Research Interests

Old Chinese Phonology, Etymology & Paleography - Sino-Tibetan Linguistics - External Relationships of Proto-Chinese - Pre-Qin Archaeology & Early Chinese Historiography - Sanskrit-Chinese Translation & Lexicography - History of Chinese Linguistics & Grammatolgy, History of Chinese Neuroanatomy - Modern Chinese Translations of Experimental Western Literature - Epistemological Foundations of Historical Linguistics - Generative Metrics

Projects

(with Bernard Comrie, Henning Klöter, Thekla Wiebusch:) 5th Conference of the European Asso­ciation of Chinese Linguistics, Max Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, September 4-7, 2007 [conference organistation]

(with Christian Schwermann, Joachim Gentz): “Versatzstück und Montage: Vormoderne chi­nesische Prosatexte zwischen Reproduktion, Dekoration und Innovation”, XXX. Deut­scher Orientalistentag, Freiburg, 24.-28.IX.2007 [panel organisation, publication of proceedings]

(with Enno Giele, Martin Kern, Matthias Richter, William G. Boltz): Handbook of Early Chi­nese Manuscripts (Handbuch der Orientalistik), Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008. [book project]

(with Christian Schwermann, Enno Giele): Edition, Translation and commentary on the recently discovered tomb text Zhào wáng huĭ shì (Shanghai-Museum corpus). [study]

Figura Etymologica, punning and paronomasia in Ancient Chinese literature [Habilitation]

(associated researcher for M. Friedrich & Zhu Jinyang): "Sprachwandel des Chinesischen im 20. Jahrhun­dert" [DFG project]

"Forensic authorship identification in Written Mandarin corpora" [ESF application]

Winter term 2002/03

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Introduction to Chinese linguistics
• Marco Polo's Cathay?

Summer term 2003

• Introductory Classical Chinese II
• Critique of the Classics in Yang Xiong's Fayan
• Outline history of China

Winter term 2003/04

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Cultural history of the Chinese writing system
• Gu Jiegang and the Republican Debates about ancient history

Summer term 2004

• Introductory Classical Chinese II
• Outline history of China
• Facets of reform Confucianism in the 19th c.: Wei Yuan (1794-1857) and Gong Zi­zhen (1792-1841)

Winter term 2004/05

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Introduction to Chinese linguistics
• (with H. ROETZ) On the relationship between language and thought in China

Summer term 2005

• From Erya to Encarta: a cultural history of the encyclopedia in China

Winter term 2005/06

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Introduction to Chinese paleography
• Introduction to Chinese linguistics
• Environmental protection, urbanisation and social change in the PRC

Summer term 2006

• Introductory Classical Chinese II
• Dialect, geography, and history in China
• Early PRC political speeches (Mp3 course)/li>

Winter term 2006/07

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Introduction to Chinese linguistics
• Rhetoric of pre-Buddhist Chinese
• Selected texts on the history of the Chinese space programme

Summer term 2007

• Introductory Classical Chinese II
• Outline history of China
• The condition of sinology in the year 1905: Zhang Taoyan's Guoxue yanjiang lu

Winter term 2007/08 (planned)

• Introductory Classical Chinese I
• Introdcuction to Chinese Linguisics
• Th world knowledge of the cadre as mirrored by his vademecum: Selected entries from ganbu zhishi shouce from the last three decades
• The Zhouli as a source in the cultural and social history of pre-imperial China

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Short C.V. (full C.V. in German available here)
 

