Tsz Kit Chan

Gus Tsz-kit Chan (陳子傑) holds a B.A. in Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University (2014) and worked briefly as a journalist at a local television station. Later, he returned to academia, completing an M.A. in Global Studies at the University of Freiburg (2018) and a Ph.D. at Leipzig University’s Graduate School of Global and Area Studies, focusing on semantic choices in tax debates in modern China (2023). His research took a new direction when he joined the Sinology – Algorithms, Prediction, and Statistics project at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as a postdoctoral researcher. He is revising his dissertation, The Changing Narratives on Lijin from Late Qing to the Republican Era (1875-1931), for publication, while exploring his new interest in the role of educational elites in China’s introduction and adoption of statistical practices