Anja Senz

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Anja Senz is Professor for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University. She studied political science, sociology and ethnology at the University of Trier and Chinese language and history at Sun Yatsen University in Guangzhou (China) and received her doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2014, she has been appointed as a professor at Heidelberg University, where she currently also serves as Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching. Her academic work focuses on state-society relations in the Chinese-speaking world with a high interest in environmental governance and local politics. Furthermore, she works on trade and connectivity in Asia and the development of Chinese borderlands. She is co-editor of Echowall, initiator of the East Asia Today Working Papers Series imember of the editorial board of the European Journal of East Asian Studies. She is also chairperson of the China Advisory Council of the German Association of Asian Studies.