Andreas Gruschke

Andreas Gruschke (born April 16, 1960 in Tengen-Blumenfeld, West Germany) is a German author, photographer and Tibet researcher. His scientific background is that of a geographer, Sinologist and ethnologist. He received a 1990 M.A. at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and a Ph.D. in 2009 at Leipzig University.[1]

Since 1987, Gruschke works as a free-lance writer and picture-journalist with the main topics Tibet, Himalayas, Silk Road and East Asia, holds lectures and seminars at his hometown Freiburg and other places. After finishing his university studies, he went on numerous research trips to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Central Asia, yet most of them led him to the highland of Tibet. From 2004 to 2012 he worked at Leipzig University, doing research on Tibetan pastoralists in eastern Tibet's Yushu area. Starting from 2012, he is a guest professor at the Institute of Social Development and Western China Development Studies at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Main research interest is the livelihood security of the rural population, namely pastoralists, in China's Tibetan areas.[2]

Gruschke published numerous books and articles mainly on Tibetan culture, among them pioneering works for monasteries in the East Tibetan regions Amdo and Kham. Other books and reports deal with Korea and the Himalayas and China, as well as two picture albums about his homeland: the Hegau and the upper Rhine. His current research is about nomads in the eastern Tibetan region of Yushu (northern Kham).

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References

  1. SFB Staff Dr. Andreas Gruschke
  2. Andreas Gruschke特聘教授
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