10/1983 - 6/1986	J.W. Goethe-University , Frankfurt a.M ., Institute of Oriental and East Asian Philologies ; major: Sinology, minors: Slavic Studies, Indo-European Linguistcs, Sociology
9/1986 - 6/1986	Liaoning University , Shenyang , PRC, Chinese Department; German Academic Exchange Service scholarship
9/1987 - 6/1989	Jilin University , Changchun , PRC, Paleography & Epigraphy Research Institute and Department of Archaeology ; German Academic Exchange Service scholarship followed by PRC State Commission of Education scholarship
10/1988 - 5/1989	Jilin University , Changchun , PRC, Department of Foreign Languages; part-time instructor, teaching advanced German language & introductory linguistics classes
8/1990 - 10/1990	State Institute of Foreign Languages "Maurice Thorez", Moscow, USSR; German Academic Exchange Service scholarship , studying Russian Language, library research at Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
6/1989 - 8/1991	J.W. Goethe-University , Frankfurt a.M. , [former] Department of East- and Non-European Languages & Cultures ; M.A.
9/1991 - 8/1996	J.W. Goethe-University , Institute of Sinology , Research & Teaching Assistant; dissertation in Sinology, defended on July 2, 1997
10/1996 - 2/1997	J.W. Goethe-University , Frankfurt a.M. , Institute of Sinology ; Teaching Assistant
4/1998 - 7/1998	University of Cologne , Cologne , FRG, Institute of Chinese & Manchurian Studies , Instructor on Chinese paleography
1/1998 - 10/1998	International Institute for Asian Studies , Leiden , The Netherlands, Research Fellow
11/1998 - date	RUB, FRG, Faculty of East Asian Studies , Institute of Chinese History and Philosophy, University Lecturer in Classical Chinese
3/2005 - 6/2005 date	Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study , Uppsala , Sweden, Research Fellow , TLS project

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Talks & papers

"Aspects of Buddhist Lexicography in Pre-Modern China"; invited lecture, Sinologisch Instituut , Universiteit Leiden , October 25, 1991.

"Chinesische Avantgarde-Lyrik", Literaturhaus, Frankfurt a.M., June 4, 1992.

"'Largo forms' and 'prefixed names' as secondary evidence for the reconstruction of Old Chinese initial consonant clusters"; presented at the 27ème Congrès International sur les Langues et la Linguistique Sino-Tibétaines, Paris, October 12-16, 1994.

"Jiaguwen suojian ruogan shanggu Hanyu fushengmu wenti lice" ["Desultory jottings on the problem of initial consonant clusters in Archaic Chinese as reflected in oracle bone inscriptions"]; presented at the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Phonology and 13th Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Phonology, R.O.C. , National Taiwan Normal University, Taibei, R.O.C., May 20-21, 1995.

"Rhyming Systems in Chinese Bronze Inscriptions", presented at the Onzièmes Journées de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, June 11-12, 1996 (abstract: RTF | PDF).

"Chronological Strata of Rhyme-Class Developments in Zhou-Dynasty Old Chinese", presented at the 29th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Congresscentrum Noordwijkerhout , October 10-13, 1996 (abstract: RTF | PDF).

"On the Metrics of Division Distinctions in Old Chinese Versification", presented at the Sixth Internationl Conference of Chinese Linguistics, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden , June 19-21, 1997.

"On the knowledge of foreign languages during the Five Dynasties period", invited lecture in the Workshop on the History of the Tang-Song Transition , , Universiteit Leiden , May 28, 1998.

"Preliminary notes on the forms of Old Chinese qualitative ablaut", presented at the Troisième Colloque International sur la Grammaire du Chinois Ancien , Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, June 22-24, 1998 (Ms., 21 pp.,  abstract of paper on quantitative ablaut, not read: PDF).

"The phonology of compound rhyme optimization during the Zhou-Han shift", presented at the 7th International Conference on Chinese Lingustics, Stanford University, June 26-28, 1998 (abstract: RTF | PDF).

"Some traditional Chinese descriptions of brain organization and functioning", presented at the 8th International Conference on the History of Science in China - China and the West, TU Berlin, August 24-27, 1998 (abstract: RTF | PDF).

"Hinc sunt leones - an ancient Eurasian migratory term in Old Chinese revistited", presented at the 31st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Linguistics, University of Lund, October 1-4, 1998 (abstract: RTF | PDF, etymologies (a) & (c) not read).

"Séries phonophoriques dans les jiaguwen", presented at the Journées Langue, parole, écriture : le cas chinois , Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, May 6-7, 1999.

"Rhyming in the Mu tianzi zhuan", presented at the Treizièmes Journées de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale, Onzièmes Journées de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale , Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, June 10-11, 1999 (abstract: RTF).

"Der lange Weg vom Herz zum Hirn - seit wann denkt man in China, daß das Hirn denkt?", Gastvortrag, Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Zürich, 17. Juni 1999.

