Klaus Mühlhahn

Klaus Mühlhahn (born August 19, 1963 in Konstanz ) is a German sinologist , social and cultural scientist and, with effect from June 1, 2020, president and spokesman for the management of the private-sector Zeppelin University (ZU) in Friedrichshafen.

Life

Mühlhahn passed his Abitur at the Theresiengymnasium in Munich in 1984 . In 1993 he completed his master's degree in Sinology at the Free University of Berlin . From 1993 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the East Asian Seminar, Sinology Department, FU Berlin. In 1998 he received his doctorate in Sinology at the Free University of Berlin. The dissertation was entitled "Rule and Resistance in the ' Model Colony ' Kiautschou ". The work was awarded the Joachim Tiburtius Prize in 1999. From 1998 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the East Asian Seminar, Sinology Department at FU Berlin, and from 2002 to 2004 visiting fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley .

In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Contemporary Chinese and Asian History at the Institute of History at Turku University . From 2007 to 2010 he was Professor of History and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages ​​and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 2009 he received the John King Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association for the book “Criminal Justice in China. A History ". Since 2010 he has been Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Free University of Berlin and since 2014 Vice President of the Free University of Berlin .

On March 3, 2020 he was elected President and Managing Director by the Senate of Zeppelin University (ZU) in Friedrichshafen and appointed to office by the ZU Foundation, the supporting foundation of ZU. He will take up his five-year term on June 1, 2020. Mühlhahn follows Insa Sjurts .

Fonts

• Making China Modern. From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping . Cambridge, Mass .: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
• People's Republic of China. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2017 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of the story , 44).
• (Ed.): The Cultural Legacy of German Colonial Rule. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
• Together with Wen-hsin Yeh, Hajo Frölich (ed.): Rethinking Business History in Modern China. Berkeley / Seoul 2015 (= Cross-Currents e-journal , 16).
• Together with Nina Berman and Patrice Nganang (eds.): German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
• Together with Nathalie van Looy (ed.): The Globalization of Confucius and Confucianism , Münster / London: Lit, 2012 (= Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society , 41).
• Together with Clemens von Haselberg (Ed.): Chinese Identities on Screen. Münster / London: Lit, 2012 (= Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society , 40).
• Criminal Justice in China - A History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
• (Ed.): The Limits of Empire, New Perspectives on Imperialism in Modern China. Münster / London: Lit, 2008.
• (Ed. With Mechthild Leutner ): Travels in Chinese history and present. Experiences, reports, certificates. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2008.
• (Ed. With Mechthild Leutner): Colonial War in China. The suppression of the boxer movement 1900–1901. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2007.

Web links

• Website at the Free University of Berlin .
• Book website: Making China Modern. From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping .
• Interview with Klaus Mühlhahn on April 11, 2019 at the Asia Society's China File .
• An excerpt from Making China Modern , on gaige kaifang (“reform and openness”), published at the LARB blog China Channel . 02.2019.
• On the NPR podcast Throughline, Klaus Mühlhahn and others explain how Sun Yat-sen's nationalist movement completely reshaped both Taiwan and mainland China.
• Mühlhahn examines China's evolving international position at USC.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn will take up office as the new President of Zeppelin University on June 1st. Retrieved May 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Joachim Tiburtius Prize (Recognition Prize) .
3. ↑ John King Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association for the book Criminal Justice in China. A history .
4. ↑ Professor Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn will take up office as the new President of Zeppelin University on June 1st. Retrieved May 22, 2020 . 
5. ^ Kerstin Mommsen: Zeppelin University: Berlin Professor Klaus Mühlhahn becomes the new President and Managing Director . In: Südkurier of March 3, 2020.