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Biography

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Research Interests

In my doctoral project, I was particularly interested in certain aspects of the Chinese discourse on nationalism, its integration of concepts of ethnic identity and assimilation, and in Chinese historiographical thinking with regard to non-Chinese dynasties, empires and ethnicities (1900s-1920s). 

Research Grants

	Project	Funding Body	Start Date	End Date	Award
	Research Grant, State Library Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation	Other: Not Listed	01-JUN-23	30-JUN-23
	Geiss Hsu Travel Grant, James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Xu Foundation	Other: Not Listed	15-MAR-23	20-MAR-23
	Ruling Elites & Ruled Elites in Eurasian Expanding Empires	Enterprise Irl	08-JUN-22	07-JUN-23	€13,788.00
	Habilitation/second book scholarship, Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University	Other: Not Listed	01-OCT-19	31-MAR-20
	International Symposium (Manchu in Global History), State and University Library Göttingen et al.	Other: Not Listed	19-SEP-17	22-SEP-17
	Outstanding Publication of Young Scientists, Price by the Foundation Council, Göttingen University	Other: Not Listed	01-JAN-17	01-JAN-17
	International Workshop (Manchu Language Intensive Course)	Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)	03-FEB-15	06-FEB-15
	International Workshop & conference volume (Political Strategies of Identity Building in China: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China)	Gerda-Henkel-Foundation	18-JUL-12	19-JUL-12
	International Workshop (Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered)	Gerda-Henkel-Foundation	15-JUN-11	17-JUN-11
	PhD scholarship, Special Research Fond, Ghent University	Other: Not Listed	20-APR-09	19-APR-13
	PhD scholarship, Brigitte Schlieben-Lange Programme, funded by the Ministry for Science, Research and Art, Baden-Württemberg, and the European Social Fund	Other: Not Listed	01-JAN-08	31-DEC-08

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Publications

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Books

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s). Julia C. Schneider (2017) Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s). Leiden: Brill. [Details]

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Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	Transnational East Asian Studies Kevin N. Cawley and Julia C. Schneider (Ed.). (2023) Transnational East Asian Studies Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details]
	(2014)	Political Strategies of Identity-Building in Non-Han Empires in China Julia C. Schneider and Francesca Fiaschetti (Ed.). (2014) Political Strategies of Identity-Building in Non-Han Empires in China Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. [Details]

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Curing the Vices of Gambling: Bilingual Manchu-Chinese Textbooks for Banner Education' Katja Pessl and Julia C. Schneider (2023) 'Curing the Vices of Gambling: Bilingual Manchu-Chinese Textbooks for Banner Education'. Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies, [Details]
	(2022)	'Creating a Community of Praxis: Integrating Global Citizenship and Development Education across Campus at University College Cork' Cotter, G., Bonenfant, Y., Butler, J., Caulfield, M., Doyle Prestwich, B., Griffin, R., Khabbar, S., Mishra, N., Hally, R., Murphy, M., Murphy, O. (2022) 'Creating a Community of Praxis: Integrating Global Citizenship and Development Education across Campus at University College Cork'. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 14 (2):15-26 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2022)	'Non-Chinese Peoples in Chinese Republican Historiography: Beasts, Non-historic Peoples, Homines Sacri' Julia C. Schneider (2022) 'Non-Chinese Peoples in Chinese Republican Historiography: Beasts, Non-historic Peoples, Homines Sacri'. Journal of Asian History, [Details]
	(2022)	'When the World Shrinks: Chinese Concepts of Culture, Identity and History in the Early Twentieth Century' Julia C. Schneider (2022) 'When the World Shrinks: Chinese Concepts of Culture, Identity and History in the Early Twentieth Century'. Global Intellectual History, [DOI] [Details]
	(2020)	'A Non-Western Colonial Power? The Qing Empire in Postcolonial Discourse' Julia C. Schneider (2020) 'A Non-Western Colonial Power? The Qing Empire in Postcolonial Discourse'. Journal of Asian History, 54 (2):311-340 [DOI] [Details]
	(2011)	'The Jin Revisited: New Assessment of Jurchen Emperors' Julia Schneider (2011) 'The Jin Revisited: New Assessment of Jurchen Emperors'. Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 41 :343-404 [DOI] [Details]

