Area of research interest
Research Interests:
Politics of Memory
Identity
Borderlands
East Asia
China–Taiwan Relations
Selected Grants and Fellowships:
2023 Research Grant, Academy of Korean Studies
2021 Mahidol University Research Cluster Grant
2018 Research Fellowship, National Asian Culture Center
2016 MUIC Seed Grant
2013 Taiwan Fellowship
2007 Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies
2000-2004 Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Education
B.A. Sinology and Cultural Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
M.Sc. Asian Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
PhD Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
Publications List
Ohlendorf, H. and JJ Zhang, 2026. ‘Consuming Democracy: Geopolitics, Human Rights and Tourism in Taiwan’, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (published online ahead of print). https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-bja10197
Ohlendorf, H, 2025. ‘Re-constructing “Chineseness” in the Frontiers of Statehood, Memory, and Territory: The Kuomintang Communities of Northern Thailand’, Journal of Mekong Societies. Vol 21 (2). pp. 1-14.
Zhang, J. J. and Ohlendorf, H. 2022. ‘The not-so-great rapprochement: Taming and consuming Chiang Kai-shek in Cross-Strait rapprochement tourism’, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 8(1). pp. 109-130.
Ohlendorf, H. 2020. Book review of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies. Vol. 3 (1). pp. 167-170.
Ohlendorf, H. 2018. ‘Memorial Cultures in Democratic South Korea and Taiwan.’ Research Symposion of the Asia Culture Center. Gwangju: Asia Culture Center.
Ohlendorf, H. 2018. ‘Studying Taiwan: The Politics of Area Studies in the United States and Europe’, in W. Richter, E. Koldunova and A. Tzeng (Eds.), Framing Asian Studies: Institutions: Geopolitics and Institutions. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 142-162.
Ohlendorf, H. 2017. ‘Building a New Academic Field: The Institutionalization of Taiwan Studies in Europe’, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 13 (2), 115-140. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2017.13.2.6.
Ohlendorf, H. 2014. ‘The Taiwan Dilemma in Chinese Nationalism’, Asian Survey, 54 (3), 471-491.
Ohlendorf, H. 2014. Book review of China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh, Silpakorn University International Journal of Social Sciences, 14 (3), 193-198.
Ohlendorf, H. 2012. The construction of Taiwan identity in the global field of Taiwan Studies. PhD dissertation. London: SOAS, University of London.
Book Chapters
Ohlendorf, H. 2018. ‘Studying Taiwan: The Politics of Area Studies in the United States and Europe’, in W. Richter, E. Koldunova and A. Tzeng (Eds.), Framing Asian Studies: Institutions: Geopolitics and Institutions. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 142-162.
Courses Taught
ICIR 203 Foundations of Political Thought
ICIR 235 Strategic Networks in the Asia-Pacific
ICIR 324 Technology and Society
ICIR 326 Contemporary China
ICIR 333 The Politics of Memory in Asia
