Heike Holbig

Dr. Heike Holbig is a professor of political science with a focus on Chinese and East Asian area studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), an independent research institute based in Hamburg and a member of the Leibniz Association. Her research focuses on domestic politics in China, the role of ideology and language in the legitimation of the party regime as well as on state-society relations in contemporary China.