Participants

Antje Haag

Hamburg, Germany

MD, is a psychoanalyst and former Vice Director of the Dpt. of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Hamburg/Germany. She was a lecturer in the German-Chinese course of psychotherapy since 1988. She was  later conducting supervision for Chinese psychoanalyst in the Medical Hospital in Shanghai. She is the author of Versuch über die moderne Seele Chinas: Eindrücke einer Psychoanalytikerin (The soul of modern Chinese – first insights from a psychoanalyst (Gießen: psychosozial, 2010). In 2008, she was awared with the »Silver Magnolia Medal« of the City of Shanghai.

http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/autoren.php?author_id=2453

Sascha Klotzbücher

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna

Sascha Klotzbücher is a senior post-doctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna and the principal investigator of the project “Our own shadow of the Cultural Revolution“ funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In 2011/12, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University with a Erwin Schrödinger fellowship. He also specializes in studies of social policy, health, and governance in modern China and was a Research Assistant Professor in the project “Capacity-building for pastoral hospitals in Xinjiang (China)” at the University of Vienna. His latest monograph is Das Gesundheitswesen der VR China: Strukturen – Akteure – Dynamik ((Rural health care in the People’s Republic of China:  Structures – Agents - Dynamics) (Peter Lang, 2006).

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/sascha.klotzbuecher/

Claus Lamm

Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, University of Vienna

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Full Professor for Biological Psychology and Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit

http://ppcms.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=260

Haiyan Lee

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, USA

Haiyan Lee was educated at Beijing University, the University of Chicago, and Cornell University and is currently associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2007), which won the 2009 Joseph Levenson Prize (post-1900 China) from the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the guest-editor of “Taking It to Heart: Emotion, Modernity, Asia,” a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique (2008). Her scholarly articles have appeared in Telos, PMLA, Public Culture, Positions, Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, and elsewhere.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/cgi-bin/people/bios/lee_haiyan.php

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/chinese-love-story-021312.html

Tao Lin

Anding Hospital, Beijing, China/Tavistock Center for Couple Relations, London, UK

Dr Lin was trained at Tavistock Center for Couple Relations (TCCR). He is a psychoanalyst recognized by the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is currently working at the Beijing Anding Hospital, China/Tavistock Institute, London and focus on the development of Psychoanalysis as a therapy in China.

http://zhu-you.net/Newsdetail.asp?id=152

http://www.bjad.com.cn/article/?aid=882

Angelika C. Messner

Chinese Studies, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

Professor Messner is working on emotions and emotion-knowledge in ancient  China and is conducting currently field studies on pain in Chinese hospitals and hospices.

http://www.sino.uni-kiel.de/pd-dr.-angelika-c.-messner-1/pd-dr.-angelika-c.-messner

Aaron William Moore

School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Moore is a Lecturer in East Asian History: His research focus on wartime accounts of Japaneses and Chinese soldiers during WWII, childhood and adolescence in the Republican Era. His monograph is The Peril of Self-Discipline (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).

http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=aaron.moore

Tomas Plänkers

Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dr Plänkers works as a psychoanalyst (DPV/IPA) in private practice and is member of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt/Main (Research Institute for Psychoanalysis and its Application). Memberships: German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV), International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), consultant member of the IPA China Committee; training analyst at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute. His main fields of scientific work are in the fields of clinical and social psychoanalysis. Publications and editions include (in German): The Fear of Freedom (1993), Expulsion and Return. Interviews Concerning the Biography of Ernst Federn and the History of Psychoanalysis (1994), Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt/Main (1996), Socialist Dictatorship and Psychic Consequences (together with Ingrid Kerz-Rühling, 2000), Betrayed or Seduced? Analyse psychoanalytic investigation in former Inofficial Collaborateurs of the East-Ferman Ministry for State Security. Berlin (Links-Verlag) (together with Ingrid Kerz-Rühling, 2004), Soul and totalitarian society. The psychic heritage of the former German Democratic Republic (together with 6 East-German authors, 2005) and Chinesische Seelenlandschaften: Die Gegenwart der Kulturrevolution 1966-1976 (2010). Extended teaching for Chinese psychotherapists. He is also the project leader of “FCTP – Freud Chinese Translation Project: Studying problems of translating Freud’s works from the German Original into the Chinese Language”

