As a unique academic organization/online platform in NW Germany and the United States, named in 2018 by Professor Kristin Stapleton (SUNY Buffalo) and after Wellington Koo (GU Weijun 顧維鈞 , 1887-1985 ), a prominent diplomat and statesman of the Republic of China (1912-present), and devoted to the study of China as part of world history, the Wellington Koo Institute serves as an online home aiming to promote academic and intellectual exchange in Asian Studies, history, the China field, diplomatic/ international history, geo-culture, and global affairs.
