Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schulz Zinda

Areas of Research

Korea / China:

• Academic disciplines of humanities during socialist construction 1950s-1970s (North Korea / China)
• History of Film
• Modern philosophy (China)
• School textbooks (end 19th, beginning 20thcentury)

Curriculum vitae

Professional career

2012 -	Professor for Contemporary East Asian Cultures Head of Korean studies
2014.9-12	Fellow at the Center for International Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University (project: Shanghai place branding yesterday and today: presentations in Chinese and foreign film)
2010 - 2012	Part time professor in Sinology (Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich).
2006 - 2010	Director of the project „Institutionalizing the humanities in the PRC: the 1950s“ funded by the German Research Foundation.
2004 – 2010	Juniorprofessorin for Sinology at Universität Hamburg.
2003.5.-6.	Professeur invité at EHESS in Paris invited by MSH.
2003	Junior researcher  in the  library of Korean studies at  Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
2000 - 2001	Researcher in the project: Myth and modern historiography in Korea and China  as part of Special Research Complex: SFB 529 Internationalität nationaler Literaturen  (International aspects of national literature,), Universität of Göttingen.
1998 - 1999	Junior researcher in the field of education in the project Modern Chinese Scientific Terminologies, Universität Göttingen / Universität Erlangen.
1994 - 1998	Lectureship for  Korean  Language and part-time  librarian in  the  Korean section  at  Institut für Ostasienkunde,  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (funded by Korea Foundation).

Education

2001	Dr. phil. (Ph.D. Sinology), thesis on “‘Li’ und ‘Shi’ als ontologische Antwort auf das Humesche Kausalitätsproblem innerhalb des Induktionsproblems in Jin Yuelins Werk Lun Dao”.
1994 – 2001	Graduate student at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München und Universität Hamburg.
1993-1994	Fellow of Korea Foundation Language Program at Seoul Natl. University, Yonsei University.
1993	Magister (M.A.) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, thesis on “Li Zehou und Aspekte der chinesischen Philosophiegeschichte”.
1985 – 1993	Studies in sinology, philosophy, political sciences and Korean language at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, SOAS London, Fujen University, Taiwan.

Monographs
(in preparation) Humanities reborn: Chinese academic philosophy in the 1950s and its Pre-1949 foundations.

Jin Yuelin’s ontology Lun Dao: Perspectives on the problem of induction. Leiden: Brill (2012).

Ren Jiyu: The Marxist view on Chinese philosophy and religion, (with Carine Defoort) Special issue of Contemporary Chinese Thought: Translations and Studies 4 (summer 2010).

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (selection)
“What happened to the Marxist paradigm? On the transformations in PRC academic philosophy” (keynote speech at the STCS Conference “From Hegel to Mao and Beyond – the long March of Sinicizing Marxism”, Dep of. Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana & Slovene Academy, 20th-22nd April 2018).

“Commemorating the October revolution in the PRC with a glimpse to North Korea”, Commemorating October 1917: Re-thinking Marxism and the Russian Revolution in East and Southeast Asia Palacký University Olomouc, 21th Oct 2017.

“From Philosophy of the masses to New philosophy of the masses: adaptation of Marxist guidelines for philosophy to global conditions”, EACP, Universität Basel, 7th-9th Sept. 2017.

“Representing living space in North Korean film: Three school films from the early 1960s” Korean Screen culture conference, Universität Hamburg, 17th June 2017.

“Some considerations on the Chinese and Korean versions of Shenjing zhijie 聖經直解 and Shengjing guangyi 聖經廣益“ (Paper given at the conference “The beginning of Korean Humanities: focusing on the years 1895-1905”, Institute of Humanities, SNU, 30th October 2016).

“Pictures From ‘Home’: Representing Shanghai in Film”, Conference 外僑與近代中國口岸城市國際學術討論會, SASS / Fudan University, November 2014.

“The new conception of the history of philosophy in North Korea: The case of Sirhak”, 115 years Korean Studies, University St Petersburg, November 2012.

Papers
(in preparation) “Academic philosophy in North Korea: The reorganisation of heritage in the 1950s until the beginning of the 1960s”.

2023
„Winning the Korean War: Early DPRK and PRC Film“, in European Journal of Korean Studies Vol 23 (2023, 1), p. 89-122.

„Initiating German Korean Studies in Context: 1930s, the GDR, and the FRG“, in Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim (Hg.): Cross-border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea, Lanham: Lexington, 2023, p. 213-236.

2019
“The Transformations of PRC Academic Philosophy: Maoist Features and Their Use under Xi Jinping”. In: Asian Studies: From Hegel to Mao and Beyond: the Long March of Sinicizing Marxism, Vol 7.1 (2019), 219-245.

“On the early Marxist Concept of Philosophy”. In: Raji C. Steineck / Ralph Weber (Hg.) Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World: China and Japan, Vol. 1, 90-127.

2015
“1950 niandai Zhongguo renwen xuekede chongjian 1950 年代人文科学重建  (3): Wang Dunshu, Gao Fang 王敦書, 高放訪談錄” [Rehabilitating 1950s humanities (3): interview with Wang Dunshu, Gao Hua], with Wang Weijiang 王維江, in: Zhongguo Lishi Pinglun, 9, p. 34-64.

“1950 niandai Zhongguo renwen xuekede chongjian 1950  年代人文科学重建  (2): Zhu Weizheng, Wang Xingyun 朱維錚, 王興運訪談錄” [Rehabilitating 1950s humanities (2): interview with Zhu Weizheng, Wang Xingyun], with Wang Weijiang  王維江, in: Zhongguo Lishi Pinglun, 68, p. 1-28.

