Achim noon

Achim Mittag (* 1958 ) is a German sinologist .

career

Mittag studied Sinology with Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in Taipei . He spent another study visit to Shanghai .

From 1986 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the Institute for East Asian Studies in Munich and, since 1994, he has worked in the research group for historical meaning formation at the ZiF in Bielefeld.

After various teaching positions at the University of Leiden , Philipps University of Marburg , in Heidelberg and Münster, a. a. In 2009 he was appointed full professor of Sinology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

research

He has carried out research projects at the German Research Foundation on "Mint Metal Procurement for Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Inquiry into the Organizational Capacity of the Qing State", "Qing Monetary Policies and the Lower Yangzi Economy, 1644 to 1850: The Interdependence between National Approaches and Regional Developments "and" Crossroads Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World ".

Works

• With Fritz-Heiner Mutschler: Conceiving the empire. China and Rome compared. Oxford; New York, 2009.
• The "Shi-jing" study in the Song period (960-1279) : Preliminary stages for a re-examination of the scholarship of the Song classics
• The diversity of cultures 1998.
• Historical Thought in Europe and China : Self-Interpretation and Interpretation of the Foreign in Historical Contexts. With Thomas Göller. 2008 (West-Eastern Paths of Thought; 13)
• Neo-traditional China . (589 to 1839). 2003.
• Cultural Complexity in High Cultures : Constructions of Meaning in Ancient Egypt and Ancient China. With Jan Assmann 2004
• Historical truth, historical criticism, and ideology ed. By Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, A. Mittag, Jörn Rüsen. - (Leiden series in comparative historiography; 1) 2005.
• Middle and Eastern Asia . In: Weltdeutungen und Weltreligionen (2010) pp. 257–268.
• On the west-east narrative window : Notes on a poem by Li Shangyin; 813? -858. In: Noctes Sinenses (2011) pp. 225-234
• Chinese history at the Asia-Orient Institute of the University of Tübingen . 2012.

items

• Reconsidering ren as a basic concept of Chinese humanism . 2010
• Early historiography and exegesis . 2007
• What makes a good historian . 2005
• History in Sung classical learning . 2004
• The Qin Bamboo Annals of Shuihudi . Monumenta Serica 51 (2003), pp. 543-570. 2004
• Historical records as grave goods . In: On the trail of the afterlife: Chinese grave culture in the facets of reality, history and the cult of the dead / Angela Schottenhammer (ed.). Frankfurt am Main [u. a.]: Lang, 2003. (European University Papers: Series 27, Asian and African Studies; 89). ISBN 3-631-39253-2
• Scribe in the wilderness . The Manchu conquest and the loyal hearted historiographers's (xinshi) mission. In: Oriens Extremus. - 0030-5197. 44 (2003/04), pp. 27-42
• Facets of historical criticism in China . With Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer 2002. In: Oriens Extremus. - 0030-5197. 43 (2002), pp. 1-2
• What does historical criticism mean and to what end in China? . 2002
• On the tenacity to increase the feeling of reverence for certain dead - remarks on 'historical mourning' in the Shi-ji of Si-ma Qian (approx. 145–90 BC) 2001
• The seven-star nevus of Zhu Xi (12th century) : incidental to pigment painting in ancient China. In: The skin in a medical and cultural-historical context (2001), pp. 249–264.
• I-ching studies in the Sung period . 1994
• Change in Shijing exegesis . 1993
• From "travel destination" to "gold melting pot" , 1990

As editor

• In Memoriam Achim Hildebrand : collected essays. Munich: Mayer, 1991. (China leaves; 18)
• List of current journals (of the East Asian Seminar of the University of Munich) with Bernhard Sanders. Munich, 1990.
• Entrusted words : Festschrift Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer for his 65th birthday. With Susanne Rode-Breimann. Hanover: Wehrhahn-Verl., 2013. ISBN 978-3-86525-328-6