Hans van Ess

Hans van Ess is professor of sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is the author of Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen. China [The 101 most important questions: China] (C. H. Beck, 2008), Hu Hong. Worte Kennen. Zhiyan [Hu Hong, knowing words – Zhiyan] (Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2009), and Der Daoismus. Von Laozi bis heute [Taoism: From Laozi to today] (C. H. Beck 2011); coauthor of The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's Legacy (University of Washington Press, 2016); and cotranslator of The Grand Scribe's Records by Sima Qian, vol. 8 (Indiana University Press, 2008).