CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Matthias Ludwig Richter
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations
Eaton Humanities, 279 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Tel. +1-303-735.0426 // +1-303-492.7272
matthias.richter@colorado.edu

EMPLOYMENT
since 8/2007 Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado at Boulder
10/2006–9/2007 Creel Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
4–7/2006 Visiting Professor of Chinese studies, University of Freiburg
9/2002–12/2005 Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg (research project “Towards a Methodology for the Study of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts”)
3–8/2001 Sessional Assistant Professor of Chinese studies, University of Hamburg
11/1996–10/1998 Sessional Assistant Professor of Chinese studies, University of Munich
9/1992–7/1993 Part-time teacher at the Goethe Institute, Beijing
8/1985–8/1989 Teacher in Dresden and Berlin

EDUCATION
6/2000 Ph.D. of Hamburg University (summa cum laude), dissertation on Early Chinese texts on characterology and the recruitment of officials
10/1993–9/96 Continuation of studies at University of Munich
9/1992–8/1993 Student of Chinese philosophy, Beijing University
9/1991–8/1992 Student of Chinese language, Beijing Language Institute
10/1989–8/1991 Student of sinology, japanology and philosophy, University of Munich
7/1985 Diploma in Germanic and English studies, University of Jena (East Germany)

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
11/2009 University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Visiting Scholar Grant
12/2008 University of Colorado at Boulder Center for Asian Studies grant for short-term student assistance
9/2006 – 6/2007 Creel Early China Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), The University of Chicago
3/2006 Conference travel grant of the German Research Council (216th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Seattle)
3–4/2004 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant, funded by the East Asian Studies Department, for one month of research at Princeton University
9/2002 Library Travel Grant of the European Association of Chinese Studies and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, for a one week visit to the International Dunhuang Project and the British Library, London
9/1992–8/1993 Partial grant of the German Academic Exchange Service for studying Chinese philosophy at Beijing University
9/1991–8/1992 Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service for studying Modern Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute

PUBLICATIONS
Monographs and Editorship

• (in preparation) Textual Identity in Early Chinese Literature.
• (in preparation) Preliminary Guidelines for the Study of Early Chinese Manuscripts.
• Guan ren: Texte der altchinesischen Literatur zur Charakterkunde und Beamtenrekrutierung [Early Chinese Texts on Characterology and the Recruitment of Officials]. (Welten Ostasiens 3). Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. 504 pp. ISBN 3-03910-643-1
• Editorship and “Introduction” (5 pp.): “Methodological Issues in the Study of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Papers from the Second Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop.” In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LIX.1 (2005): 1–390.
• Editorship and “Introduction” (9 pp.): “Special Section: Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop.” In: Monumenta Serica 51 (2003): 401–628.

