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Dr. Andreas Günter Weis

Andreas Günter Weis

Andreas Günter Weis has earned his PhD in 2026 in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Göttingen. His research resides in the field of global history, with a focus on modern Chinese and German history. This includes, for instance, transnational exchanges between China and Germany, global intellectual history, especially of political ideas, and colonial and gender history.

Weis has contributed to a number of edited volumes. Most recently, he has translated Sun Yat-sen’s article “A Summarizing Discussion on the Question of Preserving or Partitioning China” (Zhina Baoquan fenge helun 支那保全分割合論) for the volume Voices of Anticolonialism (Stimmen des Antikolonialismus: Eine globalhistorische Spurensammlung 1615–1915), adding an extensive commentary. The book has now been translated into English and will be published by Camden House. Furthermore, he has published in journals such as Monumenta Serica or Historische Anthropologie. For instance, together with Prof. Dr. Hon Tze-ki, he has written the article “Politics, Leadership, and Wisdom: The Making of the I Ging in 1920s Germany” (2023).

He is currently also a visiting fellow at the Advanced Institute for Confucian Studies (Shandong University) and the first junior fellow of the Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH).

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  • Public Lectures
  • “From the Cosmos to Politics: Zheng Taipu’s 鄭太朴 (1901–1949) Transnational Journey as a Political Theoretician and Translator of Modern Mathematics.” Paper for the international conference on Overseas Students and Global Knowledge Circulation in the 19th to 20th Century at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 8 July 2026.
  • “The Philosopher as Matchmaker: Hermann Keyserling and the Collaboration between Richard Wilhelm and C. G. Jung.” Paper for the Forum on the Globalization of the Yijing and Analytical Psychology: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of C. G. Jung’s Birth (《易经》的全球化与分析心理学国际会议——纪念荣格诞辰150 周年) at Shandong University, Jinan, China. 30 November 2025.
  • “Kant and Confucius in Weimar Germany: The Confucius Reception of Leonard Nelson As Mediated Through Richard Wilhelm’s Translations.” Paper for the international conference on Translation of Chinese Classics and Knowledge Transfer (全球化背景下的“典籍翻译与知识迁移”国际学术会议) at Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China. 31 October 2025.
  • “The Literature and Art of the Common People: Marxism and (Feminist) Aesthetics in Deng Yanda’s 邓演达 (1985–1931) Literary Vision.” Paper at the International Symposium on Academic Norms and Paradigm Renewal of Key Words Research in Marxist Aesthetics (马克思主义美学关键词研究的学术规范与范式更新) at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 20 September 2025.
  • “Sun Yat-sen und die Frage der Aufteilung oder Bewahrung Chinas in Folge der Invasion der Acht-Mächte-Allianz (1903).” [Sun Yat-sen and the Question of Partition or Preservation of China in Result of the Invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance (1903)]. Guest Lecture at the University of Vienna, Austria. 27 May 2025.
  • “Wessen Expertise zählt? Geschichte und Möglichkeiten der Sinologie in Deutschland.” [Whose Expertise Matters? History and Possibilities of Sinology in Germany]. Guest Lecture at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 19 May 2025.
  • “Sojourners Between China and Germany After the 1911 Revolution and the Intellectual Worlds They Created.” Paper at the Symposium on East-West Knowledge Flows at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China. 26 February 2025.
  • “The Three Women behind Wilhelm’s I Ging.” Paper at the conference on Celebrating the Centenary of the Publication of Richard Wilhelm’s I Ging (1924) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (online available at https://youtu.be/_vOSUmQjp48). 5 December 2024.
  • “Antikolonialer Aktivismus chinesischer Frauen in der Weimarer Republik und Göttingen.” [Anticolonial Activism by Chinese Women in the Weimar Republic and Göttingen]. Public lecture at the Urban Laboratory Göttingen (Stadtlabor Göttingen), Germany. 15 June 2024.
  • “Kolonialer Alltag und Geschlecht in der deutschen ‘Musterkolonie’ in China, 1898–1914.” [Colonial Every Day Life and Gender in the German “Model Colony” in China, 1898–1914]. Public lecture at the City Museum of Göttingen (Städtisches Museum Göttingen), Germany. 5 May 2024.
