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Yim Fong Chan Starts New Position at the University of Macau
Yim Fong Chan has started her position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macau. In 2025, she received her PhD at the Institute for European Global Studies and was a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Fellow at the Institute since 2019.
In her new position, Yim Fong Chan’s main responsibility will be to serve as an editor for the Institute’s academic journal, “South China Quarterly: Journal of the University of Macau.”
In March 2025, Yim Fong Chan successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Twisted Souls in Confucianism: Liang Shuming and Feng Youlan in the PRC (1949–1976)”. Her dissertation explores the localization of Marxism in China and the responses of Chinese intellectuals during the Mao Zedong era, covering a large amount of primary literature in Chinese. The research project was supervised by Ralph Weber, Deputy Director and professor for European Global Studies, and Thierry Meynard, professor of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou.
Yim Fong Chan was an SNSF fellow in the project „The Exterior of Philosophy“ at the Institute for European Global Studies. Since September 2019, she has worked as a research assistant in Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber’s project “Mapping New Confucian Networks (1911–2021)”. Her general research interests lie in the area of New Confucianism and Chinese intellectual history.