Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications: Education and Academic

1992

Habilitation: Venia Legendi in Political Science, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

1984

Dr. Phil. (PhD, Political Science) Free University of Berlin, Germany (summa cum laude)

1969

Diploma (= MA) in Political Science, Free University of Berlin

Academic and Professional Experiences

1996 - 2003

Professor and Head of Department of Government and International Studies, Course Leader European Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

1994 - 1995

Visiting Scholar, Department of Government and International Studies, (HKBU)

1992 - 1994

Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong

1989 - 1992

Head of the Research Unit on Chinese and East Asian Politics, Free University of Berlin, Department of Political Science

1986 - 1988

Research Fellow, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

1984 - 1991

Guest Lecturer at East Asian Seminar, Free University of Berlin, University of Konstanz, and University of the Saarland, Germany

1977 - 1982

Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, Free University of Berlin

Research Interests

Government and Politics of China, International Relations, Political Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Western Philosophy in China, relations between Europe and the People’s Republic of China, relations between Germany and the People’s Republic of China.

Other Major Professional Activities/Awards

1999 - 2003

Director: Europe-China Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University

1997 - 2001

President: Hong Kong and Macau Association for European Studies

1995 – 2003

Director: East-West Programme, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU); Editor: East-West Dialogue, published by David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies and Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU

1992 - 1994

Fellowship for the research-project Western Philosophy in China since the 1980s (Volkswagen Foundation)

1986 - 1988

Fellowship for the project La Chine au XXe siècle. 1895-1990 German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1985

Ernst-Reuter-Prize (Free University of Berlin) awarded for the outstanding dissertation

1972 - 1975

Volkswagen Foundation: Three years East-Asian Scholarship

Werner Meissner lives in Berlin. He is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik. (German Council on Foreign Relations).

