Klaus Mühlhahn (born August 19, 1963) is a German historian and

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who was a Professor and Vice President of the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

. Since 2020 he serves as president of Zeppelin University. He was awarded the

John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. F ...

in 2009 for his book ''Criminal Justice in China: A History''.

Biography

In 1993 Mühlhahn received a Master's degree in Sinology from the

, where he also worked as research assistant from 1993 to 2002 in the Department of Sinology. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. in Sinology at the FU Berlin with his dissertation "Herrschaft und Widerstand in der 'Musterkolonie' Kiautschou". From 2002 to 2004 he was visiting fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. From 2004 to 2007 he was Professor of Contemporary Chinese and Asian History at the Institute for History of the

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. In 2007-2010 he was Professor of History and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the

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in Bloomington. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the FU Berlin and since 2014 vice president. In 2009 Mühlhahn was awarded the

of the

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for his book ''Criminal Justice in China: A History''.

Publications

*
Making China Modern. From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
'' Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. * ''Die Volksrepublik China.'' Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. * (Ed.): ''The Cultural Legacy of German Colonial Rule.'' Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. * with Wen-hsin Yeh, Hajo Frölich (Ed.): ''Rethinking Business History in Modern China.'' Berkeley/ Seoul 2015 (= ''Cross-Currents e-journal'', 16). * with Nina Berman und Patrice Nganang (Ed.): ''German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. * with Nathalie van Looy (Ed.): ''The Globalization of Confucius and Confucianism'', Münster / London: Lit, 2012 (= ''Berliner China-Hefte – Chinese History and Society'', 41). * with Clemens von Haselberg (Ed.): ''Chinese Identities on Screen.'' Münster/ London: Lit, 2012 (= ''Berliner China-Hefte – Chinese History and Society'', 40). * ''Criminal Justice in China – A History.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.

References

External links

* Interview with Klaus Mühlhahn on April 11, 2019 at the Asia Society'
''China File''
* An excerpt from ''Making China Modern'', on ''gaige kaifang'' („reform and openness“), was published at th
''LARB'' blog ''China Channel''
02.2019. * On the NPR podcast

Throughline ''Throughline'' is a historical podcast and radio program from American public radio network NPR. The podcast aims to contextualize current events by exploring the historical events that contributed to them. Its episodes have outlined the his ...

, Klaus Mühlhahn and others explain how Sun Yat-sen’s nationalist movement completely reshaped both Taiwan and mainland China. {{DEFAULTSORT:Muhlhahn, Klaus 1963 births Living people German sinologists Free University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Turku Indiana University Bloomington faculty Historians of China