Personal Dates
name: Prof. Dr. Angela Schottenhammer
nationality: German
address (private):
Gneisenaustraße 38, 20253 Hamburg, Germany
Tel. and fax: +49 40 4221773
Skype: schotti12
(professional)
Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid- an Oost-Azië, Sinologie
(Department of South and and East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Gent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
E-mail:
Tel.:+32 9 2644001
Fax : +32 9 264494
Cell phone: +49 174 9253446
websites:
www.southandeastasia.ugent.be,
www.eamh.net,
www.schottenhammer.net,
indianoceanworldcentre.com/people/schottenhammer.html
Education
09/1975–07/1984: Albertinum High–School (specialization in foreign languages: English, French, and Latin); 1984: High school–leaving Exam (Abitur)
09/1971–07/1975: Primary School Ebersdorf/Coburg and Ahorn.
University Studies
12/1993: PhD; Julius–Maximilians-University, Würzburg: PhD. Title of the PhD thesis: “Grabinschriften in der Song–Dynastie” [Tomb Inscriptions in Song China]
05/1990–10/1993: Würzburg University, Sinological Institute: Participation in a socio-archaeological research project on tombs” in Liao, Song, and Jin China
03/1990–04/1990: Study trip to Japan (Tōkyō, Kyōto Universities)
1988–1992: Würzburg University: Study of Human Medicine
11/1989: Magister Artium (M.A). Title of the thesis: “Liao Mosha und die Literaturkampagne zu Beginn der Kulturrevolution, dargeboten am Beispiel seiner essayistischen Beiträge zum Sanjiacun zhaji” [Walking and Falling Down. Dialogues with Liao Mosha about the beginning of the Cultural Revolution].
11/1988–11/1989: Würzburg University: Sinology (main subject), Japanese Studies and European History (minor subjects)
09/1987–09/1988: Language, literature and history of China at Peking University (Beijing daxue)
10/1984–07/1987: Julius–Maximilians–University Würzburg: Sinology (main subject), Japanese Studies and European History (minor subjects)
Award of un-scheduled professor title
03/2007: Award of an un-scheduled professor title (außerplanmäßiger Professor; this means professor without a tenure position as German government official) by the Department for Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), Germany
Habilitation (Post doctoral professor university teaching qualification)
07/2000: habilitatus Dr., title of the thesis: “Quanzhou, China, during the Song Period: The Inter-dependency of Central Politics and the Development of Local Commerce and their Impact on Maritime Trade” (particular emphasis was laid on economic and technological questions).
Professional Experience
since 10/2010: Professor for Chinese Studies, Gent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Institute of South and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
08/2009–09/2010: Professor for Pre-modern Chinese History, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África (CEAA), México City, México
since 01.09.09: Adjunct professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
since 05/2009: Director of Research at the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada
04/2008–03/2009: Professor replacementship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) of Chinese History at the Department for Chinese Studies, Head of Department, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany (cf. http://www.uni-marburg.de/ fb06/sinologie)
01/2005-12/2008: External cooperation partner of the international research project “Higashi Ajia no kaiiku kōryū to Nihon dentō bunka no keisei 東アジアの海域交流と日本傳統文化の形成“ (East Asia’s Maritime Exchange Relations and the Formation of Traditional Japanese Culture), Tōkyō University, Faculty of Humanities (人文社會系研究科), Japan (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Kojima Tsuyoshi 小島毅), cf. also www.schottenhammer.net
10/2006–09/2007: Professor replacementship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) of Chinese History at the Department for Chinese Studies, Head of Department, Philipps-University Marburg , Germany
10/2004: Short time visiting scholar, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
05/2002-07/2009: Professor of Chinese History at the Department of Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), project supervisor and leader of an international group of students and scholars within a research project entitled “The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’, c. 1500–1850: A New Quality in the Development of its Neighbouring Countries” sponsored by the VW–Foundation (special program for the new generation of academics, Nachwuchsgruppenprojekt); further details may be obtained from the EAMH website (http://www.eamh.net); the status was equivalent to that of an ordinary professor but with less teaching load; the project comprised management, organization and administration responsibilities, supervision of M.A. and PhD students as well as post-doc scholars, own research and teaching; close cooperation with foreign universities have been established; I have been invited as guest professor by the History Department, Peking University (Beijing daxue), and Fuzhou Shifan University