Publications

# indicates the most representative publications, * indicates international refereed publications

  • #* Zur Rezeption der Philosophie Henri Bergsons in Europa und Asien,
    Deutsche Ostasienstudien 15, Ostasien Verlag: Gossenberg 2021, 112 Seiten.
  • #* China zwischen nationalem Sonderweg und universaler Modernisierung.
    Zur Rezeption westlichen Denkens in China (China Between National “Special Way” and Universal Modernisation. On the Reception of Western Thought in China), Habilitation thesis submitted to the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken. Published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1994. 314 pages.
  • #* Philosophie und Politik in China: Die Kontroverse über den dialektischen Materialismus in den dreissiger Jahren,
    PhD thesis submitted to the Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin. Published by Wilhelm, Fink Verlag, Munich 1986, 208 pages. (English edition published by Stanford University and Hurst, London).
  • #* Philosophy and Politics in China. The Controversy on Dialectical Materialism in the 1930s. Stanford and London: Stanford University Press and Hurst & Co. Publishers 1990. 230 pages. Enlarged edition, translated by Richard Mann from the German edition).
  • #* The Role of France and Germany in Sino-European Relations (ed. with Jean-Pierre Cabestan),
    East West Dialogue, Vol. VI., no, 2, Vol. VII, no.1, June 2002, 340 pages.
  • #* Western Philosophy in China, 1993-1997. A Bibliography.
    Euro-Sinica, vol. 11, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, Frankfurt, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag 2001, XI, 689 pages.
  • #* Die Rezeption der westlichen Philosophie in der VR China, 1987-1992. Eine Bibliographie
    (Western Philosophy in the People’s Republic of China, 1987-1992. A Bibliography), in co-operation with Liu Weijian, with an introduction. (Series: Ostasien und PazifiK: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur, vol. 6, published by University of Trier); Münster: Lit-Verlag 1996, XIX, 336 pages.
  • #* Die Rezeption der westlichen Politikwissenschaft in der VR China, 1987-1992. Eine Bibliographie , in co-operation with Liu Weijian, with an introduction: vi-xxiii. (Series: Ostasien und Pazifik: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur, vol. 7, published by University of Trier); Münster: Lit Verlag 1996, XXVI, 160 pages. (Western Political Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1987-1992. A Bibliography)
  • Hongkonger Notizen - ein politisches Tagebuch. Munich: edition global, December 1996, 232 pages. (Hong Kong Notebook - A Political Diary)
  • #* Die Deutsche Demokratische Republik und China, 1949-1990: Politik Wirtschaft und Kultur. Dokumente, with an introduction (70 pages), in co-operation with Anja Feege, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1995. 466 pages. (The German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of China. 1949-1990. Politics, Economy and Culture. Documents).
  • #* Das rote Haifeng: Peng Pais Bericht über die Bauernbewegung in Südchina. Aus dem Chinesischen übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung (11-67). Munich: Minerva Publikation 1987. 250 pages.(Red Haifeng: Peng Pai's Report on the Peasant Movement in South China. Translated from the Chinese: Peng Pai: Haifeng nongmin yundongji. With an introduction (pp. 11-67).
  • Holzschnitt im Neuen China. Zeitgenössische Graphik aus der Volksrepublik China. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg Berlin. Idee, wissenschaftliche Leitung und zwei Beiträge, in Zusammenarbeit mit Gereon Sievernich, Jerg Haas, Heinz Spreitz u.a., Herausgeber: Gesellschaft für Verständigung und Freundschaft mit China,1. Auflage, Berlin 1976. 237 Seiten. (Modern Chinese Woodcutting. Catalogue to the exhibition in the Orangerie of the Castle of Charlottenburg. Idea, edition and two articles).
  • * Deng Zhongxia: Anfänge der chinesischen Arbeiterbewegung, 1919-1926. Aus dem Chinesischen übersetzt und herausgegeben zusammen mit Guenther. Schulz, Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag 1975. 204 S. (Deng Zhongxia: The Beginnings of Chinese Labour Movement, 1919-1926. Translated from the Chinese and edited with Guenther Schulz: Deng Zhongxia. Zhongguo zhigong yundong jianshi, 1919-1926, with an introduction).
  • Bibliographie der Arbeitsstelle Politik Chinas und Ostasiens des Fachbereichs Poltitische Wissenschaften der Freien Universitaet Berlin, 208 pages. (Bibliography of the Centre of Chinese and East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, Berlin 1978).
  • *#Kulturelle Identitätssuche von 1840 bis 1949, in: Länderbericht China, ed. by Doris Fischer and Christoph Müller-Hofstede, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2014, pp. 221-248 (reprint).
  • *# China’s Search for Cultural and National Identity from the 19th Century to the Present, in: Perceptions and Images of China, ed. by H.-D. Assmann, Th. M.H. Chan, K. Moser v. Filseck, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 97-122.
