Teaches courses in premodern Chinese history, thought and civilization.

Research interests focus on early China (up to the Han and Sanguo periods), its institutions, social structure, and material as well as everyday culture. Pet projects include early Chinese manuscripts, ancient literacy and the public, as well as games and the loo in early China.

Recent publications:

2006 Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China. A Study of
       Cai Yong’s Duduan
       Opera sinologica 20, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006:X, 367 pp.

2006 Das Wandmalereigrab im Dorf Baizi, Kreis Xúnyì, Shanxi
       [The tomb with murals in Baizi village, Xúnyì district, Shanxi]
       Han-Zeit. Festschrift für Hans Stumpfeldt aus Anlaß seines 65. Geburtstages,
       Michael Friedrich, ed., with Reinhard Emmerich and Hans van Ess, Wiesbaden:
       Harrassowitz, 2006:483-516

2006 Staatliche Altersfürsorge im frühen China aus historiografischer Sicht
       [Public care for the elderly in early China as viewed from a historiographical
       perspective]
       Über Himmel und Erde. Festschrift für Erling von Mende, Raimund Th. Kolb and
       Martina Siebert, eds., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006:189-208

2005 Signatures of “Scribes” in Early Imperial China Asiatische Studien/Études
       Asiatiques 59:1.2005:353-87

2004
       (Tomiya Itaru, tr.)
       [A Study of the Postal System in the Qin and Han periods]
       

2003 Using Early Chinese Manuscripts as Historical Source Materials
       Monumenta Serica 51.2003:409-38

2002
       [The Lieutenants of Zhangye During the Han Period]
       

 

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