IOWC Research Director: Angela Schottenhammer

Prof. Dr. Schottenhammer is professor of Pre–modern Chinese History at the Centre of Asian and African Studies (CEAA), El Colegio de México, Mexico City, México, and unscheduled professor of Chinese Studies at the Department for Asian Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Since 2002, Dr. Schottenhammer has been Professor of Chinese History at the Department for Asian Studies, Munich University; beginning in 2006, she became head of the Sinology Department in Marburg University, Germany. She is Project Supervisor of “The East Asian Mediterranean c. 1500–1850,” an international research project sponsored by the VW–Foundation 05/2002–06/2009).

For her Wudai and Song history website, see www.schottenhammer.net. Dr. Schottenhammer's focus of research includes: Ancient and contemporary history of China with a main focus on politico–economic and socio–cultural history, history of history of China's foreign, in particular maritime exchange relations, tomb inscriptions, aspects of the history of science and technology; concerning time periods, the main focus lies on the late Tang, Wudai and Song period, the late Ming and Qing dynasties, and contemporary China.

Prof. Schottenhammer is establishing an internationally operating "Research Centre on Exchange Relations in the East Asian World". The geographical focus of the research conducted at this Centre is the East China Sea bordered by the three countries China, Japan, and Korea, but also beyond, reaching out to Southeast Asia as well as to Central Asia and Russia, notably encompassing the regions along the former "Silk Road". This project is aimed at exploring both continental and maritime "silk routes" in the macro region of East Asia in their historical dimensions, focussing on the interconnectedness of the various egions along these two "silk routes" and investigating a wide range of sources from archaeological findings to texts, documents,
and pictorial material, to linguistic evidence.

• China's administration of maritime trade: From the Maritime Trade Office (shibo si) to the Customs House (haiguan), East Asian Maritime History 4, A. Schottenhammer (ed.), Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢.
• The “Liuqiu–Guildhouse” in Fuzhou (Liuqiu guan 琉球館) during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
• The (coastal) inner–Chinese network of merchants, brokers (yahang) and ‘guildhouses’ (huiguan) and their integration into East Asian maritime trade networks (analysis of inscriptions, local gazetters, epitaphs, genealogies etc., working title).
• G. W. F. Hegel und sein Chinabild: Einige richtigstellende Bemerkungen.

• “The Emergence of China as a Maritime Power,” subsection of vol. 5 of the Cambridge History of China, ed. by John W. Chaffee und Denis Twitchett, ca. 65 pages.

• 2011 - together with Peter Feldbauer, Globalgeschichte 1000-1250. Wien, Essen: Mandelbaum Verlag 2011.
• 2011 Taiwan – A Bridge Between the East and the South China Sea. Otto Harrassowitz 2010. East Asian Maritime History, 11.
• 2010 Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2010. East Asian Maritime History, 9. 220 pages. Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢
• 2009 Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur / Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008, pp. 231–254.
  
• 2008 Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), The East Asian Mediterranean – Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce, and Human Migration. Conference volume. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2008. East Asian Maritime History, 6. 399 pages.
• 2006/07 Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), The East Asian Maritime World, 1400–1800. Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges. East Asian Maritime History 4. A. Schottenhammer (ed.), Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua uncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2006. 283 pages.
• 2006 Angela Schottenhammer (ed), Chinas Eintritt in die Weltpolitik. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde 2006. Schriften des Instituts für Asienkunde.
• 2006 Roderich Ptak, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), The Perception of Maritime Space in Traditional Chinese Sources . East Asian Maritime History 2. A. Schottenhammer (ed.), Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2006. c. 180 pages.



• 2005 Trade and Transfer across the East Asian ‘Mediterranean’, East Asian Maritime History 1, A. Schottenhammer (ed.), Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2005. 344 pages.
• 04/2003 Auf den Spuren des Jenseits – Chinesische Grabkultur in den Facetten von Wirklichkeit, Geschichte und Totenkult (On the trails of the netherworld – Chinese burials in the facets of reality, history and cult of the dead). Frankfurt, Wien, Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 234 pages.
• 01/2002 Das songzeitliche Quanzhous im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zentralregierung und maritimem Handel. Unerwartete Konsequenzen des zentralstaatlichen Zugriffs auf den Reichtum einer Küstenregion (Song Time Quanzhouin a Conflict Situation Between Central Government and Maritime Trade: Unexpected Consequences of the Central Government's Grasp at the Wealth of a Coastal Region). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2002. Münchener Ostasiatische Studien 80. 428 pages. (Habilitation thesis)
• 11/2000 The Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou, 1000–1400. Leiden, Boston, Köln: E. J. Brill 2001. Sinica Leidensia 49. 449 pages.
• 1995 Grabinschriften in der Song–Dynastie (Epitaphs in Song China). Inaugural–Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde (PhD dissertation; eingereicht im August 1993). Heidelberg: edition forum 1995. Würzburger Sinologische Schriften. 214 pages.
• 1993 Zufußgehen und Zubodenfallen. Gespräche mit Liao über den Beginn der Kulturrevolution (Talks with Liao Mosha on the Cultural Revolution). Heidelberg: edition forum 1993. Würzburger Sinologische Schriften. 79 pages.

