Rüdiger Breuer

Research Fellow of the Department for Chinese Language and Literature at Ruhr University Bochum

Short Biography

Rüdiger Breuer (PhD in Saint Louis, USA, 2001) deals with the colloquial narrative literature between the Song and the Qing periods, as well as with performing literary genres, especially theatre. He is particularly interested in the relationship between oral and written language in Chinese literature.

Selected Publications

  • Breuer, Rüdiger. „Wu Weiye, ‚Narrative Poem on Two Masters from Chu‘ (Chu liang sheng xing). An Annotated Translation“. In: Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (CHIME) 21 (2019): 99–114.
  • Breuer, Rüdiger. „Storyteller and Adviser: Wu Weiye’s ‚Biography of Liu Jingting‘ (Liu Jingting zhuan, 1647)“ [Introduction and Translation]. In: Yangzhou, A Place in Literature. The Local in Chinese Cultural History. Ed. by Roland Altenburger, Margaret B. Wan and Vibeke Børdahl. Honolulu: Hawaiʻi University Press, 2015, 36‒50.
  • Breuer, Rüdiger. „Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen? – Ouyang Yuqian und seine Adaptionen von Kong Shang¬rens Taohua shan“. In: Tradition? Variation? Plagiat? ‒ Motive und ihre Adaption in China. Ed. by Lena Henningsen and Martin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012, 131‒148.
  • Breuer, Rüdiger. „Berufsmäßiges Geschichtenerzählen in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Liu Jingting (1592‒1674/75) als Symbol und Erinnerungsträger“. In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 64, no. 4 (2010): 749‒789.
  • Breuer, Rüdiger. „Early Chinese Vernacular Literature and the Oral-Literary Continuum. The Example of Song and Yuan Dynasties ‚Pinghua‘“. PhD diss., Washington University (Saint Louis), 2001. Microfilm. Ann Arbor (Michigan): UMI, 2002.

Editorship

  • 2004-   Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung / Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, Chief Editor.