"On the Potential Role of Historical Phonology in the  Teaching of Classical Chinese?",  International Conference on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning / Symposium on Teaching Classical Chinese , Columbia University, New York, October 15-17, 1999.

"'To translate' means 'to change' - a bird's-eye-view of the terms for translation throughout Chinese history?, International. Conference Translating Western Knowledge into Late Imperial China , Ostasiatisches Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, December 6-9, 1999.

"Sidelights on Old Chinese morphosyntax?, invited lecture, Vakgroep Talen en culturen van Zuid- en Oost-Azie, Universiteit Gent, March 15, 2000.

"The Changing Degrees of Chinese 'Chineseness' - Ancient 'Zhongguo' and the 'Other'", invited lecture, Vakgroep Talen en culturen van Zuid- en Oost-Azie, Universiteit Gent, March 16, 2000.

"‘Homosomatic juxtaposition’ and the problem of ‘syssemantic’ (huìyì) characters", Deuxièmes Journées ‘Langue, parole, écriture: le cas chinois Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, 8-9 December, 2000.

"Some notes on the functions and origin of Old Chinese *s-prefixation", 4th International Conference on Classical Chinese Grammar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 15-17 August, 2001. (abstract: PDF).

"Traces of loose prefixation in Old Chinese lento forms", 2nd Conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics, Roma, Università ‘La Sapienza’, 6-8 September, 2001 (abstract: DOC).

"Language change in premodern China – Notes on its perception and impact on the idea of a 'constant way'", (Project on Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture in a Comparative Perspective) 3rd Conference: Ideology and historical criticism, Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , 4-6 October, 2001.

"Das Wortfeld 'lesen' im Altchinesischen – Etymologien, Prototypensemantik und die Frühgeschichte der Interpunktion", DVCS -Jahrestagung 2001 ‘Lesen in China’, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 30 November–2 December, 2001.

"Stray loanword gleanings from twon Ancient Chinese fictional texts", 16e Journées de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, 3-4 June, 2002 (abstract: PDF).

"Isolierend und isoliert? — Über den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand zum Problem der Genealogie des Altchinesischen", invited lecture, Sinologisches Seminar, Bonn University , 1 July, 2002.

"The extent of tonal irregularity in pre-Qin inscriptional rhyming", Li Fang-kuei Memorial Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, 15-17 August, 2002 (abstract: PDF).

"Demonstrative systems and spatial cognition in Old Chinese", European Association of Chinese Studies Conference, Institute of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, 26-28 August, Moscow, 2002 (handout: PDF).

"On the prehistory and emergence of nominal classifiers in Chinese ", invited lecture, South of the Yangtze Project, Universiteit Leiden , 25 October, 2002 (handout: PDF).

"From rhyme to reason --- the medieval formation of the technical terminology of Chinese phonology and its musical backgrounds", 3rd International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science, Tübingen, 31 March - 3 May, 2003 (abstract: PDF).

"Eastern Zhou bronze inscriptions from Wu and Yue", Graduate Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, 5 May, 2003.

"Chunqiu 'elegant speech' (yayan 雅言) as seen from the epigraphic periphery", invited lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, 6 May, 2003.

"The phonology of praying in inscriptional Old Chinese", Graduate Seminar, University of Chicago, May 8, 2003.

"Pre-EMC dialects: some notes", Old Chinese/Middle Chinese Symposium, University of Chicago, May 10, 2003 (abstract: PDF, handout: PDF.)

"The language formerly called ArC: Über den Wandel des Altchinesischen zur natürlichen Spra­che und seine aussersprachlichen Konsequenzen", invited lecture, FU Berlin, July 17, 2003 (abstract: PDF).

"A look at Old Chinese morphology through Jia Changzhao’s 賈昌朝 Qunjing yin bian 群經音辨", 3rd Conference of the European As­sociation for Chinese Linguistics, Uni­versiteit Gent, September 7-9, 2003 (abstract: PDF, handout PDF).

"Erkundungen zur Sprache des alten Wu und Yue", invited lecture, Universität Münster, October 10, 2003 (abstract: PDF).

"Xia, Shang, Zhou, Zhongguo — Notizen zur Herkunft der altchinesichen Staatsnamen", invited lecture, Universität Zürich, December 11.