Articles

• (in preparation) “Formation and Transformation of Early Chinese Texts: Textual Identity as Reflected in Contemporary Manuscript Evidence.”
• (in preparation) “Dissertation on Natural Disposition and Actual Inner Condition: Translation and Analysis of the Guodian and Shanghai Museum Xing qing Manuscripts.”
• (in preparation) Chapters “Punctuation” and "Scribal Hands" In: Reading Early Chinese Manuscripts: Texts, Contexts, Methods ed. Wolfgang Behr, Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer (Handbook of Oriental Studies) Leiden: Brill.
• (forthcoming) “A Study of Funerary Culture and Notions of the Afterlife in Early China: A Review of Constance Cook’s Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey (review article) In: Journal of the American Oriental Society (2009).
• (forthcoming) “Shi tan shuxiezhe de shizi nengli dui liuchuan wenben de yingxiang 試探書寫者的識字能力及其對流傳文本的影響” [The literacy of scribes and their influence on textual transmission]. Jianbo 簡帛 4. Shanghai: Shanghai guji 上海古籍, 2009.
• (forthcoming) “The Fickle Brush: Chinese Orthography in the Age of Manuscripts: A Review of Imre Galambos's Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts (review article) In: Early China 31 (2007).
• (forthcoming) “Faithful Transmission or Creative Change: Tracing Modes of Manuscript Production from the Material Evidence.” In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques (2009).
• (forthcoming) “Textual Identity and the Role of Literacy in the Transmission of Early Chinese Literature.” In: Writing and Literacy in Early China: Papers from the Columbia Early China Seminar. Li Feng and David Branner (ed.).
• “Gudai wenxian de yanbian: Mawangdui boshu jia ben Laozi di ba zhang wei li 古代文獻的演變：馬王堆帛書甲本《老子》第八章爲例” [The transformation of early Chinese texts: The case of Laozi chapter 8 in the Mawangdui A manuscript version]. Jianbo 簡帛 3. Shanghai: Shanghai guji 上海古籍, 2008. 421–431.
• “Shi tan Guodian Chu jian zhong bu tong shouji de bianbie 試談郭店楚簡中不同手蹟的辨別” [A Tentative Discussion of the Distinction Between Different Hands in the Chu Bamboo Manuscripts from Guodian]. In: Jian bo yanjiu 2006 簡帛研究二００六. Bu Xianqun 卜憲群, Yang Zhenhong 楊振紅 (ed.). Guilin 桂林: Guangxi shifan daxue 廣西師範大學, 2008. 10–29.
• “Tentative Criteria for Discerning Individual Hands in the Guodian Manuscripts.” In: Rethinking Confucianism: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Excavated Chinese Manuscripts, Mount Holyoke College, April 2004; 儒學的再思考：第三屆國際簡帛研討會論文集. Wen Xing 邢文 (ed.). San Antonio: Trinity University, 2006: 132–147.
  (also at: http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2006/limengtao003.pdf).
• “Deguo Hanbao daxue Ya Fei xueyuan Zhongguo yuyan wenhua xi de Zhongguo xieben yanjiu 德國漢堡大學亞非學院中國語言文化系的中國寫本研究” [Studies in Chinese Manuscripts at the Chinese Department of the Asia Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg]. In: Jianbo 簡帛. Shanghai: Shanghai guji 上海古籍, 2006. 463–466.
  (also at: http://www.bsm.org.cn/show_news.php?id=26).
• “Der Alte und das Wasser: Lesarten von Laozi 8 im überlieferten Text und in den Manuskripten von Mawangdui” [The Old Man and the Waters: Reading Laozi 8 in transmitted and Mawangdui Manuscript Versions]. In: Han-Zeit: Festschrift für Hans Stumpfeldt aus Anlaß seines 65. Geburtstages. Michael Friedrich, Reinhard Emmerich, Hans van Ess (ed.). (Lun Wen, Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China 8) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006: 253–273.
• “Handschriftenkundliche Probleme beim Lesen altchinesischer Manuskripte” [Codicological Problems Implied in Reading Early Chinese Manuscripts]. In: Aspekte des Lesens in China in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: Referate der Jahrestagung 2001 der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS). Bernhard Fuehrer (ed.). (Edition Cathay 54). Bochum: Projekt, 2005. 88–121.
• “Towards a Profile of Graphic Variation: On the Distribution of Graphic Variants within the Mawangdui Laozi Manuscripts.” In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LIX.1 (2005): 169–207.
• “Suggestions Concerning the Transcription of Chinese Manuscript Texts – A Research Note.” In: International Research on Bamboo and Silk Documents: Newsletter 國際簡帛研究通訊. Vol. 3 No. 1 (March 2003): pp. 1–12.
• “Deguo Hanbao daxue ‘Zhongguo gudai chutu wenxian yanjiu’ xiangmu jianjie 德國漢堡大學‘中國古代出土文獻研究’項目簡介” [Introduction to the Project ‘Research in Ancient Chinese Manuscripts’ at Hamburg, Germany]. In: International Research on Bamboo and Silk Documents: Newsletter 國際簡帛研究通訊. Vol. 2 No. 6 (December 2002): p.7.
• “Self-Cultivation or Evaluation of Others?: A Form Critical Approach to Zengzi li shi” In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LVI, 4 (2002): 879–917.
• “Cognate Texts: Technical Terms as Indicators of Intertextual Relations and Redactional Strategies.” In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LVI, 3 (2002): 549–572.
• Scholarly Advisor / author of maps and survey of Chinese history for the historical magazine GEO EPOCHE: Das Alte China. 2002.

