Christian Schwermann 史克禮

Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Ruhr University Bochum
Managing Director of the CSTCC

Short Biography

Christian Schwermann (head of the Department for Chinese Language and Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2016) concentrates his research not only on the didactics, grammar and rhetoric of classical Chinese, but especially on historical semantics and conceptual history. In addition to these philological foci, his sinological research spectrum also includes ancient economic theory and the history of political criticism. He also takes an interest in the history of Chinese literature.

Selected Publications

  • Schwermann, Christian. „Innovationsrhetorik chinesischer Prägung. Eine Analyse der Rede Xi Jinpings vom 9. Juni 2014 vor der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Peking.“ In: China and the World – The World and China. A Transcultural Perspective. (Deutsche Ostasienstudien 37). 4 Volumes. Ed. by Barbara Mittler et al. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2019, Volume 3, 201–214.
  • Schwermann, Christian. „Von der Sparsamkeit zur Nachhaltigkeit. Zukunftsdenken in der antiken chinesischen Wirtschaftstheorie.“ In: Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 41 (2018): 69–98.
  • Schwermann, Christian. “Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts: The Composition of the Shuoyuan.” In: Between Philosophy and History: Anecdotes in Early China. Ed. by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017, 147–192.
  • Schwermann, Christian, zusammen mit Raji C. Steineck (Eds.). That Wonderful Composite Called Author: Authorship in East Asian Literatures from the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century. (East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture 4). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014 [225 pages].
  • Schwermann, Christian. „Dummheit“ in altchinesischen Texten: Eine Begriffsgeschichte. (Veröffentlichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 62). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011 [ix + 246 pages]. [Reviewed by Licia Di Giacinto in Monumenta Serica 62 (2014): 348–351.]