Felix Erdt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Previously, he served as a lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, where he completed his PhD with the dissertation titled “Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung. Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan und ihre Begegnung mit der Moderne [The Chinese Classics in an Age of Historicization: Three Scholars from Sichuan and Their Encounter with Modernity].” In his PhD, he researched the critical reception of modern notions of history by scholars from Sichuan with a strong Confucian educational background in Republican China. His current research focuses on conceptions of time and redemption among religious groups, the so-called redemptive societies—in Republican China.

Research Focus: Religion, Intellectual History, Republican China

Selected Publications:

“Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung. Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan und ihre Begegnung mit der Moderne [The Chinese Classics in an Age of Historicization: Three Scholars from Sichuan and Their Encounter with Modernity].”