On the morning of November 3, 2024, the appointment ceremony for academic advisors of the School of Government and the Institute of Governance for Global Megacities at Shenzhen University was held in the B201 meeting room of Shouzheng Building, Lihu Campus. Professor Thomas Wilhelm Adolf Heberer, Senior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Advisor to the German Government on China Policy, attended the ceremony, along with Professor Yu Keping, Dean of the School of Government and the Institute of Governance for Global Megacities at Shenzhen University, Executive Dean Professor Chen Wen, and Vice Dean Professor Gu Zhijun.
Professor Yu Keping read the official appointment document for Professor Thomas Wilhelm Adolf Heberer as the academic advisor of both the School of Government and the Institute of Governance for Global Megacities at Shenzhen University, and presented him with the appointment letter.
(Professor Yu Keping presents the appointment letter to Professor Thomas Wilhelm Adolf Heberer)
Profile of Professor Thomas Wilhelm Adolf Heberer
Professor Thomas Wilhelm Adolf Heberer is one of Europe’s leading authorities on Chinese studies. He is currently a Senior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and an advisor to the German Government on China Policy. He has previously served as the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at University of Duisburg-Essen and as the President of the German-Chinese Friendship Association. Professor Heberer’s major academic achievements include pioneering field research on grassroots governance in contemporary China, particularly in the rural Yi communities of the Daliang Mountains, as well as introducing social anthropology methods into the study of grassroots governance in China. He has also proposed important new concepts such as “strategic groups”. Over his more than 40 years of research on Chinese governance, he has published over 50 books and hundreds of academic articles, some of which have been translated into 15 languages, having a significant impact on Western research on grassroots governance in China.
Editor | Xiao Yao
Initial Review | Sun Baohua
Second Review | Wang Yingying
Final Review | Gu Zhijun