• 2011 “Huihui Medicine and Medicinal Drugs in Yuan China”, Proceedings of the International Workshop “Eurasian Influences on Yuan China: Cross-cultural transmissions in the 13th and 14th centuries”; Binghamton University, Downtown Centre Campus, 20.-21.11.2009, Binghamton, NY, USA. (in print) (EAC, C, T, SS).
• 2011 Westasiatisch-muslimische (Huihui 回回) Medizin und Ärzte im yuanzeitlichen China (13./14. Jh.)“, in Michael Borgolte (Hrsg.), Migration als transkulturelle Verpflechtung im mittelalterlichen Jahrtausend. Europa, Ostasien und Afrika im Vergleich. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2011, 18 pages. (in print) (EAC, C, T, SS, E).
• 2011 "Appendix to Angela Schottenhammer, 'Brokers and 'Guild' (huiguan 會館) Organizations in China's Maritime Trade with her Eastern Neighbours during the Ming and Qing Dynasties," Crossroads 3 (2011), 35 pages. (EAC, C, E, SS) (in print)
• 2010 "Brokers and "Guild" (huiguan 會館) Organizations in China's Maritime Trade with her Eastern Neighbours during the Ming and Qing Dynasties", in Billy So Kee Long et al. (ed.), 明清時期江南市場經濟的空間、制度與網絡 The Market Economy of the Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China: Space, Institutions and Networks. (Hong Kong, Taipei: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Academia Sinica, 2010), c. 30 pp.
• 2010 "The Liao 遼 Period (907–1127) Xuanhua 宣化–Tomb Complex (11th/12th centuries): an example of cultural and religious diversity and assimilation", in Adelheid Hermann–Pfandt (Hrsg.), Festschrift für Christoph Elsas. Marburg: 2010), 8 pp. and 12 ill., in print (C, SS)
• 2010 "Characteristics of Qing China's Maritime Trade Politics, Shunzhi through Early Qianlong Reigns", in A.S. (ed.), Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2010, pp. 101–154. East Asian Maritime History, 9.
• 2010 "The transfer of Xiangyao 香藥 from Iran and Arabia to China – A Reinvestigation of Entries in the Youyang zazu 酉陽雜俎 (863)", in Ralph Kauz (ed.), Interaction on the Maritime Silk Road: From the Persian Gulf to the East China Sea. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2010. East Asian Maritime History, 10, pp. 121–153.
• 2009 "Chūgoku keizaishi no kenkyū ni okeru kahei to kahei seisaku: futatsu no jiri to sore ni kansuru kenkai 中国経済史の研究における貨幣と貨幣政策: 二つの事例とそれに関する見解" (Money and monetary policy in the study of Chinese economic history: Two examples and some related observations), in Ihara Hiroshi (ed.), 『宋銭の世界』[The World of Song Money]. Tōkyō: Bensei shuppansha 2009, pp. 219–250
• 2009 "Vom mongolischen Teilreich zum neuen Reich der Mitte", in Thomas Ertl (Hrsg.), Die Welt, 1250 bis 1500 (The World 1250 to 1500). Essen: Magnusverlag 2009, pp. 355–382. Globalgeschichte. Die Welt 1000–2000 (Global History. The World 1000–2000).
• 2009 "A Buried Past: The Tomb Inscription (muzhiming) and Official Biographies of Wang Chuzhi 王處直 (863–923)", JESHO 52:1 (2009), pp. 15–56, special issue from an AAS panel 2007
• 2009 “Horses in late Imperial China and Maritime East Asia: An Introduction into Trade, Distribution, and other Aspects (c. sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)”, in Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur / Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008, pp. 231–254.
• 2008 “China – ein Weltreich im Umbruch” (China – an Empire in Transformation), in Peter Feldbauer, Bernd Hausberger (Hrsg.), Globalgeschichte, 17. Jahrhundert (The World in the 17th Century). Essen: Magnusverlag 2008, pp. 275 – 310. Globalgeschichte. Die Welt 1000–2000 (Global History. The World 1000–2000).
• 2008 “Japan – the tiny Dwarf? Sino–Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns", in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), The East Asian Mediterranean  – Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce, and Human Migration. Conference volume. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2008, pp. 331 – 388. East Asian Maritime History, 6.
• 2008 “Eine chinesische Weltordnung: Ostasien” (A Chinese World Order: East Asia), in Peter Feldbauer, Jean–Paul Lehners (Hrsg.), Die Welt im 16. Jahrhundert (The World in the 16th Century). Essen: Magnusverlag 2007, pp. 290–334. Globalgeschichte. Die Welt 1000–2000 (Global History. The World 1000–2000).
