Christian Soffel

Christian Soffel got his Ph.D. from Munich University in 2001. Since then he has worked as postdoc at Arizona State University (sponsored by a Feodor Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and at the Academia Sinica in Taipei. In 2004 he received a position as assistant professor at the Institute of Sinology of the LMU in Munich, and in 2012 he has been offered a full professorship in sinology at the University of Trier. His research interests are Chinese history of thought, in particular Confucianism in the Song dynasty, traditional Chinese literature, and the impact of Confucianism on Chinese literati in the 20th and 21st centuries.