Dr. Man Zhang

Research Focuses

• Contemporary Chinese History (post-1949)
• Political and Legal History
• Justice and Injustice
• Perpetrator Studies
• Gender and Sexual Violence

Academic Experiences

• From Oct. 2024 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Sinologie

• 2021 bis 2024 Leipzig Universität, Postdoctoral Researcher
• 2014 bis 2020 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
• 2011 bis 2014 Studium der Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, Nanjing University

Selected Publications

• Zhang, Man. “Case Files and the Rewriting of PRC History,” in Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan, and Els van Dongen ed., The SAGE Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History, SAGE Publications Ltd (Forthcoming).
• Zhang, Man. „Aus den Massen schöpfen und in die Massen hineintragen“: Staatspopulismus im heutigen China, in Matthias Middell (Hg.), Varianzen des Zusammenhalts. Historische und transregional vergleichende Perspektiven. Frankfurt a. M. and New York: Campus, 2024.
• Zhang, Man. “Narratives and Voices of Cultural Revolution ‘Perpetrators’.” in Justice After Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China, edited by Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Zhang, Man. Ending Political Violence: Making and Unmaking Perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution in Post-Mao China. Doctoral dissertation, University of Freiburg, 2021, https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/219280.
• Zhang, Man. “From Denial to Apology: Narrative Strategies of a ‘Perpetrator’ after the Cultural Revolution.” in Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach, edited by Daniel Leese and Puck Engman. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 150–72.