Professor no Ostasiatisches Seminar der Freien Universität Berlin

Interesses de investigação

• Educação na China Imperial
• História Intelectual da China Imperial
• Relações Sino-Portuguesas, 1600-1800

Projectos

• Handbook of Chinese Studies, a publicar pela Harrassowiz (em preparação)
• A Passage to Success: Confucian Exegesis, Literary Aesthetics and the Evcolution of the Eight-legged Examination Essay (em progresso)
• Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe: An English translation of the Chinese original (com H. Leitão; em progresso)

Publicações

• "'The Corruption That Wasn't There: Fraud Prevention and Its Limits in Qing Civil Service Examinations", Raimund Kolb/Martina Siebert eds., Über Himmel und Erde: Festschrift für Erling von Mende, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2006, p. 155-171
• "'Who wants to be a bureaucrat?' The performative dimension of Qing civil service examinations", Asiatische Studien, vol. 58, no. 3, 2004, p. 581-595
• "Die Zivil/Militär-Dichotomie in der Qing-Dynastie", Herbert Butz ed., Bilder für die Halle des Purpurglanzes. Chinesische Offiziersporträts und Schlachtenkupfer der Ära Qianlong, Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, 2003, p. 8-16
• "Kanon und Konjektur: Das Lianshan und das Guizang als Topoi der konfuzianischen Exegetik", Oriens Extremus, vol. 39, no. 1, 1996, p. 8-28