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Thorben PELZER

PhD in Chinese History
Leipzig University, 2022

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 8908
pelzer@ust.hk
Room 3351
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ORCID

0000-0001-5039-3779

Scopus ID

58865871600

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Chinese history
Chinese social and economic history
History of Sino-US relations
Science and technology studies

Publications

All Years 12 2026 1 2025 2 2024 3 2023 1 2022 1 2021 0 2020 4

2026 1

Bridging the Gap: Hijacking the British Boxer Indemnity Fund to Complete the Guangzhou–Hankou Railway

Twentieth-Century China, v. 51, (1), p. 88-116
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

2025 2

Engineering societies in China: spaces of professionalization and participation, 1912-1949

East Asian Science, Technology and Society, p. 57-86
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

Engineers on the Move: Elite Geographic Mobility in Republican China

Twentieth-Century China, v. 50, (1), p. 25-55, article number 950426
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

2024 3

Enter the Pragmatic Engineer: Ling Hongxun at Jiaotong University, 1920–1927

History of Education, v. 53, (2), p. 256-280
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

Infrastructure, Ethnology, and the Reintegration of Xinjiang: The Northwest Reconstruction Expedition of 1943

Age of Explorations / edited by Kaske Elisabeth; Köll Elisabeth. De Gruyter, 2024, p. 95-123
PELZER, Thorben
Book chapter

Technocracy and Technostructure in Nationalist China: Expert Rule or Rule over Experts?

Modern China in Flux / edited by Henriot Christian. De Gruyter, 2024, p. 99-133
PELZER, Thorben
Book chapter

2023 1

Engineering Trouble: US-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945

Pelzer, Thorben
Book

2022 1

100 Karten über China

SCHATZ, Merle; PELZER, Thorben
Book

2020 2

Schmalz, Stefan, Machtverschiebungen im Weltsystem, Strittmatter, Kai, Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur, Wemheuer, Felix, Chinas grofie Umwelzung

Comparativ, v. 30, (5/6), p. 644-649
PELZER, Thorben
Article

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Comparativ, v. 30, (3/4), p. 426-428
PELZER, Thorben
Article

2019 2

Maggie Clinton: Revolutionary Nativism. Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937

Comparativ, p. 117-119
PELZER, Thorben
Article

Einstieg in die Chinastudien: Methoden, Modelle, Übungsaufgaben

PELZER, Thorben; SCHATZ, Merle
Book

Article 1

Bridging the Gap: Hijacking the British Boxer Indemnity Fund to Complete the Guangzhou–Hankou Railway

Twentieth-Century China, v. 51, (1), p. 88-116
Pelzer, Thorben

Article 2

Engineering societies in China: spaces of professionalization and participation, 1912-1949

East Asian Science, Technology and Society, p. 57-86
Pelzer, Thorben

Engineers on the Move: Elite Geographic Mobility in Republican China

Twentieth-Century China, v. 50, (1), p. 25-55, article number 950426
Pelzer, Thorben

Article 1

Enter the Pragmatic Engineer: Ling Hongxun at Jiaotong University, 1920–1927

History of Education, v. 53, (2), p. 256-280
Pelzer, Thorben

Book chapter 2

Infrastructure, Ethnology, and the Reintegration of Xinjiang: The Northwest Reconstruction Expedition of 1943

Age of Explorations / edited by Kaske Elisabeth; Köll Elisabeth. De Gruyter, 2024, p. 95-123
PELZER, Thorben

Technocracy and Technostructure in Nationalist China: Expert Rule or Rule over Experts?

Modern China in Flux / edited by Henriot Christian. De Gruyter, 2024, p. 99-133
PELZER, Thorben

Book 1

Engineering Trouble: US-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945

Pelzer, Thorben

Book 1

100 Karten über China

SCHATZ, Merle; PELZER, Thorben

Article 2

Schmalz, Stefan, Machtverschiebungen im Weltsystem, Strittmatter, Kai, Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur, Wemheuer, Felix, Chinas grofie Umwelzung

Comparativ, v. 30, (5/6), p. 644-649
PELZER, Thorben

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Comparativ, v. 30, (3/4), p. 426-428
PELZER, Thorben

Article 1

Maggie Clinton: Revolutionary Nativism. Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937

Comparativ, p. 117-119
PELZER, Thorben

Book 1

Einstieg in die Chinastudien: Methoden, Modelle, Übungsaufgaben

PELZER, Thorben; SCHATZ, Merle

2020 2

Schmalz, Stefan, Machtverschiebungen im Weltsystem, Strittmatter, Kai, Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur, Wemheuer, Felix, Chinas grofie Umwelzung

Comparativ, v. 30, (5/6), p. 644-649
PELZER, Thorben
Article

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Comparativ, v. 30, (3/4), p. 426-428
PELZER, Thorben
Article

2019 2

Maggie Clinton: Revolutionary Nativism. Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937

Comparativ, p. 117-119
PELZER, Thorben
Article

Einstieg in die Chinastudien: Methoden, Modelle, Übungsaufgaben

PELZER, Thorben; SCHATZ, Merle
Book

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Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Spring 1 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 0 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0

HUMA1678

Introduction to Digital Humanities & AI

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Research Interest

Publications

2026 1

2025 2

2024 3

2023 1

2022 1

2020 2

2019 2

Article 1

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Article 1

Book chapter 2

Book 1

Book 1

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Article 1

Book 1

2020 2

2019 2

Teaching Assignment

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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