Daniela Schneider

Academic Employee, GRK 2571 'Empires'
Doctoral Candidate

E-Mail: daniela.schneider@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de

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Doctoral Project

Press Censorship in the British Empire with a Special Focus on Hong Kong, 1938-1941

This project uses digital humanities to research censorship in British Hong Kong during (parts of) the Second Sino-Japanese War. It combines archival material with close- and distant reading of censored Chinese newspaper articles to shed light on censorship laws, institutions and practices in Colonial Hong Kong and their reciprocity in the British Empire. A new methodology for quantifying visible censorship combined with a close reading of the censored articles give unprecedented insights into what material the British authorities in Hong Kong censored. The dissertation reveals how the interactions between Britain and Hong Kong led to constant negotiations of censorship between the actors and resulted in multiple layers of censorship on the spot. The results shed light not only on Hong Kong but also on how British colonial censorship worked empire-wide.

Research Interests

Press History
Greater China
Modern Chinese History

Employment

Since November 2020
Academic Employee,
GRK 2571 'Empires', Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
November 2018 – December 2022
Academic Employee,
Uniseum Freiburg, Germany
April 2018 – September 2018
Research Associate and Lecturer,
Professorship for East Asian History, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

April 2016 – September 2016
Tutor,
Department of History, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
April 2014 – March 2016
Research Assistant,
Department of History, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
March 2012 – September 2012
Research Assistant,
Department of Sinology, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Education

Since 2018
Doctor of Philosophy in Modern and Contemporary History,
Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
2014 – 2018
Master of Arts in Comparative Modern History (Vergleichende Geschichte der Neuzeit),
Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
Including a semester abroad at Nanjing University 南京大学, People’s Republic of China
2010 – 2014
Bachelor of Arts in History; Minor in Sinology,
Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
Including two semesters abroad at University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs Universitet), Sweden

Scholarships and Grants

February 2022 – April 2022
Associated as Guest Research, German Historical Institute London
Travel Grant, Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg im Breisgau
August 2016 – January 2017
Scholarship 'Freiburg Global Exchange', International Office Freiburg
Foreign Exchange Scholarship, Villum K. Rasmussen-Foundation
Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education
March 2015 – March 2018
Scholarship, Program for Gifted Youth (Grundförderung der Begabtenförderungswerke)
September 2012 – July 2013
Erasmus Scholarship, European Union
Adlerbertska Hospitiestiftelsen, Gothenburg University
March 2010
Award for Best A-Levels of the Class, Kreissparkasse

Selected Publications

Book Review: Ng, Michael. Political Censorship in British Hong Kong. Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In Historische Zeitschrift 316 (2) (2023): 499-500. https://doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2023-1108

Seminars and Workshops

26 – 27 October 2023
Co-Organisation of Workshop “Building Empires with Data” with Prof. Dr. Roopika Risam

19 – 21 September 2022
Co-Organisation of GRK 2571 Summer School 2022, and
Co-Group-Lead "Cultural Reproduction"
Near Freiburg