• 2008 “Sklaverei im alten China und in Ostasien” (Slavery in ancient China and East Asia), Lemma im Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (Encyclopeadia of Ancient Slavery), hrsg. von Ingomar Weiler und Johannes Deißler. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur 2008. 3 pages.
• 2008 “Japan – the tiny dwarf? Sino–Japanese relations from the kangxi to the early qianlong reigns”, Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 106 (2008), National University of Singapore, Singapore, to be downloaded from the ARI website under http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=461
• 2007 “Gräber und Jenseitsvorstellungen im alten China”(Tombs and Perceptions of Death in Ancient China), in: Sterben, Tod und Trauer in den Religionen und Kulturen der Welt. Gemeinsamkeiten und Besonderheiten in Theorie und Praxis, Christoph Elsas (ed.), Hamburg: E.B. Verlag 2007, pp. 65–85.
• 2007 “Europäer in chinesischen Schriften des 16.–19. Jahrhunderts&rdquo (Europeans in Chinese Literature, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries) in: Schriften zur Geschichtsdidaktik 22 (2007), Europa in historisch–didaktischen Perspektiven, hrsg. von Bernd Schönemann und Hartmut Voit, pp. 45–60.
• 2007 “The East Asian Maritime World, 1400–1800. Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges – China and her Neighbours” in: The East Asian Maritime World, 1400–1800. Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges A. S. (ed.), Wiesbaden: Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2007, pp. 1–86.
• 2006 "王處直墓誌銘的再考察 – 關於五代節度使階级裡的 – 些道德及意識形態趨势", Zhonghua wenshi luncong 中華文史論叢 4 (2006).
• 2006 "墓誌銘研究における石刻の重要性", in Hiseki
  wa kataru 碑石は語る. (Tōkyō: Bensei shuppansha, 2006), pp. 82–93. アジア遊学 Intriguing Asia, no 91.
• 2006 Angela Schottenhammer, Schiffahrt und Überseebeziehungen bis ins 3. Jahrhundert: Ein Überblick (Shipping and maritime relations until the 3rd century CE: an overview),in Michael Friedrich (Hrsg.), Han–Zeit. Festschrift für Hans Stumpfeldt aus Anlaß seines 65. Geburtstages. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006, pp. 599–621.
• 2006 Takatsu Takashi 高津孝, Angela Schottenhammer アンゲラ•ショッテンハマ–,“Ryūkyū hyakumon to Tokashiki Tsūkan <琉球百問>と渡嘉敷通寛”, Kagodai shigaku 鹿大史学 (2006), pp. 19–31.
• 2006 China und der Handel–ein historischer Rückblick. Gründe für die Seeverbotspolitik (haijin 海禁) der frühen Ming–Regierung (1368–1644) und deren Aufhebung im Jahre 1567, Dosŏ munhwa 島嶼文化 25 (2005), S. 129–160 (auf Deutsch und in koreanischer Übersetzung von Dr. Koh).
• 2005 " Die finanzpolitische Bezugnahme des songzeitlichen Staates (960–ca. 1100) auf den Reichtum seiner Gesellschaft, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Reformperiode unter Wang Anshi", Oriens Extremus 44 (2003/04), pp. 179–210.
• 2005 The "Liuqiu baiwen 琉球百問" (Hundred Questions from the Liu; 1859) by Cao Cunxin Renbo 曹存心仁伯 (1767–1834): an example of an intercultural encounter in the field of medicine, A. Schottenhammer, Trade and Transfer across the East Asian 'Mediterranean', East Asian Maritime History 1. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2005, pp. 235–274. Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢.
• 2005 " The 'Fujian yanhai hangwu dang'an 福建沿海航務檔案' (jiaqing 嘉慶 period): A Qing Dynasty Collection on Shipbuilding, Customs and Trade, and Sea Transportation in Fujian", in Christine Moll–Murata, Song Jianze, Hans UlrichVogel (eds.), Chinese Handicraft Regulations of the Qing Dynasty: Theory and Application. München: Iudicium Verlag, 2005, pp. 513–518"
• 2004 "Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklungen in Ostasien, 16.–19. Jahrhundert" [Agricultural developments in East Asia, 16th to 19th centuries], Sepp Linhart, Susanne Weigelin–Schwiedrzik (Hg.), Ostasien 1600–1900. Geschichte und Gesellschaft [East Asia 1600–1900. History and Society]. (Wien: Promedia. Edition Weltregionen, 2004), pp. 139–157.
• 05/2004 "Kriege und Barbaren im China des späten 8. bis frühen 10. Jahrhunderts" (Wars and Barbarians in late 8th to early 10th century China), in Thomas Kolnberger, Ilja Steffelbauer et al., Krieg und Akkulturation. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag 2004, pp. 64–84.
• 02/2003 "China und die Ryukyu–Inseln während der Ming– und Qing–Dynastie: Einige Beispiele zum Produkte– und Ideenaustausch im Bereich der Medizin", Roderich Ptak, Claude Guillot, and Jorge M. dos Santos Alves (Hrsg.), Mirabilia Asiatica. Produtos raros no comércio marítimo. Produits rares dans le commerce maritime. Seltene Waren im Seehandel. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2003. S. 85–119.
