| since 2013 |
Senior Pofessor of Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 9–10/2019 |
Guest Professorship at the School of Government and the Research Center for Chinese Politics, Peking University |
| 3–4/2018 |
Field research on Political Representation and Representational Claims in the Chinese Cyberspace in Beijing, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Zhengzhou, Jiaozuo und Wenxian (Henan), sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2–4/2017 |
Field research on the topic Representation and representative claims of private entrepreneurs in Beijing, Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Zhejiang und Shandong. |
| 2–3/2016 |
Field Research on Strategic Group Behaviour of private entrepreneurs in Beijing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Haikou, Qionghai and Sanya, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF] |
| 9/2015 |
Field Research on Strategic Group Behaviour of private entrepreneurs in Changchun, Yushu, Foshan and Shenzhen, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF] |
| 2–3/2015 |
Field Research on Strategic Group Behaviour of private entrepreneurs in various locations in China, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF] |
| 8–9/2014 |
Field Research in Yongji/Jilin and Zhuhai/Guangdong on Interaction between Private Entrepreneurs and Local Governments, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF] |
| 2014 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna |
| 2013–2015 |
Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University |
| 1998–2013 |
Professor of East Asian Politics at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2013 |
Field research in Enshi (Hubei) and Wenzhou (Zhejiang) on interaction between local governments and private entrepreneurs (sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research within the Competence Network Governing in China) |
| 2012 |
Field research in Jiangyin (Jiangsu) and Jinjiang (Fujian) on interaction between local governments and private entrepreneurs (sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research within the Competence Network Governing in China) |
| 2012 |
Field research on Environmental governance in ethnic minority areas in Xichang and Meigu County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, sponsored by the Haniel Foundation |
| 2011 |
Field Research in Jiangyin (Jiangsu) and Shiquan (Shaanxi) on Local Cadres as Strategic Groups: Innovation and Experiments (sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research within the Competence Network Governing in China) |
| 2010 |
Visiting Professor at Taiwan National University (Taipei) and Sun Zhongshan University in Gaoxiong/Taiwan |
| 2009 |
Field Research in China’s Shouguang/Shandong, Deqing/Zhejiang, and Nanfeng/Jiangxi on Rural Environmental Governance and the Implementation Gap, sponsored by the Haniel Foundation |
| 2008–2010 |
Field research in Laixi (Shandong), Suining (Sichuan), Meitan and Xifeng (both in Guizhou) on Local State and Local Cadres: Constructing a New Countryside (sponsored by the DFG) |
| 2007 |
Research on Environmental Governance in China in Shihezi, Xiamen and Yingkou (sponsored by the Haniel Foundation) |
| 2006 |
Research on administrative reforms in China in four provinces (sponsored by the Haniel Foundation) |
| 2005 |
Visiting Scholar at the China Center of Comparative Politics and Economics, Beijing |
| 2003–2005 |
Field research on participation, legitimacy and social security in China’s neighborhood communities; field research in Shenyang, Chongqing and Shenzhen, sponsored by the DFG |
| 2000 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle |
| 1999–2002 |
Field research in 11 counties of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan on Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Social and Structural Change, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 1997 |
Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, Seoul/Korea, sponsored by the Korea Foundation |
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Visiting Professor in Taiwan at the invitation of the Taiwanese Ministry of Education |
| 1993–1994 |
Field Research in seven townships in six Chinese provinces on Rural Urbanization and Social Change in China, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 1992–1998 |
Professor of Political Sciences with a focus on East Asian politics and government at Trier University |
| 1991–1992 |
Professor of Chinese Economic Studies at Bremen University for Applied Sciences |
| 1988–1991 |
Visiting Professor, Chair of East Asian Politics at Duisburg University |
| 1986–1988 |
Senior research fellow at Bremen University; in charge of a research project on The Function of the Individual Economy for Labour Market and Urban Economy in China, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 1986–1987 |
Field research in four Chinese provinces, interviewing more than 1,500 individual economic households |
| 1983–1985 |
Research fellow at the Übersee Museum in Bremen, responsible for establishing the new China department |
| 1981–1982 |
Field research on ethnic minorities’ policies and development policies in ethnic minority areas in China in the Yi in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 1977–1981 |
Translator and Reader at the Foreign Language Press in Beijing |
