School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

About the author(s):

Bernhard Fuehrer is Professor of Sinology at the Department of Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia, SOAS, University of London. He received his B.A. from National Taiwan University (1990) and his Ph.D. from University of Vienna (1994). He is the author of monographs on medieval poetics (1995, 2001), the history of Sinology (2001, 2011), and Southern Hokkien (2014). He has published volumes on musicology (1993), censorship (2003), reading (2005), knowledge transfer (2014) and Sinologists as translators (2015). He has also published extensively on traditional Chinese exegesis, reading traditions and the reception history of the Confucian canon.