"Orison in Jade: Reading the Zengsun Yin 曾孫駰 tablet inscriptions", 2nd Hamburg Tomb Text Work­shop, Universität Hamburg, March 27-29, 2004 (abstract: PDF, [partial] handout PDF).

"What’s in an early Chinese name, again", European Association of Chinese Studies Conference, Universität Heidelberg, August 25-28, 2004 (handout: PDF).

"Reimnetze, Paronomasiekadenzen, Konsonanzketten und Wurzelsymmetrieren — Zur text­strukturierenden Funktion einiger lautlicher und morphologischer Figuren der altchinesischen Kunst­prosa", 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Universität Halle, September 20-24, 2004 (handout: PDF).

"Some Ancient Chinese text structuring devices", invited lecture, Swedish Collegium for Ad­van­ced Stu­dies, Uppsala, Apri 21, 2005 (presentation: PDF).

"In the interstices of synonymy: ludic allusions, name cryptography and dialect characters in An­cient Chinese writing", Second "The Idea of Writing" Symposium: Polysemy in writing systems, Center for Non-Western Studies, Leiden, May 19-21, 2005 (presentation: PDF).

"Weichi tingjue wengu — cong Zhanguo 'chongshengzi' he 'zhuyin xingshengzi' tanqi 維持聽覺穩固——從戰國「重聲字」和「注音形聲字」談起" [Maintainig aural stability: on the im­pli­cations of phonophoric doubling and replacement in Warring States paleography]", Con­fer­en­ce: Chinese Paleography: Theory and Practice, University of Chicago, May 27-30, 2005 (presentation: PDF).

"Notes on counterfactual morphology in Old Chinese", 13th Conference of the International As­so­cia­tion of Chinese Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden, June 9-11, 2005 (handout: PDF).

"Chuyu guankui” 楚語管窺 [Glimpses into the language of Chu]", International Symposium on Old Chi­nese reconstruction and phylogeny, Shanghai, December 13-18, 2005.

"A study of Chu 楚 words in theFangyan", 4th Conference of the European Association of Chine­se Linguistics, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, January 19-22, 2006 (presentation: PDF).

"How to keep a secret secret in Classical Chinese", XVIth European Association of Chinese Stu­dies Con­ference, University of Ljubljana, March 31-June 2, 2006 (handout: PDF).

"Squeeze or stretch? Phonotactic vs. graphotactic constraints in the history of written Chinese loan­word adaptation", Third “The Idea of Writing” Symposium: Loanwords in writing systems, Center for Non-Western Studies, Universiteit Leiden, June 7-9, 2006 (handout, some special fonts missing: PDF).

"Listening to the black sheep in the flock: Jin dialect morphology and the typologies of Sinitic", Key note, 5th Congress of the International Society of Dialectology and Geolinguistics, Uni­ver­sidade do Minho, Braga, September 7, 2006.

"Er weinte Blut drei Jahre lang und seine Zähne waren nie zu sehen ― Die Wortfelder 'Lachen' und 'Wei­nen' im Altchinesischen (und ihre möglichen sino-tibetischen Hintergründe)", Tagung Lachen und Wei­nen in den Kulturen der Welt, Katholische Akademie Stuttgart, September 20-24, 2006 (Ms.: PDF).

"Some Ideas on the Origin of Language in Late Imperial China", Tagung Paths towards Modernity” (J. Prů­šek Memorial Symposium), Prague, Charles University, October 10-14, 2006 (handout: PDF).

"Geniestreich, Anpassungsleistung oder Kollateralschaden? – Typologien und Theorien der Schrift­entstehung und -entwicklung in den alten Kulturen der Welt", Ringvorlesung Die histori­sche und die aktuelle Bedeutung der schriftlichen Präsentation in Wissenschaft und Beruf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Audimax, March 1, 2007 (illustrations, presentation: PDF).

"Warring states Chinese writing and Jiangyong county wo­men’s script: local syllabaries stuck in a logo­gra­phic empire", 4th “The Idea of Writing” Symposium: to and fro the syllabary, Center for Non-Western Stu­dies, Universiteit Leiden, May 30 - July 1, 2007 (presentation: PDF).

