Askan Weidemann
Doctoral Researcher
Short CV
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03/2023 - 07/2023: Doctoral Research Fellow at School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
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Since 10/2021: Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies.
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01/2019 - 07/2019: Internship in the department Building, Energy & Environment at the German Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, PR China
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09/2018 - 12/2018: Research internship at the Faculty of International Studies at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Education: M.Sc. in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, DAAD scholarship recipient; B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht (Maastricht University), Netherlands and UC Berkeley, USA, with a concentration in Politics and International Relations; Chinese language studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, PR China
Current Research
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The politics of the People‘s Republic of China
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Digital governance
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Public participation
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Central-local relations
Countries and Regions
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PR China
Research Programmes
Dissertation
- Towards a Digital Mass Line: ICT Enactment in the Chinese Petitioning System