Web
Database of Selected Characters from Guodian and Mawangdui Manuscripts.
http://www.colorado.edu/alc/matthiasrichter/2008/05/database.html, 2006 (to be continued).

Reviews (in Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie)
2002:
Gassmann, Robert H. 2002. Antikchinesisches Kalenderwesen: Die Rekonstruktion der chunqiu-zeitlichen Kalender des Fürstentums Lu und der Zhou-Könige. (Schweizer Asiatische Studien, Studienhefte 16). Bern: Peter Lang.
2001:
Vogelsang, Kai. 1998/99. “Unscheinbare Worte, ungedruckt: Zur Bedeutung ch’ing-zeitlicher Handschriften für die Sinologie.” Oriens Extremus 41.1/2: 151–167.
Simson, Wojciech. 2000. “Zur Methodologie der Trennung von Textschichten in der altchinesischen Literatur.” Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LIV.2: 393–413.
Möller, Hans-Georg. 1998/99. “ ‘Mit vierzig hatte ich keine Zweifel mehr’: Zum Zweifel im Konfuzianismus.” Oriens Extremus 41.1/2: 35–44.
Chen Guocan, tr. Jonathan Karam Skaff. 2000. “The Turfan Documents at Princeton’s Gest Library.” Early Medieval China 6: 74–103.
Kralle, Jianfei. 1999. “Böse Brut: Bao Si [褒姒] und das Ende von König You [幽王].” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 149.1: 145–172.
Keightley, David N. 2000. The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200–1045 B.C.). Berkeley: University of California.
Trombert, Éric; avec la collaboration de Ikeda On et Zhang Guangda. 2000. Les manuscrits chinois de Koutcha: fonds Pelliot de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Paris: Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises du Collège de France.
2000:
Möller, Hans-Georg. 1999. “Verschiedene Versionen des Laozi: Ein Vergleich mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des 19. Kapitels.” Monumenta Serica 47: 285–302.
Lau, Ulrich. 1999. Quellenstudien zur Landvergabe und Bodenübertragung in der westlichen Zhou-Dynastie (1045?–771 v.Chr.). (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XLI). Nettetal: Steyler.