  South China and Maritime Asia, 11.
• 2003 " Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (17th to early 20th Century) ", Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Conference Volume on Slavery in the Modern and Premodern Worlds. Avignon, Leiden: Frank CASS Publishers 2003, pp. 143–154.
• 2003 " Einige Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Grabinschriften" (Some reflections on the origins of tomb inscriptions), Angela Schottenhammer, Auf den Spuren des Jenseits – Chinesische Grabkultur in den Facetten von Wirklichkeit, Geschichte und Totenkult. Frankfurt, Wien, Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 21–60.
• 2003 "Das Grab des Wang Chuzhi 王處直 (863–923)" (The tomb of Wang Chuzhi), A. Schottenhammer, Auf den Spuren des Jenseits – Chinesische Grabkultur in den Facetten von Wirklichkeit, Geschichte und Totenkult. Frankfurt, Wien, Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 61–118.
• 2001 "China: Ein Emporium der wirtschaftlichen Prosperität" (China: An Emporium of Economic Prosperity), Edelmayer/Feldbauer (Hrsg.), Eine Welt, 1450–1620. Ein langes 16. Jahrhundert (Ringvorlesung zur Globalgeschichte an der Universität Wien) Wien: Promedia/Verein für Geschichte und Sozialkunde 2001. Pp. 179–197.
• 08/2001 "Hainans politische und ökonomische Anbindung an das Festland während der Song–Dynastie" (Hainan's Political and Economic Connection to the Chinese Mainland during the Song Dynasty), Roderich Ptak, Claudine Salmon (Hrsg.), Politik, Wirtschaft und Geschichte Hainans (Konferenzband). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2001. Pp. 35–81.
• 05/2000 " Fifty Years of Socialism in China – From the Self Assertion of a Communist Regime to the New Middle Kingdom ", Internationales Asienforum (05/2000), Pp. 1–33.
• 11/2000 " The Role of Metals and the Impact of the Introduction of Huizi Paper Notes in Quanzhou on the Development of Maritime Trade during the Song Period ", A. Schottenhammer (ed.), The Emporium of the World. Leiden: E. J. Brill 2001. Pp. 95–176. Sinica Leidensia 49.
• 2000 "China und Ostasien im Jahre 1000" (China and East Asia around 1000), Periplus 2000, pp. 13–55 (Einzelbeitrag zu einem Sonderband über die Welt um 1000). "Dokumente zum Thema", pp. 120–123. [The introduction of the article was not written by the author but by one of the editors of Periplus].
• 2000 "Kommunikation, Transport und Verkehr" (Communication, Transport, and Exchange), F.–J. Brüggemeier, W. Schenkluhn, Die Welt im Jahr 1000.
  Freiburg, Basel: Herder Verlag Pp. 251–300.
• 03/1999 "Quanzhou's Maritime Trade and the Indian Ocean in Ancient Times", Himanshu P. Ray (ed.), Archaeology of Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period. Indian Council of Historical Research. New Delhi: 1999. Pp. 245–264.
• 03/1999 Co–author in: F.–J. Brüggemeier, G. Hoffmann, Menschen im Jahr1000. Ein Lesebuch (People Living in the Year 1000. A Reader). Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder Verlag 1999.
• 1999 "Quanzhou's Early Overseas Trade: Local Politico–Economic Particulars During its Period of Independence", Journal of Song YuanStudies 29 (1999), pp. 1–41.
• 1998 "The Maritime Trade of Quanzhou from the 9th through the 13th Centuries", Stephan Conermann (Hrsg.), Asien und Afrika. Der IndischeOzean in historischer Perspektive. Hamburg: E.B.–Verlag 1998. Pp. 89–108.
• 10/1998 "Politics and Morality in Song China: Sima Guang as a Typical Example", in: New Developments in Asian Studies, ed. by Paul van der Velde und Alex McKay. London, New York: Keagan Paul 1998. Pp. 77–91
• 10/1996 "Deng Xiaoping und der 'Sozialismus chinesischer Prägung'" (Deng Xiaoping and the Socialism with Chinese Characteristics), Asien 3:61 (Okt.1996), pp. 70 –79.
• 09/1996 "On the Necessity of Corruption amongst the Members of the Chinese Communist Party", IIAS–Yearbook 1995. Pp. 61–71.
• 09/1995 "Inschriften aus Handel und Gewerbe: Die ökonomischen Verhältnisse in Suzhou in der Späten Ming– und der Qing–Dynastie" (Inscriptions on Trade and Commerce: The Economic Situation in Suzhou in the Late Ming and the Qing Dynasty), Oriens Extremus 9/10 1995. Pp. 109–149.
• 1994 "The Characteristics of Song Time Epitaphs", Dieter Kuhn(Hrsg.), Burial in Song China. Heidelberg: edition forum 1994. Pp. 253–306. Würzburger Sinologische Schriften.