  • *# Reflections sur la quete d’une identité culturelle et nationale en Chine, in: perspectives chinoises, No 97, Septembre-Decembre 2006, pp. 45-58.
  • *#Kulturelle Identitätssuche von 1840 bis 1949, in: Länderbericht China, ed. by Doris Fischer and Michael Lackner, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2007, pp. 156-180.
  • *# Selbstbestimmung und Selbstbehauptung I: Chinesische kulturelle Identitätssuche von 1840 bis 1949, in: Länderbericht China, ed. by Michael Lackner et .al., Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Ministry for the Interior, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany), forthcoming, 2007.
  • *# The German Philosopher Hans Driesch in China, in: Transkulturelle Rezeption und Konstruktion, Festschrift fuer Adrian Hsia, ed. by Monika Schmitz-Emans, Heidelberg 2004, pp. 47-60.
  • *# Der internationale Terrorismus aus ostasiatischer Sicht – Chinas Reaktion auf den 11. September und die Veraenderungen seiner geopolitischen Lage, in: Sicherheit und Verteidigung nach dem 11. September 2001, Strategische Kultur Europas, Band 1, ed. by August Pradetto, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 157-174.
  • *# Marxismus-Leninismus, in: Das Grosse China-Lexikon - Geschichte, Geographie, Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Bildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur, published by the Institut fuer Asienkunde (Institute of Asian Affairs), Hamburg/Germany, 2003, pp. 479-82. (Reprint 2008)
  • *# Liberalismus, in: Das Grosse China-Lexikon, 2003, p. 434-5. (Reprint 2008)
  • *# Nationalismus, in: Das Grosse China-Lexikon, 2003, pp. 530-33. (Reprint 2008)
  • *# Sozialismus, in: Das Grosse China-Lexikon, 2003, pp. 688-9. (Reprint 2008)
  • *# Collective Identities and Nationalism in Europe and China, in: China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion and National Identities, ed. By Taciana Fisac and Leila Fernandez-Stermbridge, RoutledgeCurzon Press, London and New York 2003, pp.197-221.
  • *# Cultural Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union since 1978, in: Daxiyangguo - Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiaticos, (Lisbon), Sumario numero 3. 1 semestre 2003, pp. 29-41.
  • *# China's Response to September 11 and Changes in its Geopolitical Situation, in: LEWI Working Paper Series, published by David C. Lam Institute for East West Studies, (LEWI), No. 4, September 2002.
  • *# Cultural Relations between China and Europe, in: The Role of France and Germany in Sino-European Relations (ed. with Jean-Pierre Cabestan), East West Dialogue, Vol. VI., no, 2, Vol. VII, no.1, June 2002, pp. 197-233.
  • *# “Cultural Relations between China and the Member States of the European Union”, in: China and Europe since 1978: A European Perspective, The China Quarterly, Special Issues, New Series, No. 2, ed. by Richard Louis Edmonds, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 181-203.
  • *# “Cultural Relations between China and the Member States of the European Union”, in: The China Quarterly, 169, March 2002, pp. 181-203.
  • *# Western Political Science in China, in: Chinese Thought in a Global Context. A Dialogue between Chinese and Western Philosophical Approaches, ed. by Karl-Heinz Pohl, Brill publisher: Leiden, Boston, Koeln 1999, p. 359-371.
  • *# New Intellectual Currents in the People’s Republic of China, in: China in Transition. Issues and Policies, ed. by David Teather and Herbert Yee, Macmillan Press, Houndsmill, Basingstoke and London 1999, pp. 3-24.
  • European Studies in the Chinese Speaking Area - An Introduction, in: East-West Dialogue, Vol. III, No. 2, Vol. IV, No. 1, June 1999, published by Department of Government and International Studies and David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, HKBU, pp 7- 28.
  • * Politische Haltung und Öffentliche Meinung - Stimmungen der Hongkonger Bevölkerung (Political Behaviour and Public Opinion in Hong Kong) in: Das Neue China (New China), no 2, June 1997, p. 14-17.
  • *# Hongkong: Von der britischen Kronkolonie zur chinesischen Sonderverwaltungsregion, in: Länderbericht China (Country Report China), ed. by Michael Lackner, Herrmann-Pillath, and Christian Müller-Hofstede, published by Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency of Civic Education, Ministry of the Interior, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1998, p. 222-39.
  • Kapital für die Zukunft - Bildungssystem in Hongkong (Capital for the Future: The Educational System of Hong Kong). In: Hongkong verstehen. Sympathie Magazin, Nr. 26, hrsg. von Studienkreis für Tourismus mit Unterstützung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ), des Katholischen Missionswerkes e.V. (Missio) und des Zentrums für entwicklungsbezogene Bildung (ZEB). München 1995, p. 40.
  • Die "Schwalben" von Hongkong (Zur Lage der 'domestic helpers' aus den Philippinen) (The “Swallows” of Hong Kong - On the situation of the domestic helpers from the Philippines). In: Hongkong verstehen. Sympathie Magazin, Nr. 26, 1995, p. 38.
