Nicolas Schillinger

Nicolas Schillinger is a cultural historian specializing in the history of science and masculinity in 19th and 20th century China. He held a visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin and was a former member (10/2021–10/2022) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg's Sinology department, affiliated with the research group Sin-aps.

Education: Ph.D. in History from Heidelberg University as part of the Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context.

Research focuses on military reforms, masculinity concepts in late Qing/early Republican China, and Cold War-era scientific developments. His book The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers (2016) examines military reforms and masculinity between 1895–1916. At Sin-aps, he pursued a project on Scientific Warfare in Republican China.

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Associated with the Sin-aps research group, focusing on intersections of science, warfare, and cultural history in modern China.