Prof. Dr. Diana Lange
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- Prof. Dr. Diana Lange
- diana.lange (at) hu-berlin.de
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- materielle und visuelle Kultur
- Sammel- und Sammlungsgeschichte, Provenienzforschung
- Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Entdeckungs- und Kolonialgeschichte, Dekolonialisierung
- historische Kartographie und mapping Prozesse (Fokus Zentralasien und Ostasien)
- interkultureller Austausch (innerhalb Asiens, zwischen Asien und Europa)
- Transportgeschichte
Regionale Schwerpunkte
- Zentralasien (Hochland von Tibet und Himalayaregion)
- Ostasien (China, Korea, Japan)
Curriculum Vitae (Kurzversion)
- seit 04/2025 Professorin für Geschichte und Kulturen Zentralasiens, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Promotion in Zentralasienstudien an der HU Berlin (2008), Habilitation/HDR an der EPHE Paris (2018)
- Magister Artium (2002) in Sinologie, Zentralasienwissenschaften und BWL (Universität Leipzig und an der Tibet University, Lhasa)
Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt
- Maps as Knowledge Resources and Mapmaking as Process: The Case of the Mapping of Tibet
Publikationen
Monographien
2020. An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery. Leiden: Brill.
2009. Die Verkleinerung der Yakhautboote. Fischerkulturen in Zentral- und Südtibet im sozioökonomischen Wandel des modernen China.
Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.
Co-Publikationen/Herausgeberschaften
Forthcoming. Among Tibetan Materialities. Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas.
Emma Martin, Trine Brox and Diana Lange (Hg.). Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing.
2024. Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship.
Diana Lange und Benjamin van der Linde (Hg.) Mapping the Past Series. (Leiden: Brill).
2022. Colours on East Asian Maps: Their Use and Materiality in China, Japan and Korea between mid-17th and early 20th Century.
Diana Lange and Oliver Hahn. Research Perspectives in Map History Series (Leiden: Brill).
2021. Crossing Boundaries. Tibetan Studies Unlimited.
Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptackova, Marion Wettstein und Mareike Wulff (Hg.). Prag: Academia.
Podcasts und Blogs
2024. The Mapping of Tibet: A Journey through Different Mapping Practices.
In: Mapping Asia and Africa Blog
https://doi.org/10.58079/12rkx
https://karafas.hypotheses.org/7495
2022. Sheding Lights on Maps
2021. Brill Humanities Matter Podcast “A Journey of Discovery. Reading a 19th Century Illustrated Map of the Himalayas”
Historische Geographie – Aktuelle Forschung (Podcast der Universität Bamberg)
“Von kolorierten Landkarten, Entdeckungsreisen und dem Atlas of the Himalayas”
2020. An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery.
In: British Library: Asian and African Studies Blog.
2016. The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s.
British Library Asian and African Studies Blog.
Journal Artikel und Beiträge in Büchern
Exploring the Legacy of Tibetan Mapmaking Manuscript Maps from the Harrer Collection at the Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich (Co-Autor Yeshi Lhendup)
In: Manuscript cultures No. 24, 1–61. https://doi.org/10.15460/mc.2024.24.1.1
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/article/view/1
Wise Collection (British Library).
In: Kain, Roger J.P. (Hg.) Cartography in the Nineteenth Century (Vol. 5, History of Cartography Series). The University of Chicago Press. Manuskript angenommen.
2023. Colours and Readability in the Korean Daedongnyeojido: New Insights into a Map of Korea from the Nineteenth Century (Co-author Sang-hoon Jang)
In: Lange, Diana and Benjamin van der Linde (eds.). Maps and Colours. A Complex Relationship. In: Mapping the Past Series (Leiden: Brill), 132–143.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467361_011
https://brill.com/display/book/9789004467361/BP000019.xml
2023. Mapping Qing Empire in Eighteenth Century: Hand-drawn Maps from the ‘Qing Atlas Tradition’ at the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg.
In: manuscript cultures No. 20, 141–158.
2022. Colour on Maps: Systems, Schemes, Codes.
In: Imago Mundi 74 (1) S. 117–124.
2022. “My Karma Selected me to Become a Ferryman”: The Role of Waterways and Water Crafts in the Corvée Tax System in the pre-1959 Tibet.
In: Charles Ramble, Peter Schwieger and Alice Travers (Hg.) Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses. Leiden: Brill, S: 182–191.
2022. A mid-19th Century Ethnographic Atlas of the Tibetan World: The British Library’s Wise Collection.
In: Anna Boroffka and Margit Kern. Early Modern “Cultural Encyclopaedias”: Defining a Genre and its Agency from a Transcultural Perspective. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, S. 423–444.
2021. Landkarte Tianxia Yutu „Abbild des ganzen Territoriums unter dem Himmel“ / Map Tianxia Yutu „Depiction of the Entire Territory under the Heaven“. In: Maria-Katharina Lang und Rahel Wille (Hg.) Exhibition booklet Steppen & Seidenstraßen/ Steppe & Silk Road. MARKK Hamburg, S. 15–17.