  • “Die Weimarer Republik und eine sozial-demokratische Opposition in China? Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Provisorischen Aktionskomitees der GMD, 1927–1932.” [The Weimar Republic and a Social-Democratic Opposition in China? A Contribution to the Founding History of the Provisional Action Committee of the GMD, 1927–1932]. Public lecture at the Confucius Institute, Leipzig, Germany. December 2023.
  • “‘[I]ch habe eingesehen, daß wir erst den Bedrängten in China helfen sollen, ehe wir an eine Ausbildung nur für uns selber denken dürfen.’ – Chinesische Studentinnen und die Liga gegen Kolonialismus in Berlin 1924–1933.” [“I have realized that we first have to help the embattled in China before we can think of an education for ourselves.” – Chinese Women Students and the League Against Colonialism in Berlin 1924–1933]. Paper at the “17. Workshop des Forschungsschwerpunkts Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien” on Feministische Akteur:innen im Kontext von Kolonialismus und Postkolonialismus [Feminist Actors in the Context of Colonialism and Postcolonialism], at the University of Vienna, Austria. 10 November 2023.
  • “The Making and Reception of the I Ging in Weimar Germany.” Paper at the conference on New Perspectives on the Book of Changes at Shandong University, Jinan, China. 28 July 2023.
  • “Richard Wilhelm’s I Ging and Weimar Germany.” Paper at the conference on Interpreting The Book of Changes at Home and Abroad (online), at the University of Macau. 24 June 2023.
  • “Oppositional Worldmaking: Theoretical Constructions of a Third Road by Chinese Students in Weimar Germany.” Paper at the workshop on Worldmaking in a Sinophone Context: Conceptions, Processes and Practices, organized by the University of Würzburg in Frankfurt a. M., Germany. 1 April 2023.
  • “Studying (in) Weimar Germany: China’s Laboratory for Political Opposition.” Paper at the workshop of the Balzan-FRIAS-Masterclass, at the University of Freiburg, Germany. 16 March 2023.
  • “‘He went to school in Germany. Picked up too many Prussian ideas’ – Politische Organisation und Abspaltung chinesischer Student*Innen in der Weimarer Republik.” [‘He went to school in Germany. Picked up too many Prussian ideas’ – Political Organization and Fragmentation of Chinese Students in the Weimar Republic]. Public lecture at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 20 December 2022.
  • “The Sino-German Dimensions of China’s ‘Third Party’ between the Early 1920s and the World War II Era.” Paper at the workshop on New Perspectives on Anti-Colonialism in the Metropolis (online), at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. 18 June 2021.
  • “‘Er erhielt die bourgeoise Bildung Europas und füllte seinen Kopf mit Vorstellungen westlicher Demokratie’ – Die Weimarer Republik und die Gründung der ‘Dritten Partei’ (Dì sān dǎng 第三党) 1930 in der Republik China.” [“He received Europe’s bourgeois education and filled his head with visions of Western democracy” – The Weimar Republic and the Founding of ‘the Third Party’ (Dì sān dǎng 第三党) in Republican China]. Public lecture (online) at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 27 May 2021.
  • “China’s Third Party and the Weimar Republic.” Paper at the workshop on China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities (online), at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 6 November 2020.
  • “The Sino-German Dimensions of China’s ‘Third Party’ between the early 1920s and the World War II Era.” Paper at the The 7th Presidents’ Conference of German–Japanese University Alliance HeKKSaGOn at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany. 11 September 2019.
  • “China in Göttingen – Wege chinesischer Studierender nach und von Göttingen, Begegnungen und Konflikte, 1920–1945.” [China in Göttingen – Pathways of Chinese Students to and from Göttingen; Encounters and Conflicts, 1920–1945]. Public lecture at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. 5 June 2019.
  • “Sichtbare Geschichte, unsichtbares Objekt – Der Material Turn und das ehemalige Ketteler-Denkmal in Beijing repräsentiert in unterschiedlichen Medien.” [Visible History, Invisible Object – The Material Turn and the Former Kettler-Monument in Beijing Represented in Different Media]. Public lecture at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 10 July 2018.