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1. Name of the department, full address, telephone number

Universität Tübingen
Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik
- Abteilung Sinologie -
Wilhelmstraße 133
D-72074 Tübingen

Tel.: (49) 7071 - 29 - 72711
Fax: (49) 7071 - 29 - 5733

2. General information about the department and its study programme

The Chinese Department (Sinological Institute) is a section of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. It comprises two professorships, one covering the field of Chinese history and society, the other the field of Chinese language and literature.

There are four different courses:

1. Combined Classical and Modern Chinese Studies (major course)
2. Modern Chinese Studies (minor course)
3. Economics and Modern Chinese (special course)
4. Classical Chinese Studies (minor course)

For courses 1-3, the first part is identical. It commences with an intensive propaedeutical course in modern Chinese (5 months) and continues over another four semesters to the compulsory intermediate examination. Most students enrolled in courses I-III spend one or two years of language studies at a Chinese university before they enter the second part of their respective course at Tübingen University.

Academic degrees to be obtained are:

• M.A. (Magister Artium) (courses I, II, IV)
• Diploma (course III)

The M.A.- or Diploma-degree, respectively, is the precondition for postgraduate studies to obtain a Ph.D. degree.

At Tübingen University, Chinese Studies can be combined with:

• the related Far Eastern disciplines (Japanese Studies, Prof. Eschbach-Szabo; Korean Studies, Prof. Eikemeier)
• courses offered within the Faculty of Cultural Studies, e.g. Archaeology, Oriental Studies, History of Arts, Anthropology etc.
• courses offered in other faculties, e.g. General/European History, Political Science, Linguistics, Law, Economics etc.

Students enrolled:

• winter-semester 1992/93: major 161, minor 36
• winter-semester 1993/94: major 159, minor 31
• winter-semester 1995/96: major 162, minor 32, economics 36

Partner universities and institutions in China:

• Nanjing (PRC)
• Beijing (PRC)
• Harbin (PRC)
• Chung Hsing University (Taichung, Taiwan)
• Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chineses Academy of Science (Beijing, PRC)

3. Library holdings

At present (1996) the holdings of the Tübingen Chinese Department libary comprise:

• appr. 13.000 volumes in Western languages
• appr. 28.000 volumes in Chinese
• appr. 2.000 in other Far Eastern languages
• 120 current Chinese newspapers and scholarly periodicals
• 60 current Western language periodicals
• 140 partially held periodicals (Western languages and Chinese)

So far, the Tübingen Chinese Department library is a general library. In addition to a comprehensive development, it is planned to build up a special collection comprising Chinese language publications originating from and/or dealing with Sichuan province. The university library has additional holdings of (older and contemporary) Western language literature on China.

4. List of staff and their fields

• Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel : economic and social history, history of science and technology
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Kogelschatz : philosophy, historiography, premodern vernacular literature, history of mathematics
• Dr. Hans Peter Hoffmann , Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter: modern poetry, translation theories, theories of literature, comparative studies, philosophical taoism
• Dr. Stephan Peter Bumbacher , Wissenschaftlicher Assistent: Chinese religions, Daoism, Chinese philosophy, textual critisism, electronic processing of Chinese texts
• Peter M. Kuhfus , M.A., Akademischer Rat: modern and contemporary history, foreign policy, sino-soviet/russian relations, philosophical thought and political theory, historiography
• Jürgen Ritter , M.A., Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter: cultural criticism, political culture, literary criticism, historiography in Taiwan
• N.N.
• Wu Shuxiong M.A., lecturer: second language acquisition, language learning, error analysis, crosslinguistic study
• Brigitte Höhenrieder , M.A., lecturer: language philosophy, linguistic theory, characteristics of the Chinese language
• Yang Xusheng , M.A., lecturer: intellectual history (esp. pre-Qin and 20th century), taoism, aesthetics, philosophy
• Zhang Zao , lecturer: modern chinese poetry, linguistics

(Details in German

5. Division of the academic year

The academic year starts on October 1. It is divided into two semesters: winter- and summer-semester. In the winter-semester, courses commence on October 15 and last until February 15; in the summer-semester, cources commence on April 15 and last until July 15.

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