Johannes S. Lotze is a Buber post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), member of The Wall (ERC-funded project), and winner of the inaugural 2018 Bayly Prize of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has been a Teaching Fellow in Medieval Chinese History and the Global Middle Ages at the University of Birmingham (2018–2020). Having studied and taught in four countries (Britain, Germany, China, Israel), Johannes holds a PhD in Chinese Studies (University of Manchester, 2017) and a MA in History/Chinese Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, 2012). From 2018–2021, he has been the main curator of the exhibition ‘Qing: China’s Multilingual Empire’ at the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Johannes is a historian of East Asia with a focus on the nature and impact of ‘non-Chinese’ empires in ‘China’; on sedentary/nomadic cooperation and conflict; and specifically on the Mongols and their predecessors. His current research project at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows is entitled ‘The Multilingual Imperial Tradition in China: Tracing a Hidden History.’