  • Lärm in Hongkong (Noise in Hong Kong). In: Hongkong verstehen. Sympathie Magazin, Nr. 26, 1995, p. 30.
  • Tscha Hung and the Tradition of Empirical Thought in China since the Ch’ing Dynasty. In: International Conference on the Vienna Circle and Contemporary Science and Philosophy: In Memory of Tscha Hung, Abstracts, Beijing 1994, p. 72.
  • #* Intellektuelle im Zwiespalt - Fallstudien über Chang Chün-mai, Hu Shih und Ch'en Tu-hsiu (Intellectuals in Crisis - Case studies on Chang Chün-mai, Hu Shih and Ch'en Tu-hsiu). In: Chinesische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert: Zwischen Tradition und Moderne (Chinese Intellectuals in the 20th Century: Between Tradition and Modernity). Ed. by Karl-Heinz Pohl, Gudrun Wacker und Liu Huiru. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Asienkunde, Hamburg 1993, p. 125-143.
  • * Zur Rezeption des deutschen 'Neo-Idealismus' in den zwanziger Jahren in China. (More about the Adoption of German 'Neo-Idealism' in China in the Twenties). In: Die deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen vom 19.Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (German - Chinese Relations From the 19th Century Until Today). Ed. by Kuo Heng-yü. München 1993. S. 97-124.)
  • (Book review) Erich Pilz: Gesellschaftsgeschichte und Theoriebildung in der marxistischen chinesischen Historiographie. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1991, 355 p. In: Internationales Asienforum - International Quarterly for Asian Studies, I, 1993.
  • Comment on: Die Innenpolitik - Ergebnisse (Comment on: Internal Politics - Results). In: Das nach-maoistische China aus japanischer und deutscher Sicht. (China After Mao - Seen From Japan and Germany) Tagungsberichte. Veröffentlichungen des Japanisch-Deutschen Zentrums. Berlin 1992. 7 p.
  • (Book review) Wm. Theodore de Bary: Learning from One's Self. Essays on the Individual Neo-Confucian Thought. New York: Columbia University Press 1991, 461 p. In: Asian Thought and Society. No. 48, 1992
  • #* La voie orthodoxe, 1949-1955, In: La Chine au XXe siècle. 1949-1990 (Vol. II). Sous la direction de Lucien Bianco, Marie-Claire Bergère, Jürgen Domes. Paris: Fayard. 1990. S. 9-33.
  • #* Le mouvement des ideès politiques et l`influence de l`occident. In: La Chine au XXe siècle. 1895-1948. (Vol. I). Sous la direction de Lucien Bianco, Marie-Claire Bergère, Jürgen Domes. Paris: Fayard 1989. S. 325-56.
  • *# Some Remarks on the History of Political Ideas and Political Society in China. In: China: Nähe und Ferne. Deutsch-chinesische Beziehungen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (China: Far and Near: Geman - Chinese Relations in Past and Presence.) Ed. by Bettina Gransow/Mechthild Leutner. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang Verlag 1989. S. 175-191.
  • Theorie und Praxis der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas. (Theory and Practice of the CCP). In: Entwicklungsprobleme und Lösungsversuche in der Volksrepublik China. Maos Erbe im Widerspruch. Ed. by W. Pfennig/Voll. Berliner Studien zur Internationalen Politik, Band 4, Berlin 1977. S. 70-90.
  • Die Ideologie der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (The Ideology of the CCP). In: Zum Entwicklungsmodell der Volksrepublik China. Thesen, Berichte, Dokumente. Ed. by W. Pfennig/K. Voll, Berlin 1975, S.10-30.
  • Das Neue China im Holzschnitt. Eine Einführung (New China in Modern Chinese Woodcutting. An Introduction). In: Holzschnitt im Neuen China (Modern Chinese Woodcutting), ed. Werner Meissner, Berlin 1976, pp. 16-23.
  • Zu den Bildern der Ausstellung (The Pictures of the Exhibition). In: Holzschnitt im Neuen China (Modern Chinese Woodcutting), op. cit., p. 24-33.
2006
Roundtable: The Perceptions of China: Images of a Global Player, Hong Kong, 22-26 March 2006, in funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, the China Business Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and the German – East Asian Forum of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen
Paper: China’s Search for Cultural and National Identity – From the 19th Century to the Present
2002
2nd Pugwash Workshop on East Asian Security, Beijing, China, 7-9 March 2002
Paper: East Asian Perspectives on International Terrorism – China’s Response to September 11 and Changes in its Geopolitical Situation
2001
International Conference: The Role of France and Germany in Sino-German Relations, June 22-23, 2001, in co-operation with French Centre For Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and DAAD, HKBU
Paper: Foreign Cultural Policy - the Case of Germany, France and China
2000
International Conference: The Vitality of China and the Chinese, Shanghai, May 12-13. Organized by Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies and Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Paper: Western Philosophy in China since the 1980s.

