Sinologie

Publications Ulrich Theobald

Books

  • Vogel, Hans Ulrich, and Ulrich Theobald, eds. 2024. Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing. (http://hdl.handle.net/10900/151266)
  • Theobald, Ulrich, and CAO Jin, eds. 2018. Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600–1911): Metals, Transport, Trade and Society. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia. 9) doi.org/10.1163/9789004353718
  • Leonard, Jane Kate, and Ulrich Theobald, eds. 2015. Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia. 6) doi.org/10.1163/9789004288355
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2013. War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Second Jinchuan Campaign (1771–1776). Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia. 5) doi.org/10.1163/9789004255678
  • CAO Jin, Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Ulrich Theobald. 2012. Chinese, Japanese and Western Research in Chinese Historical Metrology: A Classified Bibliography (1925-2012). Tübingen: Publikationssystem Universitätsbibliothek.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2011. The Second Jinchuan Campaign (1771 – 1776): Economic, Social and Political Aspects of an Important Qing Period Border War. Ph.D. Dissertation. Tübingen: Publikationssystem Universitätsbibliothek.
  • [Theobald, Ulrich. 1999. Das Bild der Kaiserin Lü (reg. 187–180 v. Chr.) in Geschichtsschreibung und Literatur. Tübingen, unveröffentlichte Magisterarbeit.]

Articles

  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2024. "Warfare in Qing China". In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, edited by Kaushik Roy. New York: Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791279-0258
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2024. "A Sinification of Western Music: The Chapters on Clefs in the Lülü zuanyao (c.1680) and the Lülü zhengyi (1713)."  In What Makes the World Go Round: Festschrift in Honor of Hans Ulrich Vogel, edited by CAO Jin, and Alexander Jost = Asian Review of World Histories, Special Issue 12: 293–305. doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10069
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2024. "Marco Polo on Military Affairs of the Yuan Dynasty". In Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future, edited by Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Ulrich Theobald, 417–450. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing.
  • Theobald, Ulrich, and Hans Ulrich Vogel. 2024. "Preface". In Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future, edited by Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Ulrich Theobald, ix–xxxvii. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2022. "Tibetan and Qing Troops in the Gorkha Wars (1788–1792) as Presented in Chinese Sources: A Paradigm Shift in Military Culture". In Asian Influences on Tibetan Military History between the 17th and 20th Centuries, edited by S.G. FitzHerbert, and Alice Travers, 114–146. Kathmandu: Vajra Books.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2021. "Qingdai junshi guanli fagui zhong de kongjian yu didian: Dui zeli falü leixing de fenxi 清代军事管理法规中的空间与地点：对〝则例〞法律类型的分析," translated by Li Tongtong 李童童. Falü shi yiping 法律史译评 9: 305–319.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2020. "Tibetan and Qing Troops in the Gorkha Wars (1788–1792) as Presented in Chinese Sources: A Paradigm Shift in Military Culture." Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 53: 114–146.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2018. "Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories". In Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600–1911): Metals, Transport, Trade and Society, edited by Ulrich Theobald, and CAO Jin, 3–41. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004353718_002
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2017. "Beamtenernennung, Anwartschaft auf ein Amt und Beamte auf Probe im späten Kaiserreich". In Recht und Gerechtigkeit in China, edited by Jonas Polfuß, and Kerstin Sturm = Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien 11: 271–292. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2017. "Monetary History of East Asia". In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, edited by David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.90
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2016. "Space and Place in Administrative Military Regulations of Qing China: An Evaluation of the Legal Type of zeli". In Les lieux de la loi en Chine impériale / Legalizing Space in Imperial China, edited by Jérôme Bourgon = Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 40: 183–206. doi.org/10.4000/extremeorient.595
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2015. "Control the Uncontrollable: The Endless Trouble with Small Cash". In Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts, edited by Jane Kate Leonard, and Ulrich Theobald, 1-40. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia. 6) doi.org/10.1163/9789004288355_002
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2015. "Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in Eighteenth Century China". In Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts, edited by Jane Kate Leonard, and Ulrich Theobald, 398–419. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia. 6) doi.org/10.1163/9789004288355_016
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2014 "Craftsmen and Specialist Troops in Early Modern Chinese Armies". In Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History: From Ancient China to the Communist Takeover, edited by Kai Filipiak, 191–209. New York: Routledge. (Asian States and Empires. 7) doi.org/10.4324/9781315738345
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2014. "Disorder in the General Staff: A Corruption Case during the First Jinchuan War (1747–1749)". In Chinese and Indian Warfare: From the Classical Age to 1870, edited by Kaushik Roy, and Peter Lorge, 234–245. New York: Routledge (Asian States and Empires. 8) doi.org/10.4324/9781315742762
  • Moll-Murata, Christine, and Ulrich Theobald. 2013. "Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China". In Fighting for a Living: Origins, Practices and Consequences of Different Forms of Military Employment in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (1500–2000), edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 353–392. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2013. "Kaiserinmutter - Mutter Kaiserin: Die schwierige Erfüllung einer politisch-privaten Rolle". In Frauenbilder/Frauenkörper: Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens, edited by Heike Moser, and Stephan Köhne, 333–350. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2009. "Selbstinszenierung im Kleinen: In Lack geschnitzter Lobpreis an Ruhm und Größe der Qing-Dynastie." Tribus 58:117–124.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2008. "Lamaismus" (doi.org/10.1163/2352-0248_edn_SIM_300626); "Manchu" (doi.org/10.1163/2352-0248_edn_SIM_306781); "Mongolen" (doi.org/10.1163/2352-0248_edn_SIM_313049). In Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, edited by Friedrich Jaeger. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Forthcoming

  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2025. "The Mutiny of 1560: Testing Zhu Guozhen’s 朱國禎 Yongchuang xiaopin 湧幢小品 as a Source of Micro-History". In: Settled in the Present, Committed to the Past: Festschrift for Achim Mittag, edited by Fei HUANG, Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, and Martin Hanke. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2024, in French. "Administration locale", "Département de l'agence impériale (neiwufu)", "Empéreur Wanli", "Factionalisme de l'époche des Ming", "Grand canal", "Grand secrétariat (neige)", "Population et migration", "Secrétariat du palais (zhongshu sheng)". In: Dictionnaire de la Chine impériale (1368-1911), edited by François Gipouloux. Paris: Éditions CNRS.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2024, in Spanish. "Finance and Logistics". In: A Socio-Cultural History of War: Concepts, Debates, Tools, edited by Miguel Alonso, David Alegre, and Arnau Fernández. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.  
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2023. "Wirtschaft im Fernen Osten". In: Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte, edited by Marcel Boldorf, and Christian Kleinschmidt, vol. Wirtschaft im Mittelalter, Kap. 27. De Gruyter/Oldenbourg.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2025. "Culture of War - High and Popular". In: A Cultural History of War in the Age of Enlightenment, edited by Sascha Möbius, 103–126. London, etc.: Bloomsbury Academic. (A Cultural History of War. 4)
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2022. "Liji – Yueji". In: Lexikon zum musiktheoretischen und musikästhetischen Schrifttum, edited by Hartmut Grimm (†), Felix Wörner, and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann. Kassel: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler.
  • Theobald, Ulrich, and Clifford Ando. 2022. "Forests". In: A Cultural History of the Environment, edited by Mischa Meier, vol. 1, The Classical Age, 3500 BCE – 400 CE (London: Bloomsbury).
  • Theobald, Ulrich, and Winfried Schmitz. 2022. "Work, Energy, and Power", in Mischa Meier (ed.), A Cultural History of the Environment, Vol. 1, The Classical Age, 3500 BCE – 400 CE (London: Bloomsbury).
  • (2020) "Xunzi: An Early Confucian Master on the Nature of Man", in Nuño Alberto Valenzuela Alonso, transl. La naturaleza del hombre es malvada: Por el maestro Xun Kuang, con la traducción del capítulo 23 del Xun Zi, y notas exegéticas.

WorldCat-Indexed Online Publication

  • Ulrich Theobald, ed. 2000 ff. Chinaknowledge.de – An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art [over 3,000 articles; visitor frequency: ca. 3 million pageviews annually].

