Ort
Hamburg
Universität
Universität Hamburg
Mitglied seit
30.11.2012
E-Mail
diana.lange@uni-hamburg.deKurzvita
Trained in Sinology, Central Asian Studies and Economy, I hold a Ph.D. in Central Asian Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin (2008). In 2018 I completetd my habilitation (l'habilitation à diriger les recherches/HDR) at the Sorbonne in Paris (École des Hautes Etudes Pratiques/EPHE).
My research is located in Area Studies, and my primary research areas are Tibet and its neighbouring regions. My specialisation is in history of knowledge and exploration, material and visual culture, social history as well as in cultural interactions. I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Tibet and the Himalayas since 1999 on various research projects, such as on Muslims and Islam in Tibet, on fishery and hide boats, as well as on the history of transport in Tibet. I addressed these topics in historical as well as contemporary contexts.
In my habilitation project I have concentrated on knowledge production and the representation of knowledge in visual culture. My research activity was based on a single collection: the British Library’s Wise Collection. The 55 ethnographic and cartographic images of this collection are the most comprehensive set of large-scale visual representations of mid-19th century Tibet. They were commissioned by a British official and drawn by a Tibetan lama. The main goals of this research project were: (1) using the Wise Collection as a case study, to examine the processes by which knowledge on Tibet was acquired, collected and represented, and (2) understanding the intentions and motivations behind these processes (monograph “An Atlas of the Himalayas by an 19th Century Tibetan Lama. A Journey of Discovery", Brill: 2020).
Favorisierte Links
https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/DianaLange
Forschungsthemen
• Wissens- und Entdeckungsgeschichte
• interkultureller Austausch (Tibet-China, Tibet-British Indien, Tibet-Europa)
• materielle und visuelle Kultur
• historische Kartographie
• Transportgeschichte
• Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Islam und Muslime in Tibet
Aktuelles Projekt
Maps as Knowledge Resources and Mapmaking as Process: The Case of the Mapping of Tibet
Fachbereich
Zentralasienstudien/ Tibetologie
Publikationen
Books
2020. An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery. Leiden: Brill.
https://brill.com/view/title/38404
2009. Die Verkleinerung der Yakhautboote. Fischerkulturen in Zentral- und Südtibet im sozioökonomischen Wandel des modernen China.
Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.
Edited Volumes
Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship.
Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde (Eds.) In: Brill Series Mapping the Past. Manuscript submitted.
2023. 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 and Mareike Wulff (Eds.). Prague: Academia.
Podcasts and Blogs
CSMC Blog, Hamburg
“Sheding Lights on Maps”
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/blog/2022-01-28-shedding-light-on-maps-english.html
Brill Humanities Matter Podcast “A Journey of Discovery. Reading a 19th Century Illustrated Map of the Himalayas”
https://blog.brill.com/humanitiesmatter/lange_-_atlas_of_the_himalayas.html
Historische Geographie – Aktuelle Forschung (Podcast, Universität Bamberg)
“Von kolorierten Landkarten, Entdeckungsreisen und dem Atlas of the Himalayas”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UZ2sSY3o7bLUfZWwJVgUR
2020. An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery.
In: British Library: Asian and African Studies Blog. https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2020/07/an-atlas-of-the-himalayas-by-a-19th-century-tibetan-lama-a-journey-of-discovery.html
2016. The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s.
British Library Asian and African Studies Blog.
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and african/2016/07/the-wise-collection-acquiring-knowledge-on-tibet-in-the-late-1850s.html. 18. Juli 2016.
Papers in Journals and books
Wise Collection (British Library).
In: Kain, Roger J.P. (ed.) Cartography in the Nineteenth Century (Vol. 5, History of Cartography Series). The University of Chicago Press. Manuscript accepted.
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). Manuscript submitted.
Mapping Qing Empire in Eighteenth Century: Hand-drawn Maps from the ‘Qing Atlas Tradition’ at the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg.
In manuscript cultures. Manuscript accepted.
2022. Colour on Maps: Systems, Schemes, Codes.
In Imago Mundi 74 (1), 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 (eds.) Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses. Leiden: Brill, 182–191. In Print.
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. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. In Print.
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 and Rahel Wille (eds.) Exhibition booklet Steppen & Seidenstraßen/ Steppe & Silk Road. MARKK Hamburg, 15–17.
2021. Ostasiatische Karten/East Asian Maps.
In: Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel and Jochen Schlüter (eds.) Exhibition catalogue Farbe trifft Landkarte/Colour meets map. Manuscript cultures No. 16, 289–368.
2021. Einführung – Farbe trifft Landkarte/Introduction: Colour meets map. (Co-author Benjamin van der Linde) In: Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel and Jochen Schlüter (Eds.) Exhibition catalogue Farbe trifft Landkarte/Colour meets map. Manuscript cultures No. 16, Hamburg, 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 (ed.). De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary Perspectives. New York: Routledge Studies in Cultural History book series, 43–60.
2020. William Edmund Hay: The Pioneer of Tibetan Studies Who Sold his Fame.
In: Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer and Charles Ramble (eds.) On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Liri: Lumbini, 523–536.
2020. A Visual Representation of the Qing Political and Military Presence in Mid-19th Tibet.
In: Revue d’Études Tibétaines, March 2020, 241–276.
2020. Thoughts on a Hand-painted Pictorial Map of Wutaishan at the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg.
In: Orientations, Vol. 51(1), 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 (Eds.) Commerce and Communities: Social Status and the Exchange of Goods in Tibetan Societies. Berlin: EB Verlag, 91–126.
2018. Reflections on Material and Visual Culture on a Trading Junction: the Minister’s Palace of Hunder. (Co-author Gerald Kozicz)
In: Orientations, Vol. 49(3), 52–60.
2017. Decoding mid-19th Century Maps of the Border Area between Western Tibet,
Ladakh and Spiti.
In: David Pritzker and Yannick Laurent (eds.) 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), 18–25.
2016. Visual Representation of Ladakh and Zanskar in the British Library’s Wise Collection.
In: Robert Linrothe and Heinrich Poell (eds.) Visible Heritage: Essays on the Art and Architecture of Greater Ladakh. New Delhi: Studio Orientala, 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 and Olaf Czaja (eds.) The Illuminating Mirror. Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Soerensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 269–282.
2015. A Dundee’s Doctor’s Collection(s) on Tibet: Thomas Alexander Wise (1802–1889).
In: Charles Ramble and Ulrike Rösler (eds.) Tibetan and Himalayan Healing. An Anthology for Anthony Aris. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 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 (eds.) Trade, Travel and the Tibetan Border Worlds. Essays in honour of Wim van Spengen (1949–2013). Tibet Journal Special Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, 73–91.
2013. Travel Destination: Tibet. Modernizing the Present and Concreting over the Past.
In: Sonderheft ASIEN, 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, 89–106.
2011. Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui?
In: Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds.) Islam and Tibet –Interactions along the Musk Routes. Farnham: Ashgate, 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, 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, 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 (eds.). Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies. Proceedings of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, 2007. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 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, 183–197.
2007. Geschichte, Funktion und Konstruktion der Yakhaut-Boote in Zentral- und Südtibet.
In: Deimel, Claus (ed.). Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen, Vol. XLIV. Berlin: VWB, 53–75.
2007. Die Hui und der Einfluß des Islam in Tibet.
In: Deimel, Claus (ed.). Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen, Vol. XLIII. Berlin: LIT, 181–210.
Förderbeginn 1. April 2013