• 2011 Review of François Gipouloux, La Méditerranée asiatique. Villes portuaires et réseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et en Asie du Sud-Est, XVIe-XXIe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2009. 480 pp., 12 maps, tables, glossary and index, in T’oung Pao, 4-5:96 (2010), pp. 581-585.
• 2010 Review of Helwig Schmidt–Glintzer, Kleine Geschichte Chinas. München: C. H. Beck 2008, in Historische Zeitschrift (HZ) 290 (2010), pp. 713–714.
• 2010 Review of Robert J. Anthony, Jane Kate Leonard, Dragons Tigers, and Dogs. Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca, New York: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002, in Monumenta Serica (2010), in press.
• 2010 Review of Leonard Blussé, Visible Cities. Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Xi +133, 1 map, index (Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, 2008, in Social History 35:1 (2010)
• 2009 Review of Ann Jannetta, The Vaccinators. Smallpox, Medical Knowledge and the 'Opening' of Japan, xviii, 245 pp. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), in Journal of World History (2009), pp. 156–158.
• 2008 “Hugh R. Clark, Portrait of a Community. Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship” in The Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song, xiv, 473 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS (2007), 3 pp.
• 2006 Claudine Salmon, Roderich Ptak (eds.), Zheng He. Images and Perceptions. Bilder und Wahrnehmungen Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz 2005. South China and Maritime Asia, in Archipel 71 (2006), pp. 244–248.
• 2005 "Christian Lamoureux, Fiscalité, comptes publics et politiques financières dans la Chine des Song. Le chapitre 179 du Songshi. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2003. Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, in Oriens Extremus (2003/04), pp. 275–279.
• 2005 "Herbert Franke, Krieg und Krieger im chinesischen Mittelalter (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert).
  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2003. Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 81", in Oriens Extremus (2003/04), pp. 279–281.
• 2005 “Roderich Ptak, China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang. Oceans and Routes, Regions and Trade (c. 1000–1600). (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 777) xii, 304 pp. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, (2005), 2 pages.
• 2004 "Claudia Derichs, Thomas Heberer (Hrsg.), Einführung in die politischen Systeme Ostasiens. Opladen: Leske & Budrich 2003", in Asien 2 (2004), pp. 132–133.
• 2003 "Franz Sauter, Tonale Musik. Anatomie der musikalischen Ästhetik. Books on demand 2001",  Online–Rezension amazon.de
• 2002 "Iwo Amelung, Der Gelbe Fluß in Shandong (1851–1911). Überschwemmungskatastrophen und ihre Bewältigung im China der späten Qing–Zeit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2000. Opera sinologica 7", Orientalische Literaturzeitung 2001/02, pp. 117–121
• 2002 "So Kee Long, Prosperity, Region, and Institutions. The South Fukien Pattern 946–1368. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2000. Harvard University Asia Center", Business History Review (2002), pp. 220–223.
• 2002 "Tak–Wing Ngo (ed.), Hong Kong's History. State and Society under Colonial Rule. London, New York: Routledge 1999", IIAS Newsletter 27 (2002), p. 35.
• 2001 "Robert Ash, Werner Draguhn (Hrsg.), China's Economic Security. Richmond: Curzon Press 1999 ", Internationales Asienforum (01–02/2001), pp. 175–177.
• 2000 "Hsing–Ch'a Sheng–Lan. The Overall Survey of theStar Raft by Fei Hsin. Tranl. by J. V. G. Mills. Revised, annotatedand edited by Roderich Ptak", Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (2000), pp. 218–221.
• 11/1999 " Claude Guillot, Denys Lombard, Roderich Ptak (ed.) From the Mediterranean to the South China Sea: Miscellaneous Notes. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1998", Periplus (1999), Pp. 173–177.
• 02/1995 "Chen Zhi'e, Bei Song wenhuashi shulun. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe 1992 " (Discussion of the Cultural History of Northern Song), Zeitschrift der Deutchen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 02 (1995), Pp. 365–372.

• 01/1997 "Korruption und Reformprogramm sind nicht voneinander zu trennen. Die Liberalisierung der chinesischen Wirtschaftsformund ihre Folgen" (Corruption and Reform Programme are Inseparable. The Liberalization of the Chinese Economy and its Consequences), Frankfurter Rundschau (18.01.1997), p. 6.
• 08/1996 " The Overseas Trade of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty ", IIAS Newsletter 9 (1996), p. 45.
• 10/1996 " The World Power China. The Hungry Giant ", IIAS Newsletter 10 (1996), pp. 36–37.
• 30/12/1995 "Die Rückkehr in den Frühling des Lebens ", Deutsche Tagespost (30.12.95)
• 17/11/1995 "Deng Xiaopings Weg zur marktwirtschaftlichen Revolution.Das Programm für den Sozialismus chinesischer Prägung. Ein historischer Überblick", Frankfurter Rundschau (17.11.95).
• 12/08/1995 "In Jade geformte Weisheit und chönheit: Die Grabkultur alten China spiegelt das gesellschaftliche Leben wider" (Wisdom and Beauty Formed in Jade: The Tomb Culture in Ancient China Reflects Details of Social Life), Tagespost (12.08.95)