Book Reviews

  • Blind Peer Reviews für Journal of Chinese Military History, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Financial History Review, Journal of Ming Studies, TSEG The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2021. Review of The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, by Yingcong DAI. Journal of Military History 85(1): 206–207.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2020. Review of Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy in the 1826 Sea-Transport Experiment, by Jane Kate Leonard. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83(2): 377–379.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2018) Review of Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–1945, by Leland Ness, with Bin SHIH. Journal of Asian History 52: 176–178.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2018. Review of 1943: China at the Crossroads, by Joseph W. Esherick, and Matthew T. Combs. Journal of Asian History 52: 172–175.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2018. Review of Central Government Silver Treasury: Revenue, Expenditure and Inventory Statistics, ca. 1667–1899, by Zhihong SHI. Economic History Review 71(3): 1007–1008.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2017. Review of The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China: The Story of the Ming Salt Certificate, by Wing-kin Puk. Journal of Chinese Studies 64: 309–315.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2014. Review of Guide to the Feng Shui Compass: A Compendium of Classical Feng Shui, by Stephen Skinner. East Asian Science Technology and Medicine 37: 111–114. doi.org/10.1163/26669323-03701014
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2012. Review of Qing Governors and their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796, by R. Kent Guy. International Journal of Asian Studies 9(1): 141–143.
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2010. Review of China's Scientific Elite, by Cao Cong. East Asian Science Technology and Medicine 31: 109–115. doi.org/10.1163/26669323-03101010
  • Theobald, Ulrich. 2003. Review of China's Digital Dream: the Impact of the Internet on Chinese Society, by Zhang Junhua, and Martin Woesler. East Asian Science Technology and Medicine 21: 162–166. doi.org/10.1163/26669323-02101010

Journalistic Texts

  • (2012) "Von Stinktöpfen und Ölprinzen: China in den Werken Karl Mays", in: China-Report, 53: 51-59.
  • (2012) "Globale Perspektiven: Der Fünfte Internationale Workshop der DFG-Forschergruppe Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", in: China-Report, 53: 36-39.
  • (2011) "Steuern fürs Jenseits, Salpeterschmuggel und ein gewitztes Hafenbüro: Vierter Internationaler Workshop der DFG-Forschergruppe Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", in: China-Report, 51: 14-17.
  • (2010) "Wer das Kupfer nicht ehrt, ist des Silbers nicht wert: Dritter Internationaler Workshop der DFG-Forschergruppe Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", in: China-Report, 50: 33-34.
  • (2006) "Der Raketengleiter des Wan-Hoo", Große Landesausstellung des Landes Baden-Württemberg im Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, 68165 Mannheim, "Abenteuer Raumfahrt: Aufbruch ins Weltall"

Conference

Contributions to Conferences

  • (2022) "Legal Issues of the Appointment Method of 'Careful Selection' (linxuan 遴選)" (Seminar à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Project Legalizing Space in China)
  • (2019) "Der Vierte Mai als Thema in Zeitschriften der 1920er, 30er und 70er Jahre" (Hundert Jahre Vierter-Mai-Bewegung: Die Vielfalt der Gesichter und Gesichtspunkte, Tübingen, 2.-4. Mai 2019)
  • (2018) "Tibetan and Qing Troops in the Gorkha Wars (1788-1792)" (Tibetan Military Culture : Interactions with Other Traditions, Oxford, Jun 18, 2018)
  • (2017) "The Military System of the Yuan Dynasty" (Marco Polo Studies: Past, Present, Future, Tübingen, Oct 10-11, 2017)
  • (2015) "Space and Place in Chinese Military Regulations of the Qing’ (Colloque “Les lieux de la loi dans l’empire chinois", les 12-13 mai 2015, à L’Institut Français de l’Éducation et l’ENS de Lyon)
  • (2014) "Recht auf Arbeit? Die berufliche Lage von Prüfungsabsolventen im späten Kaiserreich" (25. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien, Münster Nov 9, 2014)
  • (2013) "Unbezahltes Praktikum – Amtsanwärter als billige Arbeitskräfte im spätkaiserlichen China" (32. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Münster 26.9.2013)
  • (2013) "Muskets and Cannons in the Late Ming (1368-1644) and Early Qing (1644-1912) Periods" (Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, New Orleans, March 14-17)
  • (2012) "Logistics in Late Imperial Chinese Military History" (Military Professionalism in China and Europe, 1500-1900, Leipzig November 24-25, 2012)
  • (2012) "European Weapons in China: Muskets and Cannons in the Late Ming and Early Qing Periods" (Entanglement of Histories, Circulation of Knowledge, and Transfer of Technologies: Dimensions of Transcultural Statehood?, Conference of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg, May 10-12, 2012)
  • (2012) "Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China" (Workshop of the Research Group "Fighting for a Living", International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam; March 8-9, Wassenaar)
  • (2011) "Craftsmen and Specialist Troops in Early Modern Chinese Armies" (International Conference on Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History, Leipzig 5.-6.8.2011)
  • (2011) "We Don’t Need Any Private Capital: Ways of war financing in early modern East and West" (Annual Conference of the Society for Military History/Chinese Military History Society, Lisle, IL 10.-11.6.2011)
  • (2010) "Civilian Staffs in Late Imperial Chinese Warfare" (New Research in the History of Warfare: An International Graduate Conference, Cambridge 7.-8.8.2010)
  • (2010) "Kaiserinmutter – Mutter Kaiserin: Die schwierige Erfüllung einer politisch-privaten Rolle" (Frauenbilder/Frauenkörper: Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens, Tübingen 25.-26.6.2010)
  • (2010) "Civilian Staffs and War-Waging Capacities in the High Qing" (Annual Conference of the Society for Military History/Chinese Military History Society, Lexington, VA 20.5.2010)
  • (2010) "The Use of Artillery in 18th Century Chinese Warfare and the Need for Metals" (Fourth International Workshop of the Research Group "Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", Tübingen 14.4.2010)
  • (2009) "Sprache als Teil des Kosmos – Laut, Bild und Natur im Denken der Han-Zeit (206 v. Chr.-220 n. Chr.)" (Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien, "Sprache und Wirklichkeit in China", München 27.-29.11.2009)
  • (2009) "Mobilizing the Empire: The Logistics of War in 18th Century China" (War and Devastation in the Qing and Ottoman Empires, Istanbul 12.6.2009)
  • (2008) "Risk and Reward for Military and Civilian Officials Serving in High-Qing Military Campaigns: Issues, Procedures, and Consequences" (Third International Workshop of the Research Group "Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", Tübingen 2.10.2008)
  • (2007) "From Corruption to Seduction: Tracing the Case of Zhang Guangsi, a Military Leader of the First Jinchuan Campaign (1747-1749)" (Second International Workshop of the Research Group "Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900", Bochum 4.10.2007)
  • (2006) "War Financing in 18th Century China – An Enterprise Without Controlling Department" (XVI. Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Ljubljana 1.9.2006)
  • (2004) "In ein neues Zeitalter – Naturwissenschaft und Technologie der VR China seit 1978" (29. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Halle 21.9.2004)

Vorträge für die Öffentlichkeit

  • (2024) "The Opium Question and Ancient China’s Capacity for Defence" (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut d.a.i. Tübingen)
  • (2022) "Digitale Sozialsteuerung in China", Studium Generale Zukunftsvisionen der digitalen Gesellschaft (VHS Aalen)
  • (2022) "Das Ginseng-Monopol zur Qing-Zeit (c. 1600-1912)", Ringvorlesung Protektionismus - 2000 Jahre und kein Ende? (FU Berlin)
  • (2022) "Wirtschaft im Mittelalter: China (200-1200)", Ringvorlesung/Übung Arm/Reich: Wirtschaft im Mittelalter (Universität Münster und FU Berlin)
  • (2020) "Organisierte Kriminalität und soziale Kontrolle in Asien", Vorlesungsreihe Control and Security in Modern and Premodern Asia and Europe (Universität Münster)
  • (2014) "Frauen, die Chinas Geschicke steuerten" (Tübingen, Deutsch-Chinesischer Freundeskreis)
  • (2013) "Traditionelle chinesische Lackkunst: Ein vergessenes Handwerk" (Tübingen, Deutsch-Chinesischer Freundeskreis)
  • (2013) "Chinesisch lernen – ja oder nein?", Burg-Gymnasium in Schorndorf
  • (2012) "Kommentare zu Zhang Yimous Film Das rote Kornfeld" (Tübingen, Deutsch-Chinesischer Freundeskreis)
  • (2012) "Stinktöpfe und Ölprinzen – China in den Werken Karl Mays" (Tübingen, Deutsch-Chinesischer Freundeskreis, und Leipzig, Konfuzius-Institut)
  • (2010) "Denkzeit: China - eine Alternative zum europäischen Entwicklungsmodell?" (TV-Sendung Bayern Alpha, 11.09.10, Eine Veranstaltung des Freundeskreises der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing)
  • (2010) "Tsingtao - Deutschlands ehemalige Kolonie in China" (Tübingen, Deutsch-Chinesischer Freundeskreis)
  • (2007) "Tübinger vor 100 Jahren in Fernost: Tübingen – Tsingtau – Ninoshima" (Stadtmuseum Tübingen)