Dr. Carolin Kautz
Lehrbeauftragte
I studied sinology and political science in Göttingen and at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) and in 2015 received my MA in sinology and political science from the University of Göttingen.
After internships at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) I started working as an instructor and doctoral candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies in Göttingen in 2015 and have begun a research project on corruption in China. My research interests include the Chinese Communist Party, ideological debates and the legitimacy of political rule as well as challenges to it.
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 11.2017
Associate member of the China Studies Centre of the University of Sydney/ Australia
- 15.05.17 – 15.10.17
Visiting Researcher at the University of Sydney/ Australia
- Since 2015
Assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen; start of a PhD project on corruption in China
- 2013-2015
MA in modern sinology and political science at the University of Göttingen; title of the MA thesis (written in English): „Eagerly walking towards civil society“: Debates among Chinese intellectuals and their challenges to the political legitimacy of the CPC
- 2012-2013
Semester abroad at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)
- 2010-2013
BA in modern sinology and political science at the University of Göttingen; title of the BA thesis (written in German): Eine faktionalismustheoretische Analyse des politischen Scheitern Zhao Ziyangs
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
- Kautz, Carolin (2020); “Power struggle or strengthening the Party: Perspectives on Xi Jinping’s anticorruption campaign”; Journal of Chinese Political Sciences (published online 21.07.2020); https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09665-9.
publications in journals
- Kautz, Carolin; Holbig, Heike (2015), „Bürgerrechte und Zivilgesellschaft in China: Diskursive Rechtfertigungsstrategien im Schatten parteistaatlicher Hegemonie“ (Civil rights and civil society in China: Discursive strategies of justification in the shadow of Party-state hegemony” ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 137 (October), pp. 77 – 89 (in German).
- Kautz, Carolin (2016); Book review of Lam, Willy Wo-Lap; Chinese politics in the era of Xi Jinping – Renaissance, reform, or retrogression?, New York: Routledge (2015), in ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 140 (July), pp. 152 – 153.
- Kautz, Carolin (2018); Book review of Wu Chonghao; Regulating government ethics – An underused weapon in China’s anti-corruption campaign, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), in ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 146 (January), pp. 142 – 144.
- Kautz, Carolin (2018); Book review of Pei Minxin; China’s Crony Capitalism – The Dynamics of Regime Decay, Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press (2016); ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 148 (July), pp. 106 – 107.
- Kautz, Carolin (2020): Book review of Koss, Daniel; Where the Party Rules – The Rank and File of China’s Communist State, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press (2018); ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 154/155 (January/April), pp. 178-180.
- Kautz, Carolin (2020); Book review of Brown, Kerry; China’s Dream – The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power, Cambridge, Medford: Polity (2018); Pacific Affairs Vol. 93 No. 2 (June).
- Kautz, Carolin (2020); “A political crisis, long-term trends and the Chinese Communist Party under the magnifying glass”; Essay in a special edition on “What use is Chinese studies in a pandemic?” in British Journal of Chinese Studies Vol. 10 (July).
- Kautz, Carolin (2021); Book review of Fang, Qiang, and Li Xiaobing (eds); Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China, Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2019); China Perspectives No. 2, pp. 78-79.
- Kautz, Carolin (2021); Rezension zu Ang, Yuenyuen; China’s Guilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption; Cambridge et al: Cambridge University Press (2020); Journal of Chinese Political Sciences No. 26, pp. 437 – 439.
Conference papers
- Kautz, Carolin (2018); The Power of Imprecision: Strategic Vagueness in the Practice of Party Discipline; unpublished conference paper presented at the Conference of the Working Group Social Sciences Research on China of the German Association of Asian Studies (Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftlicher Chinaforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde); November 30 and December 1, 2018 in Goettingen.
- Kautz, Carolin (2019); Domination Without a Dominator: Institutionalised Arbitrariness in the Practice of Party Disicpline: unpublished conference paper presented at the Young Researchers’ Conference of the German Association of Asian Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde); January 25 to 27, 2019 in Jena.
Conference reports
- Kautz, Carolin (2018); Conference report on the Conference of the Working Group Social Sciences Research on China of the German Association of Asian Studies (Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftlicher Chinaforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde) in November 2018; ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 149 (October); pp. 132 – 134 (in German).
- Kautz, Carolin (2019); Conference report on the Young Researchers’ Conference of the German Association of Asian Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde) in January 2019; ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia No. 150/151 (January/ April); pp. 124 – 125 (in German).
In the media
- Harmsen, Peter; Jagten på magtens lange finger (Hunting down the corrupt); Weekendavisen 16.03.2018.
