Talk Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen): Situating China Within Global Intellectual History

Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2015
18-20 Uhr, Neubau ("Holzlaube") Raum 2.2058

Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Professor für Geschichte des modernen China aus globalhistorischer Perspektive
Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special
Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”. Before coming to Göttingen in 2015, he
held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He received his education at Freiburg University, St.
Andrews University, Nanjing University and Harvard University.
Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests include China’s transnational and global
connections in the past and present. Furthermore he has published in fields such as
Sino-Western cultural relations, overseas Chinese communities and multiple
modernities. His most recent single-authored monograph is “Global Perspectives on
Global History. Theories and Approaches in a Connected World” (Cambridge UP,
2011).