Lomová Olga

Prof. PhDr., CSc.
Born May 31, 1957

• Sinology/Chinese studies
• Member of Learned Society since 2021

Educational and professional preparation

• 1976–1981: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies
  Master degree (Sinology and Oriental Studies)
  Master thesis: “CCP agricultural policy after the  3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee”
• 1986–1990: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies
  doctoral programme (CSc.)
  Dissertation: “Five views of Chinese countryside: stories about village life in China” (supervised by Anna Doležalová, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava).
• 1977–1989: Prague Language School, and privately with Zlata Černá
  Classical Chinese and interpretation of classical literary texts
• 1978–1989: Evening courses in OKD Prague 6, and privately with Oldřich Švarný
  Mandarin phonetics and grammar
• Since 1990: research and study in duration of one to six months at Oslo University, EHESS (Paris), Beijing University, Centre for Chinese study (Taipei) and at Cambridge University
  January – June 2000: Harvard University, Fulbright scholar
  Project: „Yongming style poetry as a stepping stone to the High Tang poetic achievement“

Employment and academic positions

• 1979-1980 Ministry of Foreign Trade, interpreter at the Czechoslovak Trade Office in Beijing
• 1981: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute, researcher, Chinese press translation department
• 1982: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Library of the Department of Asian and African Studies, assistant
• 1982–1987: maternity leave
• 1984–1997: National Library (Klementinum), acquisition department, external collaboration, Chinese books
• 1984–1987: Chinese language interpreter
• 1987–1999: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies, teaching assistant
• 1999–2013: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies, Associate Professor (Theory and history of Asian and African literature)
  Habilitation thesis: Poselství krajiny: obraz přírody v díle básníka Wang Weje [Messages of the Landscape: Nature in Wang Wei|s Poetry]. Praha: DharmaGaia, 1999
• 2014: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies
  Professor (Theory and history of Asian and African literature)

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

• PhD Programme Boards
  Asian History and Culture (Chair)
  Theory and history of Asian and African literature (Chair)
  History of Asia and Africa (member)
  Religious Studies (member)
• Charles University, Faculty of Arts Research Board (member)

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

• Since 1988: European Association for Chinese Studies
  (2002–2006, Secretary General)
• Since 2001: Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre
  Director
• Since 2016: Leibniz Institute Eastern Europe – Global Area
  Academic Advisory Board (member)
• Since 2019: National Tsinghua University (Hsin-chu, Taiwan), Research Center for Literary Thoughts and Discourses
  International Advisory Board (member)

Selected publications

1. DADEJÍK, Ondřej Dadejík, Olga LOMOVÁ, and Vlastimil ZUSKA. Wang Guowei’s Aesthetics in Transcultural Perspective: “Jingjie” and “Atmosphere”. Philosophy East and West, 2022.
2. LOMOVÁ, Olga a kol. Ex oriente lux. Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920). Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2020.
3. LOMOVÁ, Olga. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China. In Zong-qi CAI, ed. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context : Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, s. 78–95.
4. LOMOVÁ, Olga, Ondřej DADEJÍK, Vlastimil ZUSKA. Průchod ke „Knize proměn“: Metafyzika změny v čínském myšlení z perspektivy procesuální filosofie [On the Book of Changes from the perspective of processual philosophy]. Filosofický časopis roč. 66, 2018/6, s. 827-844.
5. LOMOVÁ, Olga and Anna ZÁDRAPOVÁ. Beyond Academia and Politics: Understanding China and Doing Sinology in Czechoslovakia after World War II. In: Shih Chih-yu, ed., Sinology in Post-communist States. Hong-kong: The Chinese University Press, 2016, pp. 1–26.
6. LOMOVÁ, Olga. Liang Qichao v roce 1902: Přeměna Číny v silný a moderní stát za pomoci nového myšlení [Liang Qichao in 1902: transformation of China into a strong and modern state]. Český časopis historický, Vol. 112 (2014), No. 2, pp. 197-226.
7. LOMOVÁ, Olga, POKORA, Timoteus. S’-ma Čchien. Kniha vrchních písařů. Výbor z díla čínského historika [Sima Qian: Book of Scribes]. Praha: Karolinum, 2012.
8. LOMOVÁ, Olga, YEH Kuo-liang. Ach běda, přeběda: oplakávání mrtvých ve středověké Číně [Wu-hu-ai-zai: Mourning the Dead in Early Medieval China]. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2004.
9. LU JÜ. Kniha o čaji [The Classic of Tea]. Translation and introduction Olga Lomová. Praha: Praha : Spolek milců čaje and DharmaGaia, 2002 (second edition 2021).
10. LOMOVÁ, Olga. Poselství krajiny: obraz přírody v díle básníka Wang Weje [Messages of the Landscape: Nature in Wang Wei|s Poetry]. Praha: DharmaGaia, 1999.

Website