China Studies Wiki:About
About the China Studies Collaboration Wiki
Overview
The China Studies Collaboration Wiki (bou.de/u/wiki/) is an academic platform for collaborative scholarly publishing, teaching, and research in Chinese Studies, Sinology, Comparative Literature, and related fields. It is operated by Prof. Dr. Martin Woesler at Hunan Normal University (Changsha, China) and hosted on servers within the European Union.
The platform is based on MediaWiki (version 1.35) and provides:
- Collaborative book projects — multi-author scholarly editions with full version control
- Teaching materials — course pages, syllabi, student projects, and assignments
- Multilingual content — pages in English, German, Chinese, French, and other languages
- Scholarly references — full support for footnotes and citations via <ref> tags
Book Projects
The wiki hosts several major book projects, listed on the Books page:
- History of Sinology — 25 chapters, 7 languages, ~1,000 pages
- Hao Qiu Zhuan — Bilingual critical edition (CN + EN/DE/FR)
- Lu Xun Complete Works — First complete trilingual translation (EN/DE/FR), 1,518 sections
- Hongloumeng — Der Traum der Roten Kammer, bilingual CN/DE
- Rethinking Higher Education in the Digital Age — JM Centre of Excellence anthology (EN + CN)
Teaching
Course materials for Hunan Normal University, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, and earlier institutions are available via the Teaching portal.
Institutional Context
The platform is part of the academic infrastructure of:
- Hunan Normal University, School of Foreign Languages (湖南师范大学外国语学院)
- International Chinese Studies Centre (国际汉学中心)
- Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "EUSC-DEC" (EU Grant 101126782, 2023–2026)
- World Association for Chinese Studies (WACS)
Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin Woesler
Am Erlenkamp 1
44801 Bochum, Germany
Email: martin@woesler.de
Legal
- Copyright — Terms of use, consent, and publication rights
- Privacy Policy — Data protection (GDPR)
EU Jean Monnet Research Centre of Excellence, Grant No. 101126782. With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.