"Geschichte und Gegenwart der Sprachenvielfalt in China. Über sprachliche Moribundität als Millionenproblem", "Sprachlos in die Moderne? Sterbende Sprachen und Sprachpolitiken" (Ringvorlesung) , Universität Bonn, June 21, 2007

in preparation:

"Phonophoric adjustment and the Old Chinese dialects", for: 28e Journées de Linguistique de l’Asie Orientale, Paris, June 28-30, 2007 (abstract: PDF).

"Another Old Chinese copula?", for: 5th Meeting of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Leipzig, Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, September 4-7, 2007 (abstract: PDF).

"Form und Füllsel — Zur Formelhaftigkeit in der altchinesischen Kunstprosa ", for: XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg i.Br., September 24-28, 2007 (abstract: html).

Reviews, Book Notices

STEPHAN V. BEYER , The Classical Tibetan Language, Albany : State University of New York Pr., 1992, in: Oriens 34 (1994): S. 557-564.

OTTO LADSTÄTTER & SEPP LINHART eds ., August Pfizmaier (1808-1887) und seine Bedeutung für die Ostasienwissenschaften , Wien : Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , Phil.-Hist. Kl., Bd. 562; Kl. Schr., 3, 1990, in: Oriens 34 (1994): 564-573.

WILLIAM S.Y. WANG ed. The Ancestry of the Chinese Language (Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series; 8) Berkeley : Journal of Chinese Linguistics, in: Language 74 (1998) 3: 658-660.

DONALD HARPER , Early Chinese medical literature: the Mawangdui medical manuscripts (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series); London : Kegan Paul 1998, IIAS newsletter 21 (January 2000): 38. 

PAULOS ZHANZHU H UANG, Laozi: The Book and the Man (Studia Orientalia; 79), Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 14 (1999): 94-99.

LAURENT SAGART, The Roots of Old Chinese (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science; IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999; in: M. CARTIER, J. NIVARD et al eds., Revue bibliographique de sinologie, n.s. XVIII (2000), Paris: Éditions EHESS, 2001, pp. 324-325.

BARBARA NIEDERER, Les langues Hmong-Mjen (Miáo-Yáo); Phonologie historique (Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics; 7); in: op.cit., pp. 332-333.

THOMAS ZIMMER, Baihua: zum Problem der Verschriftung gesprochener Sprache im Chinesischen; dargestellt anhand morphologischer Merkmale in den bianwen aus Dunhuang (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series; 40) Sankt Augustin, Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1999; in: op.cit., pp. 329-330.

YANG JIDONG: “Siba: Bronze Age Culture of the Gansu Corridor”, Sino-Platonic Papers 86, 1998; in: op.cit., pp. 283-284.

MICHAEL FORTESCUE, Language Relations across Bering Strait. Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence (Open Linguistic Series), London & New York : Cassell; in: IIAS newsletter 24 (März 2001), p. 15.

JAN ULENBROOK, Zum Alteurasischen. Eine Sprachvergleichung (Imago Mundi; Studienreihe; 12), Bettendorf: Kult-Ur-Institut für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschung 1998; in: Oriens 3 (2000/01), pp. 356-361.

RÉMI MATHIEU, Démons et Merveilles dans la littérature chinoise des Six Dynasties. Le fantastique et l’anectodique dans le Soushen ji de Gan Bao, Paris: Éditions YOU-FENG 2000; in: Oriens 3 (2000/01), pp. 361-364.

LI BAOJIA, Dangdai Zhongguo yinyunxue (Zhongguo wenhua yuyanxue congshu), Guangzhou : Guangdong Jiaoyu 1998; in: J. NIVARD et al eds., Revue bibliographique de sinologie, n.s. XIX (2001), Paris: Éditions EHESS, pp. 348-349.

DAVID PRAGER BRANNER , "A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese", T'ang Studies 17 (1999), pp. 1-169; in: op.cit., pp. 349-350.

EDWIN G. PULLEYBLANK, "Chinese Traditional Phonology", Asia Major 3rd ser., XII (1999) 2, pp. 101-137; in: op.cit., p. 350.

CARRIE E. REED, "Tattoo in Early China", Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (3), pp. 360-376; in: op.cit., p. 89.

