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Matthias Richter graduated with a diploma in German and English literature from the University of Jena, then East Germany, in 1985. After working for several years as a private and high school teacher, he studied Sinology, Japanology and Philosophy in Munich and Beijing and received a PhD in Sinology from the University of Hamburg in 2000. He taught early Chinese literature and philosophy at several German universities and conducted a three year research project in manuscript studies at the University of Hamburg. After one year as a Creel Research Fellow at the University of Chicago, he joined CU �Ǹ�Թ� in Fall 2007.

Publications:��

Publications include the monographs The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013) and Guan ren: Texte der altchinesischen Literatur zur Charakterkunde und Beamtenrekrutierung [Early Chinese Texts on Characterology and the Recruitment of Officials] (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005) as well as two edited volumes: “Methodological Issues in the Study of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Papers from the Second Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop,” in Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LIX.1 (2005) and “Special Section: Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop,” in Monumenta Serica 51 (2003). His��various articles in German, American and Chinese journals and books discuss early Chinese literature with an emphasis on textual criticism and manuscript studies.

Research Interests:��

Warring States and Early Imperial politico-philosophical literature, particularly questions of rhetorics and redactional strategies, textual criticism, the formational history of texts, and the methodology of studying early Chinese manuscripts.