Dr Ondřej Škrabal
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Spokesperson 'Situating Graffiti' | Member UWA
Sinology
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Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2025)
- Spokesperson Research Field J: Situating Graffiti
- Co-spokesperson of the Working Group ‘Theory and Terminology’
- Project lead RFB06 (2019–2025):
Bronze, Text, and State: Creating the Epigraphic Landscape in the Emerging Chinese Empire
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Research Interests
Ondřej Škrabal works at the intersections of history, philology, literature, and art history of traditional China, with written artefacts forming the foundation of his research. His publications draw extensively on epigraphic and manuscript sources to investigate various dimensions of religion, ritual, performative identity, literacy practices, and technological practices in Early China (c. 1300 BCE–220 CE). In addition, his research interests include the provenance of premodern Chinese bronze art in Europe, the emergence of imprinting techniques in China, and the longue durée social history of graffiti in East Asia. He is currently finalising a monograph dealing with prayer and legal thought manuscripts from the fourth century BCE.
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Ondřej studied Sinology at Charles University (2005–2011) and holds a PhD in ancient Chinese history from Peking University (2019). He was a visiting student at Beijing Normal University (2007–2008), Hunan University (2010), and the University of Chicago (2014–2015); a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford (2019); and a Petra Kappert Fellow at the CSMC (2019). He was a lecturer in Chinese philology and linguistics at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Charles University (2015–2019). In September 2019, he joined the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’, where he leads a project examining transformations in epigraphic practices during the formation of early Chinese empire. He also serves as spokesperson of the Research Field ‘Situating Graffiti’, co-spokesperson of the Working Group ‘Theory and Terminology’ and co-editor of the Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures.