Barbara Mittler

Barbara Mittler (* February 15, 1968 in Hagen, Westphalia ) is a German sinologist and Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".

Training

Barbara Mittler studied Sinology, musicology and Japanese Studies in Oxford, Heidelberg, Taipei ( Taiwan). She received her PhD in 1994 summa cum laude and qualified, according to a research stay as a Fellow at Harvard University, in 1998 at the University of Heidelberg. After calls in the U.S. ( Barnard College, Columbia University) has since 2004 held the chair of Sinology and was until 2012 Director of Sinology Institute. From 2007 she was head of the research section " Public Spheres " at the Cluster of Excellence " Asia and Europe in a Global Context". Since November 2012 she is on the boards of the Excellence Cluster. Intermediary is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2008.

For their performances received the Barbara Mittler 2000 Heinz Maier- Leibnitz Prize of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Furthermore, it was in the years 2002 to 2004 Heisenberg Fellowship of the DFG. In 2009, Barbara Mittler of the American Philosophy Society with the Henry Allen Moe Prize for her essay Popular propaganda? Honored Art and Culture in Revolutionary China. In it she addresses the question of why the propaganda products from the times of Mao are still popular in China and as a mythical figure was from Mao. 2013, it was for her study "A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture" by John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History Award of the American Historical Association.

Research

Barbara Mittler research on the Chinese and Taiwanese music, literature and cultural history, encyclopedias, comics, historical and contemporary news media, satire and women's magazines and she deals with issues of visuality and history.

Writings

• A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. (Harvard East Asian Monographs Series 343). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2013.
• A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity and Change in Shanghai 's News Media ( 1872-1912 ). (Asia Monographs Series 226). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
• Dangerous tunes. The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949. ( Sino Opera logica 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997.

Private

Barbara Mittler is the daughter of flautist Uta mediator and the librarian Elmar Mittler. She is married to the classicists Thomas A. Schmitz and has two sons.