CV Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (*1955) is a China specialist with a special focus on contemporary and politics. She was a professor of Sinology at the University of Vienna until she went into retirement in October 2020. She is married to the free lance journalist and publisher Wolfgang M. Schwiedrzik and mother of Caspar Schwiedrzik (*1983), Jakob Schwiedrzik (*1986) and Ludwig Schwiedrzik (*1994).

Professional affiliation:

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Wien

Spitalgasse 2/ Hof 2

A 1090 WIEN http://www.univie.ac.at/Sinologie/staff/weigelin-s/

Main research areas

20th century Chinese historiography and biography

20th century Chinese history

Contemporary Chinese discourse on memory of the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution

Contemporary Chinese politics, especially state society as well as center periphery relations in the policy fields of public health, minority issues, urbanization and environment

Chinas position in the international order past and present

History of East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries

Academic Career

1973-1975 Studies of Sinology, Japanology and Political Science at Bonn University, Bonn,

1975-1977 Studies of Chinese Language (Yuyan Xueyuan, Beijing, PRC) and (Beijing University, Beijing, PRC)

1977 Studies of Sinology, Japanology and Political Science at Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

1978 Studies of Chinese History, Chinese Language and Literature and Political Science at University, , Germany

1977 Translator’s Diploma for Chinese Language at Bonn University, Bonn, Germany 1978 MA at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1982 Doktor phil. at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1989 Habilitation at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1978-1980 Research Assistant at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1980 Research Fellow at Beijing University, Beijing, PRC (sponsored by the DAAD)

1980-1982 Pre doc at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1982-1989 Post Doc at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

1984-1985 Research Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1987 Research Fellow at Qinghua University, Beijing, PRC

1992 Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and at Qinghua University, Beijing, PRC (sponsored by the Volkswagen Stiftung)

1989-2002 Professor for Modern Sinology at

1994-1999 Member of the Administrative Board of Heidelberg University

1997 Research Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

1999 Research Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1999-2001 Vice- for International Affairs at Heidelberg University

2002-2020 Professor for Sinology at the Department for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

2004-2010 Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

2005 Madeleine H. Russell Visiting Professor for Non-Western and Comparative Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

2010-2011 Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

2011-2015 Vice-Rector for Research and Career Development, University of Vienna

2011 Elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) 2014 Research Fellow at the Institute of modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking

2016-2020 Director of the Study Program of East Asian Studies (SPL 15)

2018 Siu Lien Ling Wong Fellow 2017/2018 of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2020 Retirement and continuation of teaching activities in the field of Chinese History at the Department for East Asian Studies, University of Vienna and at the Diplomatique Academy, Vienna

Grants, memberships etc.

1992 Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and at Qinghua University, Beijing, PRC (sponsored by the Volkswagenstiftung)

1997-2002 Research Grant provided by the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation, Heidelberg for the development of an inter-cultural training programme for expatriates

2007-2010 FWF Research Grant for a three year project on Capacity Building in Health Care among Nomads in Xinjiang

2008 Research Grant for a project on measuring Green GDP in China and the EU, provided by the Austrian National Bank (ÖNB)

2010 Research Grant on “Measuring circular economy in China and the EU” provided by the Austrian National Bank (ÖNB)

2011 Research Grant on the “Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Vienna”, provided by the Jubilee Fund for the Austrian Academy of Science of the City of Vienna

2011 Grant provided by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for a conference in Vienna on “The Revolution of 1911 and state-building in China”

2014 Grant provided by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for a conference in Vienna on “China and World War I”

2016 Grant provided by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for a conference in Vienna on “Mao biography”

2017 Grant provided by the Austrian Academy of Science for a conference on “Remembering World War II in Europe and East Asia” (co-organized by Department of East Asian Studies and the Editorial Board of “China’s Resistance War against Japan” (Institute of Modern History, CASS)

Member of the Research Policy Advisory Committee for the Land Baden Württemberg (1994-1997) Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Austrian Science Foundation (2004-)

Member of the Curatorium of the WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund) (2011- 2015)

Member of the Curatorium of the Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien (2011- 2015)

FWF-Delegate of the University of Vienna (2011-2015)

Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Foundation, New York, USA (2012-2016)

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), University of Göttingen (2013-

Member of the Curatorium of Forum Alpbach (2011- 2019)

Member of the Advisory Board for the Political Dialogue of European Forum Alpbach (2019- )

Member of the Editorial Board of Pacific Affairs (2004-2014)

Member of the Editorial Board of Twentieth Century China

Member of the Editorial Board of China Information

Member of the Editorial Board of “China’s Resistance War Against Japan” (Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)

Member of the AAS, EACS, Historical Society of 20th Century China

Editor (together with Axel Schneider) of the Monograph Series: Leiden Series on Comparative Historiography (Brill: Leiden) ( see http://www.brill.com/publications/leiden- series-comparative-historiography)

International Cooperations

Prof. Liu Guisheng of Qinghua University, Beijing, PRC

Prof. Dong Guoqiang, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC

Prof. Julia Strauss of SOAS, London

Prof. Wolfgang Schwentker of Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Prof. Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Prof. Axel Schneider of Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany

Prof. Andrea Riemenschnitter of Zürich University, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Felix Wemheuer, Universität Köln, Germany