“1950 niandai Zhongguo renwen xuekede chongjian 1950 年代人文科学重建  (1): Zhang Chuanxi, Tian Yuqing, Cai Meibiao 張傳璽, 田餘慶, 蔡美彪 訪談錄” [Rehabilitating 1950s humanities (1): interview with Zhang Chuanxi, Tian Yuqing, Cai Meibiao], with Wang Weijiang 王維江, in: Zhongguo Lishi Pinglun, 6, p. 1-30.  

2014
„Das „Deutsche Dorf“ in Namhae: Arbeiten in Deutschland, altern in Korea“, in: Chang-Gusko,  Young-Seun (ed.):  Unbekannte Vielfalt: Einblicke in die koreanische Migrationsgeschichte in Deutschland. Köln: [DOMiD - Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland e.V.], S. 212-222.

2012
“Marxist views on traditional Chinese philosophy pre-1949”, in Makeham, John (ed.). Learning to emulate the wise: The genesis of Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline in twentieth-century China. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, p. 311-345.

“Jin Yuelin’s ambivalent status as a ‘Chinese philosopher’”, in: Makeham, John (ed.). Learning to emulate the wise: The genesis of Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline in twentieth-century China. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, p. 233-268.

2011
“Wushi niandai lishixuekede chongjian: Jin Chongji xiansheng fangtanlu 五十年代歷史學科的重建訪談錄” [Rehabilitating 1950s historical science: interview with Jin Chongji] with Wang Weijiang 王維江 and Wei Ling 韋淩, in: Shilin 史林 (special issue), p. 59-68.

“Glokales Kino: der südkoreanische Blockbuster My sassy girl (Yǒpki chǒk-in kŭnyǒ) von Kwak Jae-yong”, in Asien (Oktober), p. 29-45.

2010
“Ren Jiyu: The Marxist view on Chinese philosophy and religion”, introduction with Carine Defoort, in Contemporary Chinese Thought 4 (Sommer), p. 3-17.

“Wang Yuanhua fangtanlu 王元化訪談錄”  (Interview with Wang Yuanhua) with Wang Weijiang 王維江 and Wei Ling 韋淩, in: Shilin 史林 (special issue), p. 21-23.

“Die Revolutionärin Qiu Jin (1875-1907): Der Stoff, aus dem die Heldin ist”, in: Oranskaia Tatjana / Schuler, Barbara (Hg.).  Göttinnen und Heilige, Heldinnen und Herrscherinnen. Frankfurt: Lang, p. 61-80.

“In memory of Hu Shi: friend or foe? - Biographical writing on Hu Shi in the PRC”, NOAG, Vol. 185-186, p. 153-178.

2008
“Representation and nostalgic reinvention of Shanghai in Chinese film”, in: Graf, Arndt / Chua,  Peng Huat. Port cities: Asian and European transformationp.  London: Routlegde, p. 159-175.

“Oppositionelle Selbstbehauptung im geteilten Land: Aspekte und Themen der südkoreanischen Minjungbewegung und der taiwanesischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung im Verlauf der 1980er”, in: Lackner, Michael. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Selbstbehauptung: Ostasiatische Diskurse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Baden-Baden: Nomos, p. 134-159.

2007
“Preliminary considerations on two modern approaches to li: Jin Yulin’s Lun Dao and Feng Youlan’s Xin lixue”, in: Asian and African Studies 11, 1-2, p. 127-140.

(translated in: Yifu Shuerci Xinda 伊芙 舒爾茨 辛達 “Xin ‘daode’ de chuanfan: wanqing xinshi xiaoxue jiaokeshu zhongde ‘aiguo’” 新‘道德’的傳播: 晚清新式小學教科書中的‘愛國’，in Fudan Daxue Lishixi, Fudan Daxue Zhongwai Xiandaihua Jincheng Yanjiu Zhongxin 復旦大學歷史系·復旦大學中外現代化進程研究中心  (Hg.).  Zhongguo xiandai xuekede xingcheng  中國現代學科的形成,  (Serie: Jindai Zhongguo yanjiu jikan, 3). Shanghai: Shanghai gujin chubanshe, p.363-385).

2006
“Han Wudi Fernsehstar oder der nahbare Kaiser”, in: Friedrich, Michael et al. (Hg.). Han-zeit: Festschrift für Hans Stumpfeldt aus Anlaß seines 65. Geburtstages,  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, p. 117-129.

“Chinese terminology in the framework of Western thought: The case of Jin Yuelin (1895-1984)”, in: Challenges for Urban cultural studies, COE, Urban-Culture Research Center: Osaka City University, p. 5-18.

2004
“Propagating new ‘virtues’ - ‘Patriotism’ in Late Qing textbooks for the moral education of primary Students”, in: Lackner, Michael und Vittinghoff, Natascha (Hg.). Translating Western knowledge into Late Imperial China. Leiden: Brill, p. 685-710.

2003
„Die Historisierung nationaler Gründungsmythen und die Konstruktion von Tradition in Nordkorea und der VR China in den 1990ern”, in: Kirschnereit-Hijiya, Irmela und Lackner, Michael et al. (Hg.).  Asiatische Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, p. 291-321.

1997
„Vom edlen Bettler zum Konterrevolutionär: Zur Rezeption Wu Xuns (1838-1896) vom späten Kaiserreich bis in die achtziger Jahre”, in: Internationales Asienforum, Nr. 4, 28, p. 319-345.