Daria Berg
Daria Berg
Professor of Chinese Culture and Society
Unterer Graben 21
6. Stock
9000 St Gallen
Chinese Literature and Culture
Chinese Cultural History
Media and Internet in China
Chinese Popular Culture
Chinese Culture and Literature
Chinese Cultural History
Media and Internet in China
Chinese Popular Culture
1995 D. Phil. Oxford University, UK (Chinese Studies)
1992 Certificate, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Postgraduate Research in Chinese Literature & History)
1991 Diploma, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (Advanced Japanese Language Programme)
1990 Diploma, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (Intermediate Japanese Language Porgramme)
1988 M. Litt., Transfer Examination, Oxford University, UK (Chinese Studies)
1987 Diploma, Fu Jen University, Tapei, ROC (Modern and Classical Chinese Literature & Philosophy)
1987 Certificate, Mandarin Daily News Language Center, Taipei, ROC(Modern and Classcial Chinese Language and Literature)
1986 Diploma, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Modern and Classical Chinese Language & Literature)
1985 Intermediate Examination, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (in Sinology & English Literature)
PRESENT POSITIONS
2011- Chair Professor (Ordinaria) of Chinese Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen
2011- Singapore Affiliate Position
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
Member of the Association of Asian Studies, US
Member of the European Association for Chinese Studies, EU
Member of the Universities’ China Committee London, UK
Member of the British Association of Chinese Studies, UK Member of the Swiss Asian Society, Switzerland
Member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien e.V., Germany
Member of the Deutsche Hochschulverband, Germany