04.08.2026

Publication: "Settled in the Present, Committed to the Past: Festschrift for Achim Mittag on the Occasion of His 68th Birthday"

A Festschrift dedicated to our colleague Prof. Achim Mittag has been published, edited by Fei Huang, Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, and Martin Hanke

Settled in the Present, Committed to the Past: Festschrift for Achim Mittag on the Occasion of His 68th Birthday
Fei Huang, Dorothee Schaab-Hanke and Martin Hanke (eds.)
Deutsche Ostasienstudien 54
OSTASIEN Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-946114-65-9 (978-3946114659, 9783946114659) ISBN-10: 3-946114-65-2 (3946114652)

The essays assembled in this volume have been contributed by long-standing collaborators, colleagues and friends and also by some of Achim Mittag’s former students. The contributors are from Germany, the Netherlands, North America, China, and Taiwan, who came to know Achim Mittag through conferences, research projects, and sustained scholarly conversations, as well as through the daily university work, and they all have enriched his life and academic career. If one reads the 29 articles contributed by altogether 30 contributors attentively, one will find that most of them discuss topics that Achim Mittag himself has already explored in one way or another and that the authors explicitly refer to these talks or publications. What holds the contributions together is a shared interest: a curiosity to know more than was hitherto known or thought, and to scrutinize a detail that turns out to be a piece of the puzzle that makes up the bigger picture.

The contributors to this volume are, in alphabetical order: Patrick Aberle, Elisabeth Biebl, Cao Jin, Jan de Meyer, Anno Dederichs, Sebastian Demuth, Emily Graf, Qijin Han, Martin Hanke, Fei Huang, Alexander Jost, Thomas H.C. Lee, Jürgen Leonhardt, Christine Moll-Murata, Michael Nylan, Jörn Rüsen, Hermann-Josef  Röllicke, Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, Philip Scherer, Jonas Schmid, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Angela Schottenhammer, Gunter Schubert, Barend ter Haar, Ulrich Theobald, Hoyt Tillman, Hans van Ess, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Wang Weijiang, Zhang Zhirui