Publications
Books
Dialogue with the Dragon: Why Strategic Empathy is Key to Engaging China, Frankfurt: Campus, 2025.
Routledge Handbook of Global China (ed. with Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, and Xin Zhang), London: Routledge, 2025.
Decoding China Dictionary (with David Bandurski, Katja Drinhausen, Jerker Hellström, and Malin Oud), Berlin: The Decoding China Project, 2025.
China’s International Development Cooperation – History, Development Finance Setup and Case Studies from Africa, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2023.
Scientific Publications (Selection)
Narrative Alliances and Hidden Divergences: The Role of Media Language in China’s Pro-Russian Neutrality, in Muriel Fischer, Sandra Frimmel, Nana Graf, Irina Herasimovich, and Sylvia Sasse (eds.), Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation, Zurich: Diaphanes, 2025.
A European Response – Implications of China’s Development Finance for the EU and Sweden, in: Malin Oud and Oscar Almén (eds.), China as a Global Development Actor: Transforming the International Aid Landscape, EBA Report 2025:08, The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA), Sweden: 90–115, 2025.
China’s Relations with the World Bank: Between Great Power and Developing Country, in Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke (eds.), Elgar Companion to the World Bank, Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 154–165, 2024.
“We Help Them, and They Help Us”: Reciprocity and Relationality in Chinese Aid Discourse, Journal of International Development 35(4): 583–599, 2023.
The Past in the Present of Chinese International Development Cooperation, Made in China Journal 6(2), 2021.
China’s Lending Landscape, Approach to Debt, and the Common Framework (with Yunnan Chen, lead author), ODI Emerging Analysis. London: ODI, 2021.
Media Coverage (Selection)
What China’s Summer Retreat Reveals About Academic Freedom, op-ed for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Geoeconomics Dossier, 2026.
Science in the Service of the Nation, Decoding the News. Decoding China Project, 2026.
There's Even a Shortage of Translators: Germany's Negligent Lack of Expertise on China, Tagesspiegel, 2025.
Germany Must Build More Expertise on China, Handelsblatt, 2025.
Understanding What Xi Jinping Says and Means, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2025.
Partners with High Standards: Germany and the Global South, Internationale Politik Special, 2024.
An Effective China Policy Requires Strategic Empathy and Greater Expertise on China, +49Security, 2023.
As Macron Arrives in Beijing, What’s Next for Europe and China?, Contribution to ChinaFile Conversation, 2023.
On the Eve of the Party Congress, What's Ahead for China's Economy?, Contribution to ChinaFile Conversation, 2022.
Not an Orchid. On China Expertise and Sinology, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 7–8 (2021): 14–19, 2021.
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