International Conference : China’s Relations with Europe, Lisboa, May 17-19.Organized by The China Quarterly, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Instituto do Oriente, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal.
Paper: Cultural Relations between China and Europe since 1978.
1999
European Union-China Academic Network (ECAN), Second Annual Conference: Economic Reforms, Social Conflict and Collective Identities in China, Madrid, January 21st and 22nd, 1999. Organised by Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and The China Quarterly, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Paper: Collective Identities and Nationalism in Europe and China.
1997
International Symposium: China and the West in Dialogue: A Symposium Concerning the Conditions and Possibilities of Intercultural Understanding, Trier/Germany, April 9- 12, 1997. Organised by the Department of Sinology, Centre for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Trier.
Paper: Western Political Science in China.
1996
International Colloquium: Vingt ans apres... regards croises sur Mao, Paris, October 11/12, 1996. Organised by the Centre d’Etudes de la Chine Moderne et Contemporaine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Paper: The Renaissance of Western Thought in China after Mao.

International Conference: New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia, January 9-12, 1996. Organised by the Department of History, University of Hong Kong, and The Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.
Paper: The Relations between the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of China, 1956-1963, and the Sino-Soviet Split.
1995
Workshop: The Dynamics of Political and Economical Changes in China. Organized by the Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, November 18, 1995.
Paper: New Ideological Currents in Chinese Political Thought.
1994
International Conference: The Vienna Circle and Contemporary Science and Philosophy: In Memory of Tscha Hung. Under the Auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China, October 21-24, 1994.
Paper: Tscha Hung (Hong Qian) and the Tradition of Empirical Thought in China Since the Ch'ing-Dynasty.
1992
International Symposium: Zwischen Sendungsbewußtsein und Orientierungslosigkeit - Chinesische Intellektuelle in den letzten hundert Jahren. (Chinese Intellectuals in the 20th Century: Between Tradition and Modernity), Tübingen/Germany, June 27-July 1, 1991. Organized by: Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik. Eberhard- Karls-Universität, Tübingen.
Paper: Intellectuals in Crisis - Case studies on Chang Chün-mai, Hu Shih and Ch'en Tu-hsiu.
1991
International Conference: Deutsch-chinesische Beziehungen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (German-Chinese Relations in the Past and in the Present), Berlin, July 22-27, 1991. Organized by: Ostasiatisches Seminar der Freien Universität Berlin.
Paper: Die Bedeutung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die Außenpolitik der VR China, 1949-90
1990
International Colloquium: The People's Republic of China 1990: Developments, Events, and Perspectives, Europäische Akademie, Otzenhausen/Germany, July 3-7, 1990. Organized by Universität des Saarlan-des, Saarbrücken, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Paper: Changes in the Political System.
1989
Deutsch-Japanisches Symposium: Das nachmaoistische China aus japanischer und deutscher Sicht (China after Mao), Berlin, November 27-29, 1989. Organized by Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin.
Paper: Comment on: Internal Politics. Results.

