Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies

Politics & Economics

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Alex

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Prof. Dr. Robert Horres

 
Since 2004, Robert Horres is professor for Japanese Studies at the Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen and represents the work unit “modern Japan”. He works on this research at the University of Bonn and the German Institute for Japanese Studies, the National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and historiographic institute of the University of Tokyo. Further information...

Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert

 
Prof. Schubert (born 1963) teaches and carries out research in Tübingen since 2003. He holds the professorship for Greater Chinese Studies at the department of Chinese and Korean Studies. Also, he is director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, which cooperates with the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies. Current focal points are: political steering policy implementation in China’s local state; the political role of private entrepreneurs in China; the political economy of cross-strait relations; nationalism in Greater China; and East Asian comparative political development. Further information…

Assistant professor Dr. Jerôme de Wit

 
Jerôme de Wit received his Ph.D. from Leiden University, Netherlands. He is a Korean specialist on North and South Korean Wartime Literature and modern Korean culture. His research interest in Korean culture is focused on public discourses concerning history and society and how cultural sources can provide us with different viewpoints on debates such as nationalism, identity, and history. His recent projects deal with such topics as postcolonialism in contemporary South Korean alternate history novels, a study on North Korean children’s animated cartoons, and a study on the representation and the changes in identity in the literature and movies of ethnic Koreans in China. through his teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses at several universities. Further information...