Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert 舒耕德 

Professor, Chair of Greater China Studies

Director, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT)

Academic Career

• Since 2003 Professor of Greater China Studies, University of Tübingen
• Since 2008 Director, European Reasearch Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), University of Tübingen
• 2000 Habilitation
• 1994-2003 Senior Research Fellow of Politics and Society in East Asia and China, Protestant Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (FESt), Heidelberg
• 1994 PhD in Political Science
• 1993-1994 Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg
• 1990-1993 Visiting Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
• 1989 M.A. in Political Science

Research Focus

 Prof. Schubert specializes in policy implementation in contemporary China from the perspective of steering theory, with a focus on private sector reform and the evolution of state-business relations, particularly in China’s local state; the political economy of cross-strait relations, including the changing economic and political environment of Taiwanese entrepreneurs in China; and Taiwanese domestic politics. He also studies regime legitimacy and nationalism in China, Hong Kong politics, and the politics and culture of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Prof. Schubert conducts several months of field work in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong