Major Publications
Vogel (with Günter Dux) is editor of Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (Leiden: Brill, 2010). In 2013, he published Marco Polo Was in China: New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues (Leiden: Brill) which in 2015 received an ICAS Accolade for the best specialist book publication in social sciences for 2013 and 2014. With Cao Jin and Sabine Kink, he has authored a textbook titled Die Falschmünzerbande vom Alten Rabenhorst im Distrikt Tongzi, Guizhou (1794); Band 1: Die chinesische Dokumentensprache der Qing-Zeit (1644-1911) in Forschung und Lehre; Band 2: Chinesische Dokumente [The Counterfeiter Gang of the Old Crow’s Nest in Tongzi District, Guizhou (1794); Volume 1: Documentary Language of the Qing Period (1644-1911) in Research and Teaching; Volume 2: Chinese Documents], which will be published by Tübingen University Press in 2023. Near completion are his history of the production technology of the salt, natural gas and petroleum in traditional China and a book manuscript (with Peter Golas † et al.) on “China's Georgius Agricola”: Wu Qijun (1789-1847) and his “Illustrated Account of the Mines and Smelters of Yunnan”, which is a history of the mining and smelting industries in Yunnan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Other Activities
From 1999 to 2016 Prof. Vogel was editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, and from 2005 to 2012 director of the DFG Research Group "Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900: Local, Regional, National and International Dimensions". He is editor-in-chief of the Brill monograph series Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900.