School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Emeritus Professor of Sinology
Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Centre of Taiwan Studies
Member
Traditional exegesis; classical philosophy, scripture and commentaries; reception of the canon; early literary criticism; history of Chinese studies in the West
Revisiting Britain’s Informal Imperialism from the Periphery and Beyond — Examining the Constructive Sino-British Relations in the Nineteenth Century within a Global Context.
Publications
Southern Hokkien: an Introduction
Fuehrer, Bernhard and Yang, Hsiu-fang (2014). Taipei: (National Taiwan University Press)
Orality and the Transmission of Interpretations in Two Versions of Huang Kan's Lunyu Yishu: Teaching Lunyu from the National University of the Liang to the Periphery of the Tang Empire†
Fuehrer, Bernhard, 2013, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (40), 2, pp 307-322
Review of “Hsu, Pi-ching: ‘Feng Meng-lung’s Treasury of laughs [笑府]: Humorous Satire on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Culture and Satire’, in: JAS 57.4 (1998), pp. 1042-1067"
Fuehrer, Bernhard, 2000, Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (18), pp 378-379
Fuehrer, Bernhard and Ye 葉, Caiqing 采青 (transl.), 2000, Zhongguo wenzhe yanjiu tong¬xun 中國文哲研究通訊 [=Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy] (10), 1, pp 195-201
Journal of Translation Studies 翻譯學報 (New Series) - Volume 1, Issue 1 (Jun 2017): Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: Archives and Context
Fuehrer, Bernhard, (eds.), Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, (eds.) and Andre, James St., (eds.) (2017). Hong Kong: Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University Press.
Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Fuehrer, Bernhard, (eds.) and Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, (eds.) (2015). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. (Asian Translation Traditions Series; 2)
State Power and the Confucian Classics. Observations on the Mengzi jiewen and Truth Management under the First Ming Emperor
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2018). In: Ames, Roger Thomas, (eds.) and Hershock, Peter D, (eds.), Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, pp 235-251
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2015). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (eds.) and Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, (eds.), Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, pp xi-xx
August Pfizmaier (1808–1887) and His Translations from Chinese Poetry
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2015). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (eds.) and Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, (eds.), Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, pp 245-269
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2015). In: van Ess, Hans, (eds.), Lomová, Olga, (eds.) and Schaab-Hanke, Dorothee, (eds.), Views from Within, Views from Beyond: Approaches to the Shiji as an Early Work of Historiography. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 9-30
Gui Wencan and Gui Dian on Huang Kan’s Lunyu yishu
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2012). In: Lin, Ching-chang, (eds.) and Soffel, Christian, (eds.), Zhengtong yu liupai. Lidai Rujia jingdian zhi zhuanbian 正統與流派. 歷代儒家經典之轉變 (Orthodoxy and Schools of Thought – Changes in the History of Confucian Canon Studies).. Taipei: Wanjuanlou chubanshe, pp 483-509
Exegetical Strategies and Commentarial Features of Huang Kan’s Lunyu [jijie] yishu
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2009). In: Huang, Chun-chieh, (ed.), Dongya Lunyuxue: Zhongguo pian 東亞論語學: 中國篇. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, pp 274-296
Challenges and Perspectives of Chinese Studies in a Changing Society
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2008). In: Kawai, Shinichi, (ed.), New Challenges and Perspectives of Modern Chinese Studies. Tokyo: Universal Academy Press, pp 109-121
Einführende Notizen zum Lesen in China mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Frühzeit
Fuehrer, Bernhard and Behr, Wolfgang (2005). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (ed.), Aspekte des Lesens in China in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Bochum: Projekt Verlag, pp 1-44
Dui Ouzhou Hanxue yanjiu xiankuang de xingsi 對歐洲漢學研究現況的省思
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2004). In: Wei, Siqi, (eds.) and Wesolowski, Zbigniew, (eds.), Furen Daxue diyi jie Hanxue guoji yantaohui: you guan Zhongguo xueshuxing de duihua: Yi Huayi Xuezhi wei li [The First Fu Jen University International Symposium Scholarly Dialogue on China: Monumenta Serica as an Example]. Taipei: Furen Daxue chubanshe, pp 132-145
Did the Master Instruct His Followers to Attack Heretics? A Note on Readings of Lunyu 2.16
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2003). In: Hockx, Michel, (eds.) and Smits, Ivo, (eds.), Reading East Asian Writing. The Limits of Literary Theory.. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 117-58
"The Text of the Classic and the Commentaries Deviates Greatly from Current Editions.": A Case Study on the Siku quanshu Version of Huang Kan's Lunyu yishu
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2003). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (ed.), Zensur. Text und Autorität in China in Geschichte und Gegenwart.. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 19-38
Bemerkungen zur Überwachung und Unterdrückung literarischer und künstlerischer Erzeugnisse in China
Fuehrer, Bernhard and Friedrich, Michael (2003). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (ed.), Zensur. Text und Autorität in China in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 1-18
An Inauspicious Quotation or A Case of Impiety? Mr. Zhang and Literary Persecution under the First Ming Emperor
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2002). In: Neder, Christina, (eds.), Schilling, Ines-Susanne, (eds.) and Roetz, Heiner, (eds.), China and Her Biographical Dimensions. Commemorative Essays for Helmut Martin. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 75-82
Yueli yu zheli de shuangxing qiaoliang (A Bridge between Musicology And Philosophy)
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2002). In: Wu, E, (ed.), Meige Yinjie Dou Shi Ai. Essays in Celebration of Professor Robert Scholz' 100th Birthday. Taipei: Robert Scholz Music Foundation, pp 134-135
Considerations on the Question of Individualism and the Role of the Individual in Early Chinese Thought
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2001). The Role of the Individual vis-à-vis the Family, Society and State in Asia and Europe. Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, pp 1-31
Guan Guan 管管: ‘Samstags weiß und sonntags schwarz’, ‘Tintenlotos’, ‘Allerseelen’
Fuehrer, Bernhard (2000). In: Martin-Liao, Tien-chi, (eds.) and Daberkow, Ricarda, (eds.), Phönixbaum. Moderne taiwanesische Lyrik. Dortmund: Projekt Verlag, pp 125-129
Die ‘schmerzvolle Klage’ als Stimulus des chinesischen Dichters
Fuehrer, Bernhard (1998). In: Findeisen, Raoul D., (eds.) and Gassmann, Robert H., (eds.), Autumn Floods 秋水. Essays in Honour of Marián Gálik. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 35-47
Die verklausulierte Projektion der Zukunft in die Vergangenheit. Ein Versuch ueber die "Die Ballade vom angebissenen Shaobing" (Shaobingge)
Fuehrer, Bernhard (1997). In: Fuehrer, Bernhard, (eds.) and Hammer, Christiane, (eds.), Tradition und Moderne. Religion, Philosophie und Literatur in China. Dortmund: Projekt Verlag, pp 113-142
In Search of a tertium comparationis of the Poetological Approach of Zhong Hong and Julius Caesar Scaliger
Fuehrer, Bernhard (1994). In: Gálik, Marián, (ed.), Chinese Literature and European Context. Bratislava: Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, pp 163-168
Carstairs Douglas (1830-1877) and his Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873)
Alsford, Niki and Fuehrer, Bernhard(2013). In: Sinologists as Translators in the 17-19th Centuries: Archives and Context, 19-22 June, 2013 :SOAS, the University of London
Notes on Zhang Juzheng's commentary on the Four Books
Fuehrer, Bernhard(2003). In: Fascination and Understanding. The Spirit of the Occident and the Spirit of China in Reciprocity, 21-25 February 2003 :Smolenice Castle (Slovakia)
Scholarly Dialogue on China: Monumenta Serica as Example (The First International Sinological Symposium at Fu Jen) - "Reflections on the current situation of Sinology in Europe"
