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Max Gordon Oidtmann (born 1979) is an American historian of Late Imperial China (1368–1912) and Inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria). He also has interest in modern China and the affairs of Chinese ethnic minorities. He was an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar from 2013 to 2021. [1] Oidtmann is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Sinology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.[ citation needed]
He earned a B.A. in History (with concentration in East Asian Studies) at Carleton College in 2001 and a M.A. degree in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard University. In March 2014, Oidtmann received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. [2] [3] [4]
He previously taught Asian History as well as specialized courses on the History of China, Islam and Muslims in East Asia, Tibet, and comparative studies of empire and colonialism at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, from 2013 to 2021. [5]
Max Oidtmann works with historical materials in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu and Japanese languages. [2]
Oidtmann's book Forging the Golden Urn: Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, 1792-1911 (2018) is a political history of reincarnation in China and Tibet from the late 1700s through the present.
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Max Gordon Oidtmann (born 1979) is an American historian of Late Imperial China (1368–1912) and Inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria). He also has interest in modern China and the affairs of Chinese ethnic minorities. He was an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar from 2013 to 2021. [1] Oidtmann is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Sinology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.[ citation needed]
He earned a B.A. in History (with concentration in East Asian Studies) at Carleton College in 2001 and a M.A. degree in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard University. In March 2014, Oidtmann received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. [2] [3] [4]
He previously taught Asian History as well as specialized courses on the History of China, Islam and Muslims in East Asia, Tibet, and comparative studies of empire and colonialism at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, from 2013 to 2021. [5]
Max Oidtmann works with historical materials in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu and Japanese languages. [2]
Oidtmann's book Forging the Golden Urn: Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, 1792-1911 (2018) is a political history of reincarnation in China and Tibet from the late 1700s through the present.