Li Xuetao is a historian of Chinese history, scholar of religious studies, and Germanist. He studied in Beijing, Marburg, and Bonn, and earned his PhD in Bonn. He is a professor of global history at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Since 2023, he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the summer semester of 2024, Prof. Li Xuetao will serve as a guest lecturer at the East Asian Seminar of the University of Göttingen, where he will lead the seminar titled “The Modernization of Buddhism in China.”

Research Interests:

– History of German philosophy
– Karl Jaspers
– Chinese Buddhism
– History of German-speaking Sinology
– History of knowledge transfer

Publication List:

Monographs:

– Ri’erman Xueshu Puxi zhong de Hanxue. Deguo Hanxue zhi Yanjiu 日耳曼学术谱系中的汉学：德国汉学之研究 (Sinology in German Academic Genealogy – A Study of the History of German Sinology. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008).
– Wujie de Duihua 误解的对话 (Dialogues of Misunderstanding: China from the Perspective of German Sinologists. Beijing: New Star Press, 2014).
– Die Übertragung buddhistischer Sutren ins Chinesische: Theorie und Praxis. Am Beispiel von Zanning (919-1001) (OSTASIEN Verlag & Social Sciences Academic Press, 2019).
– Deguo Hanxue Yanjiu Shigao 德国汉学研究史稿 (A Draft History of German Sinological Studies. Beijing: Xueyuan Publishing House, 2021).
– Yasibei’ersi yu Zhongguo 雅斯贝尔斯与中国 (Jaspers and China, Beijing: Oriental Press, 2021).
– „Dialog des Missverständnisses“. Die hermeneutische Relevanz der deutschen Sinologie für die chinesische Wissenschaft (Peter Lang Verlag, 2023).

Edited Books and Dictionaries:

– (Co-editor) A Multilingual Dictionary of Chinese Buddhism/Mehrsprachiges Wörterbuch des Chinesischen Buddhismus, Düsseldorf 1999.
– Dongya Yanjiu yu Quanqiushi Jiangou. Deyu Dongya Wenhuashi de Jige Yanjiu Lujing 东亚研究与全球史建构：德语文化史的几个研究路径 (East Asian Studies and the Construction of Global History: German approaches to East Asian Cultural History. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2018).
– (Co-editor) Wissensaustausch und Modernisierungsprozesse zwischen Europa, Japan und China (Stuttgart, 2018).
– Bibliographie zur chinesischen Literatur in deutscher Sprache (De Gruyter Saur Verlag, 2021).

Translations:

– Lun Lishi de Qiyuan yu Mubiao 论历史的起源与目标 (Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2019).