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Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing Empire' Julia C. Schneider (2023) 'Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing Empire' In: Transnational East Asian Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details]
	(2023)	'Chinese Nationalism in Late Qing Times: How to (Not) Change a Multi-ethnic Empire into a Homogenous Nation-state' Julia C. Schneider (2023) 'Chinese Nationalism in Late Qing Times: How to (Not) Change a Multi-ethnic Empire into a Homogenous Nation-state' In: Zhouxiang Lü (eds). Routledge Handbook of Nationalism In Asia. London: Routledge. [Details]
	(2017)	'Missionizing, Civilizing, and Nationizing: Linked Concepts of Compelled Change' Julia C. Schneider (2017) 'Missionizing, Civilizing, and Nationizing: Linked Concepts of Compelled Change' In: Cheng-tian Kuo (eds). New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details]
	(2017)	'Foreign Conquest Dynasties in Chinese Textbooks of the 1920s: The Search for a National Identity' Julia C. Schneider (2017) 'Foreign Conquest Dynasties in Chinese Textbooks of the 1920s: The Search for a National Identity' In: Lee Fan, Hon Tze-ki, and Au Chi Kin (eds). Knowledge and Identity: The Scholarly Discussion of Education and Textbooks in Modernity. Hong Kong: Zhonghwa Book Company. [Details]
	(2014)	'Early Chinese Nationalism: The Origins under Manchu Rule' Julia C. Schneider (2014) 'Early Chinese Nationalism: The Origins under Manchu Rule' In: Bart Dessein (eds). Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power: Nationalism and Historical Consciousness in World Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2014)	'Sinicization and Nativistic Movement? The Middle Jurchen Jin Period (1123–1189)' Julia C. Schneider (2014) 'Sinicization and Nativistic Movement? The Middle Jurchen Jin Period (1123–1189)' In: Francesca Fiaschetti and Julia Schneider (eds). Political Strategies of Identity-Building in Non-Han Empires in China. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. [Details]
	(2012)	'Yòng Xià biàn Yí 用夏變夷 im Kontext von Nationalismus und Historiographie' Julia C. Schneider (2012) 'Yòng Xià biàn Yí 用夏變夷 im Kontext von Nationalismus und Historiographie' In: Lena Henningsen and Martin Hofmann (eds). Tradition? Variation? Plagiat? Motive und ihre Adaption in China. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. [Details]

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Journal Volume Edited

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	Irish Journal of Asian Studies. Special Issue Chinese Borders: Transcultural and Historical Perspectives. Julia C. Schneider (2020) Irish Journal of Asian Studies. Special Issue Chinese Borders: Transcultural and Historical Perspectives. Journal Volume Edited   [Details]
	(2018)	Manchu in Transregional History. Julia C. Schneider and Katja Pessl (2018) Manchu in Transregional History. Journal Volume Edited [Details]
	(2012)	Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China. Julia Schneider, Francesca Fiaschetti and Angela Schottenhammer (2012) Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China. Journal Volume Edited [Details]

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Review Articles

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	Keine innere Angelegenheit: Zeugenaussagen über Chinas Unterdrückungspolitik gegen Uiguren und Kasachen in Xinjiang, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 5.4.2022, Politik, p. 6. Julia C. Schneider (2022) Keine innere Angelegenheit: Zeugenaussagen über Chinas Unterdrückungspolitik gegen Uiguren und Kasachen in Xinjiang, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 5.4.2022, Politik, p. 6. Review Articles [Details]
	(2021)	Unermüdlich für Tibet: Eine Biographie über den Dalai Lama und den Konflikt mit China, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 31.8.2021, Politik, p. 6. Julia C. Schneider (2021) Unermüdlich für Tibet: Eine Biographie über den Dalai Lama und den Konflikt mit China, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 31.8.2021, Politik, p. 6. Review Articles [Details]
	(2020)	Review of In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Julia C. Schneider (2020) Review of In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Review Articles [Details]
	(2020)	Muttersprache verboten: Ein Erfahrungsbericht über die Behandlung von Minderheiten in der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 25.8.2020, Politik, p. 6. Julia C. Schneider (2020) Muttersprache verboten: Ein Erfahrungsbericht über die Behandlung von Minderheiten in der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang, in: Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, 25.8.2020, Politik, p. 6. Review Articles [Details]
	(2018)	Review of Changing Referents: Learning across Space and Time in China and the West. By Leigh Jenco. Julia C. Schneider (2018) Review of Changing Referents: Learning across Space and Time in China and the West. By Leigh Jenco. Review Articles [Details]
	(2017)	Review of Rethinking the Decline of China’s Qing Dynasty: Imperial Activism and Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel McMahon. Julia C. Schneider (2017) Review of Rethinking the Decline of China’s Qing Dynasty: Imperial Activism and Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel McMahon. Review Articles [Details]
	(2016)	Review of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928. By Xiaoqun Xu. Julia C. Schneider (2016) Review of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928. By Xiaoqun Xu. Review Articles [Details]

