PUBLICATIONS
I. DISSERTATION
“Instituty “druzei” I “gostei” v drevnem Kitae. Evolyuciya social’nyh I politicheskih yavlenii I sootvetstvuyushei terminologii v periody Zapadnogo Zhou, Chunqiu i Zhanguo. [Institutions of “friends” and “guests” in Ancient China. Evolution of these social and politic phenomena and of the appropriate terminology during the Western Zhou, Chunqiu and Zhanguo periods]. Moscow, Institute for Oriental Studies, 1999.
       
       
 
     
 

II. BOOK ENTRIES
1. “The Royal Year-Count of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1045-771 BC) and its Use(r)s: a Sociological Perspective,” in Time and Ritual in Early China, hrsg. von Xiaobing Wang-Riese and Thomas O. Höllmann. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009), pp. 125-151.

2. “Die Geschichte der Irrfahrt des Prinzen Chonger und ihre Botschaft”, in ROETZ, Heiner (ed.): Kritik in alten und modernen China, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006, pp. 20-47.
3. “Sacred Space of an Aristocratic Clan in Ancient China under Transformation,” in: DOROFEEVA-LICHTMANN Vera, DICKHARD, Michael (eds.): Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces. Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung (Monograph Series), Heft 2-3, Göttingen: Peust & Gutschmidt, 2003, pp. 113-144.
4. “Studying the Private Sphere of Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels,” in: MCDOUGALL, Bonnie S. & HANSON, Anders (Eds.): Chinese Concepts of Privacy. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. 81-96.
5. “‘Druz'ya’ i ‘gosti’ v drevnem Kitae. Zapadnoe Zhou - period Chunqiu (XI - V vv. do n. e.)” [“’Friends’ and ‘Guests’ in Ancient China.Western Zhou - Chunqiu period (XI - V cc. BC)], in BESSMERTNY Yu. L. (ed.) Chelovek v mire chuvstv. Ocherki po istorii chastnoi zhizni v Evrope I nekotoryh stranah Asii do nachala Novogo vremeni [Man in the World of Feeling. Essays on the History of Private life in Europe and in Certain Countries of Asia before the Modern Times]. Moscow: RGGU, 2000, pp. 221-42.

   
   
   

