Askan Weidemann

Doctoral Researcher

Askan Weidemann

  • Short CV

    • 03/2023 - 07/2023: Doctoral Research Fellow at School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

    • Since 10/2021: Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies.

    • 01/2019 - 07/2019: Internship in the department Building, Energy & Environment at the German Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, PR China

    • 09/2018 - 12/2018: Research internship at the Faculty of International Studies at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, Vietnam

    • Education: M.Sc. in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, DAAD scholarship recipient; B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht (Maastricht University), Netherlands and UC Berkeley, USA, with a concentration in Politics and International Relations; Chinese language studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, PR China

    Current Research

    • The politics of the People‘s Republic of China

    • Digital governance

    • Public participation

    • Central-local relations

    Countries and Regions

    • PR China


    Dissertation

    • Towards a Digital Mass Line: ICT Enactment in the Chinese Petitioning System

    Askan Weidemann

    Doctoral Researcher

    T. +49 (0)40 42825-796[email protected]


    Research Project | 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2029

    Digital Transformation of Party-state Governance in China. From Local Practices to a Global Export Model

    Party-state governance in China is undergoing significant digital transformation. This transformation is accompanied by an expansion of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intervention powers and surveillance capabilities domestically, as well as a growing sense of global mission. The interdisciplinary project team analyses the resulting institutional restructuring and emerging operational logics and investigates China’s ambitions to disseminate its digitally enabled governance model abroad.
    BMFTR, 2025-2029

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