Team

Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig,

is a professor of political science with a focus on Chinese and East Asian area studies at Frankfurt University, and an associate senior research fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her research centers on political legitimation, ideology, and the political economy of contemporary China.

 

Maria Bondes, M.A.,

has been a member of the “Governance in China” research network’s research staff at the Institute of Asian Studies of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg since April 2010.

She studied Chinese studies, political science and economics at the University of Hamburg and Lanzhou University (PRC), graduating in 2010 with an MA.