EBERSPÄCHER, Cord

Sinologist and Historian. Director of the Confucius Institute at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of History of BFSU. Main research fields include China’s modern history with special emphasis on global history; Sino-German relations as well as military and naval history. Major publications include Knowledge Exchange and Modernization Processes between Europe, China and Japan, China's Imperial Wars, etc.