Kevin Bockholt
Kevin Bockholt is a researcher at the project „Writing History with China.“ He received a diploma in East Asian Studies from Universität Duisburg-Essen and completed his Master’s studies in International Sinology at Universität Hamburg. His Ph.D. thesis, undertaken within the graduate school „China in Europe, Europe in China“ at Hamburg University, focused on „Chinese Reporting on the First World War (1914-1919).“ During this time, he conducted extended research stays at Fudan University in Shanghai and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Within the „Writing History with China“ project, his primary focus is exploring how Chinese historians conceptualize and reinterpret modes and dynamics of transcultural interactions.
- „Chinas erster Auslandskorrespondent: Hu Lins Berichterstattung zur Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919.“ In: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (peer-review, forthcoming 2026).
- 2022 Book review: The East Asian Dimension of the First World War. Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919 (Schmidt, Jan; Schmidtpott, Katja (eds.)). In: ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 162/163 (http://asien.asienforschung.de/asien-162-163/).
- 2022 Book review: The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China. State News and Political Authority (Emily Mokros). In: Bellingradt, Daniel; Blome, Astrid; Requate, Jörg (eds.): Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 24, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022, pp. 146-147 (https://biblioscout.net/book/10.25162/9783515133913).
- 2022 Book review: Freedom of the Press in China. A Conceptual History, 1831-1949 (Yi Guo). In: Bellingradt, Daniel; Blome, Astrid; Requate, Jörg (eds.): Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 24, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022, pp. 155-156 (https://biblioscout.net/book/10.25162/9783515133913).
- 06/2023 Conference of the Nordic Association for Chinese Studies, Gothenburg (China and the First World War: No Space for Commemoration?)
- 03/2023 Doctoral Workshop „How to make China part of Global History Research?“, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 08/2021 Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Leipzig/Online (China and the First World War: No Space for Commemoration?)
- 06/2021 Chapters from Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg („Der Erste Weltkrieg aus chinesischer Perspektive – Kriegsberichterstattung vor 100 Jahren“)
- 11/2020 Annual conference of the ‘Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien’ 德語地區漢學協會 (DVCS), Zürich/Online (Faced with a Crisis: The emergence of the Chinese World War concept in the early 1930s)
- 01/2020 Young Scholar Forum, Confucius Institute Hamburg (The First World War from the Chinese perspective. War Reporting one hundred years ago)
- 04/2019 Young Researchers’ Workshop, Fudan University (Reporting on the First World War in China from 1914 to 1919; conference paper)
- 11/2018 Doctoral seminar of the Confucius China Studies Program, Fudan University (“世界大戰”概念在中國的産生)
- 05/2018 Young Researchers’ Workshop, University of Hamburg (Chinese terms for the two World Wars in the first half of the 20th Century)
- 01/2018 China-Workshop Iserlohner Kreis (Perceptions of ‘East’ and ‘West’ after the First World War)
- 09/2017 Young Researchers’ Workshop, Fudan University (Chinese Debates on the Two World Wars and their Impact on Perceptions of Europe; conference paper)