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. Oidtmann is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Sinology at LMU Munich in Germany.[citation needed]

Education

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.

Academic position

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.

Fields of research

Max Oidtmann works with historical materials in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu and Japanese languages.

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.

Publication list

Ph.D thesis

  • , Harvard University, 2014, ProQuest ()

Peer-reviewed articles

  • (original title: 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, International Society for Chinese Law & History — 中國法律与歷史國際學會, volume 1, Number 1, November 2014
  • , Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies, volume 21, 2014, pages 49–87
  • , Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, Issue 40, 2016, pages 151–182, doi:
  • , Late Imperial China, Volume 37, Number 2, December 2016, pages 41–91

Book chapters

  • (With Yang Hongwei), A Study of Qing Dynasty "Xiejia" Rest Houses in Xunhua Subprefecture, Gansu, in , Marie-Paule Hille, Bianca Horlemann, Paul K. Nietupski, eds., Lexington Books, 2015, 354 pages, pages 21–46
  • , in Greater Tibet. An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas, P. Christiaan Klieger ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 178 pages, pages 111–148

Books

  • Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, Columbia University Press, 2018, 352 p. doi: ISBN 9780231545303 ()

Reviews

  • , Dissertation Reviews, October 7, 2014

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