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Curriculum Vitae Marco Pouget

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Marco Pouget studied Sinology (Chinese Studies) and Classical and Oriental Cultures at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Zhejiang University Hangzhou. His research interests revolve around the (intellectual) history, philosophy, and written culture of premodern China.

As part of the International Doctorate Program "Philology" (IDK), Marco conducted a dissertation project on commentarial practices of second-century China at Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His dissertation focused on Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 (127-200 CE) commentary to the Liji 禮記 (Notes on Mores), shedding light on commentary as an intersection of philology and hermeneutics. Marco has paid research visits to Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and University of California Berkeley. He has received a Best Mentor Award (2020) and the EACS Young Scholar Award (2024), as well as a number of scholarships, mobility grants, and conference funding.

As a postdoctoral researcher at IDK, Marco will broaden his engagement with the Chinese classics and their traditions as sources of early worldviews and lived experiences. He also functions as a research coordinator of the programme.

 

Publications

  • 2025: “Die zukunftsphilologische Erschließung des Liji 禮記. Zheng Xuans 鄭玄 Kommentar als Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie” [A Future-Oriented Philological Exploration of the Liji. Zheng Xuan’s Commentary as a Preservation Strategy]. In: Messner, Angelika and Lea Liefke (ed.s): Nachhaltigkeit. Chinas Umgang mit Umwelt und Nachwelt in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart [Sustainability. China’s Dealing with Environment and Posterity, Past and Present]. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien 19. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Link
  • 2025: (with Luis Schäfer): “Connected Philology. An Introduction”. In: Gonschorek, Korinna, Marco Pouget, Luis Schäfer, Nikola Wenner et al. (ed.s). Connected Philology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transcultural Encounters. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Brill. Open Access: Link
  • 2024: “Between Cooperation and Competition. A Comparative Reading of Eastern Han Commentaries to the Liji 禮記”. Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 5: 185–206. Open Access: Link
  • (forthc.) “Locusts in Early Imperial China. Insects as Calamities and Human Agency in the Lunheng 論衡 by Wang Chong 王充”. In: Marciniak, Przemysław (ed.). Microhistories Retold: Insects in the Premodern World. Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten 7. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Brill.