III. ARTICLES
1.
“Royal Hospitality and Geopolitical Constitution of the Western Zhou Polity (1046/5-771 BC),” T’oung Pao 96.1-3 (2010), 1-73;
2. “Western ‘capitals’ of the Western Zhou dynasty (1046/5 – 771 BC): historical reality and its reflections until the time of Sima Qian,” Oriens Extremus 47 (2008): 25-65;
3. „Priem beglezow v uslowijah multigosudarstwennoi sistemy drewnego Kitaja: predwaritel’nye nabljudenija“ [Reception of exiles under the condition of the multy-state system of ancient China. preliminary observations], Obschestwo i gosudarstwo v Kitae. Nautschnaja konferenzija [State and Society in China. Research Conference] XXXIX (Moskau: IVRAN, 2009): 23-36;
4. “Bin (Sui)-gong xu i konstruirovanie proshlogo v kitaiskoi tradizii” [Bin (Sui)-gong xu and the construction of the past in Chinese tradition], in: Materialy kitaevedceskoj konferencii ISAA pri MGU (Mai 2004 g.) [Proceedings of the Sinological Conference of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (May 2004), Moscow: ISAA, 2005, pp. 59-70;
5. “Stranstvovaniya knyazhicha Chunera: izgnannik kak gost’ i khozyain” [Wanderings of the prince ?honger: an exile as a guest and host], in: ZENKINE, Serge, MONTANDON, Alan (eds.): Tradicionnye I sovremennye modeli gostepriimstva. (Materialy Rossiisko-franzuzskoi konferenzii 7-8 oktyabrya 2002 g). [Traditional and Modern Models of Hospitality. (Proceedings of the Russian-French Conference, October 7-8, 2002)], Moscow: RGGU, 2004, pp. 184-226.
6. “Povar ili ministr: dragozennye trenozhniki Dobrogo Muzha Ke” [Cook or Minister: the Good-Man Ke’s Treasured Tripods], in Kasus 2004 (Moscow): 15-98.
7. “Welcoming Guests – Constructing Corporate Privacy? An Attempt at a Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Ancestral Rituals Evolution in Ancient China (ca. XI - V cc. BC),” in Berliner China-Hefte Nr. 24 (Mai 2003), 35-50.
8. “Host-Guest Opposition as a Model of Geo-Political Relations in Pre-Imperial China,” Oriens Extremus No. 43 (Jahrgang 2002), 77-100.
9. “Postoronnie i potustoronnee: lyubili li drevnie Kitaicy gostei?” [Others and the otherworldly: did the ancient Chinese love to receive guests?], in: MYASNIKOV V.S. (ed.): Vostok-Zapad. Istoriko-Literaturnyi Almanah [Orient-Occident. The History and Literature Almanac]. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, 2002, 144-162;
10. “A Personal History of a Western Zhou Official: the Case of shanfu Ke,” in: Dokumentation der Tagung der China AG, 2002, 15.-17.2.2002, Tübingen: Arbeitsgemeinschaft junger Chinawissenschaftler und Chinawissenschaftlerinnen, 2002, 55-62;
11. “’Druz’ya moi, prekrasen nash soyuz!’ Priroda i etika ‘druzhby’ v drevnem Kitae epokhi Zapadnogo Zhou (1056/45/40 — 771gg. do n.e.” [“’My friends, how fair is our alliance!’ Nature and ethics of ‘friendship’ in ancient China of Western Zhou epoch (1056/45/40 — 771 BC)], in: KUZISTCHIN, Vassili I., GVOZDEVA Inna A. (eds.): Drevnii Vostok i antichnyi mir. Trudy kafedry Istorii Drevnego mira MGU imeni M.V. Lomonosova [Ancient East and Antique World. Works of Lomonosov Moscow State University Chair of the History of Ancient World], No. 3, Moscow: Russkii dvor, 2000;
12. “Priroda i etika druzhby v drevnem Kitae” [„Nature et éthique de l’amitié en Chine ancienne“], in: Put’ vostoka. Materialy nauchnoi konferencii. Doklady i tezisy. [The Way of the East. Proceedings of a scientific conference. Reports and abstracts]. St. Petersbourg: Izdatel’stvo Sankt-Peterburskogo Filosofskogo obstshestva, 2000, pp. 124-132.
13. “’You’, ‘pengyou’ i ‘binke’ v nadpisyakh na bronzovykh sosudakh epokhi Zapadnogo Zhou i Chunqiu” [“‘You’, ‘pengyou’ and ‘binke’ in Western Zhou and Chunqiu inscriptions on ritual bronze vessels], in: XXIX nauchnaya konferenciya “Obstschestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae”. Tesisy i doklady. [XXIX Research Conference “State and Society in China”. Abstracts and reports]. Moscow: Institut Vostokovedeniya RAN, 1999, pp. 12 – 28.
14. “Resursy dlya izucheniya istorii Drevnego Kitaya v Internet” [Internet Sources for the study of ancient Chinese History], in: V nauchnaya sessiya po istoriografii i istochnikovedeniyu istorii Kitaya [V. Research Session for the Historiography and the Study of sources of Chinese History], St. Petersburg: State University of St. Petersbourg, 1999, pp. 96-103.
15. “Nefrit v kul'tovoy i politicheskoy simvolike Drevnego Kitaya” [Jade in cult and politic symbolism of Ancient China], in: XXVIII nauchnaya konferenciya „Obstschestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae“. Tesisy i doklady. [XXVIII Research Conference “State and Society in China”. Abstracts and reports]. Moscow: Institut Vostokovedeniya RAN, 1998, pp. 68 – 85.

   
 
   
 
 

IV. CONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONS.
1. “„Die kostbaren Dreifüße des Präsidenten Hu 胡主席寶鼎,“ Tradition, Innovation, Plagiat? – Motive und ihre Adaption in China, XXI Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung der China-Studien 26-28. November 2010, Heidelberg;
2. “Son of Heaven Mu's journey to the West, early Chinese maps, and recently discovered Western Zhou (ca. 1045-771 BC) bronze inscriptions,” L'Asie Orientale dans les traditions cartographiques asiatiques et occidentales: différences, interrelations, interactions (1ère journée d’études), Centre Japon, CNRS-EHESS, 22 November 2010, Paris;
3. “The Bronzes of Peng State and Related Questions,” Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio and Elsewhere: An International Conference Commemorating Twenty Years of Discoveries, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Creel Center for Chinese Paleography, the University of Chicago, 5-7 November 2010, Chicago;
4. “Zhou and non-Zhou: Who was who in Early China?” XVIII Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, 14-18. July 2010, Riga;
5. “Der Begriff Sheng und der Einfluss von Heiratsverwandten im multistaatlichen System des frühen Chinas,“ Sprache und Wirklichkeit in China, XX Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung der China-Studien, 27-29. November 2009, München;
6. “The Wujun Hoard of Bronze Vessels and Related Problems,” Chicago Bronze Inscriptions Workshop, The Creel Center for Chinese Paleography, 17-18. Oktober 2009;
7. “Ancestral Cult in Early China: Strategies of Concealment and Display,” Workshop Secrecy in Asian Religions, International Consortium “Dynamics in the History of Religions,” Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, 19.06.2009;

