Marc Andre Matten

Marc Andre Matten (born January 26, 1978 in Marl ) is a German sinologist .

Life

Marc A. Matten studied Sinology, Japanology and Economics at the Universities of Bonn , Jilin and Waseda . In 2007 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with his dissertation The Limits of Chinese (Harrassowitz) , which was awarded the Martin Behaim Prize of the Society for Overseas History in 2009. Marc A. Matten has been Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2009 . His research interests are the history of political ideas in modern China, the history of concepts in East Asia, nationalism and national identity, and transnational knowledge transfer during the Cold War .

Fonts

• The Limits of the Chinese - National Identity Foundation in China of the 20th Century (2009). Harrassowitz-Verlag; awarded the Martin Behaim Prize of the Society for Overseas History eV (see http://www.neueste.uni-bayreuth.de/FVEUG/Seiten/preis/preis.html ).
• Places of Memory in Modern China - History, Politics, Identity , ed. by Marc A. Matten (2012). Leiden: Brill (see also http://www.brill.com/places-memory-modern-china ).
• Imagining a Postnational World - Hegemony and Space in Modern China (2016). Leiden: Brill (see also http://www.brill.com/products/book/imagining-postnational-world ).
• Translation into Chinese by Aleida Assmann : History in Memory (2007), together with Yuan Siqiao (《记忆 中 的 历史》, published by Nanjing University Press, 2016)

Web links

• Marc Andre Matten on the website of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• Collection on the human, technological and social history of the People's Republic of China .
• Publications in WorldCat .
• Mats in the research system of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg cris.fau.de