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Daria Berg

Daria Berg

Daria Berg

Prof. Dr.

Professorin für Kultur und Gesellschaft Chinas

Lehrstuhl Kultur und Gesellschaft Chinas
Unterer Graben 21
6. Stock
9000 St. Gallen
Schwerpunkte

Chinesische Literatur und Kultur

Chinesische Kulturgeschichte

Medien und Internet in China

Chinesische Populärkultur

Forschungsgebiete

Chinesische Kultur, Medien und Literatur

Chinesische Kulturgeschichte

Weitere Forschungsgebiete

Medien und Internet in China

Chinesische Populärkultur

Ausbildung

1995
D. Phil. Oxford University, UK (Sinologie) 

1992
Zertifikat, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Postgraduate Research in Chinese Literature & History) 

1991
Diplom, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (Advanced Japanese Language Programme)

1990
Diplom, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (intermediate Japanese Language Porgramme)

1988:
M. Litt., Transfer Examination, Oxford University, UK (Sinologie)

1987:
Diplom, Fu Jen University, Tapei, ROC (Moderne und Klassische Chinesische Literatur & Philosophie) 

1987
Zertifikat, Mandarin Daily News Language Center, Taipei, ROC (Moderne und Klassische Chinesische Sprache & Literatur) 

1986
Diplom, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Moderne und Klassische Chinesische Sprache & Literatur) 

1985
Bachelor-Äquivalenter Abschluss, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Deutschland (in Sinologie und Englische Literatur) 

Berufserfahrung

PRESENT POSITIONS

2011-
Chair Professor (Ordinaria) of Chinese Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen

2011-           
Affiliate Professor, Centre for Intercultural Competence, University of St.Gallen Institute for Management in Asia, SGI-HSG, Singapore

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2017-2022   
Head, Centre for Intercultural Competence, St.Gallen Institute for Management in Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SGI-HSG

2014-2015  
Co-Director, Asia Research Centre, ARC-HSG, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland 

2007-2011   
Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies (with professorial School leadership tasks and full tenure), and Research Director (2011), School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK 

2005-2006   
University Lecturer (full tenure) of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK

1998-2005  
University Lecturer (full tenure) of Chinese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, Durham, UK

1995-1998    
University Lecturer of Chinese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, Durham

1995           
Part-time Lecturer in Classical Chinese, Oxford University, Institute for Chinese Studies

1994/1995  
Randall-McIver Junior Research Fellow, Chinese Studies, Oxford University, St. Anne's College, Oxford

1994-98     
Research Fellow (part-time), Project on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples with Professor David Faure Oxford University, and Taiwan National University, Taipei, ROC

1994/95       
Tutor (part-time) in modern Chinese literature, Sarah Lawrence College (US) at Oxford University, Oxford

1992-95     
Tutor (part-time) in Classical Chinese and Early Modern Vernacular (Ming/Qing) Literature: Chinese Studies Honours School, for Wadham, Brasenose, Hertford, New, St. Anne's, St. Hilda's, St. John's, and Somerville Colleges, and the Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University

Lehraktivitäten

Für mehr Details siehe: "Lehre" Homepage Chair Chinese Culture and Society

 

 

Mitgliedschaften

Mitglied der Association of Asian Studies, US
Mitglied der European Association for Chinese Studies, EU
Mitglied der Universities’ China Committee London, UK
Mitglied der British Association of Chinese Studies, UK                                                                          Mitglied der Schweizer Asien-Gesellschaft SAG, Schweiz
Mitglied der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien e.V., Deutschland
Mitglied des Deutschen Hochschulverbands, Deutschland 

 

 

Auszeichnungen

2025            Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK, Easter Term, Visiting Fellowship.

 

2025            Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs R.O.C. and the National Central Library, Taiwan Fellowship at Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C..

 

2024            Trinity College Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK, Lent Term, Visiting Scholarship.

 

2024            Swiss Asia Society (Schweizer Asiangesellschaft, SAG) grant (Principal Investigator) to organise an international workshop on ‘Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dreams and Nightmares: Perceptions from Visual Arts, Literature and Vernacular Culture’, an international interdisciplinary platform for academic collaboration and dissemination.

 

2022-2024    Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Major Research GrantScholars at Risk Switzerland (Ukraine scheme)(Principal Investigator) for research project with Oleg Timonkin, ‘The China Dream and its Nightmares: Representations of Power in Contemporary China’s Cultural Sphere, 2012-Present’.

 

2020            University of St.Gallen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, awardedteaching reduction for research project ‘Women Cultural Entrepreneurs’.

 

2019            Swiss Asia Society (Schweizer Asiengesellschaft, SAG) grant (Principal Investigator) for an international workshop on ‘China’s New Media and Cultural Entrepreneurs’, University of St.Gallen, 5 December 2019. The workshop provides an international interdisciplinary platform for academic collaboration and dissemination of this project.

 

2018            University of St.Gallen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, awarded teaching reduction for research project ‘Cultural Entrepreneurs and Media in China’.

 

2017            Centre for Intercultural Competence, St.Gallen Institute for Management in Asia, University of St.Gallen, SGI-HSG, Singapore, Visiting Fellowship.