“Did the first Kings of the Zhou Dynasty Relocate their Capital? The Topos of the “Central Place” in Early China and its Historical Contexts.” XVII Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, 6-10. August 2008, Lund.
8. “Localizing the Recently Discovered Bells of Rong-sheng in Space and Time.” Third Tomb Texts Workshop of the European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts, 26-29. Juni 2008, Zürich.
9. “The Royal Year-Count of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1045-771 BC) and its Use(r)s: a Sociological Perspective,” Conference on Writing, Ritual and Cultural Memory in Early States, 5-7. November 2007, München.
10. „Die Glocken von Rong-sheng aus der Frühling- und Herbst-Epoche und das Zusammenleben von "Chinesen" und "Nicht-Chinesen" im alten China," Panel "Ankunftsland China: Identität und Integration der Einwanderer in der historischen Perspektive", XXX. Orientalistentag, 24-28. Oktober 2007, Freiburg.
11. „Zur Konstruktion der imperialen Hauptstadt im frühen China“, Workshop „Metropolen“ of the interdisciplinary project „Comparison of Empires“ at the Ruhr-University Bochum. 2. February 2007, Bochum.
12. “The Western Zhou Notion of Time: Authority versus Autonomy”. The 11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, 15-20. August 2005, Munich;
13. Exile and Asylum in Ancient China According to the Data of the Chunqiu Chronicle and the Zuo zhuan Narrative. XV Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg, August 25-29, 2004.
14. “Bin (Sui)-gong xu – unikal’nyi document epohi Zapadnogo Zhou ili imitaziya epohi Chunqiu?” [Bin (Sui)-gong xu – Unique Document of the Western Zhou Epoch or an Imitation of the Chunqiu epoch?], Obschestvo I gosudarstvo v Kitae [Society and State in China], Moscow, February 2-4, 2004;
15. “Where Was the Western Zhou Capital?” 17th Conference of the Warring States Working Group, University of Leiden, Netherlands, September 17-18, 2003;
16. „Die Irrfahrten des Prinzen Chonger und die Kritik am politischen System der Zhou“, Kritik im alten und modernen China, XIII. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien , J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main. 22.11.-24.11.2002;
17. „Between Power and Family: the Private Sphere in the Life of the Western Zhou Aristocracy," XIVth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies , 26-28 August, 2002, Moscow;
18. „Host-Guest Opposition as a Model of Geo-Political Relations in Pre-Imperial China“, XIVth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, 26-28 August, 2002, Moscow;
19. “Conceptualisations of a “private” sphere in ancient China”. Chinese Concepts of Privacy Workshop, University of Leiden, May 31 – June 2, 2001.
20. „Sacred Space of an Aristocratic Clan in Ancient China under Transformation“. International Workshop Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces, Göttingen, June 29 – July 2, 2000.
21. „Jia bin and Happiness in Early China“. Read in absentia at the 14th Conference of the Warring States Working Group, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 5-7. Mai 2000.
22. “’Friendship’ in Early China”. Read in absentia at the 13th Conference of the Warring States Working Group Lehigh University, Bethlehem/PA, 13–14 October 1999.

 
 
   
 
 
 
V. INDIVIDUAL TALKS.
1. "Staatsfürsten im frühen China und ihre Selbstinszenierung (VIII-V. v. Chr.)," LMU-Excellent, Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Vortragsreihe "Einblicke in Forschungslandschaften", 15. Dezember 2008;
2. Schriftlichkeit und Prestige der Schriftspezialisten im frühen China während der Westlichen Zhou-Zeit (1045-771 v.u.Z.), Vorlesung im Graduiertenkolleg „Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums“, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 6. Juni 2008.
3. „Autonomie, Prestige und Kalender: Die Bronzeinschriften der frühchinesischen (?) Fürstentümer Deng und Ruo aus IX-VI Jh. v.u.Z.,“ Vortrag im Graduiertenkolleg „Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums,“ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 6. Dezember 2007.
4. “Hospitality of Western Zhou Kings and the Place of the Western Zhou Capital”, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, 23. Oktober 2006.
5. “Hospitality of Western Zhou Kings and its Political Functions”, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA, 20. Oktober 2006
6. „Hospitality in Ancient China: social, political and religious aspects. Chair of the History of China, Institute for Asian and African Countires of the Moscow State University, 6.02.2004.
7. “Povar ili pervyi ministr? – dragozennye kotly rasporyaditelya Ke” [A Cook or a Prime Minister? – Treasured Vessels of the Intendant Ke], Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Science, March 24, 2003.
8. „The Dead as a Guest: Ritual Entertainment of Ancestral Spirits in China during Shang-Yin and Western Zhou Periods (ca. 1570-772 BC)“. Sinologisches Seminar, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität -Bonn, 28.10.2002.
9. „The Concept of ‘Fortune’ and the ‘Fortunate Guests’ in Ancient Chinese Ritualism“. Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 18.12.2001.
10. „Representations of ‘Privacy’ in Ancient China in the Light of the Ritual Bronze Tradition“. “Mittagsforum”, Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. 4.07.2001.