František Reismüller

Researcher at SWPS University

Sinologist, translator, specializing in modern Chinese and Taiwanese culture

He got PhD degree from Charles University in Prague for researching Chinese avant-garde literature of the 1980s. He published articles about the authors like Ma Yuan and Can Xue and the relationship between their works and the era in in which they were published. His research interest has always been Chinese and Taiwanese culture and socio-political history. František translated a number of books and shorter works from Chinese to Czech, from which the most important are professors Kang-I Sun Chang’s (孫康宜) memoir Journey through the White Terror (走出白色恐怖; 2021), a collection of short stories and essays by Chinese woman writer Can Xue (殘雪; 2013), and the ongoing translation project of the comics series Cattedamerung (貓劍客) by Yeh Yu-Tung (葉羽桐). He is an active contributor to the project Sinopsis.