http://www.sfi-frankfurt.de/mitarbeiter-innen/dr-tomas-plaenkers.html

Andrea Riemenschnitter

Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland

is the Chair Professor for Modern Chinese Studies at the Institute of East Asian Studiesand Academic Director of the University Priority Research Program “Asia and Europe “. Her monographies include "Verflechtungsgeschichten. Mythologie, Moderne und Nation in Chinas 20. Jahrhundert (Entangled Narratives. Mythology, Modernity and the Nation in China’s Twentieth Century), Bern: Peter Lang (2012), Legends from the Swiss Alps - Ruishi A'erbeisishan de chuanshuo, with Leung Ping-kwan, eds., Hong Kong: mccm creations 2009 and Diasporic Histories. Archives of Chinese Transnationalism, with Deborah Madsen (eds), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 2009.

http://www.ostasien.uzh.ch/sinologie/personen/ariemens_en.html

Feiyu Sun

Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Peking University, China

He is a Associate Professor and works on phenomenological hermeneutics; modern social philosophy, Classical Psychoanalysis and  China’s modernity in terms of Revolution and Culture. He obtained a PhD from York University in Toronto. His last monograph is Social Suffering and Political Confession: Suku in Modern China (forthcoming with Singapore: World Scientific Publishing).

http://www.sociology.pku.edu.cn/facultyinfo.jsp?name=sun%20feiyu

Ban Wang

Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University, USA

Ban Wang is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University. He is currently the chairperson of the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures.  His major publications include The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth –Century China  (Stanford UP, 1997), Illuminations from the Past (Stanford UP, 2004), and History and Memory (in Chinese, Oxford UP, 2004).  He co-edited Trauma and Cinema (Hong Kong UP, 2004), The Image of China in the American Classroom (Nanjing UP, 2005), China and New Left Visions (Roman and Littlefield, 2012), and Debating Socialist Legacy in China (forthcoming Palgrave, 2013). He edited Words and Their Stories: Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution (Brill, 2010).  He has been a research fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2000 and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2007.

https://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/people/ban-wang

Ning Wang

School of Humanities and Social sciences, Tsinghua University, China

Professor for English at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Peking University. His research includes Freudianism and Chinese literature, translation theory, transcultural studies.

http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/shss/index.html

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Rectorate/Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik is Professor for Chinese Studies at the Department for East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna and Vice Rector of University of Vienna. She published  on 20th century Chinese history, trauma, Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and politics with a special focus on rural China. She is the author of Parteigeschichtsschreibung in der Volksrepublik China. Typen, Methoden, Themen und Funktionen (Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden: 1984) and co-edited As China Meets the World. China’s Changing Position in the International Community (Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften: Vienna, 2006); Ostasien im 20.Jahrhundert (East Asia in the 20th century). Promedia: Vienna, 2007;Denkt Asien anders? (Does Asia think in a different way?) (Vienna Unviersity Press: Vienna, 2009).

www.univie.ac.at/Sinologie/staff/weigelin-s/

Xudong Zhao

Department of Medical Humanities & Behavioral Sciences + Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Dr. med. Xudong Zhao is Professor and Director of Division of Medical Humanities & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine of Tongji University. He is also the Director of Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Shanghai East Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. His publication of his doctoral dissertation at Heidelberg University discusses the introduction of family therapy in China (Die Einführung systemischer Familietherapie in China als kulturelles Projekt, Berlin, 2002).

http://www.saponline.org/en/Article/Detail/137?ssid=2