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Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik is a sinologist and professor emerita at the University of Vienna, where she held the chair of Sinology from 2002 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies and as Vice-Rector for Research and Early Career Development (2011–2015). Before that, she taught at Heidelberg University, and she has held visiting professorships at institutions including Peking University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of interest include Chinese historiography and the politics of memory, particularly regarding the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, as well as state and rural society in China, China’s foreign policy and Sino-European relations. She has authored numerous articles and edited volumes, among them Broken Narratives: Post-Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia (Brill, 2014), and has lectured widely in Europe, Asia and the US. Her most recent publication is: ‘Das Dilemma der sino-europäischen Beziehungen und dessen mögliche Lösung’, Berliner China-Hefte No. 55, 2023.