 

2016            Swiss Asia Society (SAG) grant (Principal Investigator) for an international workshop on, ‘The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China’s Avant-garde’, University of St.Gallen, 28/29 July 2016. In collaboration with international scholars from Switzerland, Europe, UK, China, Hong Kong and USA.

 

2016            University of St.Gallen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, awarded teaching reduction for research project (Principal Investigator) ‘Digital Dissent: New Authors, Artists and Activists inChina’s Mediasphere, 1997-2015’.

 

2016            University of St.Gallen, Research Committee grant (Principal Investigator)for an international workshop on, ‘The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China’s Avant-garde’, University of St.Gallen, 28/29 July 2016. In collaboration with international scholars from Switzerland, Europe, UK, China, Hong Kong and USA.

 

2015/2016    Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Lecture Series (Principal Investigator), ‘Interdisciplinary Explorations of China’s Changing Gender Dynamics, 1900-2015’: A series of eight public lectures bringing together international top researchers at the Universities of St.Gallen, Switzerland, and Leiden, Netherlands.

 

2015            Awarded ‘International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2015 - Specialist Publication Accolade’, for the monograph: Daria Berg, Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China. London: Routledge, 2013.

 

2015            Awarded Winner of ‘China Information Best Article Prize 2015’: Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg, ‘The making of an online celebrity: A critical analysis of Han Han’s blog’, China Information 29.3 (2015): 352-376.

 

2015            KIM (Kulturen, Institutionen, Märkte / Cultures, Institutions, Markets) Research Project on ‘The Art of Transculturality in China’, University of St.Gallen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences collaborative research project.

 

2014-2016    Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Major Research Grant (Principal Investigator), for research project ‘Perceptions of New Urban Culture in China’s Mediasphere:The Dynamics of Transcultural Flows in Postsocialist China’.

 

2012/2013    University of St.Gallen, Research Committee, Basic Research Fund‘The New Culture of Consumption in a Globalizing China’, grant for the preparation of an SNF application.

 

2010            University of Nottingham, Learning & Teaching Development Projects, ‘Packaging E-Learning: New Web 2.0-Based Learning Packages for Blended Learning at Nottingham and Distance Learning at Ningbo Campus’.

 

2009-2011    University of Nottingham, Research Grants, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, for research on Chinese cultural studies.

 

2008            Association for Asian Studies, US Panel Organizer Grant for Chinese scholar’s participation in panel ‘Cyberspace, Consumerism and Cultural Creativity in Twenty-First Century China’ at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA.

 

2006            University of Nottingham Research Grant for Chinese cultural studies, Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies.   

 

2006            Oxford University, Institute for Chinese Studies, Publication Grant for my edited volume Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse: Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007).

 

2002-2003    The Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for project ‘Gentility in China’, UK.

 

2002            British Academy Travel Grant to attend the 14th European Association for Chinese Studies Conference, Moscow, 2002.

 

2002            British Academy Grant (Principal Investigator) to organize the conference ‘Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History’.

 

2002            Universities’ China Committee London Grant (Principal Investigator) to organize the conference ‘Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History’.

 

2002            Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant (Principal Investigator) to organize the conference ‘Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History’.

 

2002            University of Durham, Contemporary China Centre Grant (Principal Investigator) to organize the conference ‘Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History’.

 

1997            Shung Ye Foundation Grant for research and fieldwork on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples in collaboration with Taiwan National University, Taipei.

 

1997            Universities’ China Committee London Grant for research and fieldwork in Canton and Shanghai on China’s New Urban Fiction project.

 

1997            University of Durham Special Staff Travel Fund for research and fieldwork in Canton and Shanghai on China’s New Urban Fiction project.

 

1996            Shung Ye Foundation Grant for research and fieldwork on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan in collaboration with Taiwan National University, Taipei, R.O.C..

 

1996            University of Durham Special Staff Travel Fund to organise a panel on Ming/Qing fiction and history at Association for Asian Studies conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

1996            University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies Research Fund to attend Association for Asian Studies conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

1994-1996    Shung Ye Foundation, Taiwan, Grant for research on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples at Oxford University.

 

1994/1995    St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Randall-McIver Junior Research Fellow.

 

1992-1994    German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) Graduate Scholarship, Oxford University.

 

1990-1992    Rotary Foundation, Rotary International, Japan Programme Scholarship: International Christian University, Tokyo and Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

 

1990            St. Hugh's College Oxford University Award for Japanese language intensive course, Hamburg University, Germany.

 

1989/1990    British Academy Major State Studentship, Oxford University, UK.

 

1989/1990    St. Hugh's College, Oxford University Cannon Graduate Scholarship.

 

1989            The Oxford Society Award, Oxford University.

 

1987-1990    German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes): Undergraduate Scholarship, Oxford University.

 

1986            Sun Yat-sen Memorial Foundation Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 14th International Mandarin Chinese Speech Contest, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

1985/1986    German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

 

1983            German State Ministry of Education and Culture (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus) Prize for Outstanding Results in the Bavarian Baccalaureate (Abitur), Munich, Germany.    

 

Editorial Board

2021-          Journal of Transcultural Communication, Editorial Advisory Board.

 

2011-           Asiatische Studien—Études Asiatiques, Member of Editorial Board.

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