Mareile Flitsch, sinologist and social anthropologist, completed her studies in Münster, Paris, Shenyang/VR China and at the FU Berlin. After completing research projects at the FU and the TU Berlin, including on everyday technologies in China, and heading the China Research Unit at the TU Berlin, she was appointed to the University of Zurich in 2008, since when she has held a chair in social anthropology and been director of the university’s Ethnographic Museum. Mareile Flitsch specializes in the social anthropology of China, the anthropology of technology, material culture and museums, and is particularly concerned with questions of human self-understanding and the pluriverse of systems of competences and skill – including skill in terms of craftsman- ship and play.