Raffaela Rettinger is a Ph.D. candidate of Chinese Studies at Wuerzburg University, Germany. She holds a master’s degree in Sinology and a Certificate in Intercultural Communication from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany (LMU). She has previously studied at Beijing Normal University, China and as recipient of a one-year PROSA-scholarship she further deepened her Chinese Studies research as well as her knowledge of Japanese language and culture at Osaka University, Japan. She is visiting UC Berkeley as a DAAD Scholar to conduct further research for her doctoral dissertation, which explores the influence of tattoos within Chinese history and sociopolitical contexts by looking into (mostly premodern) vernacular narrative, linking it with legal and historical texts and findings.
Research Project: “Under Your Skin – Tattoos Through Chinese History and Their Representation in Premodern Vernacular Narrative”
Dates of Affiliation: Sep. 15, 2022 to Sep. 14, 2023
Chinese literature, mythology, intellectual history, etymology, cultural and social history of the (late) imperial era, comparative literature (with a special focus on China and Japan), interculturalism, military, tattoo