2021. Ostasiatische Karten/East Asian Maps.
In: Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel und Jochen Schlüter (Hg.) Ausstellungskatalog Farbe trifft Landkarte/Colour meets map. Manuscript cultures No. 16, S. 289–368.
2021. Einführung – Farbe trifft Landkarte/Introduction: Colour meets map. (Co-Autor Benjamin van der Linde) In: Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel and Jochen Schlüter (Hg.) Ausstellungskatalog Farbe trifft Landkarte/Colour meets map. Manuscript cultures No. 16, Hamburg, S. 23–48.
2021. A Visual History of a Hidden Exploration of mid-19th Century Tibet: the British Library’s Wise Collection.
In: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Hg.). De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary Perspectives. New York: Routledge Studies in Cultural History book series, S. 43–60.
2020. William Edmund Hay: The Pioneer of Tibetan Studies Who Sold his Fame.
In: Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer und Charles Ramble (Hg.) On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Liri: Lumbini, S. 523–536.
2020. A Visual Representation of the Qing Political and Military Presence in Mid-19th Tibet.
In: Revue d’Études Tibétaines, March 2020, S. 241–276.
202. Thoughts on a Hand-painted Pictorial Map of Wutaishan at the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg.
In: Orientations, Vol. 51(1), S. 68–79.
2018. Visual Culture of Exploration: the Acquisition of Knowledge related to Trade in Tibet in the mid-19th Century.
In: Jeannine Bischoff and Alice Travers (Hg.) Commerce and Communities: Social Status and the Exchange of Goods in Tibetan Societies. Berlin: EB Verlag, S. 91–126.
2018. Reflections on Material and Visual Culture on a Trading Junction: the Minister’s Palace of Hunder. (Co-Autor Gerald Kozicz)
In: Orientations, Vol. 49(3), S. 52–60.
2017. Decoding mid-19th Century Maps of the Border Area between Western Tibet, Ladakh and Spiti.
In: David Pritzker and Yannick Laurent (Hg.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spiti: Recovering the Past & Exploring the Present, Revue d’Études Tibétaines, No. 41, September 2017.
2016. “A Unique View from within”: The Representation of Tibetan Architecture in the British Library’s Wise Collection.
In: Orientations, Vol. 47(7), S. 18–25.
2016. Visual Representation of Ladakh and Zanskar in the British Library’s Wise Collection.
In: Robert Linrothe und Heinrich Poell (Hg.) Visible Heritage: Essays on the Art and Architecture of Greater Ladakh. New Delhi: Studio Orientala, S. 131–168.
2015. “The Boatman is more Beautiful than a God”. Poetising and Singing on the Rivers in Central and Southern Tibet.
In: Guntram Hazod und Olaf Czaja (Hg.) The Illuminating Mirror. Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Soerensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, S. 269–282.
2015. A Dundee’s Doctor’s Collection(s) on Tibet: Thomas Alexander Wise (1802–1889).
In: Charles Ramble and Ulrike Rösler (Hg.) Tibetan and Himalayan Healing. An Anthology for Anthony Aris. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, S. 433–452.
2014. “The government forced us to send the boat in the middle of the night”: Water
Transport in Pre-1959 Tibet.
In: John Bray, Alex McKay and Emilia Sulek (Hg.) Trade, Travel and the Tibetan Border Worlds. Essays in honour of Wim van Spengen (1949–2013). Tibet Journal Special Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, S. 73–91.
2013. Travel Destination: Tibet. Modernizing the Present and Concreting over the Past.
In: Sonderheft ASIEN, S. 100–114.
2012. “Local handicraft made by Tibetan village artisans”: Globale Einflüsse und ihre
Folgen für das lokale Handwerk in Zentraltibet.
In: Zentralasiatische Studien (ZAS), 41, Bonn, S. 89–106.
2011. Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui?
In: Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Hg.) Islam and Tibet –Interactions along the Musk Routes. Farnham: Ashgate, S. 339–352.
2010. A Short History of Muslims and Islam in Central Tibet.
In: Orient IV. German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture in the Middle East. Berlin, S. 65–73.
2010. From Water Radish to Fish Restaurant: Recent Developments of Fisheries in Central Tibet.
In: AAS Working Papers in Social Anthropology, Vol. 18, S. 1–13.
2009. Fishery in Southern and Central Tibet: An Economic Niche is Going to Disappear.
In: Brandon Dotson, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Georgios Halkias and Tim Myatt (Hg). Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies. Proceedings of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, 2007. Chicago: Serindia Publications, S. 45–67.
2008. Das Ende der Yakhautboote? Überlegungen zum technischen Wandel bei den
Fischern in Zentraltibet.
In: Technikgeschichte (Themenheft Technik im chinesischen Alltag), Vol. 75 (2). Berlin: Edition Sigma, S. 183–197.
2007. Geschichte, Funktion und Konstruktion der Yakhaut-Boote in Zentral- und Südtibet.
In: Deimel, Claus (Hg.). Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen, Vol. XLIV. Berlin: VWB, S. 53–75.
2007. Die Hui und der Einfluß des Islam in Tibet.
In: Deimel, Claus (Hg.). Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen, Vol. XLIII. Berlin: LIT, S. 181–210.