Urs Matthias Zachmann

Urs Matthias Zachmann (* 1971 ) is a German Japanologist .

Life

He studied at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg in parallel studies Law (first state examination in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1998) as well as Japanese and Chinese Studies (MA Heidelberg 2000). After training as a trainee lawyer (2nd state examination with distinction, Hessen 2002), he received his doctorate in 2006 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the Sino-Japanese relations of the late Meiji period. From 2006 to 2010 he worked as a research assistant at the Japan Center at LMU Munich . After completing his habilitation in Munich in 2010 in the subject of Japanese Studies with an intellectual and legal historical investigation of the international law discourse in Japan in the inter-war and early post-war period (1919–1960). After a substitute professor at the University of Heidelberg in the field of Japanese history (2010–2011), he was appointed to the newly established Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh in October 2011 . Since October 2016 he has been teaching as professor for the culture and history of modern Japan in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

His focus areas are the culture and history of modern Japan, the intellectual history of East Asia, international relations between East Asia, relations between Japan and China, law in East Asia and human rights in East Asia.

Fonts (selection)

• China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period. China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904 . London 2009, ISBN 0-415-48191-0 .
• International Law Thought and Foreign Policy in Japan, 1919–1960 . Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 3-8329-6981-0 .
• as editor with Christian Uhl: Japan and the problem of modernity. In honor of Wolfgang Seifert . Munich 2015, ISBN 3-86205-409-8 .
• as editor: Asia After Versailles. Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-1933 . Edinburgh 2017, ISBN 978-1-4744-1716-7 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann