ASU-Humboldt Foundation Initiative Lectures on China and Minorities

 ASU-Humboldt Foundation Initiative Lectures on China and Minorities

Professor Dr. Thomas O. Höllmann is among the leading China scholars in Germany.  In addition to being Professor and Chair of Chinese Studies and Anthropology at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München), he is a Fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as well as the German Archaeological Institute.  

 The two essays collected here were papers he presented during his visit to Arizona State University in April of 2006.  The visit to ASU was sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and by the ASU-Humboldt Foundation Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.  At that time, the Department of History and the Department of Religious Studies (now integrated into SHPRS), as well as SILC and the Center for Asian Research, supported this ASU-Humboldt Foundation Initiative.

Professor Höllmann’s expertise in Anthropology is reflected in the two essays collected here that explore how Chinese have viewed strangers within and beyond their borders.  The first essay explores the perspective of difference within the functioning of the tribute system in late imperial China.  The second essay focuses on historical and present-day perspectives on minorities within China.