CV

Education

• Habilitation (venia legendi: Modern History), University of Vienna, 2004
• History, University of Vienna, Ph. D., 1995
• History and Chinese Studies, University of Vienna, M.A., 1993

Research

• History of Chinese Studies in Europe (including the history of Chinese book collections)
• History of Sino-foreign interactions (focus on late Imperial China, 1644-1911)

Past projects

• Cataloguing of the Chinese collection of the Austrian National Library
• China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1750 (funded by the Austrian Science Fund)
• Austria-Hungary and the Boxer War, 1900-1901 (funded by the Austrian Science Fund)