07/2001–05/2002: Heisenberg-scholarship of the DFG (research topic: Tomb inscription in ancient China: “On the origins of tomb inscriptions”, “The tomb inscription of Wang Chuzhi, 863–923)”
07/2000-07/2009: Unscheduled-Professor of Chinese History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Hamburg University (until summer term 2006) , Germany; lecturer for English and German as a foreign language
07/1998–06/2000: Research fellow at Martin–Luther–University, Halle–Wittenberg , Germany; research topic: “East Asia around 1000”
04/1996–06/1998: Individual Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands; topic: The Overseas Trade of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty. The IIAS Fellowship comprised the writing of scientific articles and monographs, the participation and organization of international conferences and seminars, the giving of lectures, and the completion of the post–doctoral dissertation
09/1994–04/1996: Research fellow and lecturer in Modern and Premodern Chinese Political and Economic History, Modern and Premodern Chinese Language, Sinological Institute, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany (qualification position for the Professor title: 8 hours weekly teaching; primary and secondary course students), administration of the professional magazine library of the institute, administrative duties of the institute
04/1994–09/1994: Lecturer for Chinese History, Modern and Premodern Chinese Language, Sinological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
05/1990–11/1993: Lecturer and PhD candidate, Sinological Institute, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (DFG scholarship)
1988–1995: Interpreting (Chinese, Japanese, English and French) and organizational assistance for the Siebold–Society and Museum, Würzburg, the city–administration of Würzburg, and the hospital: Staatsbad (spa) Oeynhausen; interpreter for German, Chinese and Japanese companies: (Henkel, Akebono, Starlight Co.)
11/1988–03/1994: Further Education of students, adult education (advanced training) at several education institutes (Centre of Advanced Training of the Bavarian Employers Association (bfz), protege (bfz branch in Greiz, Thüringen), Centre of Advanced Training for Apprentices (afz) in the fields of social sciences, economics, politics, mathematics, German language, and biology/medicine
Research Grants
since 05/2010: Co-applicant and research supervisor for East Asia within the international research project “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction” (Indian Ocean World Centre, History Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; (“Major Collaborative Research Initiative” [MCRI], largest team research award for the humanities existing in Canada, in total 2 Mio CAD)
05/2002-07/2009: Project supervisor of a project for young scholars (Nachwuchsgruppenleiterprojekt) sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation; title of the research project “The East Asian „Mediterranean“, c. 1500–1850: A New Quality in the Development of its Neighbouring Countries” (cf. www.eamh.net); 1,250,000 €
07/2001–2002: Heisenberg-scholarship of the German Research Council (DFG); topic: “Tomb inscriptions in ancient China”; this scholarship was discontinued in favour of the Volkswagen Foundation project mentioned above
07/1998–06/2000: Research grant of the Volkswagen Foundation for the publication of an interdisciplinary monograph describing East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) in the 10th to 11th centuries
07/1998–03/1999: Research grant of the German Research Council (DFG) for the completion of the Habilitation thesis (Habilitationsstipendium)
04/1996–04/1998: Research grant of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) as an individual research fellow, Leiden, the Netherlands
04/1990–12/1993: DFG research grant for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation (Doktorandenstipendium)
1987–1988: Northern Bavarian Government scholarship to undertake Academic Studies at Peking University, China
Other Professional Experience Including Activities for Public Organizations
since 05/2011: Associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marine and Island Cultures (JIMC) (editors-in-chief are Seok-Joon Hong, Mokpo National University, Korea, and Gloria Pungetti, Cambridge University, UK; further associate editors-in-chief are Takakazu Yumoto, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan; Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, Indonesia)