PRESENTATIONS

• “Kosmogonische Begründung von ‘political correctness’” [Cosmogonic justification of ‘political correctness’]; 20th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien [German Association for Chinese Studies], Munich, Germany, 28–29 November 2009.
• “The influence of scribal intentions and skills on the transmission of texts”; Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society / Western Branch, Los Angeles, CA, 16–17 October 2009.
• “The heterogeneous nature and diachronic dimension of early Chinese texts – consequences for textual criticism and translation”; Meeting of the Committee for the Study and the Translation of the Wu jing, Beijing, China, 27–29 July 2009.
• “The production and purposes of early Chinese manuscripts as indicated by their material features”; Conference on early and mediaeval Chinese manuscripts, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary, 1–2 June 2009.
• “'Heaven Follows Man': Cognate Warring states Military Texts”; 219th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 13–16 March 2009.
• “Textual Identity and the Role of Writing in the Transmission of Early Chinese Literature"; Conference "Writing and Literacy in Early China", Columbia University, New York, 7-8 February 2009.
• “Illiterate Scribes? – How modes of manuscript production in early China influenced textual transmission"; Center for Asian Studies Luncheon Talk Series, University of Colorado at Boulder, 19 November 2008.
• “Shi tan shuxie zhe de shizi nengli ji qi dui liuchuan wenben de yingxiang 試探書寫者的識字能力及其對流傳文本的影響” [The literacy of scribes and their influence on textual transmission]; “2008 International Forum on Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts” [2008年國際簡帛論壇], The University of Chicago, 30 October – 2 November 2008.
• “Recovering early Chinese characterology”; Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society / Western Branch, Portland, Oregon, 24–25 October 2008.
• “Evaluation of personalities: Tracing a lost genre in early Chinese texts”; Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, 12–14 September 2008.
• “Textual history as a process of ideological specification – On differences between a Warring States manuscript and its transmitted early Han counterparts”; 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 6–10 August 2008.
• “Local characteristics of manuscript production”; “Genius loci: Third Tomb Text Workshop and Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts”, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 27–29 June 2008.
• “Psychological foundations for ritual: Early Chinese texts on natural disposition (xing) and actual inner condition (qing)”; 218th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, Illinois, 14–17 March 2008.
• “Kanonbildung im Alten China: Die Rolle der Lieder im Manuskript Min zhi fu mu und in überlieferten Paralleltexten” [Canonization of texts in early China: the role of the Odes in the manuscript Min zhi fu mu and transmitted parallel texts.]; invited lecture at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 1 February 2008.
• “Degrees of canonisation of the Odes as reflected in the Warrings States Chu manuscript Min zhi fu mu 民之父母 and its transmitted counterparts”; Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society / Western Branch, The University of California at Irvine, 12 October 2007.
• “Reflections on the Role of Writing in the Transmission of Early Chinese Texts”, “China Before Print”; workshop at the University of Chicago, 25 May 2007.
• “The Significance of Writing for the Transmission and Stabilisation of Early Chinese Texts”; “Early China Seminar”, Columbia University, New York, 5 May 2007.
• “Format and Features of Production of the Shanghai Museum Heng xian Manuscript”; “Palaeography and Cosmology: Reading Heng xian”, workshop at the University of Chicago, 10 March 2007.
• “Wen gu er zhi zhi 溫故而知之 – Unfreezing Early Chinese Literature”; invited talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 22 February 2007.
• “文本的一致性與變換：古代文獻的組製性做為閱讀出土文獻的前提” [Textual identity and variability: the composite nature of early Chinese texts as a condition for reading excavated manuscripts]; “International Forum for the Study of Chinese Excavated Texts” [中國簡帛學國際論壇2006], Wuhan, 8–10 November 2006.
• “讀戰國楚竹簡雜問二則” [Two miscellaneous questions arising from reading Warring States Chu bamboo manuscripts]; “International Conference for the Study of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences” [中國社會科學院簡帛學國際論壇], Beijing, 5–6 November 2006.
• “Textual Fluidity vs. Textual Identity: The case of Laozi 8 and its manuscript counterparts”; 16th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia, 30 August – 3 September 2006.
• “The Genesis of Texts as Reflected in Early Chinese Manuscript Versions”; 216th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Seattle, Washington, 17–20 March 2006.
• “Marks, errors and corrections in the Mawangdui Laozi manuscripts”; “Chinese Paleography: Theory and Practice”, conference at the University of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 28–30 May 2005.
• “試論馬王堆漢墓帛書〈老子〉甲本、乙本及卷前、卷後古佚書中的文字書寫規範” [A tentative discussion of standards underlying the writing of the Laozi A and B silk manuscripts from the Han tomb at Mawangdui]; “International Conference Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Excavation of the Han tombs at Mawangdui” [紀念馬王堆漢墓發掘三十週年國際學術討論會], Changsha, Hunan, 7–9 August 2004.
• “Distribution of Graphic Variants within the Mawangdui Laozi Manuscripts”; “Workshop on Reading Manuscripts and Early Texts”, University of Chicago, 8 May 2004.
• “Tentative Criteria for discerning individual hands within the Guodian Manuscript Corpus”; “Confucianism Resurrected: The 3rd International Conference on Excavated Chinese Manuscripts”, Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts, 23–25 April 2004.
• “Tracing the Transformation of an Early Chinese Text: The Case of Zengzi li shi”; East Asian studies lecture at Princeton University, 19 April 2004.
• “On the distribution of different kinds of graphic variants within a manuscript”; “Second Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop”, University of Hamburg, 27–29 February 2004.
• “Ohne Punkt und Komma? Formale Merkmale altchinesischer Manuskripte” [Formal features of Early Chinese manuscripts]; University of Hamburg, 4 June 2003.
• “Manuskripte aus dem Alten China – beredsam und verschwiegen” [Manuscripts from early China – loquacious and reticent]; invited lectures at the University of Köln, 29 January 2003, and at the University of Münster 28 May 2003.
• “Handschriftlichenkundliche Aspekte der Auswertung altchinesischer Manuskripte” [Codicological aspects of the interpretation of early Chinese manuscripts]; Annual Meeting of the AG Junger Chinawissenschaftler, University of Tübingen, 15–17 February 2002.
• “Überlegungen zum Lesen altchinesischer Manuskripte” [Considerations concerning the reading of early Chinese manuscripts]; 12th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien, Humboldt-University Berlin, 30 November – 2 December 2001.
• “On the Application of Form Criticism and Redaction Criticism to Classical Chinese Literature”; 2nd International Convention of Asia Scholars, Free University Berlin, 9–12 August 2001.
• “Zengzi li shi: Der Titel und sein Text” [Zengzi li shi: The title and its text]; “Die Freuden der Sinologie”, conference in honour of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Unger, University of Hamburg, 4–6 May 2001.
• “Formkritisches Lesen altchinesischer Texte” [Form critical reading of early Chinese Texts]; Annual Meeting of the AG Junger Chinawissenschaftler, University of Kiel, 16–18 February 2001.
• “Cognate Texts: Technical Terms as Indicators of Intertextual Relations and Redactional Strategies”; “Textual Scholarship in Chinese Studies”, workshop at the University of Munich, 30 June – 2 July 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Colorado at Boulder (since 2007):
Psychological foundations of education and ritual (Ancient Prose, CHIN 5210), Spring 2009
The materiality of texts – Introduction to the reading of early Chinese manuscripts (Topics in Ancient Literature, CHIN 5280), Fall 2008
The Fan Li speeches and related texts (Ancient Prose, CHIN 5210), Spring 2008
Readings in Classical Chinese (CHIN 4220), Spring 2008 & Spring 2009
Philosophical criticism in pre-imperial China (Topics in Ancient Literature, CHIN 5280), Fall 2007
Culture and literature of ancient China (CHIN 3321), Fall 2007 & Fall 2008

