Albert Allgaier
is a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Studies at the Department of East Asian
Studies at the University of Vienna. He holds a B.A. (2010) and an M.A. (2014)
in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna. His current research focuses
on Japanese contemporary art in a postcolonial context. He can be reached at [email protected].
Andrea Aumayr holds a B.A. in
Transcultural Communication with the working languages of German, English and
Mandarin Chinese (2012) and an M.A. in East Asian Economy and Society (2014),
both from the University of Vienna. In the course of her studies she spent half
a year in China at, amongst others, the Beijing Language and Culture
University. Currently she works in the sales and marketing department of an
international company in Vienna. She can be reached at [email protected].
Rainer Doppler holds an M.A. (2013) in East Asian Economy and Society from
the University of Vienna, and an M.A. (2001) in Business Administration and a Ph.D. (2011) in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of
Economics and Business. His research interests focus on the role of technology
and business clusters in the economic development process of nations and
economic areas. Moreover, he analyses the importance of information and
communication technologies as well as new media as determining factors in
sustainable education. He can be reached at [email protected].
Christine M. Havlicek is a Ph.D. candidate in
Chinese Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of
Vienna, where she has already obtained a B.A. (2008) and an M.A (2012) in
Chinese Studies. She also pursued intensive Chinese language training in China
(Běidàihé and Qīngdǎo) and at the Friedrich-Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her current research focuses on the relationship between
China and its Central Eurasian neighbours in prehistoric and early historic
times and the impact of early Silk Road transactions and migrations on Chinese
history. She can be reached at [email protected]
Isabel Heger is a Ph.D. candidate and Research
Associate at the Department of Chinese Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.
She holds a B.A. (2011) and an M.A. (2013) from the University of Vienna, where
she studied Sinology and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. From 2010 to
2011, she spent a year abroad at the East China Normal University, studying
Higher Education. In 2012, she returned to ECNU in order to conduct research
for her thesis. Her current research focuses on the role of nonmaterial beliefs
for meaning making in the life narratives of people in contemporary China.
Isabel can be reached at [email protected].
Julia Renner is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied
Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna. She
received a B.A. in Communication Studies (2011) and Chinese Studies (2011) and
is the first graduate of the M.A. programme ‘Chinese Studies – Teaching
Competence’ (2013). Her research focuses on Chinese as a foreign language,
non-formal learning, and conversation analysis in the field of second language
acquisition. In addition to her academic studies she is also pursuing a degree
in ‘Classical Guitar Performance’ at the Vienna Conservatory. She can be
reached at [email protected].
Arthur Müller is a research student at the
Department of Wildlife and Environment Conservation at the Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology. He holds a B.A. (2011) in Sociology and an M.A.
(2013) in East Asian Economy and Society, both from the University of Vienna.
His current research focuses on theories of public goods as well as
sustainability and biodiversity discourses related to terrestrial hunting
systems and wildlife management in East Asia and Europe. He can be reached at [email protected].
Mei Yang received
her Ph.D. (English) from the University of Aberdeen. She is affiliated to Jilin
University and is a post-doctoral fellow at the Northeast Normal University.
She also works as a postgraduate researcher at the University of Aberdeen and
an external researcher at the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research,
Loughborough University. Her current research focuses on discourse studies of
religious ethics in East Asia. She can be reached at [email protected].