Major Publications
Zimmer has published Baihua - On the Problem of the Writing of Spoken Language in Chinese: Represented on the Basis of Morphological Characteristics in the bianwen from Dunhuang (Baihua - Zum Problem der Verschriftung gesprochener Sprache im Chinesischen: Dargestellt anhand morphologischer Merkmale in den bianwen aus Dunhuang, St. Augustin: Monumenta Serica, 1999), The Chinese Novel of the Late Imperial Period (Der chinesische Roman der ausgehenden Kaiserzeit, München: K.G. Saur, 2002), Awakening from a Coma? A Literary Approach towards Contemporary China (Erwachen aus dem Koma? Eine literarische Betrachtung des heutigen Chinas, Baden-Baden: Tectum Verlag, 2017; received the ICAS Book Prize for Asian Science Publications written in German), The Stranger in the Middle: An Intellectual and Cultural History of China’s Conceptions of Space in Late Imperial China (Der Fremde in der Mitte: Ein ideen- und kulturgeschichtlicher Abriss der Raumvorstellungen Chinas in der späten Kaiserzeit, Köln: Böhlau, 2022)..
Other Activities
From 2003 to 2009 Zimmer was Vice-Director of the Sino-German School of Post Graduate Studies (CDHK) at Tongji University in Shanghai. Between 2012 and 2018, Zimmer worked as the Vice-Dean of the Sino German College and as Head of the German Cultural Center at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) in Shanghai.