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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Asian Studies,Prehistory and World Archaeology |
| Keywords | Chinese Studies, Early China, Chinese History, Sinology, Chinese Archaeology |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Scout of the Henriette Herz Scouting Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2018: Short-term Visiting Fellowship for Inviting Visiting Scholars, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at LMU Munich 2012: Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2012: LMU-UC Berkeley Research in the Humanities Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship 2005: PhD Scholarship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Graduiertenschule |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | München |
| Institution | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) |
| Institute | Institut für Sinologie |
| Homepage | http://www.sinologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/selbitschka/index.html |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Mark Edward Lewis | Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford |
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| Prof. Dr. Ban Wang | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, Stanford |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2012 |
Programme(s)
| 2012 | Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Armin Selbitschka: “Making and Unmaking Ancestors: Early Chinese Tombs and Food Practices Above and Below Ground.”. In: Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 40, 2025, 19–38 |
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| 2024 | Armin Selbitschka: "Stadtmauern, Ruinen, Leere Städte und die Unzulänglichkeiten frühchinesischer Herrscher.”. Lost Cities: Vom Leben mit verlassenen Städten in den Kulturen der Welt. Martin Zimmermann, 2024. 69–87 |
| 2024 | Armin Selbitschka: Displaying the Dead: Funeral Processions, Tombs, Performance, and Place in Ancient Rome and China. In: Hans Beck and Griet Vankeerberghen, Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 437–468 |
| 2023 | Armin Selbitschka: Astana, Jiaohe and other Turfan Cemeteries: The Movement of People, Ideas, and Objects in Gaochang Kingdom (442-640). The World of the Ancient Silk Road. Liu Xinru, 2023. 276-292. |
| 2021 | Armin Selbitschka: Ducks in the Desert: Some Thoughts on Wooden Duck Figurines from Early Medieval Tombs in the Turfan Area.. In: 171-219., Zwischen den Meeren / Between the Seas: Festschrift für Roderich Ptak anläßlich seiner Emeritierung.. Marc Nürnberger and Cai Jiehua, 2021. 171-219 |
| 2020 | Armin Selbitschka: Leben und Tod im frühmittelalterlichen Gaochang 高昌: Grabinschriften als historische Quellen der Qu 麴-Periode (502-640). Aus geteilten Zeiten: Geburtstagsgabe für Shing Müller – Studien zur Nanbeichao-Periode. Roderich Ptak, 2020. 153-185 |
| 2019 | Armin Selbitschka.: Tribute, Hostages, and Marriage Alliances: A Close Reading of Diplomatic Strategies in the Northern Wei Period. . In: Early Medieval China., 2019, 64-84 |
| 2018 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Genuine Prestige Goods in Mortuary Contexts: Emulation in Polychrome Silk and Byzantine Solidi from Northern China.'. In: Asian Perspectives, 2018, 2-50 |
| 2018 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation to Funerary Rites.'. In: Early China, 2018, 179-243 |
| 2018 | Armin Selbitschka: 'The Early Silk Road(s).|. In: David Ludden, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.. Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| 2018 | Armin Selbitschka.: The Pitfalls of Second-hand Information: On the Traditionalist Dogma in Chinese Excavation Reports. . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities., 2018, 31-72 |
| 2018 | Armin Selbitschka: I Write, Therefore I Am: Scribes, Literacy and Identity in Early China. . In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2018, 413-476 |
| 2017 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Quotidian Afterlife: Grain, Granary Models, and the Notion of Continuing Sustenance in Late Pre-imperial and Early Imperial Tombs.'. In: Shing Müller and Armin Selbitschka, Über den Alltag hinaus: Festschrift für Thomas O. Höllmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Harrassowitz, 2017. 89-106 |
| 2017 | Shing Müller and Armin Selbitschka: Über den Alltag hinaus: Festschrift für Thomas O. Höllmann zum 65. Geburtstag. . Harrassowitz, 2017 |
| 2016 | Armin Selbitschka: 'A Tricky Game: Liubo ?? in its Archaeological Context.'. In: Oriens Extremus, 2016, 105-166 |
| 2015 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Early Chinese Diplomacy: Realpolitik vs. the so-called Tributary System.'. In: Asia Major, Third series, 2015, 61-114 |
| 2015 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Miniature Tomb Figurines and Models in Pre-imperial and Early Imperial China: Origins, Development, and Significance.'. In: World Archaeology, 2015, 20-44 |
| 2013 | Armin Selbitschka: 'The Terracotta Men and their Roles.'. In: Maria Khayutina, Qin: The Eternal Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.. NZZ, 2013. 156-163 |
| 2013 | Armin Selbitschka: 'The Tomb Complex and its Hidden Secrets.'. In: Maria Khayutina, Qin: The Eternal Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.. NZZ, 2013. 144-153 |
| 2010 | Armin Selbitschka: 'Moxing mingqi suo miaohui de Han dai Lingnan diqu de richang shenghuo' ???????????????????.. In: Zhongguo Shehui Kexueyuan Kaogu Yanjiusuo ???????????? and Guangzhou shi Wenwu Kaogu Yanjiusuo ??????????. Xi Han Nanyue guo kaogu yu Han wenhua ???????????.. Kexue chubanshe, 2010. 177-205 |
| 2010 | Armin Selbitschka: Prestigegüter entlang der Seidenstraße? Archäologische und historische Untersuchungen zu Chinas Beziehungen zu Kulturen des Tarimbeckens vom zweiten bis frühen fünften Jahrhundert nach Christus. 2 Vols.. Harrassowitz, 2010 |