a) Medieval and Modern Literature
Materia Medica. Spanish XVII Century Heterodoxia, Alterity, and the Uncommon.
Prof. Dr. Elena del Río Parra
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The Perception of Destiny and Contingency in the Works of Gao Xingjian, esp. the Work "One Man's Bible".
Wang Liying
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Fate, Prediction and the Threat of Total Destruction in Spain: A Fifteenth-Century Nightmare
Ángel Gómez Moreno
The Conception of Fate among Modern Chinese Intellectuals: Using the Example of Records about Prognostication in the Dairies of their Contemporaries
Li Fan
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b) Optimism of Progress and Prognostication in Chinese Conceptions of Modernization
Thomas Fröhlich
c) Status of Divination in Present Day China
The Renaissance of Divinatory Techniques in Mainland China
Michael Lackner
Understanding Happiness in Contemporary China (PhD-Project)
Nikola Markewitsch
Fengshui in Present Day China (PhD-Project)
Xiaokun Song
The Dissection of Characters as a Prognostic Technique (PhD-Project)
Anne Schmiedl
Xiangshu 相術 – Body and Divination (PhD-Project)
Philipp Hünnebeck
d) Re-Evaluation of Classical Chinese Techniques of Prognostication
The Critical Re-evaluation of Traditional Chinese Divinatory Practices in the Field of Religious Studies during the Republican Period, 1912-1949
Christian Meyer
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Mixin in Republican China
Prof. Dr. Iwo Amelung
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