International Conference: Deutsch-chinesische Beziehungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (German-Chinese Relations from the 19th Century until the Present Time), Villa Borsig/Berlin-Tegel, July 16-23, 1989. Organized by Ostasiatisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin.
Paper: On the Adoption of German Idealism in China.
1988
Deutsch-französisches China - Symposium (II) (German-French Symposium on China, II), Europäische Akademie, Otzenhausen/Germany, May 26-29, 1988. Organized by Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Paper: The People's Republic of China: The Orthodox Way, 1949-1955.
1987
Deutsch-französisches China - Symposium (I) (German-French Symposium on China, I). Organized by Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Europäische Aka-demie, Otzenhausen, October 22-25, 1987.
Paper: Some Remarks on the History of Political Ideas and Political Society in China.
2001
The Role of France and Germany in Sino-German Relations, June 22-23, 2001, in co-operation with French Centre For Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and DAAD, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).
1999
International Conference: Chinese and European Literature – Mutual Perception and Influence, May 13-15, 1999, HKBU.
1999
Euro-Asia Seminar: Concluding Seminar of the Europe Asia Business Internship Programme (EABIP) in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), September 6 to 8, 1999, HKBU.
1999
Symposium: Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland at the Threshold of the 21st Century, September 17, 1999, HKBU.
  • Die Rezeption der westlichen Politkwissenschaft in der VR China in den achtziger Jahren (Western Political Science in the People’s Republic of China in the 1980s.) Ostasiatisches Seminar, Free University of Berlin, Germany, January 29, 1996.
  • Was Mao a Plagiarist? The Adoption of Stalinist Philosophy in China in the 1930s. Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1993.
  • Zum Verhältnis von Tradition und politischer Modernisierung in China (Tradition and Modernisation in China) Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency of Civic Education, Ministry of the Interior, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany), Ostkolleg. Köln, January 29, 1991.
  • Neue Ergebnisse der Maoismus-Forschung (Studies in Maoism - New Results) Orientalisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, Februar 22, 1991.
  • Geistesgeschichtliche Tradition und die Sinisierung des Marxismus (Chinese Intellectual Tradition and the Sinification of Marxism) Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit (German Federal Agency of Civic Education, Ministry of the Interior, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany), Ostkolleg. Köln, June 19, 1989.
  • Philosophie und Politik in China (Philosophy and Politics in China) Fachschaft Geschichte der Universität Konstanz (Faculty of History, University of Konstanz, Germany), October 27, 1987.
  • Hongkonger Notizen - ein politisches Tagebuch.
    München: Edition global 1996. Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (Paris) Vol. 1997, 5
    • Deutschlandradio (Radio Germany), April 22, 1997
    • Bayrischer Rundfunk III (Bavarian broadcasting corporation, Germany), January 6, 1997
  • Die Deutsche Demokratische Republik und China, 1949-1990:
    Politik Wirtschaft und Kultur. Dokumente, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, December 1995.
    • Asien (Journal of the German Association for Asian Studies), 1997, no 62, pp. 36-38, by Sonja Banze.
    • Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (Journal of History), 1996, no 12, pp. 1131-33, by Roland Felber
    • Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (Paris), Vol. 1996, no 14, p. 15, by Francoise Kreissler
    • Der Spiegel, no 6, February 2, 1996, pp. 148-151.
    • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 29, 1996, p. 9.
    • Tageszeitung (TAZ), November 4, 1996, p. 6
  • Philosophy and Politics in China. The Controversy on Dialectical Materialism in China in the 1930s,
    Hurst, London and Stanford University Press 1990.
    • Tong Fang Lun Tan (Oriental Forum, Qingdao University), 1995, no 2, pp. 26-30.
    • Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 February 1991, by W. J. F. Jenner
    • Bulletin, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Vol. LIV, 1991, p. 624ff, by Frank Dikötter
    • Modern Asian Studies, 27/II, 1993, p. 448-51, by Joshua A. Fogel
    • The Journal of Asian Studies, 1993, pp. 986-7, by Timothy Cheek
    • Pacific Affairs, vol 65, Winter 1992-93, no 4, p. 555-6, by Arif Dirlik
    • The China Quarterly, 1991, no 128, p. 641-2, by Gregor Benton
  • Philosphie und Politik in China. Die Kontroverse über den dialektischen Materialismus in den dreißiger Jahren in China,
    München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 1986.
    • Republican China, April 1988, no 2, pp. 94-98, by Peter M. Kuhfus
    • Asien (Journal of the German Association for Asian Studies), no 34, Jan. 1990, pp.97-99, by Brunhild Staiger, Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg
    • Internationales Asienforum (International Quarterly for Asian Studies), Vol. 21, no1-2, 1990, pp. 173-175, by Michael Lackner
    • Further reviews in newspapers:
      • Die Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
      • DieTageszeitung (Germany)
      • Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)
      • Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

Contact

Dr. habil. Werner Meissner
Former Professor and Head of Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Spiessweg 32
D-13437 Berlin
Germany

Email: info@werner-meissner.de