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IOWC Research Director

Angela Schottenhammer

Angela Schottenhammer

蕭婷, Prof. Dr. Sinology, East Asian History

Prof. Dr. Schottenhammer is professor of Pre-modern Chinese History at the Centre of Asian and African Studies (CEAA), El Colegio de México, Mexico City, México, and unscheduled professor of Chinese Studies at the Department for Asian Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Since 2002, Dr. Schottenhammer has been Professor of Chinese History at the Department for Asian Studies, Munich University; beginning in 2006, she became head of the Sinology Department in Marburg University, Germany. She is Project Supervisor of “The East Asian Mediterranean c. 1500–1850,” an international research project sponsored by the VW–Foundation (05/2002 – 06/2009).

For her Wudai and Song history website, see www.schottenhammer.net. Dr. Schottenhammer’s focus of research includes: Ancient and contemporary history of China with a main focus on politico-economic and socio-cultural history, history of history of China's foreign, in particular maritime exchange relations, tomb inscriptions, aspects of the history of science and technology; concerning time periods, the main focus lies on the late Tang, Wudai and Song period, the late Ming and Qing dynasties, and contemporary China.

Prof. Schottenhammer is establishing an internationally operating "Research Centre on Exchange Relations in the East Asian World". The geographical focus of the research conducted at this Centre is the East China Sea bordered by the three countries China, Japan, and Korea, but also beyond, reaching out to Southeast Asia as well as to Central Asia and Russia, notably encompassing the regions along the former "Silk Road". This project is aimed at exploring both continental and maritime "silk routes" in the macro region of East Asia in their historical dimensions, focussing on the interconnectedness of the various regions along these two "silk routes" and investigating a wide range of sources from archaeological findings to texts, documents, and pictorial material, to linguistic evidence.

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The Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou

The East Asian Maritime World, 1400-1800

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