Matthias Schumann
External Collaborator / Former Research Fellow at the Professorship for Chinese History and Culture
Historical Background Study
External Collaborator / Co-Editor of Edited Volume
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RESEARCH | VITA | TEACHING | TALKS |
last updated July 2017
Project related research
Research about discourses and practices of philanthropy, welfare, charity and other issues involving the protection of weak interests in East Asia from 1850 to 1950.
Other research interests
I am currently finishing my doctoral thesis which deals with spirit-writing organizations in Republican China and their attempt at addressing the epistemological changes of that period. A particular focus of my work lies on the introduction and indigenization of novel concepts like religion, superstition, science, and philanthropy. Apart from my thesis I am interested in the history of spiritualism, psychical research, and religion in modern China more generally.
Employment history
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Oct 2014 - Jul 2017 |
Research Fellow at the Professorship for Chinese History and Culture (Institute for Sinology), Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main |
| Winter Term 2013/2014 |
Lecturer at the Institute of Sinology, Heidelberg University |
| Mar 2011 - Jul 2012 |
Teaching Assistant at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University |
| 2009 - 2011 |
Tutor at the Institute of Sinology, Heidelberg University |
| Oct – Dec 2009 | Research Assistant for the Project “Quotation Finder” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University |
Academic background
| Oct 2011 - | Doctoral Student in the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University |
| 2009 - 2011 |
M.A. in Chinese Studies and History at Heidelberg University |
| Summer 2010 | One Semester-Stay at the Beijing Foreign Studies University for the Study of Chinese |
| 2007 - 2009 | B.A. in East Asian Studies (Sinology) and History of South Asia at Heidelberg University |
Scholarships
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Oct 2011 – Sept 2014 |
Scholarship of the German Research Foundation for the Completion of a Doctoral Thesis at the Cluster Asia and Europe in A Global Context |
| March – July 2010 |
Scholarship of the Heidelberg Institute of Chinese Studies for Chinese Language Studies at the Beijing Foreign Studies University |
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Winter Term 2013/14 |
Reading Class: „Zwischen Staatsreligion, Heterodoxie und Aberglauben: Religion im China der späten Kaiserzeit und der Republikzeit“, Institute of Sinology, Heidelberg University |
TALKS
Talks at academic Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
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Nov 29, 2016 |
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication” at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg: “Serving a Higher Purpose: Divination and the Reform of Spirit-Writing in Republican China” |
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Oct 7 - 8, 2016 |
International conference on “Protecting the Weak – Concepts and East Asian Evidence”, Lingnan University, Hong Kong: “’For the Sake of Morality and Civilization’: Buddhist Activism and the Emerging Animal Protection Movement in Republican China” |
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Aug 25, 2016 |
Bi-annual conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, St. Petersburg: “From ‘the Survival of the Fittest’ to ‘the Protection of Life’: Religious Activism and Animal Protection in Republican China” |
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Nov 16, 2015 |
Confucius Institute Leipzig: “Ein chinesisches Rotes Kreuz? Die Rote-Swastika-Gesellschaft im China der Republikzeit” |
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Sep 12 – 13, 2015 |
International conference on “Folk Documents and Chinese Society” (民间文献与华人社会), Renmin-University, Beijing: “Redemptive Societies (jiushi tuanti 救世團體) as Popularizers of Knowledge: The Wushanshe 悟善社, the Daoyuan 道院 and the Appropriation of Religion in Republican China” |
| Nov 8, 2014 | International Conference on “Text and Context: Redemptive Societies and New Religious Movements in Modern and Contemporary China and Southeast Asia”, Hong Kong University: “Coming to Terms with Spiritualism in Republican China: The Spiritualist Society from Shanghai (Lingxuehui靈學會)” |
| Jan 12, 2014 |
The 6th Next-Generation Global Workshop: |
| Nov 16, 2013 |
Workshop “Text and Context: Redemptive Societies in the History of Religions of Modern and Contemporary China”, Leipzig University; |
