Team

Prof. Dr. Anke Scherer

Phone: +49 (0) 221 931809-52
Fax: +49 (0) 221 931809-61
a.scherer(at)cbs-edu.de

Dean of International Culture and Management Department
Head of East Asia Management Department
Head of Foreign Languages Department
Lecturer in Japanese 

 

Teaching assignments at CBS

Cultures and Societies in East Asia
East Asian Business and Management
Economic Development in East Asia
History of East Asia
Interkulturelles Management
Introduction to the East Asian Region
Japanese Grammar (for all levels)
Chinese as a Third Language
Introduction to Scientific Working
New Trends in East Asia
Politics in East Asia
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Areas of research and consulting

Business, Cultures and Societies in East Asia
Popular culture in East Asia
Intercultural training for East Asia

Education

2006

Completion of PhD on "Japanese Emigration to Manchuria: Local Activists and the Making of the Village-Division Campaign" (in English) in the Faculty for East Asian Studies of Ruhr-University Bochum

2000-2001

Research Fellow at Tokyo University with a dissertation grant of Japan Foundation

1996

Training for „Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language“ at Naganuma Language School Tokyo

1992-1994

Part-time studies for „Teaching German as a Foreign Language“ at Ruhr-University Bochum

1991-1992

M.A. in Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University

1990-1991

MA Area Studies (Far East) at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

1988-1990

Graduate studies in Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University

1987-1988

Exchange student at Wuhan University / People’s Republic of China

1985-1987

Undergraduate studies in Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies at Trier University

Teaching experience and academic positions

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Since 2007

Professor for East Asia Management at CBS

2001-2007

Head of the Asian Pacific Department at CBS

1998-2001

Lecturer in the Asian Pacific Department at CBS

1997-2005

Lecturer in the Department of Japanese History in the Faculty or East Asian Studies of Ruhr-University Bochum

Other positions

2005-2007

Researcher in the DFG-Project „Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900“

1994-1996

Coordinator for International Relations in Nozawa Onsen / Japan

Publications

(1998) ’Bräute für das Festland’ – Lebensgeschichten von Frauen, die angeworben wurden, japanische Mandschurei-Siedler zu heiraten. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 22, 51–168.

(1999) Drawbacks to controls on food distribution: food shortages, the black market and economic crime. In Erich Pauer (ed.) Japan's War Economy (pp. 106–123). London: Routledge.

(2002) Moving the masses: Rural poverty and the Village Division and Relocation Campaign in the 1930s. The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXIX (2), 11–14.

(2003) Mandschurei & Manzhouguo. In Brunhild Staiger et. al. (eds.) Das große China-Lexikon (pp. 471-473). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

(2003) Japanische Stadtplanung und Architektur in Manzhouguo / Manshûkoku: Entwicklungshilfe oder Machtdemonstration? OAG Notizen 10, 10-27.

(2004). ‚Das Landleben und der Spulwurm’ oder: Das Konzept der modernen Lebensführung (bunka seikatsu) und das ländliche Japan in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 28, 85-104.

(2006) Die Besichtigung der asiatischen Moderne: Reisen in der Mandschurei in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts Minikomi 72, 16-21.

(2008) Japanese Emigration to Manchuria: Local Activists and the Making of the Village Division Campaign. Bochum: Ruhr-Universität.

(2012) The colonial appropriation of public space: architecture and city planning in Japanese-dominated Manchuria. In Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz (eds.) Urban Spaces in Japan. Cultural and social perspectives (pp. 37-52). London and New York: Routledge.

(2012).  „Polished Toilets, Polished Minds“. The anthropology of cleaning your workplace in Japan. In Proceeddings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Economy and Global Management (139-143). Tainan: Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology October 31 – November 2, 2012.

(in print). Die Entstehung der „Sehnsucht nach der Mandschurei“ und des Bildes der heroischen japanischen Mandschurei-Siedler in den 1930er Jahren. Beihefte der Historischen Mitteilungen im Auftrage der Ranke-Gesellschaft.

 

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