Professor Sabine Dabringhaus

Prof. Dr. Sabine Dabringhaus, born 1962, studied sinology, history and political science at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. From October 1987 until July 1990 she pursued her PhD at the Institute of Qing-History (Qingshi Yanjiusuo) of the People’s University of China (Zhongguo Renmin Daxue) in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. After being employed as a researcher in the department of history at University of Freiburg (1991/1992) and a field trip to the People’s Republic of China, she held a research position (C1) at the Institute for East Asia Studies (Sinology) at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Chair: Prof. Dr. Roderich Ptak). In January 2003 she received her habilitation there (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). From December 2002 until December 2008 she was appointed as a Junior Professor at the Department for Modern and East Asian History (Neuere und Außereuropäische Geschichte) at the University of Freiburg’s Department of History. In December 2008 she assumed a newly established chair position in East Asian History (Außereuropäische Geschichte).

Her research focuses on the Sino-Manchurian Qing Imperium (1644-1911) in the context of comparative imperial history, court societies in Asia and Europe, nationalism in China of the 20th century, the history of the Chinese humanities, Mao Zedong and the communist revolution in China, long term political developments in the Chinese Republic (1912-1949), the cultural basis of Chinese modernity, the history of Central Asia (especially Tibet and Mongolia) and the history of Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia. She is co-publisher of “Periplus: Jahrbuch für Außereuropäische Geschichte", Essen (since 2003) and the journal, “Qing History Overseas Research” (Qingshi yicong), Beijing (since 2004).

Research Project

The "West" from the view of Chinese Diaspora: Entrepreneurship in Indonesia

The Chinese Civil War in Thailand (1945-1956)