https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7867-3120Barbara Mittler (*1968) holds a Chair in Chinese Studies at CATS (Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies) at Heidelberg University which she helped co-found in 2019. For many years, she co-directed the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS, formerly the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, 2007-2019). She began her studies (Sinology, Musicology, Japanese) at Oxford (MA Oxon 1990). Her PhD & Habilitation are from Heidelberg (1994/1998). She spent time as fellow/visiting professor in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, at Harvard, Stanford and, most recently, the EHESS in Paris. Her research focuses on the politics of cultural production in (greater) China covering a range of topics from music to visual and historical print media in China’s long modernity. She is member of the LEOPOLDINA and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
