Contact
Phone:
+49 (0)89 2180-4091
Email:
Alexander.Jost@lmu.de
Website:
Academia.edu_Alexander_Jost
Research Foci:
- Exchange between China, the Middle East and Europe
- Islam and Muslims in Chinese Society
- History of Science and Technology in China
- Geographie, Cartographie and Images of the World
Selected Publications:
„The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin's Hajj Travelogue in Historical Context", in: Doris Gruber & Arno Strohmeyer (Hg.): On the Way into the (Un-)known? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues, Berlin: De Gruyter (2022), 68-86.
„Beyond Agricola: The Multiple Origins of European Knowledge in Adam Schall von Bell's Chinese Mining and Metallurgy Handbook Kunyu Gezhi (1640)", in: Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology 5.1 (2021), 58-89.
"The Secret Method and the State: Official Attitudes Towards Wet Copper Production in Song China", in: Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 48 (2019), 241-267.
"'He Did not Kiss the Earth between his Hands' – Arabic Sources on the Arrivals of the Zheng He Fleet in Aden and Mecca (1419-1432)", in: Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, London, ed. by Angela Schottenhammer, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 79-95.
What Makes the World Go Round: Festschrift in Honor of Hans Ulrich Vogel (Asian Review of World Histories), Leiden: BRILL, 2024 (with Cao Jin).
From Secret Knowledge to Mass Production: The Wet Copper Industry of Song China (960-1279), Ph.D. Diss, Tübingen 2014.