DR. INES EBEN VON RACKNITZ

Dr. Ines Eben von Racknitz has studied sinology, history, literature and religions in Berlin, Beijing and the United States and currently teaches Chinese history at Nanjing University. Her expertise and passion evolve around topics like European colonial history (particularly British and German history in China), and around Chinese art, religion and literature of late Imperial and Republican China. She wrote her PhD thesis about the British-French military expedition to China in 1860 and particularly about the so called “old summer palace” of the Qing emperors, the Yuanming yuan and is currently preparing a book in Chinese cartography in the 19^th century.

For Shanghai Flaneur, Ines leads walks and talks that offer an in depth historic panorama of European and Chinese history. Some of her more specialized topics include: “Famous Chinese intellectuals in the French Concession area”, “The Soong sisters”, and “Portraits of German Business People around the Turn of the Century” or the topic of Chinese religions.