Basile Zimmermann

Basile Zimmermann is Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is a sought-after consultant on China to Swiss companies and political institutions, and also does consulting work for an IT company. He works and publishes in the fields of Chinese studies, technology studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
To watch an interview by the Swiss National Television (TSR) in the second part of their series “History of Knowledge – Research, a passion”, focusing on rising stars of Swiss science, click here (in French).
His doctoral thesis “The Impact of Western Technology on Chinese Culture: Beijing Electronic Musicians’ Practices as Observation Field of the Relationship between Technical Objects and Artistic Creation” (in French) can be downloaded here.
For papers in English follow the link at the bottom of this page.