The University of Chicago (2006):
Early Chinese manuscript texts on natural disposition (xing 性) and actual inner
condition (qing 情)

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2006):
Chinese history from antiquity to the 19th century
Chinese reference books
Classical Chinese III
Laozi – The transmitted text and early manuscript versions
Chinese cultural criticism: essays of the Taiwanese author Bo Yang

University of Hamburg (2004–2006):
Early Chinese manuscripts I (Min zhi fu mu and transmitted parallel texts)
Early Chinese manuscripts II (Laozi in Mawangdui and Guodian manuscript versions,
Tai yi sheng shui)
Early Chinese manuscripts III (Xing zi ming chu and Xing qing lun in Guodian and
Shanghai manuscript versions)
[with William G. Boltz] The Early Laozi – A comparative reading of Warring States
and Han manuscript versions
in 2002: Introduction to classical Chinese philosophy (intensive course)

Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (1999–2003):
regular courses in Chinese newspaper reading

University of Applied Sciences, Bremen (1999–2003):
regular courses in Chinese history from the beginnings to 1800 CE
in 2000: Chinese history from 1800 to 1945

University of Hamburg (2001):
Form critical readings in Early Chinese literature

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (1996–1998):
Survey of Pre-Qin Chinese philosophy from western and eastern perspectives
Chinese mediaeval literature and literary theory: Wenxuan and Wenxin diaolong
Chinese newspaper reading
Classical Chinese I & II
Introduction to the sources of classical Chinese writing

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organisation of the workshop “Palaeography and Cosmology: Reading Heng xian”, University of Chicago, 10 March 2007.
Organisation of the “Second Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop”, University of Hamburg, 27–29 February 2004.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2009–present: Member, Committee for the Study and Translation of the Wu jing (Five Classics); Project organized by the Confucius Institute Headquarters, Beijing
2009–present: Graduate Director of Chinese, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado at Boulder
2009–present: Member, Steering Committee of the Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
2009–present: Member, Speaker and Events Committee of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
2007–present: Member, Honors Council of the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
2006–present: Member of the editorial board of the journal Jianbo 簡帛 (“Bamboo and Silk”, published by Shanghai guji 上海古籍)
2004–08: Member of the Board and Managing Committee of the European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts (Secretary-Treasurer)
2004–present: Member of the Board and Executive Committee of the European Association of Chinese Studies (Secretary-Treasurer)

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANISATIONS
European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
The Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS)
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts (EASCM)
American Oriental Society (AOS)