Helmut Peters (Sinologist)

Helmut Peters (born July 23, 1930 in Schwanebeck ) is a German sinologist and Marxist .

Life

Peters finished middle school in Halberstadt in 1944 . Shortly afterwards he was called up for the Volkssturm and had to interrupt his school career first. In 1946 he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter and completed the journeyman's examination in 1949. In 1952, he obtained his university entrance qualification at the “Walter Ulbricht” workers and farmers faculty in Halle-Wittenberg. Until 1957 he studied Sinology with Japanese Studies as a minor at the East Asian Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

After the state examination in the late 1950s, Peters stayed in China for a year and began research for his dissertation under Eduard Erkes , which he completed in 1962. His work The Taiping Rule in the Changshu and Zhaowen Counties. With special consideration of their soil u. For the first time in German, tax policy analyzed the administrative, political and economic changes triggered by the Taiping rebellion in South Jiangsu , in today's Changshu district , and subjected them to a fundamental, source-critical analysis.

He later completed his habilitation and became a professor. He worked as the head of the Institute for International Labor Movement (IAB), which was attached to the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED . Research fields of that institute were ideology, domestic politics, industry and agriculture of China.

Since the 1950s he had several study visits to the People's Republic of China and temporarily worked as a diplomat for the GDR.

Helmut Peters has lived in Berlin as a pensioner since then.

Works

Taiping Revolution and Manchurian Foreign Rule. (in: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University, social and linguistic series 1961, no.3). Leipzig 1961
The Taiping rule in the two counties of Changshu and Zhaowen with special consideration of their land and tax policy . (Dissertation Karl Marx University Leipzig), Leipzig 1962
Maoism and Imperialism (in: IPW-Forschungshefte Jg. 10, 1975, H. 2). Berlin: State Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1975
China between yesterday and tomorrow. Where is China going? (in: isw-report, No. 61). Institute for Social-Ecological Economic Research , Munich, May 2005 ISSN 1614-9289
Chinese wisdom . Institut für Außenwirtschaft GmbH, Düsseldorf 2008 ISBN 978-3-939717-08-9
The PR China - From the Middle Ages to Socialism. Looking for the ford . Neue Impulse Verlag, Essen 2009 ISBN 978-3-910080-71-3

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Kampen: The development of East Asian research in the GDR. Diploma theses and dissertations on China, Japan and Korea 1949-90 . In: Faculty for East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum (Hrsg.): Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung . tape 20 . Bochum 1996, p. 12 .

personal data
SURNAME	Peters, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Thomas Kampen: The development of East Asian research in the GDR. Diploma theses and dissertations on China, Japan and Korea 1949-90 . In: Faculty for East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum (Hrsg.): Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung . tape 20 . Bochum 1996, p. 12 .