Cord Eberspächer is Full Professor at Hunan Normal University in Changsha and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bonn, former director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Duesseldorf (2010-2020). His research focuses on Modern Chinese History, China and globalization, Sino-German relations, military and naval history and the perception of China in the West. His major publications are Prussia-Germany and China, 1942-1911: An annotated edition of source material; Knowledge Exchange and Modernization Processes between Europe and China and Japan; and China’s Imperial Wars.