KARL-HEINZ POHL
1966 Beginning of the study of Sinology, Japanology and art history at the Universities of Hamburg, Bonn and Toronto with degree in 1978. In 1982 he received his doctorate from the University of Toronto. Between 1983 and 1987 Karl-Heinz Pohl was scientific assistant (with Hans Steininger) at the seminar for Sinologie of the University of Würzburg. In 1987 he was appointed Professor of Chinese Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Tübingen. In 1992 he moved to the University of Trier, where he worked as a professor of Sinology.
His areas of research include Chinese intellectual history, ethics and aesthetics of modern and pre-modern China, modern and classical Chinese literature, and intercultural communication and dialogue between China and the West.
Hispublications mainly concern the poet Tao Yuanming, literature, calligraphy and painting in the Qing Dynasty, modern Chinese poetry of the 80s and Confucianism.
Karl-Heinz Pohl:Cheng Pan-ch'iao: Poet, Painter and Calligrapher.Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 1990; Monumenta Serica Monograph Series Nr. XXI.
Karl-Heinz Pohl:与中国作跨文化对话(Interkultureller Dialog mit China).Zhonghua Shuju, Peking 2000. (Überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuausgabe, 2003).
Karl-Heinz Pohl:Ästhetik und Literaturtheorie in China – Von der Tradition bis zur Moderne.Saur Verlag, München 2006 (Band 5 der Reihe: Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur, Hrsg.Wolfgang Kubin).
Karl-Heinz Pohl:China für Anfänger. Eine faszinierende Welt entdecken.Herder, Freiburg u.a. 2008 (überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage).
Karl-Heinz Pohl:Annäherungen an einen Literaturbegriff in China.In: Simone Winko et al. (Hrsg.):Grenzen der Literatur. Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen.Walter de Gruyter, Berlin und New York 2009.
Karl-Heinz Pohl:Chinesische Kultur und Ästhetik im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.In: Iwo Amelung und Anett Dippner (Hrsg.):Kritische Verhältnisse. Die Rezeption der Frankfurter Schule in China.Campus, Frankfurt 2009, S. 337–352.
Karl-Heinz Pohl:Chinese and Western Values: Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue.Journal of Globalization Studies. Volume 3, Number 1 / May 2012, pp. 94-103.
