Research Chair Modern China

Ongoing Projects

Research Team	Project	Start/End
Riemenschnitter, Andrea / Fothergill, Lionel	Transmedial Resemantisations – Myths of the Four Great Novels (Si Da Qishu) of Imperial China in Contemporary Culture	2020–2023
Qian, Cui	Creating an Alternative World: The Remaking of Western Ideologies in Modern Chinese Bildungsromane (1919-1976)	2018–2022

Research Team	Project	Start/End
Riemenschnitter, Andrea, Prof. Dr. / Chu, Kiu-wai, Dr. / Leung, Virginia Yee-yarn	Coming of age in Hong Kong: a study of a colonial literary field in the 1950s	2014–2017
Imbach, Jessica Elizabeth	Not afraid of ghosts: Critical appropriations of the spectral in modern Chinese fiction	2014–2015
Imbach, Jessica Elizabeth	Fantasizing ghosts: Gendered memories and traumatic specters in post-Mao fiction	2012–2014