since 08/2010: Editor of the peer-reviewed English-language online journal Crossroads – Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World. 縱横 – 東亞世界交流史研究 with abstracts in Chinese, Japanese and Korean
since 05/2010: Co-editor of “Ming Qing yanjiu 明清研究“ (Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italia)
04/2008-12/2009: Jury-member for the book award “Cundill-Prize of History”, McGill University, Montreal
since 01/2006:
– Co-editor of the international journal Frontiers of History in China: Selected Publications from Chinese Universities; editor-in-chief is Prof. Dr. Li Xueqin 李學勤 (for detials cf. also “projects”)
– peer reviewer for the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies and the Journal of World History
01/2005-12/2007: Cooperation with the National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea
since 2004: Editor of the publication series East Asian Economic and Socio-cultural Studies (Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢), sub-series East Asian Maritime History, Harrassowitz Publishing House, Wiesbaden, Germany (multilingual, contributions in other languages than English and German are also accepted)
– Reviewer for the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
– Founding of a research and discussion forum “Economy, Trade, and Technologies in Asia” (ETTA; proceedings are being published in Germany and China)
09/2003: Scientific advisory service (historical shipbuilding, maritime trade) for a special edition of the GEO magazine (Zheng-He-Expeditions, China’s maritime expansion)
seit 2002: Organization and elaboration of cooperations between German and European and East Asian academic institutions
Guest professor at Peking University (Beijing daxue) and Fuzhou Shifan-University
between 2000 and 2006: Establishment of a close network of cooperation with Chinese, Japanese and Korean institutions and universities, for example Peking University and the Peking University Centre of Research on Ancient History (Zhongguo gudai shi yanjiu zhongxin 中國古代史研中心), History Department of Fuzhou Shifan daxue; Kyūshyū University, Kagoshima University, Japan; National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea and others
since 1996: Planning, organization, and managing of international projects and conferences in the fields of Chinese history; lectures and organization of international seminars, besides in Germany, above all, in the Netherlands, the USA, France, and China; e.g. 10/2004 a symposium in Fuzhou, China (Fuzhou Shifan daxue); 01/2001 planning and organization on an international symposium on “Globalization, WTO, and Information Technology” at Hainan, China, in cooperation with the People’s Daily, the Foundation of Globalization Cooperation, and the Ministry of Information Technology; 09/1997: international symposium on “Quanzhou and its Overseas Trade during the Song and Yuan Dynasties”, Leiden, NL
Foreign Languages
– German (mother tongue)
– Chinese, English, Spanish (fluent)
– French, Dutch (very good)
– Japanese (good)
– Italian, Latin, Portuguese (fundamental knowledge, reading capacity)
– Finnish, Turkish (basic knowledge)
– Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Manchu, Russian and some other languages (rudimentary, expandable knowledge)
Further Particular Knowledge
– Economy and political economy of pre–modern and modern China
– Good knowledge in the field of political economy
– Good knowledge of China’s historical “international” trade and cultural relations
– Basic knowledge in Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine
– Classical music
– Diving, underwater archaeology (Open Water and Advanced Open Water Certificate; ACUC, PADI)
Memberships in China and Asia related associations
– Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA) [German Society for Asian Studies]
– Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
– European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
– Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS) [German Association for Chinese Studies]
– Siebold–Gesellschaft Würzburg [Siebold Society Würzburg]
– Hamburger Sinologische Gesellschaft [Hamburg Sinological Society]
– Chinaforum Bayern [China forum Bavaria]
– International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM)
List of raised funds from external organization
– March 2010 (as co-applicant together with Prof. Dr. Gwyn Campbell and colleagues): CAD 2,000,000
– November 2005: VW Foundation EUR 150,000 (research project)
– May 2004: German Research Council (DFG) EUR 15,000 (for a conference)
– August 2004: Japan Foundation USD 2,500 (for a conference)
– May 2002: VW Foundation EUR 1,100,000 (research project)
– June 2001: German Research Council (DFG) EUR 180,000
numerous small amounts for lectures and conferences, especially from the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, German government organizations, the Dutch Royal Academy of Science and the Leiden University Fund