Kai Vogelsang

Kai Vogelsang (born May 10, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German sinologist . His research is mainly on the history and historiography of China and on manjuristics .

Life

From 1989 to 1994 Kai Vogelsang studied Sinology and Economics in Hamburg and Taipei . In 1997 he was in Sinology at the University of Hamburg PhD . After teaching assignments at the University of Bremen and several research stays in China, from 1999 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sinology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2004 he was with a thesis on history as a problem: origins, forms and functions of historiography in Ancient China habilitation . From 2006 to 2008 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Humanities at the University of Kyoto as a Heisenberg fellow . In 2008 he was appointed Professor of Sinology at the University of Hamburg. His presentation of the history of China from the beginnings to the modern age, published in 2012, was received very positively by scientific criticism.

Fonts

• Shangjun shu: Writings of the Prince of Shang . Kröner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-520-16801-6 .
• History of china . Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-010857-4 (3rd, reviewed and updated edition, ibid, 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-010933-5 ).
• History as a problem: origin, forms and functions of historiography in ancient China (=  Lun-wen: Studies on intellectual history and literature in China . Volume 9 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05446-1 (habilitation thesis).
• Feng Kuei-fen and his Chiao-pin-lu-k'ang-i . Hamburger Sinologische Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-935664-02-8 .
• as editor: Oriens Extremus . Magazine for the language, art and culture of the countries of the Far East. Harrassowitz, ISSN  0030-5197 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kai Vogelsang in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV at the University of Hamburg