Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anne Schmiedl

Associate Professorship "Literature and Culture of Modern China"


Room 1
Phone: 0251-83 29901
E-Mail: anne.schmiedl@uni-muenster.de

  • Research Areas

    • Literature and Culture of Late Imperial China
    • Chinese Mythical Literature
    • Female Figures in Chinese Literature
    • Cultural Transfer Processes between China and Japan
    • Mantic Practices in China
    • Classification and Systematization in China
    • Animal Studies
  • CV

    Education

    Research stay at Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan (funded by Emerging Talents Initiative ETI, FAU)
    Research stay at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (funded by DAAD, PAJAKO Program)
    Rsearch stay at Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan (funded by DAAD, PAJAKO Program)
    PhD (summa cum laude), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Thesis title: “Realising a Character’s True Meaning: Divination and Script-Contemplation in the Zichu 字觸 by Zhou Lianggong 周亮工 (1612–1672)“
    Research stay in Taipei, Taiwan (funded by Villigst e.V.)
    Research stay at Zhouyi Center, Shandong University, in Jinan, China (funded by Villigst e.V.)
    M.A. in English Cultural Studies, Sinology and Japanese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Japanese language and culture studies at Yamaguchi University in Yamaguchi, Japan

    Positions

    Research fellow, Institute of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Visiting Fellow / Postdoctoral Fellow, International Consortium for Reearch in the Humanities (IKGF), Erlangen
    Research fellow, Institute of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Research assistant, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), Erlangen
  • Publications

    Books (Monographs)

    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination: The Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672). Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004422377.

    Articles

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). Enigmatic Concepts: On the History of Riddles in China and the West. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 18(2), 28–48. doi: 10.3167/choc.2023.180203.
    • Schmiedl Anne Kathrin, Brusadelli Federico, Grimberg Phillip. (). Of Words, Change, and Transplantations: Reshaping Chinese Concepts between Empire and Modernity. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 18(2), 18–27. doi: 10.3167/choc.2023.180202.
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). ‚A Living Tradition‘: Tracing Chinese Character Divination from Imperial China to Contemporary Taiwan. Monumenta Serica, 71(2), 303–335. doi: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263273.
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). Written in Stone? On Creative Strategies in Chinese Character Divination. International Journal of Divination and Prognostication, 1(1), 75–99. doi: 10.1163/25899201-12340004.
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). From Religious to Secular to Postsecular? On the Continuity of Divination in Chinese-speaking Countries. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 40/2017, 187–212.
    Review (Journals)
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). Review: Michael Loewe, Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest. Frontiers of History in China, 12(3), 508–510. doi: 10.3868/s020-006-017-0022-2.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin. (). Do Not Teach the Present Generation by Using the Methods of the Ancients: Applying Digital Methods to Enhance Literary Chinese Classes. In Li, Wen; Kauz, Ralph (Eds.), Teaching Classical Chinese: Zum Unterricht des Klassischen Chinesischen 文言文教學 (pp. 231–250). Schweinfurt: Ostasien-Verlag.
  • Scientific Talks