ROBERT BAGLEY, "Percussion", in: JENNY F. SO ed., Music in the Age of Confucius. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery & Smithsonian Institution, distr. Seattle & London: Washington Uni-versity Press, p. 335., in: op.cit, pp. 35-63;

BO LAWERGREN, "Strings", in: JENNY F. SO ed., pp. 65-86; in: op.cit., p. 335-336.

KEN-ICHI TAKASHIMA, "Towards a more rigorous methodology of deciphering oracle-bone in-scriptions", T’oung Pao LXXXVI (2000) 4-5, pp. 363-399; in: op.cit., p. 347.

(in print:)

ROBERT WARDY, Aristotle in China. Languages, Categories and Translation (Needham Research Institute Studies; 2), Cambridge: UP, for: China Information (Leiden), 2003, 4 pp.

YASUHIKO NAGANO & R ANDY J. LAPOLLA eds., New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (Senri Ethnological Reports), Oosaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2001, for: The Tibet Journal (Dharamsala), 2003, 4 pp. 

HELGA KELLER, Die Sammlung Franke in der Preußischen Staatsbibliothek; Bearbeitet von Helga Keller; Herausgegeben und mit Registern versehen von Hartmut Walravens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2001. (Orientalistik Bibliographien und Dokumentationen; 15), in: Revue bibliographique de sinologie, n.s. XX (2002), Paris: Éditions EHESS, 1 p.

HU QIGUANG,  FANG HUANHAI, Erya yi zhu, Shanghai : Shanghai Gují 1999, (Zhonghua gují yizhu congshu), in: op.cit., 2 pp.

HUANG WENJIE, "Shuo peng", Guwenzi yanjiu 22, 2000, pp. 278-282, in: op.cit., 1 p.

HANS KÜHNER, "'The Barbarians' Writing is like Worms, and their Speech is like the Screeching of Owls' - Exclusion and Acculturation in the Early Ming Period", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 151, 2, 2001, pp. 407-429., in: op.cit., 2 pp.

RONG GENG, Jinwen xu bian , Shanghai : Shanghai shudian, 2000, in: op.cit., 1 p.

SUN YUWEN, Hanyu biandiao gouci yanjiu, Beijing : Beijing Daxue, 2000 (Qingnian xuezhe wenku, Shoujie quanguo youxiu boshi xuewei lunwen), in: op.cit., 2 pp.

XUE CAIDE, Hanyu Zangyu tongyuanzi yanjiu-yuyi bijiaofa de zhengming, Shanghai : Shanghai Daxue, 2001, in: op.cit., 2 pp.

ZHANG HUIYING, Han-Zangxi yuyan he Hanyu fangyan bijiao yanjiu, Beijing : Minzu (Zhongguo wenhua congshu), in: op.cit., 2 pp.

Translations

YANG LIAN & G U CHENG: "Wir dürfen nicht vergessen ... Trauerrede für die Opfer des Massakers vom 4. Juni 1989 ", das neue China 16 (1989) 5-6: 38-39
WANG DAN : "Über die Redefreiheit der Opposition", die tageszeitung , September 30, 1989
DUODUO : "Fleisch essen und Vermächtnis, Zwei Gedichte", Die Alternative am Vormittag ( hr2 ), November 20, 1989

Ph.D. Dissertation, M.A. Thesis

Reimende Bronzeinschriften und die Entstehung der chinesischen Endreimdichtung [Rhyming bronze inscriptions and the emergence of Chinese end-rhyme versification ], Ph.D. Diss., J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M . 1997, iii + 764 + 241 pp. [revised version forthcoming in 2007]; for abstracts cf.:
 

(i)	Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 26 (1997) 1
(ii)	Newsletter of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics 5 (1997)
(iii)	LINGUIST list.org

Die Darstellung der zehn Buddhatitel in Fayuns 'Fanyi mingyi ji' von 1157. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der buddhistischen Lexikographie im alten China, M.A. thesis, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. 1991, 242 pp. [revised version forthcoming as Das Fanyi mingyi ji von 1157 und die Geschichte der buddhistischen Lexikographie im alten China , ca. 340 pp.]