Interview: 30. Jahrestag Tiananmen-Massaker

Thorben Pelzer (SFB 1199)

Publication Date

June 2019

Publisher

mephisto 97.6

Language

German

Type

Media

Issue

Faustschlag

Biographical Note

Thorben Pelzer (SFB 1199)

Since September 2017, Thorben Pelzer holds the position of university lecturer for Society and Culture of Modern China at Leipzig University. He graduated in Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, and East Asia Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum. Further, he studied at Osaka University, at Tongji University in Shanghai, and at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. He is an alumni of the German Merit Foundation. As a social and cultural historian of the Republican period, he currently researches Chinese engineers who studied in the USA.