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Prof. Dr. habil. Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach

DFG-Projektleitung

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DFG-Projekt:"Wassernetzwerke zwischen Ökologie und Ökonomie: Die intraregionale und interregionale Vernetzung der Stadt Hangzhou über die Wasserwege von der Song- bis zur Ming-Dynastie in mikro- und makrohistorischer Perspektive"

DFG-Projekt: Wasserversorgung zwischen Ökologie und Ökonomie: die Stadt Hangzhou und der Westsee von der Song- bis in die Ming-Dynastie aus mikro- und makrohistorischer Perspektive

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80539 München

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Website: DFG-Projekt

Researcher of a DFG-funded project

Current Field of Research:

Water Networks between Ecology and Economy: The intraregional and interregional interlinking of the city of Hangzhou via waterways from the Song to the Ming dynasties from microhistorical and macrohistorical perspectives

The Ecology and Economy of Urban Water Supply: the history of Hangzhou and the West Lake from the Song to the Ming dynasties as seen from micro and macro historical perspectives.

Recent Areas of Teaching and Research:

• Chinese economic and social history with a focus on the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.
• Chinese environmental history.
• History of Chinese agriculture, Chinese water control, and Chinese spatial economics.
• Chinese regional history and Chinese local history with a focus on southern and southeastern China.
• Chinese cultural history and Chinese cultural anthropology.
• History of Chinese Buddhism.

Biography:

Magister artium (1982) and doctorate (1985) in Chinese, Indian, and Mongolian Studies at Munich University (LMU).
• Diploma in Geography and National Economy (1986) at Munich Technical University (TUM).
• Habilitation and venia legendi in Chinese Studies (1994) at Wuerzburg University.
• Extraordinary professorship (2000) at Wuerzburg University.

Doctoral thesis: Die Entwicklung der Wasserwirtschaft im Südosten Chinas in der südlichen Sung-Zeit anhand einer Fallstudie: Das ‘Ssu-ming T'o-shan shui-li pei-lan des Wei Hsien’ [The development of water control in southeast China during the Southern Song Dynasty taking the ‘Siming Tuoshan shuili beilan 四明它山水利備覧’ by Wei Xian 魏峴 as case study].
Diploma thesis: Raumstruktur der chinesischen Provinz Yün-nan im Spiegel ch'ing-zeitlicher Quellen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung agrar- und ethnogeographischer Aspekte [Spatial structure of the Chinese province of Yunnan as mirrored in Qing sources with special regard to agrarian and ethno-geographical aspects].
Habilitation thesis: Die Sorge der Lebenden um die Toten: Thanatopraxis und Thanatologie in der Song-Zeit (960-1279) [The care of the living for the dead: Thantopraxis and thanatology during the Song (960–1279)].

• DAAD scholarship for research at Taibei (1986–1987).
• Academic assistant to the Chair for Chinese Studies of Wuerzburg University Prof. Dr. Dieter Kuhn (1988-1994).
• Research grant from Wuerzburg University (1995).
• Research grant from the Goerres Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft (1996–1997).
• Deputy professorship of Chinese Studies at Köln University (1997–1998).
• Currently project researcher at Munich University (LMU).

Memberships: European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS), Association Française d’Études Chinoises (AFEC), Goerres Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft, Münchner Geographische Gesellschaft.

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