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Johannes Lotze is a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) under the Buber Fellowship. He contributes to the ERC-funded project The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China, focusing on historical analysis of primary Chinese sources and building a database of the Medieval Wall System. Previously, he served as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval Chinese History at the University of Birmingham (2018–2020) and curated the Qing: China’s Multilingual Empire exhibition at Manchester’s John Rylands Library (2018–2021).
- PhD in Chinese Studies (University of Manchester, 2017)
- MA in History/Chinese Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, 2012)
His research explores the impact of non-Chinese empires (particularly Mongols) on China’s linguistic landscapes and language policies, contextualized within global multilingualism trends. Methodologically, he bridges History with Linguistics, Translation Studies, and Archaeology/Palaeoclimatology.
Recent publications include co-authored work on medieval wall systems (2021) and interdisciplinary studies on multilingualism (2020). His book project Multilingual Empires: The Yuan-Ming-Qing Transition is in progress, alongside organizing panels on Early Modern East Asian multilingualism.
- Winner of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Bayly Prize (2018)
- Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (2019)
Johannes has delivered invited talks across Asia, Europe, and the US, including presentations on language contact (2022), Qing multilingualism (2021), and Ming translation practices (2017). He collaborates with historians, archaeologists, and geoarchaeologists within the Wall project and beyond.
