Dr. Jens Damm (Professurvertretung)
Contact Information:
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Institut für Sinologie
Werthmannstraße 12
79098 Freiburg, Germany
Office room no. 01.005
Phone: +49 761 203-67752
Fax: +49 761 203-67766
E-Mail: jens.damm@sinologie.uni-freiburg.de
(oder: jens.damm@fu-berlin.de)
RESEARCH
My research interests include the new media and the Internet, the Taiwanese and Chinese diasporas, and gender studies. Other projects concern current discourses on Taiwan and China in the German media and vice versa. I am also a Board Member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies EATS e.V.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
2002
Freie Universität Berlin
Doktor der Philosophie, Sinologie, “Homosexualität und Gesellschaft in Taiwan: 1945 bis 1995”
1994
Universität Trier
Magister “Liu Xiaobo – ein Ikonoklast in der Tradition des Vierten Mai”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE
10/2022 - 09/2023 Professurvertretung Daniel Leese, Sinologie (Schwerpunkt: „Geschichte und Politik des Modernen China“)
9/2020-2/2021 Research Fellow, European Institute for Chinese Studies EURICS, Paris
2009-2019 Associate [Assistant] Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
[Parallel: 2015-2018 Non-resident research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, “China’s Cultural Diplomacy and the Role of Non-state Actors “, (PI) (GARC)]
2004-2009 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent C1, Freie Universität Berlin, Sinology
2003-2001 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Freie Universität Berlin, Sinology/Political Science
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
China and Germany after the 2021 Election: Between Continuity and Increasing Confrontation. In Simona Grano and David Chiavacci (eds.) International Responses to US-China Strategic Competition: Neutrality vs. Taking-Sides. Palgrave. In print. 2022.
Chinas Digitalisierung: Effizienz und Kontrolle durch eigene Technologiestandards. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung BZP. 2021.
China’s Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin: The Impact of Transnational and Local, in J. Damm, O. Klimeš, G. Rawnsley, J. Ptáčková (eds.) China’s Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin: The Impact of Transnational and Local, Palgrave. 2020.
China and the Ethnic Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Discourses, Perceptions and Cultural Diplomacy, Berliner-Hefte 51, 23-42. 2019.
The impact of the Taiwanese LGBTQ movement in mainland China with a specific focus on the case of the “Chinese Lala Alliance” and “marriage equality in Chinese societies”, in Carsten Storm (ed.) Connecting Taiwan. Routledge. 2018.
Politics and the Media, in G. Schubert (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. 2017.
The Early Contradictory Approaches to Gender and Sexuality and the Recourse to American Discourses during Taiwan's Societal Transformation in the early 1980s, in H. Chiang and Yin Wang, Perverse Taiwan, London: Routledge. 2016.
The Contemporary Political and Public Discourse on the Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan in the Context of the Centennial Celebration of the ROC, Berliner China-Hefte/Chinese History and Society 47, 122-138. 2016.
An Outline of LGBTQ and Tongzhi Discourses in Taiwan: From the Re-Invented Confucianism of the 1950s to a Glocal Queer Discourse Today. Festschrift für Mechthild Leutner. Peter Lang. 2016.
I am also the author of Homosexualität und Gesellschaft in Taiwan: 1945 bis 1995 (LIT) and I have (co)-edited a range of works, for example, (2019) Transnational Sites of China's Cultural Diplomacy- Central Asia, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe Compared, Palgrave; (2018) with Mechthild Leutner and Niu Dayong, China's Interaction the World: Historical and Contemporary Aspects; (2012) with Gunter Schubert, Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century, Routledge; (2012) with Paul Lim, European Perspectives on Taiwan (VS Springer; (2009) China Networks, with Mechthild Leutner); (2008) with Andreas Steen, Postmodern China; (2007) with Gunter Schubert, Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives; (2006) with Simona Thomas, Chinese Cyberspaces.