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Congresses

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	Introduction: Manchu in Transregional History: Diplomacy, Biographies, Textbooks. Julia C. Schneider and Katja Pessl (2018) Introduction: Manchu in Transregional History: Diplomacy, Biographies, Textbooks. Congresses [Details]
	(2011)	Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China, Workshop Report. Julia Schneider and Francesca Fiaschetti (2011) Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in China, Workshop Report. Congresses [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Honours and Awards

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2023	2023 AAS Panel Support Award	Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies
	2019	Scholarship to finish the habilitation or “second book”	University of Göttingen, Faculty of Humanities
	2017	Foundation Council Award in the category “Outstanding Publication of Young Scientists”	Foundation Council, Göttingen University
	2014	Mentee of the support programme for female post-docs	Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University

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Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Association of Asian Studies (AAS)	member	/
	European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)	Member	/
	Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)	Member	/
	German Association of Chinese Studies (DVCS)	Member	/
	Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG)	Senior member	01-OCT-17 / 30-SEP-19
	Centre for Theory of Culture and Society (ZTMK), University of Göttingen	Elected member of the Board	01-JUN-14 / 30-SEP-19
	Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), University of Göttingen	Elected member of the Board	01-DEC-14 / 30-SEP-19
	Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)	Member	01-JAN-15 / 31-DEC-17

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Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Julia C. Schneider (2023) “Telling Jurchen Jin History: The Qianlong Emperor’s Censorship of Ming Books”. [Oral Presentation], Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Boston . [Details]
	(2023)	The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT) Annual Conference, Julia C. Schneider (2023) Black People, Slavery, and Segregation in Late Imperial Chinese Thinking. [Oral Presentation], The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT) Annual Conference, Oxford . [Details]
	(2021)	The Other in Chinese History and Thought: Territory, Race, Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Julia C. Schneider (2021) “Changing the Discourse on Self and Other: The Qianlong Censorship (1772–1788) of Ming Books”. [Oral Presentation], The Other in Chinese History and Thought: Territory, Race, Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Ghent University , 15-NOV-21 - 16-NOV-21. [Details]
	(2021)	The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT) Virtual Conference, Julia C. Schneider (2021) The Concept of Civilisation in Qing Censorship: The Qianlong Book Inquisition (1772–1788). [Oral Presentation], The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT) Virtual Conference, Online . [Details]
	(2019)	Paradigms of Change and Changing Paradigms in Chinese Philosophy, Julia C. Schneider (2019) “Imperial Censorship of a Racist Discourse? The Qianlong Inquisition of Ming Books”. [Oral Presentation], Paradigms of Change and Changing Paradigms in Chinese Philosophy, 3rd Conference of the European Association of Chinese Philosophy, Gent . [Details]
	(2018)	The Relationship between the First Great War and China’s New Cultural Movement, Julia C. Schneider (2018) “New history: the search for a Chinese national identity in the 1920s”. [Invited Oral Presentation], The Relationship between the First Great War and China’s New Cultural Movement, Shanghai University . [Details]
	(2018)	Visualising Asia: Deciphering 'Otherness' in Visual and Material Cultures, Julia C. Schneider (2018) “An anti-racist campaign? Censorship in seventeenth century China”. [Oral Presentation], Visualising Asia: Deciphering 'Otherness' in Visual and Material Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London . [Details]
	(2017)	Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography, Julia C. Schneider (2017) “Writing a general history of China (Zhongguo tongshi): thinking about ethnicity in early nationalist historiography”. [Invited Oral Presentation], Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography, Global and Transregional Studies Platform Göttingen, Göttingen University . [Details]
	(2017)	Anthony D. Smith & the Future of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Religion and Culture (27th ASEN annual conference), Julia C. Schneider (2017) “Merging the civic with the ethnic nation: pre-modern and modern images of Chinese identity”. [Oral Presentation], Anthony D. Smith & the Future of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Religion and Culture (27th ASEN annual conference), Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London School of Economics (LSE) . [Details]
	(2016)	New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies, Julia C. Schneider (2016) “Sinicization as national mission: political strategy and historiographical theory”. [Invited Oral Presentation], New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University . [Details]

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Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	CACSSS Academic Development Committee	Member & SLLC Representative	2022 /
	CACSSS Teaching and Learning Committee	Member & SLLC Representative	2022 /
	Academic Council	non-professorial member	2021 / 2024
	SCCL Athena Swan Steering Group	Member	2021 /
	Faculty Board, Faculty Board, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2015 / 2019
	Temporal committee “Structure”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2018 / 2019
	Temporal committee “Promotion of civil servants”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2016 / 2018
	Temporal committee “Career paths into academia”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2015 / 2016
	Appointment Committee for the Chair of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2015 / 2016
	Temporal committee “Plan for equal opportunities”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Göttingen	Elected member	2015 / 2015

