Alice Trinkle
Cohort 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Tobias Rupprecht
Topic of PhD Thesis: Liberalism in China in the Age of Market & Globalization. The Development of Economic Liberal Thinking in China in Exchange with the (Post) Socialist World, 1978 – 2001

Freie Universität Berlin
Project Doctoral Researcher, Junior Research Group "Peripheral Liberalism"
Education and Work Experience
- 02/2019 – 02/2020: Local Politics / Public relations, communications management, event organsiation, office management, general assistance executive board
- 09/2017 – 12/2018: SOAS, University of London, M.A. Chinese Studies
- 09/2016 – 07/2017: China University of Political Science and Law / DAAD, DAAD-language assistant (Lectuerer German as a Foreign Language)
- 03/2014 – 12/2014: University of International Business and Economics Beijing, Exchange Student
- 10/2012 – 12/2016: Universität Potsdam, B. Ed. History / German Language and Literature / Educational Studies (Gymnasiallehramt)
- 08/2009 – 02/2010: kulturweit, Voluntary Service by German Federal Foreign Office in Cooperation with the German UNESCO-Commission, Apáczai High School Pécs, Hungary
Academic Appointments, Scientific Activities & Outreach
- 01/2022: University of Naples - Federico II, Tallinn University, European Institute for Chinese Studies, “Chinese Political Thought – A Global Dialogue beyond 'Orientalism'” Workshop, Section “Global Encounters in the 20th Century”, Panel “Liberal Economic Thinking in China in Exchange with (Post) Socialist Eastern Europe 1978 – 2001”
- 10/2021 – 12/2021: Open Society Foundation Budapest, Visegrád Scholarship, research stay
- 03/2020 – 12/2021: Oxford Europaeum Programme, scholar, winning team 2nd cohort, project proposal “Unmute the Youth!”
- 09/2021: Universität Wien and Universität Graz, “China and Global History” Workshop, Panel “China and Global Economic History of the Modern Era”
- 10/2019 – 09/2020: Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin, Guest Associate
Fellowships, Stipends and Awards
- 04/2020 – 08/2020: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, PhD scholarship
- 04/2014 – 09/2018: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, scholarship and fellow for undergraduate and graduate studies
- 03/2014 – 07/2014: PROMOS – exchange year at University of International Business and Economics Beijing, China
- Global History, Intellectual History, Economic History
- Chinese Economy
- China in the 20th Century
- Socialist / Postsocialist Societies
- Hungary & Central / Southeastern Europe
- Transition Processes
SCRIPTS Working Paper
Axe, Kevin/Rupprecht, Tobias/Trinkle, Alice 2021: Peripheral Liberalism. New Perspectives on the History of the Liberal Script in the (Post-)Socialist World. SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 13, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”.