiwan and its contribution to the island nation’s modernization. Dr. Chien graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and the National Taipei University of Education. While in Bochum, Dr. Chien and Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn initiated the debate on Taiwan studies as part of sinology. Dr. Chien remains connected to Bochum as an associated researcher of TAP.
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Ph.D. Thesis
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Julia Zachulski, B.A.
Julia Zachulski holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sinology and Korean studies and is currently studying for a Master's degree of East Asian studies at Ruhr University Bochum. During her Bachelor studies, she was particularly interested in the role of women in ancient China and the history of Taiwan - especially the time during and after the Japanese rule. Since September 2023, Ms. Zachulski has been working as a student assistant at the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Department of Chinese History) to support the TAP project in Bochum.
Tamina Renner, M.A.
Tamina Renner holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sinology and German studies from the Ruhr University Bochum. During her Bachelor studies, she worked as a German teacher at Wuhan Business University, P.R. China, for two semesters and completed a semester abroad at the Department of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (funded by DAAD PROMOS scholarship). For her Bachelor’s thesis, she worked on the relationship between democratization and women’s rights in Taiwan politics. Since September 2021, Ms. Rennerworked as a research assistant in the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Section History of China), and from February 2022 to August 2023, she had been entrusted with supporting the TAP project in Bochum. She submitted an MA thesis entitled „Die strategische Bedeutung der Penghu-Inseln im Spannungsfeld maritimer und kolonialer Dynamik im 17. Jahrhundert („The Strategic Importance of the Penghu Islands Amid the Tensions of Maritime and Colonial Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century“).
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