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Dr Cord Eberspaecher
Research Associate
Email: Cord.Eberspaecher@bristol.ac.uk
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 499 10002
My main field of study is Chinese Modern history, especially the late Qing era. In the last years I have been concentrating my research on the Sino-German relations with special attention on the military sphere.
I have joined Historical Studies for three years from 1st September 2008 as a Post-Doctoral research Associate funded by the 'Colonialism in Comparative Perspective: Tianjin Under 9 Flags' project. Within the Tianjin project I will be researching the life and career of Gustav Detring, a senior official with the Chinese Customs Service, based in Tianjin, who was a crucial foreign advisor to Viceroy Li Hongzhang, a key figure in late Qing politics. I will also be responsible for research on the history of the German concession in Tianjin.
I have secured my PhD in 2003 at Hamburg, with a thesis on 'The German Yangtze Patrol' and previously have been working as Research Fellow at the Prussian State Archives in a project about the relations between Prusso-Germany and China in cooperation with the Free University Berlin, the First Historical Archives in Peking and the Peking University. I have taught at Hamburg and Oldenburg universities. I will mostly be based in Berlin, but will be in Bristol regularly.
Selected Publications
- Die deutsche Yangtse Patrouille. Deutsche Kanonenbootpolitik in China im Zeitalter des Imperialismus 1900-1914 [The German Yangtze Patrol. German Gunboat Diplomacy in the Age of Imperialism 1900-1914] (Bochum: Winkler Verlag: 2004)
- "To Arm China. Sino-German Military Cooperation prior to the First World War and the Self-Strengthening Army 1895-1898", in: Berliner China-Hefte – Chinese History and Society 33/2008, S. 54-74
- (With Gerhard Wiechmann) "'Erfolg Revolution kann Krieg entscheiden': Der Einsatz S.M.H. LIBAU im irischen Osteraufstand 1916 als Beispiel deutscher Geheimdienstoperationen zur See" ["'Success Revolution Can Decide War' The Mission of the "Libau" during the Irish Easter Uprising 1916 as Example of German Secret Operations at Sea"], in: Schiff und Zeit Nr. 69, Frühjahr 2008, S. 4-19
- (With Roman Deckert and Gerhard Wiechmann) "Der Dokumentarfilm als Waffe im Kalten Krieg: 'Der lachende Mann. Bekenntnisse eines Mörders' und 'Immer wenn der Steiner kam' Sternstunden des Films oder demagogische Montage?" ["Documentaries as Weapons of the Cold War"] , in: Lars Karl (Hg.): Leinwand zwischen Tauwetter und Frost. Der osteuropäische Spiel- und Dokumentarfilm im Kalten Krieg, Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2007, pp. 171-202
- "The Road to Jutland? The War and the Imperial German Navy", in: Rotem Kowner (ed): The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War, London: Routledge 2006, pp. 290-305