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Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	University College Cork	Lecturer	01-OCT-19 /
	University of Göttingen	Akademische Rätin (assistant professor)	01-FEB-14 / 30-SEP-19
	Ghent University	Guest professor	01-OCT-13 / 31-JAN-14
	Ghent University	Doctoral candidate	01-MAY-09 / 30-APR-13

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Education

	Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	2013	Ghent University and University of Göttingen (Cotutelle)	PhD	Title of dissertation thesis: “Ethnicity and Sinicization: The Theory of Assimilative Power in the Making of the Chinese Nation-State (1900s-1920s)” (summa cum laude)
	2005	University of Heidelberg	Magistra artium	Title of master thesis: “A Critique of the Sinicization Concept: A Case Study of the three Jin Emperors Hela, Digunai and Wulu (1135-1189)” (grade: very good)

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Other Activities

Description

Co-editor with Milinda Banerjee and Simon Yarrow of the book series Transregional Practices of Power, Oldenburg: De Gruyter. Published volumes: Vol. 1: Cord-Christian Casper 2020. Against Anarchy: Political Alterity in British Modernism. Vol. 2: Krešimir Vuković 2022. Wolves of Rome: The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives. Vol. 5: Damien Tricoire 2023. The Colonial Dream: Imperial Knowledge and the French-Malagasy Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment, translated by Christine O'Neill.

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Teaching Activities

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Teaching Interests

CH2010 "Wars and Revolutions - China in the 19th and 20th Century" (under- & postgraduate)
























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Recent Postgraduates

	Graduation Year	Student Name	Institution	Degree Type	Thesis Title
	2023	Zhao Y.	University College Cork	Master of Arts	A Commentary on Ubisoft Game: Assassin's Creed (Chinese Translation)
	2023	Zhang F.	University College Cork	Master of Arts	A Comparative Analysis of Three Chinese Versions of The Moon and Sixpence from the Translation Aesthetics Perspective
	2023	Yu W.	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Translation Project of the First Chapter of Matthew Perry (E-C) and Commentary on the Application of Translation Strategies
	2022	G. Taylor	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Indigenous Languages Revitalisation Efforts in Taiwan: The Effects of Culture on Language Revitalisation Efforts; A Comparative Case Study of New Caledonia and New Zealand
	2022	T. Brandenburg	University College Cork	Master of Arts	TikTok: A Modern Powerful Tool
	2021	E. Wall	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Shengnü: Why “leftover women” face discrimination within Chinese society
	2021	X. Han	University College Cork	Master of Arts	A Comparative Analysis of idiom translation in Hong Lou Meng
	2020	S. Wu	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Documentary Text Translation from The Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory: A Case Study of Emma Adams’s Unbreakable Threads: The true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family
	2020	Y. Lian	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Commentary on the Contemporary Scientific and Technical English-Chinese Translation of Once Upon an Algorithm (How Stories Explain Computing) by Martin Erwig
	2020	W. Li	University College Cork	Master of Arts	Commentary on the English-Chinese translation of First Term at Malory Towers
	2019	Y. Stille	University of Gottingen	Master of Research	Using the Theory of Internal Colonialism to Analyse the Case of Yunnan
	2018	J. Zhao	University of Gottingen	Master of Research	The southward expansion of the Qing Empire: A case study of governance in Guizhou and Taiwan (17th and 18th centuries)
	2018	B. Braunschweig	University of Gottingen	Master of Research	What influence did political measures have on the independence movement of the Uyghurs?
	2017	W. Yang	University of Gottingen	Master of Research	Influence of Institutionalization on Chinese Policy-making and Authoritarian Resilience: A Case Study of the One-child Policy
	2016	T. Odom	University of Gottingen	Master of Research	Whose interest is public? Ordre Public and the good morals in Chinese contract law

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Current Postgraduate Students

	Student	Degree Type
	Liu Shuai	Doctoral Degree

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Research Information

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External Collaborators

	Name	Organisation / Institute	Country
	Lena Henningsen	Freiburg University	GERMANY
	Jennifer Keating	University College Dublin	IRELAND
	Bart Dessein (UGent), Leigh Jenco (LSE) and Ady van den Stock (UGent)	Ghent University and LSE	BELGIUM
	Katja Pessl	Centre for Modern East Asian Studies	GERMANY