Zhiyi Yang / 杨治宜

The Person

  • Birthplace
    Yichun (Jiangxi Province)

  • Nationality
    German

  • Position
    Professor for Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt

  • Address
    Raum 715, Senckenberganlage 31, 60326 Frankfurt

  • Telephone
    +49 (0)6979823288

  • Email
    z.yang@em.uni-frankfurt.de

  • Homepage
    https://www.zhiyiyang.com/

Education

  • 2006-2012
    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
    Department of East Asian Studies
    Ph.D. Candidate, Chinese Pre-modern Literature


  • 2002-2005
    Peking University, Beijing, China
    Institute of Comparative Literature
    Master of Arts, Comparative Poetics


  • 1998-2002
    Peking University, Beijing, China
    Department of Chinese Language and Literature
    Bachelor of Arts. Experimental Class of Liberal Arts


Working experiences

  • Since 2015
    Professor (W2) of Sinology
    Department of Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany


  • 2012-2015
    Junior Professor (W1) of Sinology
    Department of Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Research interests

  • Classical Chinese poetry and aesthetics