Short biography
Christine Moll-Murata is Chair Professor for History of China and
Director of the Research Unit for Taiwanese Culture and Literature at
the Faculty for East Asian Studies of Ruhr-Universität Bochum in
Germany. She studied Sinology and Political Sciences of Southeast Asia
at Heidelberg University and Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute,
obtained her doctoral degree at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and her
habilitation degree at the University of Tübingen. She coordinated
research projects on the economic and social history of China during the
Qing dynasty at Tübingen University, and on the History of Labour
Relations for the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour
Relations at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
She worked as a post-doc researcher at the Research Group for Social and
Economic History of Utrecht University. Her research interests include
the History of Work in China, Taiwan, and Japan 1500-2000, the
Industrialisation of East Asia, and Perceptions of the Future in East
Asia since 1900. Her Taiwan focus is on Taiwan under the Qing and in the
Japanese colonial period
