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Wissensorte in China
All knowledge has its place. The spaces in which knowledge is produced, stored or passed on exert a specific influence on its content and form. In the wake of the spatial turn, questions about the local conditions of knowledge have come into focus in various humanities and social science disciplines: Which places play a formative role in the collection and interpretation of knowledge? How do spatial conditions influence theories and procedures? Which site-specific forms and media are used to preserve or pass on knowledge? And what relevance does the spatial reference have for the validity of knowledge?
Wissensorte in China explores these questions in eleven case studies and an overview article. The articles cover a time period from the Han to the present day. They examine the spatial dimensions of institutions of higher education and sites of vocational training and further education. They reconstruct commercial and religious sites such as book boats and Buddhist revolving wheel sutras cabinets, but also analyze texts and social practices that can be understood as knowledge sites of their own kind. The articles thus provide fascinating insights into one of the world's richest cultures of knowledge.
The volume contains selected contributions of the XXXth annual Conference of the German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS), which took place in November 2019 at the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
