CURRENT MISSION

deconstruct Eurocentrism historically

ABOUT ME

I am a Berlin-based historian- globetrotter- adventurer working on transfer and comparative history between Early Modern Europe and Early Modern China. I am interested in the influence of Chinese printing techniques on the development of European printing (did Gutenberg really invent a new technology?) and to compare the social and cultural consequences of printing in both Early Modern China and Early Modern Europe.
Apart from pushing the limits of human knowledge, I am a passionate traveller and art lover. My friends describe me as a hedonist with strong Protestant work ethics;-) as well as charming, smart and fun to be with....

PHILOSOPHY

子曰：君子固窮，小人窮斯濫矣 (孔子, 論語 15.2)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

very good (Paris), very bad (Prague)

Interests

travelling the world, Renaissance painting,Chinese & other movies,English literature, Song dynasty painting and calligraphy, antiquities

• arts
• literature
• ethics
• partying
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• adventure races
• calligraphy
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
Bach, Pachelbel, Gregorian Chants, HipHop

movies:
Hero, Zhang Yimou
L`odeur de la Papaye verte, Tran Nhang Hui
A King in New York, Charly Chaplin
Panzerkreuzer Potemkin, Eisenstein
Rom, città aperta, Rossellini
Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa
Star Wars I-IV
Land and freedom, Ken Loach
Volver, Almodovar
and many others....

books:
Demian, Hermann Hesse
Die Mandarins von Paris, De Beauvoir
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Shakespeare: everything!
N.P., Yoshimoto
Dornröschenschlaf, Yoshimoto
300 Tang peoms
and many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

things done: surviving in China for two years, making it to a US PhD programme, helping to smash a German Neo-Nazi party

things seen: Alhambra in Granada, hanging monasteries in China, Buddhist Grottos in China, Vatican Museum, the Beijing summer palace, the old city of Jerusalem, New York....