contributors of
volume 3
Elisabeth Gumpenberger holds an M.A. degree in Chinese Studies and Development Studies from the University of Vienna. In 2006–07 she spent a year abroad at Hainan University and returned to Hainan island in 2009 in order to conduct field research for her thesis. She can be reached at [email protected].
Marco Akira Klebel pursued Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna and Landscape Architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, at the Vienna University of Technology and at the Technical University Munich. He worked as a tutor for several courses in the Institute of Landscape Architecture at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. He graduated with an M.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna in 2011 and with a diploma as graduate engineer (Dipl.-Ing) in Landscape Architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna in 2012. He can be reached at [email protected].
Josef Falko Loher is Research Assistant and a PhD candidate in the department of East Asian Studies (East Asian Economy and Society) at the University of Vienna. He holds a B.A. in Sinology and acquired an M.A. with honours in East Asian Economy and Society from the University of Vienna. He studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Vienna, Leiden University and Shanghai Fudan University. His research focuses on climate change, energy and environmental politics as well as political systems in East Asia. He can be reached at [email protected].
Stephan Si-Hwan Park is Research Assistant and a PhD candidate in the department of East Asian Studies (East Asian Economy and Society) at the University of Vienna. He received an M.A. in East Asian Economy and Society from the University of Vienna and an M.A. in Event Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein, Austria. His research focuses on the sociology of success. He can be reached at [email protected].
Julia Ritirc is a PhD candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, from which she holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Sinology. She studied Chinese at the University of Vienna, Ca’ Foscari University and National Chengchi University. In 2010, she was awarded a Taiwan Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan and moved to Taiwan in order to pursue Chinese language training and a subsequent M.A. degree programme in Political Science at National Chengchi University. Her research focuses on environmental governance in China with a particular interest in the cadre management system. She can be reached at [email protected].
Marco Sostero studied Japanese Studies and History at the University of Vienna, the Hōsei University in Tōkyō and the Free University in Berlin. He holds an M.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna. After graduation in 2008, he became Research Associate at the University of Heidelberg, where his work focused on Japanese wartime propaganda between 1938 and 1945. Since February 2012, he is back in Austria, working as correspondent for the Vienna bureau of the Japanese news agency Kyōdō News. His first book Der Krieg hinter Glas was published in June 2010 and was introduced on the public Austrian radio channel Ö1 a few weeks later. He can be reached at [email protected].