Wolfgang Kubin (Chinese: 顾彬; pinyin: Gù Bīn; born December 17, 1945, in Celle) is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany.[1] Kubin has frequently been a guest professor at universities in China, for instance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, but also in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Jerusalem.[2] Since 1989, Kubin has been the editor of the journals ORIENTIERUNGEN: Zeitschrift zur Kultur Asiens and Minima sinica: Zeitschrift zum chinesischen Geist.[3]
- ^ ”Wolfgang Kubin is one of the best known Sinologists in Germany, especially on the presentation and study of contemporary Chinese literature.” See entry re “Wolfgang Kubin” in: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/juries.html. Accessed Dec.29, 2013.
- ^ See: Wolfgang Kubin, “Living with the Holocaust” in: At Home in Many Worlds: Reading, Writing and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures. Essays in Honour of Irene Eber. (Veröffentlichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 56), edited by Raoul David Findeisen, Gad C. Isay, Amira Katz-Goehr, Yuri Pines and Lihi Yariv-Laor. Wiesbaden (Harrassowitz Verlag) 2009, pp.19–27. – ISBN 978-3-447-06135-3. Kubin refers here to his stay (as a guest professor) in Jerusalem. See also: “Wolfgang Kubin,” in: http://www.literaturport.de/Wolfgang.Kubin/.
- ^ See: “Wolfgang Kubin,” in: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/juries.html. Accessed Dec.29, 2013.