This study centers on the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals—the Zuo Zhuan, the Gongyang Zhuan, and the Guliang Zhuan. It aims to systematically analyze their conceptual framework regarding war and to ...read more
My research focuses on women’s rights organizations in early twentieth-century China, especially the suffrage movements of the 1910s and 1920s. Using newspapers, women’s journals, and organizational documents, I study how ...read more
My research topic is a comparative study of Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan's theories of Mind. The study aims to examine the similarities and differences between their philosophies from the perspectives of theories of mind, ritual ...read more
Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
In Dutch studies, there is renewed debate about the relevance and applicability of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological thinking for understanding contemporary developments in Dutch literature. This research project takes up Bourdieu’s ...read more
This research project focuses on the translation of Japanese engi 縁起 texts, produced at local Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines before the 20th century. These texts typically relate the histories ...read more
Research conducted as part of the corresponding doctor-assistant position at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (VTC).read more
This projects aims to establish a comparison between the public dance practices of the Restoration Monarchies of Prussia, Austria, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, France and Great Britain between ...read more
This project area is dedicated to the memory of decolonisation in French and francophone Algerian novels on the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), their translations into German and their circulation ...read more