Judy Lee

Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen

Judy Lee has been a Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Chair of Greater China Studies since October 2022. She studied Politics and Law at the University of Hong Kong and Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. She conducts research on a wide range of topics, such as Hong Kong politics, language and culture, East Asian maritime history, and overseas Chinese communities. 

She is Principal Investigator in the project “Sex, Labour, and Religion: East Asian Minority Cultural Heritage in the Postcolonial Global South”, supported by the Working Groups Program, Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen. Her early-career leadership also includes academic event co-organisation, including “Unfamiliar Neighbours in East Asia: Empowering Minority Heritage in Port Cities” (2026) and “Diversity and Liberty in East Asia: Historical Development and Contemporary Significance” (2024), both at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. 

As a linguist and language teacher, she participates in various commercial and academic book projects as a translator, copyeditor, indexer, and proofreader. Her most recent personal publications include the Traditional Chinese translation of the memoir of Chris Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong, and of To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism, authored by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane.