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Matthias L. Richter is an Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. He holds a PhD in Sinology from the University of Hamburg (2000) and previously taught at German universities. His career includes a three-year research project on manuscript studies at the University of Hamburg, followed by a Creel Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago (2006–2007) before joining CU Boulder in 2007.
Education: Diploma in German and English Literature (University of Jena, 1985), PhD in Sinology (University of Hamburg, 2000). Research focuses on Warring States and Early Imperial Chinese politico-philosophical literature, emphasizing textual criticism, manuscript studies, and redactional strategies in texts like Guanzi, Laozi, and Xunzi. He has published extensively on early Chinese textual formation and methodologies for studying ancient manuscripts.
Key achievements include the monograph The Embodied Text (2013) and edited volumes on early Chinese manuscripts. His work bridges historical philology with contemporary methodological debates in Sinological studies.
