Volker Klöpsch

male (1948–)

Wikidata ID: Q1665051 | de: Volker Klöpsch

1969–1975 studied German, English and Comparative Literature in Freiburg, Berlin, Edinburgh and Salamanca, then Sinology in Beijing, Shanghai (Fudan University) and Heidelberg, 1979 PhD (Die Jadesplitter der Dichter, Bochum 1983). After teaching years in Bochum, six-year lectureship in German language and literature at Taiwan University (Taipei). From 1990–2013 at the East Asian Seminar of the University of Cologne. Translations of Chinese literature of the republican period (Lao She 老舍) and classical poetry. Until 2007 co-editor of the Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur.

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