Mgr. Jakub Hrubý, Ph.D.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• political, social and institutional history od Medieval China
• non-Han dynasties and states in Chinese history, interaction between the Han and non-Han dynasties in Chinese history and historiography
• titled nobility, elites of the disunion period
• process of political legitimization, ideal rule rand the models of ideal ruler
• China and the Chinese in South East Asia
• history and culture of Burma / Myanmar

• 2004-2012    PhD program of history and culture of Asian and African countries at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Prague.
•                      (thesis: The Titled Nobility of the Western Jin Dynasty, 265-316 A.D. defended in September 2012)

• 1999-2000    Modern Chinese language course at the Foreign Student Department of the Nanjing University, Nanjing (Nanjing daxue waiguo liuxuesheng zhongxin 南京大學外國留學生中心).
• 1997-2004    MA program of sinology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

• 2003-             Researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
• 2004-             External Lecturer at the Department of the Far East, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (Selected Chapters form the History of Imperial China, Non-Han Dynasties in Chinese History).
• 2010-             External Lecturer at the Centre for Chinese Studies, Philosophical Faculty, Masaryk University in Brno (History of China, Non-Han Dynasties in Chinese History).
• 2007-2008    Scholarship of the Czech-Anglo Educational Fund (one year stay at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University as a visiting PhD student). 
• 2002-2008    Lector in the Collection of Asian Art of the National Gallery, Prague (Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist Art).

• 2015-2017     member of a research team of the grant awarded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic GA ČR GA15-21829S – Chinese Cultural Diplomacy – the Role of the Non-State Actors and Regional variations
• 2013-2015    participation in the CHINET grant project (Networking project of the Chinese Studies), reg. n. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0152 of the Palacký University in Olomouc
• 2012               participation in the grant project: „Zvyšování kvality vzdělávání na FF UK prostřednictvím rozvoje spolupráce s výzkumnými pracovišti Akademie věd ČR“ at the Far East Department of the Faculty of Arts,

Charles University, Prague, CSM 119 (preparing and teaching of a lecture series „Non-Han Dynasties in Chinese History“ winter term 2012/2013)

• 2004               JUDr Karel Engliš Award for the best graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

• New Approaches to the Study of Biographical Writing in Early Medieval China, Leipzig, 9. 4. 2016: Zuo Fen’s Necrology of Empress Yang – Legitimizing the Dynasty through Funeral Texts.
• Ninth Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, Prague, 27. – 28. 11. 2015: The place of the Royal Family in the imperial vision of the Ming Founder.
• Workshop Temporal Dimensions of Space in Imperial China, Leipzig, 20. 6. 2015: Use of Predicates in Bestowing Noble Dignities on Non-Han Rulers during the Jin Dynasty: Integration and Legitimacy during the Disunion Period.
• Conference on the History and Culture of Early Medieval China, UP Olomouc, 11. 5. 2015: Enfeoffment as a Means of Political Legitimacy during the Upheaval of the Eight Princes (291-306 A.D.).
• Seventh Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, Philosophical Faculty of the Komensky University, Bratislava, November 8-9, 2013 (paper presented: „Non-Han Rulers as Members of Titled Nobility – Legitimacy and Integration during the Disunion“).
• Sixth Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, the Department of the Far East and the Chiang Ching-Kuo International Sinological Centre at the Charles University, Prague, November 9-10, 2012 (paper presented: „Enfeoffment as Means of Political Infighting during the Upheaval of the Eight Princes (291-306 A.D).“).
• Fifth Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, Culture Studies of China Centre, Masaryk University, Brno, November 4-5, 2011 (paper presented: „Unequal among Equals – (In)dependent Existence of the Chouchi 仇池Kingdom (4.-6. cent.), Diplomacy and Legitimacy during the Age of Disunion“).
• Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China (organized jointly by the Institute of Sinology of Ghent University and of the LMU Munich), University of Ghent, June 15-17, 2011.
• Research Training in Old Chinese: History and Historiography Workshop (Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and British Inter-university Chinese Centre), University of Cambridge, March 24-28, 2010.
• Third Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, Philosophical Faculty of the Komensky University, Bratislava, December 4-5, 2009 (paper presented: „Titled Nobility of Medieval China – the Concept of Aristocracy and the Five Ranks Bestowal during the Jin Dynasty (265-420)“). 
• China Research Workshop, Department of Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, April 22-23, 2008.
• First Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, the Chiang Ching-Kuo International Sinological Centre at the Charles University, Prague, November 9-10, 2007 (paper presented: „Enfeoffment of the Imperial Princes during the Western and Eastern Jin Dynasty (265-420)“).

• Editor-in-chief of Novy Orient
• A member of the Internal Board of the Oriental Institute