Thomas Fröhlich (Sinologist)

Thomas Fröhlich (born September 28, 1966 in Zurich ) is a Swiss sinologist .

Life

Thomas Fröhlich studied Sinology (major), Political Science (1st minor) and International Law (2nd minor) at the University of Zurich and Fu-Jen University from 1988 to 1994 and graduated with a Licentiatus Philosophiae. After completing his doctorate in Sinology at the University of Hamburg in 1999 , he was a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of St. Gallen from 2000 to 2004 (each winter semester). From 1998 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the East Asian Department of the University of Zurich, Sinology Department. After completing his habilitation in 2003 in Sinology in Hamburg , he taught as Professor of Sinology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2004 to 2017 . He has been Professor of Sinology at the University of Hamburg since 2017.

His research interests are the history of ideas and philosophy of modern and modern China and Taiwan, modern Confucianism, political thinking in the republic, concepts of progress in the first half of the 20th century, the exile experiences of Chinese intellectuals and anti-colonialism in Taiwan.

Fonts (selection)

• State Thinking in Republican China (1912–1949). The instrumentalization of philosophical ideas among Chinese intellectuals . Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36635-5 .
• as editor with Yishan Liu: Taiwan's Immortal Anti-Colonialism. Jiang Weishui and the resistance to Japanese colonial rule. With a translation of Jiang Weishui's writings from Chinese and Japanese . Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 3-8376-1018-7 .
• In anticipation of the citizens. Anticipatory Citizen Concepts in Modern China . Halle an der Saale 2016, ISBN 3-86829-860-6 .
• Tang Junyi. Confucian philosophy and the challenge of modernity . Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-33014-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich