Overview
- Joachim Gentz
- Prof. Dr., Reader in Chinese
- Chinese StudiesThe University of Edinburgh
- David Hume Tower
- Room 8.17
- George Square
- Edinburgh
- EH8 9JX
- Work: +44 (0)131 650 3681
- Fax: +44 (0)131 651 1258
Research Leave
From Sept 2012 to August 2013 Joachim Gentz is on research leave at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) in Erlangen.
Biography
- 1986 UG study of Sinology, Religious Studies and Philosophy at the FU Berlin
- 1988-1990 DAAD scholarship at Nanjing University
- 1995 MA thesis at Heidelberg University
- 1995-1998 member of the Graduate College "Religion and Normativity", PhD on "The Chunqiu exegesis of the Gongyang zhuan from its beginnings to Dong Zhongshu"
- 1996 Research in Beijing
- 1997 Monbusho scholarship at the Institute of Oriental Culture at Tokyo University
- 1998 Guest Lecturer at the Institute for the History of China at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 1999 "Ruprecht-Karls-Award" of Heidelberg University for PhD
- 1999-2002 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg
- 2000 Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo
- 2002-2006 Junior Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Goettingen University
- 2006-2008 Research Fellow on the interKULTUR (Asia Link) project at the Cultural Studies Programme at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Lecturer at the Cultural Studies, Religious Studies and Chinese Studies Departments at Edinburgh University
- 2008 William-James Visiting Professor at the University of Bayreuth
- Since 2009 Reader for Chinese in the Chinese Studies Department of Edinburgh University
Memberships
- European Association of Asian Studies (EACS) (since 1994)
- Japanese Association for the Research on Excavated Chinese Texts ( Chûgoku shutsudo shiryô kenkyû 中國出土 資 料研究 ) Tokyo (since 1997)
- Association of Asian Studies (AAS) (since 1999)
- Editorial Board Zhongguo xueshu 中 國學術 ( China Scholarship ) (2001)
- Arbeitskreis fuer Asiatische Religionsgeschichte (AKAR) ( since 2002)
- Deutsche Vereinigung fuer Religionsgeschichte (DVRG) (since 2003)
Research Activity
Joachim's main research interests lie in the fields of Chinese philosophy and religions, text and commentary, ritual and divination, and theories of cultural and religious studies. Further interests include conceptions of space and body, Chinese histories of thought, and Chinese literary composition (artistic prose).
Publications
Teaching
This article was published on Sep 3, 2012